There already is an alternative community at c!finalfantasyxiv@lemmy.world so I guess we should move there unless there's a reason against it.
cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/30312497
Links: Visual Novel Development or !vndev@discuss.tchncs.de
Some people might remember that I already run the !renpy@discuss.tchncs.de community, which is dedicated to the visual novel engine Ren'Py. This new community is engine agnostic, and has a focus on more general VNDev discussions. It's supposed to be a fediverse equivalent to r/vndevs
Please feel free to share your progress with your own visual novel projects there!
Links: Visual Novel Development or !vndev@discuss.tchncs.de
Some people might remember that I already run the !renpy@discuss.tchncs.de community, which is dedicated to the visual novel engine Ren'Py. This new community is engine agnostic, and has a focus on more general VNDev discussions. It's supposed to be a fediverse equivalent to r/vndevs
Please feel free to share your progress with your own visual novel projects there!
I agree 100%, both look super ugly
As an alternative, there are tons of gamepad icons on freepik like this one that could be used as long as theres an attribution link in the community description.
Also here's a quick collage I screenshotted from steamdb, feel free to use it if there aren't any better ones by others:
Infinity Nikki! It's probably my new favourite dress up game (dethroning FFXIV)
Das ist ein super Weihnachtsfilm, kann ihn absolut empfehlen!
I already tried them out and made starter packs for Visual Novel developers and artists I like. I got a 500 error a few times while trying to add a user to a starter pack, but apart from that it works pretty well. Wish there were better filtering options for the search though.
!renpy@discuss.tchncs.de is active and slowly growing, we have 82 subscribers now!
Thank you! Seems like moderation actions on Lemmy seem to have no effect on how the thread is shown and boosted by the community's group account on other platforms. On mastodon.social at least, the reply is still boosted.
... :0 Huh, that's interesting. Functionally, I don't think there's a way to differentiate between groups/communities and users on Mastodon. You should be able to search up the community by using its full URL (in this case https://sh.itjust.works/c/test), then it should point you to the corresponding group account. But it doesn't show up when I try. That's why I searched for the username directly. It also very weird that the user seems to be boosting threads and comments as a group would.
It's not a problem with the instance either, I can search and find other communities on this instance that way just fine. Looks like a bug to me? And not a Mastodon-exclusive one, on my side-account on goblin.band I get the same behaviour.
Thank you! Unfortunately, somehow this post didn't show up on the community's group account at all for some reason (even though older threads from about a week ago do show up normally), so I couldn't make any observations😔 I tried it again on !test_posts@reddthat.com, and so far the thread shows up alright, so I guess I'll continue my test over there
Edit: Now that I'm looking more closely, actually, this community doesn't seem to be a group at all! It should have a "Group" tag in its profile. 🤔 !test_posts@reddthat.com seems to be a proper group however, maybe that's why it behaves differently?
Here's the banner I posted in the original thread, it's a screenshot from steamdb of games with at least 100k reviews and a user rating of at least 89 with the details of each card omitted: