I realized I cant check other instances individually with my stat system so I just took the average from all instances
for all communities that are visible to the instance 61% are dead so our instance is doing better than average
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Probably a larger amount considering other instances don't have a limiter for community creation so get a bunch more
I can check lemmy.world
Yeah no problem, thanks for using it! Credit goes to snowe for getting the url and starting this place up
Ive been finding the link between backend and frontend is fine for me to make frontend features pretty easily so dont know what improvements can be made on that front. This main things hindering development for me is the fact the backend is in rust which this is the first time im using it for a project and theres some niche things I want for certain features that need to be developed in the backend (being able to query for posts from multiple communities at once, having things in the modlog not be in separate categories and instead be returned together, etc.)
how the multiple communities works currently is it just queries for posts in all of the communities separately
This follows the default of a limit of 50 posts for a page of posts in the post feed so will get 50 from each of them
cant really fix it without touching the backend since i dont know how many communities are valid for splitting the limit between them
This update also broke light theme even more since ive been primarily developing with it in dark theme. Next update ill try to improve it
Little update:
Ive added a show more/show less button for the sidebar community lists. They show 5 communities by default and when expanded they instead show 10
added functionality for the two rules
- getting all communities with a certain slug
- exclude instance with domain X from above rule
was running into rate limits when trying to check every single linked instance so ive manually put in the larger ones for now
will involve the backend eventually to clean up the posts that show up
rule based grouping is a nice idea, Ill try to get that implemented before I push this out to the test site
Edit: if you already voted see edit at bottom of post
Hey everyone, this is another post regarding choosing the icon style for communities in the instance
There was a bunch of issues raised about the last poll so Ive remade it. The last poll results will not count and instead these ones will be used
- Voting is done by single transferable vote
- You can no longer accidentally click vote
There are two Parts of the poll: The icon style and the icon shape
Icon Style
Note this is just to determine the recommended style for communities, individual communities can choose not to follow it if they want
Option 1: All Unified Same Color
This option is for every icon to have the same style and same color gradient
Option 2: All Unified Diff Colors
This option is for every icon to have the same style with the black background and gradient. However each community has their own colors for the gradient rather than having the same one for all of them. For example the godot community might have a blue purple gradient for their logo and functional programming might have orange red.
Option 3: General Unified Same Col
This option is for general communities (such as experienced devs, meta, programming, game development (things that arent specific to one language, engine, etc.)) have the unified style but other communities instead have the logo for the language, engine, etc.. For example game development would have the gradient icon but godot would have the godot logo
Option 4: General Unified Diff Col
This is a combination of options 2 and 3 where general communities have the gradient style but they also have different colors from each other
Option 5: No Unified Style
No gradient logos for any communities, instead having different style ones for every community
Icon Shape
This is the default shape that you want community logos to have when they show up. If a community logo has a specific shape (ex the godot logo) the voted on shape is overridable. Users will also be able to override whatever gets chosen locally, its just the default. Currently lemmy uses circles for both users and communities.
Poll Link
Edit: the website that was being used makes it very easy to cheat by just downloading a new browser and voting again as many times as you want. Due to this voting will be happening through dms to me. Sorry for all of the iterations of the vote but this will be a big change in the instance and I want to get accurate info
If you want to vote send me a dm with the options ordered based on your preference. Here are the available options (for the two different votes):
Icon Style
- All Unified Same Color
- All Unified Diff Colors
- General Unified Same Col
- General Unified Diff Col
- No unified style
Icon Shape
- Circle
- Squircle
- Square
- Diamond
- Hexagon
- Pentagon
Rank each category from your first choice to your last choice. If your first choice ends up having the least amount of votes then your second choice vote counts instead, etc. until one option has 50% or more of votes.
To dm me go to my profile Here and click on one of the send message buttons (secure message sends it through matrix while the other just sends it through lemmy)
Ill respond to you when I note down your vote to be counted (shouldnt take longer than 8 hours and I try to respond quickly, if I dont then something went wrong with the dm)
Voting will end in a week
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Defold doesnt like people using their logo without contacting them so its using one that looks kind of similar for now