Hello all! 👋

A few things to cover here.

First of all, I would like to thank all who donated for their generosity. I don’t know if I’ve said it before, but 100% of the donations are going directly to the hosting costs.

I believe I fixed the issues with federation (it was just a problem in my nginx configuration), so interoperability with mastodon should be working again. Sorry about that! I haven’t tested other software, such as friendica and kbin, but I’m hoping they should be working again too.

We’ve surpassed 2,000 users! 🎉 I love seeing the all engagement! Also, thank you for the reports as well, I would like to keep this instance safe & welcoming to all, and can’t do it without your help.

I’ve also noticed there’s a few servers that my e-mail server is not happy trying to send e-mails to. by default it’s set up to be fairly picky about the servers it connects to, and I’ve noticed that it’s refusing to deliver to some with self-signed or certs that don’t match the domain. I’ll be working on getting that resolved in the next few days too.

Last but not least, I’ve added @[email protected] to help me out with some admin duties. Please give him a warm welcome! I plan on adding a third soon too.

As always, let me know if you have any questions, concerns, suggestions, or whatever.

  • TroyEnglish
    8•1 year ago

    Some UX comments. I’m not sure if you have a line up to the development team, but these minor suggestions should help a bit I think.

    (1) when you start typing !community… and it automatically creates a link for you, that link is currently a direct link. That works fine for communities also on lemmy.ca, but for federated communities, it’s bad – because we don’t have user accounts there. More ideally, it should default to creating the local-server-accessible version of the link – aka /c/[email protected] rather than https://server.tld/c/community. This will allow people to jump to between communities more easily.

    (2) Right now the modlog shows federation wide events. This is great from the perspective of transparency, but it’d be nice if there was a subset limited only to those communities you’re moderating. How hard would this be to implement?

    (3) For things like the /c/hockey game-day-thread that happened yesterday, it’d be nice as the poster to be able to set the default comment sorting. In that case, setting the default to new would have been useful.

    (4) It’d be nice to be able to set a default for the Frontpage. For example, to Subscribed+Top_Day. Having to click twice each time to see your subscriptions is a little annoying.

    (5) It’d be nice to be able to set a default language, rather than having to choose it from the dropdown every time. Like in user options, “When I do not select a language, my comments and posts will default to …”

    (6) Reddit refugees are used to being able to type r/subname and have the link be autocreated. Would it be reasonable for the autolinking that occurs with !community to also occur if someone types c/community or /c/community? Transferable skills ;)

    I don’t speak rust, but am a programmer. It may be easier for someone Involved™ to do, than for me to spin up a server for development/testing.

    Thanks for hosting! Let me know if you want help with /c/Winnipeg.

    • @[email protected]OPMEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      wow thanks for your detailed feedback. looks like others found feature request/fixes for most of them.

      i can submit feature requests for 3 and 6 if you’d like, they sound like good ideas to me.

      for (3), so the poster sets the default comment sorting, and that applies to all users that view the comments in that post?

      and for (6), i believe i know what you mean, but just to clarify: if you were to type something like https://lemmy.ca/c/some_community_that_doesnt_exist_yet, it would say something like “this community doesn’t exist, do you want to create it?”.

      • TroyEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        Yes, you understand (3) correctly.

        For (6) what I mean is behaviour like (1), where if you start typing with /c/ or c/ it automatically suggests links to communities. This behaviour already exists with !

        It could make things feel a bit more familiar to Reddit migrants. But isn’t strictly necessary.

        However, you’re interpretation of (6) is also a great idea! It’s something that exists on Reddit. It’s a softer landing than a 404 :)

        • @[email protected]OPMEnglish
          3•1 year ago

          ah, i see what you mean, autocomplete for when you start typing /c/..., or variants of it. got it. good idea.

    • MarsEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      I don’t have notes for all your points, but for a couple of them:

      (1) This is being actively discussed in this GitHub issue.

      (4) This can be accomplished in your account’s Settings: Type and Sort type

      Hope that helps!