Continuation of my last federation update post with some updated info

Hexbear

After we got removed from the hexbear allowlist I talked with one of their admins about it. Theyre running a poll currently for their users to determine if they want to refederate or not with opinion in that poll seeming to be mostly in favor

It is very likely we will be federating with Hexbear again. However, things such as political communities will be hidden from our feeds by default meaning you wont see those posts unless you explicitly subscribe to those communities (so if youre just browsing the all feed you wont see any of them)

In terms of comments made in other instances that aren't hexbear or programming.dev (e.g. lemm.ee) that is up to the admins of those communities to handle (and if an instance has defederated from hexbear such as lemmy.world threads in their instance will have no hexbear members on them)

If you participate in the hexbear instance make sure to follow their code of conduct and dont participate in communities that are labelled as being for hexbear members only (I should be hiding any that exist)

If theres a community I missed that should be hidden reach out to me with it and ill hide it. Hidden communities will show up with no posts when you look at them without subscribing

And to leave off this update ill give you guys a couple hexbear communities that might be relevant to you once federation is up again

https://hexbear.net/c/gamedev https://hexbear.net/c/technology https://hexbear.net/c/games

Hey everyone, ive got pangora-ui (our new frontend being built ([email protected]) to a decent enought state where I can start doing mod actions from it

Due to that ive managed to implement a community hiding system to make certain communities' posts not show up by default so that we can now fully follow our rules in the sidebar

Communities that are hidden

• Will show up as having no posts
• Will not have posts show up in the feeds or from searching

However if you subscribe to a hidden community you will then be able to see all of their posts like normal in every location

Hidden communities will still be findable themselves in the community list and from searching

If you are currently subscribed to hidden communities you should see absolutely no difference in your ability to view them

You should however see the all feed getting more manageable to navigate and sort by new now that it isnt being drowned out by bot posts

Communities that are currently being hidden include: communities that are 50% bot posts or more and politics communities

For bots this includes communities in instances like

• lemmit.online
• derp.foo
• (the bot art community in) lemmy.dbzer0.com
• zerobytes.monster
• radiation.party
• lemmy.smeargle.fans

Quick comparison between our all feed sorted by new vs lemm.ee's so you can see what hiding bot communities did

You may still see a couple pop up since I havent dealt with all of them yet but the amount of bot communities showing up will get lower and lower over time

Hey everyone! Wanted to give a quick update on some federation status with other communities

burggit.moe

burggit.moe has been defederated from for two main reasons

• They ignore DMCA requests and dont follow it. We get a copy of all of their posts due to how federation works and since this rule is instance wide it can easily apply to a new community in the future if we purge current ones. We dont have the manpower to handle other instances continually breaking the law and then us needing to deal with that with takedowns

• They post pornographic content that is illegal / in a gray area in the US that I would rather err on the side of caution in terms of allowing due to things like the PROTECT Act and certain states explicitly banning it themselves

hexbear

Hexbear defederated from us so to prevent one way conversations I have added them to our blocklist as well. If the hexbear admins decide to unblock us I can do the same and go back to the previous stance of hiding their politics related communities from the all feed once that feature is implemented into the site

Misc

There are a couple misc pleroma and mastoton instances that ive added to our blocklist (and there are a couple more I might add soon) that post content that is extremely against our rules. As they arent lemmy instances purging communities isnt an option and its allowed instance wide

if you have other requests of instances that clearly break our rules (you can find them in the site sidebar) feel free to send me them and ill take a look

Community currently being moderated temporarily by me

Needs some dedicated mods to manage it

If interested say so below

Community currently being moderated temporarily by me

Needs some dedicated mods to manage it. Its a low traffic community and most of the posts would be help posts

If interested say so below

Back with another update on Pangora-UI. Ive been working on adding the community list as well as making the entire thing semi-functional

Ive got some basic functionality in for most things and next up im going to be going through them one at a time and adding in all relevant features starting with the homepage.

I worked on the community list showing all communities in the instance, and all connected instances. This by default has the same information as lemmy-ui but you can toggle columns on and off to tailor it. (For example you can add a column for users/day, remove the comments column, etc.)

Communities will have badges on them if they fulfill certain conditions (top most condition here has priority)

• New (full star): Communities made in the last week
• New (half star): Communities made in the last month
• Active: The top 2.5% communities in terms of subscribers gained in the last day (Maximum 5 chosen in local and 20 in All)
• Hot: Top 10% of communities in terms of the most recent subscribers relative to their total subscriber amount (Maximum 100 in local, none in all)
• Top: Top 5% of communities in terms of the most total subscribers (Maximum 100 in local and none in all)

Communities in the list have up to 100 characters of their description so that you can get an idea of what the community is before clicking on it

The list supports infinite scrolling, loading the 50 next communities when you get to the bottom

Community stats are now colored based on how high it is compared to the highest value for that stat. Blue is the highest and it goes down through green to red

Ive cleaned up the theme switching a bit and also added a button for it in the navbar

Communities and their posts can now be viewed (no sorts or pages for now)

