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I was thinking we could have like a old.pawb.social website that's a Mlmym instance for pawb.social. Thoughts?

I am unable to see communities such as Minecraft Help, Minecraft Commands, and Desktops.

I am testing if this goes through as well.

Performance on Pawb.Social specifically has been degrading significantly; it often times takes a very long time (10+ seconds) to load a post, for example, with a noticeable number of time-outs occurring. Opening the same post via its home instance in these cases typically works much faster, leading me to believe the problem is here, not with the host instance.

This is the case even with local communities.

Hoping to hear from other folks - are you also experiencing this? Is it a temporary issue, or indicative of a growing server-side problem?

When I visit, for instance, https://pawb.social/post/1768987, I can't see the title formatted in Markdown. However, https://lemmy.kde.social/post/60846 shows up correctly (aside from the last cut part).

Hi everyone! I've noticed for a while now that I can't reply to comments made by kbin accounts using my account here. Not even talking about kbin threads, but for example if I reply to any kbin-made comment over on feddit.de, once I click submit it just keeps spinning without ever posting the reply. I often see users from other lemmy instances replying to them though, so it doesn't seem like a general lemmy problem. Does everyone else here have this problem as well?

There was discussion on the lemmy fork thread about replacing the default 'Donate' link with a server-specific one, but given that's not available yet, is there somewhere we can contribute funds towards hosting costs?

Really, maybe such a link should be on the sidebar, at least - if there is one somewhere already, I wasn't able to find it, and as such I suspect other folks who would potentially be looking for one wouldn't find it, either.

Subscribed/Hot is increasingly filled with one month old submissions, often six month old submissions, to the point where sometimes there are no new submissions. Is this expected behavior, and is anyone else seeing this too?

Is it possible to turn off the post auto-collapse glitch-soc provides by default, so people who want it can opt-in to it? It's personally pretty annoying to expand every post, and while there is a way to disable it there seems to be the occasional problem where it resets that flag.

As mentioned in that post, it's not great if getting more creative types is a goal - auto-collapse includes images, not just text. Sharing art, commission open status, etc. would be pretty hampered if every post gets hard collapses.

For your consideration: https://github.com/promitheas17j/lemmy-ui-themes

They seem very straightforward to install even if you use docker so that's a good thing too.

Hello,

I'm not sure if this is the place for such things, but I've been having issues getting the subscribed feed to load on any of the apps I've tried even though it loads fine through a browser. Is the issue on my end or is it an issue with the instance?

Thanks

So I've read the CoC Content Warning policy in the announcements community and wanted to make sure of something to avoid making a mistake in my first post. In 5.1.1, there is:

Any NSFW content, including real or artistic (digital or otherwise), must be behind a content warning message. NSFW content includes, but is not limited to: nudity, sex, kink, and the discussion of such.

To be absolutely clear, should furry nudity absent of any, ahem, "parts" on display be tagged NSFW?

The UI does not react to any changes made to the database for comments sections (i.e. upvotes/downvotes don't show up, comments get an infinitely spinning wheel but are posted normally, etc.,) This could lead to doubleposting, but mainly it's just not how the site is supposed to work.

Problem first encountered on !furry, if that helps

Dankojn pro auxskultontajn, Kamarada Felano

(Edit: Also happens with posts.)

Is this something I can fix myself?

ALT: screenshot of a jerboa android client error message that reads: "Server version () is under the minimum supported version (0.18). Please inform your administrator and login to another instance, or sign out and use the default instance."

The "Browser Default" setting doesn't appear to actually follow the browser's theme and always sets the interface to darkly.
Tested with Firefox and Chrome on Linux and Android with this website used for reference.
Sorry if this is intentional/was posted before.

Heyo, how much should we care about uploading images to pawb.social? I've been trying to upload to imgbox instead of pawb.social to limit the amount of extra bandwidth/hits that pawb.social needs to serve, but I'm not sure how much that actually costs in reality (or e.g. if it will end up scaling poorly in the future). I imagine there might be an image cache anyway, which would line up nicely with new posts getting a buzz of attention.

On a related note, I did see this post on object storage recently, which may be helpful if we're not already doing something similar.

Reproduction steps:

1. Go to Communities
2. Enter a query in the community search field
3. Search
4. See that a "couldnt_find_object" error appears in the bottom left of the screen
5. See that the user is redirected to a full text search for the query instead of a community search for the query

Now that Pawb.Social has forked Lemmy, I thought it would be appropriate to go ahead and compile a list of changes or additions that have been suggested, or that have been spotted by others or myself. This is hardly a comprehensive list, and down below will be two comments by me, one for changes to back-end changes or additions and one for the front-end suggestions as well.

A quick note before I start

One important thing I do want to stress is that any changes or additions made should not render our fork incompatible with other Lemmy instances, the apps that allows for easy usage of Lemmy (Jerboa, Thunder, etc), nor cause issues for interacting with, or interactions from, the rest of the Fediverse. To take a quote from Linux Kernel development: Don't Break Userspace!

