Started looking at some Reddit alternatives today with the upcoming change to API policy. This seems like a cool option that lines up with my values. Super pumped to find a hockey community here as that was my main interest on Reddit. Still trying to figure out exactly how to use Lemmy, so any tips would be appreciated! Any team specific communities? I’m a leafs fan for reference
Yeah we posted the last game day thread manually. It would be nice to work out some fancier formatting for next year but we have all summer and hopefully there will be some improvements to lemmy by then too so we will see what can be done.
I love watching rugby but I still don’t quite understand all the rules and I know dick all about any of the players. If you want I can try to add your community in our sidebar. Hopefully I can add some text there that says friends of c/hockey. I’m still learning here.
Yeah the rules in rugby are a bit harder to learn than hockey, though I’ve yet to find a rule in rugby that newbies understand less than icing, which doesn’t seem like it should be hard to figure out!
The biggest issue with hockey in North America is the the officiating is so discretionary. Icing is actually a very simple rule, but it’s not always called by the book and that makes hockey rules difficult to understand. I can imagine this is frustrating to a new fan.
I’m fortunate that I’m able to take my kids to a few hockey games a year. I find it helps to sit higher up so that they can see the whole game and that helps them see how plays develop and how positioning works better than sitting at ice level. Even they can see that rules are basically ignored at times and arbitrary calls are made to even out the game. When I look at how the rules in rugby are handled it’s just better in my opinion. I’m ok with refs missing calls sometimes, cause the game is fast and that’s going to happen, but the game management and trying to balance penalties and keep the game close kind of makes me lose interest cause the game ends up depending on luck a lot of the time. That’s my rant for the night. I’m going to bed.