Added a little donation area

Added a custom 404 page

Comparison between Pangora-UI and Lemmy-UI

Next up from me will be home page cleanup to fix some issues that have been happening with that and adding in features to it

Progress may be a bit slower from me from now on as university is starting back up but ill share something every week. If anyone else is also interested in contributing let me know. We have a matrix space at https://matrix.to/#/#pangora:matrix.org

Back with another update on programming.dev's new frontend thats being built

Have a lot more progress done in terms of post content. Post views are almost done, just need to finish up some more aspects of the comments + add in mod options

New features since my last post

• Posts can now be viewed
• Comments are shown when looking at posts

• If a post has an image, you can click on the thumbnail to get a larger image popup

• Comments can be collapsed/expanded by clicking on the colored bar on the side (and are automatically collapsed if they have a score of 0 or below). Collapsed comments show the upvotes, the creator, and up to 100 characters of the content

• Markdown is supported in the sidebar and in messages. This has all of the markdown in lemmy-ui + some extra ones. The extra markdown is: code blocks, latex, table of contents, task lists, and anchors

• The home page was improved a bit in terms of design and has had trending communities and the sidebar added to it. (The post sorts are still a work in progress hence why they look unfinished + are two different designs)

Here are some comparisons between Pangora-UI and Lemmy-UI!

End of the second day of since ive started working on the pangora UI. Ive for the most part settled on a design and been going through cleaning it up and adding some functionality

Feel free to give some feedback on how you think it looks. The empty space on the right is going to have the trending communities and site information like the mockup I made here

Communities all have a blue purple gradient until I can get community colors into the backend to properly populate that like in my mockup

Things added since my last post:

• Hotkeys for all elements of the navbar to quickly choose one. (ex. you can hit x to switch to the communities tab without needing to touch your mouse)
• Popups when you hover over a button on the navbar for a bit explaining what the option is

• Taglines now populate with the same functionality as lemmy-ui (including markdown)
• Posts now populate in the feed (but with no parameters yet)
• Posts animate in when you scroll down to them

• Light mode with hotkey toggle to toggle between light and dark

Things coming up

Planning to add in the post sorts and add in the sidebar on the right with the trending communities and instance info. Also going to be starting work on being able to view posts.

Planning to get the post feed + post viewing done by the weekend so that the UI can be tested (although youll have to run it locally for now).

Should be getting it up on a domain soon for testing

Programming.dev has a soft fork of lemmy that is being developed so that we can focus on things that the instance needs (such as actual code blocks). This will still get changes made to lemmy but just have the new features on top of that. If a feature is general enough to be in lemmy itself we can try to get it pushed upstream.

Originally made this community a bit ago under a different name but after I was informed that the name was already in use brought it back up as Pangora! (hopefully no issues this time) A pangora is a type of moth and its also a combination of the words pangolin and pandora.

Im currently working on improving the instance UI in a repository named pangora-ui. No changes have been pushed yet as im stick mocking up designs with no functionality yet but ill be sharing some progress on that and on changes made to pangora in this community. Pangora-UI is a completely different project from lemmy-ui and its being built using Next.js with typescript, tailwind, NextUI, and Framer Motion

Heres the most recent design ive been working on (still a bit rough but you can get an idea of what im going for):

(That search bar says search comments but can be set to search the different categories like all, communities, users, etc. using the dropdown beside it)

If anyone is interested in helping out with development there is a matrix space for pangora here: https://matrix.to/#/#pangora:matrix.org . Anyone you can contribute would be extremely helpful as we have nobody doing this full time yet. Even things like giving feedback on designs I send is great so that I can get more feedback on things as im working on it

The pangora github repositories can be found here: https://github.com/PangoraWeb

Game I made with my jam team in a week for the brackeys jam. You need to dive down and collect different kinds of fish to add to your underwater garden.

Theres 12 different types of fish to get total and you can watch all of the fish you collect swim around in the garden between dives

Given a compressed string, give the number of ways it can be decompressed.

• A compressed string is a string where substrings of repeated characters are changed to a format similar to aaa -> a3
• For example for the string aaabbhhhh33aaa the compressed string would be a3b2h432a3

As an example of counting decompressing options. Say you have the input a333b2. This can be read as a333 b2 or a3 33 b2 so you would need to return the value 2 as there are 2 options.

You must accept the input as a command line argument (entered when your app is ran) and print out the result

(It will be called like node main.js aaaaa or however else to run apps in your language)

You can use the solution tester in this post to test you followed the correct format https://programming.dev/post/1805174

Checking through the solutions of last weeks problems should be happening ~~this weekend~~ monday + tuesday. Been getting too much work and theres a game jam thats been going on but should be able to go through them all then. I may do the easy one last since it cant be checked using the solutions tester so that one will take a bit longer.

Will also try to go through and give solutions to these ones as well on the weekend and will try to do solutions as soon as possible from now on so you can see if you failed the test cases. For the ones done last week, after I go through them all ill give 1 extra day from then on for any resubmissions