Now, let me specify for any who aren't in the know about the differences between back-end and -front-end are:

• Front-end: focuses on the user interface, designing the visual elements, and ultimately the UI elements that a user will interact with on the web page.

• Back-end: deals with the server-side functionality, handling data processing, storage, and communication with databases and external systems (The rest of the Fediverse) using server-side programming languages and frameworks. For Lemmy, this is done with the Rust language.

Now, with that summary done, here is a (still WiP) list of changes:

Back-end

• Addition: Individual community blocking (as opposed to the current instance and user-only blocking).
• Addition: Ability to follow entire instance (or at least follow all communities on an instance).
• Addition: Allow for individuals to block instances and communities, instead of requiring instance-wide action to block them.
• Addition: Give instance admins better moderation tools (hashed IP address, etc. Needs to be GDPR compliant)
• Change: Better support for automatically linking other communities (and instances) back to your primary instance for easier following and interaction.
• Change: Better cross-compatibility between Lemmy and the Mastodon/Pleroma side of the Fediverse.
• Change: Better cross-compatibility with KBin.
• More to come

Back-end & Front-end

(For things that will require changes on both ends to function properly)

• Addition: Post flaring - To allow for better post management, sorting, viewing, and moderation.
• Addition: Ability to sort communities into groups (similar to multireddit).
• Addition: 2FA during login/sensitive actions like password changes.
• Addition: Mark servers and people as “friends” so they display a marker by their name elsewhere.
• Addition: Better nsfw post handling, more specific viewing settings, etc.
• Addition: Adding notes to users (for moderation purposes)

Front-end

• Addition: Add more themes/theming support to the UI.
• Addition: Add better support for widescreen displays.
• Addition: Ability to pick a default sorting method (perhaps per community).
• Change: Refresh and organize some of the UI elements for Lemmy (somethings are just a bit outdated looking...).
• Change: Alter donation button at the top to point to the donation portal for the/an instance (this should be the default tbh, the prominent button shouldn't direct to the Lemmy devs to begin with...)
• Change: Move all information about Lemmy and the Lemmy devs to one, out of the way location, potentially as a citation in the footer.
• Change: Add link pointing to the GitHub fork for Pawb.Social
• More to come.

Please see below for the two threads to add your own thoughts or comments on things you want added, changed, or even removed. All comments and thoughts are welcomed!> ability to sort communities into groups (similar to multireddit).

Currently there’s a bug with Lemmy where after a while the Hot and Active sorting fails to update.

Wander from yiffit posted about it as well https://pawb.social/post/118608

Is that something that can be set up on Pawb until the bug is fixed?

Apologies if this has already been brought up.

Seems kinda broken when sorting feeds. A bunch of fresh new posts load from the top regardless of sorting method after a few seconds. It pushes down stickied posts too, which suggests to me this isn't intended behavior. It's much worse when viewing all federated posts since those tend to come in quickly. Ideally it would only do this when sorting by new, and only if the user hasn't scrolled down.

This is only gonna get worse as Lemmy becomes more populated, so if there's a way to just turn that off entirely, that would be great.

This is a bit political but i feel this should be looked at. Whatever it's on on the Lemmy instance or the Mastodon instances.

My main concern is about the concept of Embrase Extend Extinguish they could use.

I've been trying to add some photos to a thread (it was going to be some old E:D screenshots), but I'm getting this error:

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/835421167048196118/1120056438501416960/image.png

This error occurs with both the URL uploader and body uploader. Obviously I can link to my images from off site (this is from my one free discord server).

I'm assuming that there are communities on Lemmy about the design of moderation and user reputation systems, but I'm not sure where to look. So I'd like to ask in a community dedicated to asking where to find a community for a topic, but I don't know where that is either. So I'm asking in this community where there might be a community where I can ask where there might be some community for some other topic. ^..^;;

Uh, any recommendations for where to direct that kind of question?

Self-explanatory. If you click on the "code" link at the bottom of the page, it takes you to LemmyNet's official source code, not the fork. This could potentially cause some difficulties with people suggesting change to the code if the fork, but it's not that big of a deal now and is just mainly so no problems arise in the future if there are any aspiring programmers wanting to make changes.

Dankojn pro auxskultontajn, Kamarada Felano

(using the x-system representation for ŭ because it looks cool, especially at the end of words)

Just a small issue I have with the comments on posts.

This post, which is about current internet practices and such, supposedly has 14 comments. However, for me at least, only 10 are visible. I have no language selected and I've refreshed multiple times. Does anyone know why this might be?

(oh btw selecting the "Undetermined" option on the languages section only shows you undetermined-language posts, not English-language or other-language posts.)

If anyone has any idea on why this could be, please let me know.

Dankojn pro aŭskultontajn, Kamarada Felano