Exactly. By the way you can already test it on voyager.lemmy.ml
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Not much longer, Lemmy 1.0 will have private communities.
Its a difficult decision to send people to the homepage or the registration page. Homepage makes sense to explore like you say, but then someone might not find the registration button or dislike the frontpage posts and close the page. Registration page makes sense because with an account you can actually start voting, posting and following so you get the full experience. Its also what joinmastodon.org or pixelfed.org do.
I can see how that warning is a turnoff, but the registration approval is necessary to prevent spam bots. And its better to make users aware of that than having them think something is broken. In 1.0 there will be estimated approval time shown, and it will also be possible to use a plugin for automatic approval based on keywords.
How does the json for a batched vote activity look like?
Working on Lemmy, instead of selling my soul to a company.
No you cannot post to a multi-community, they are only for browsing/viewing.
Good job! I wonder why some of these are missing from fediverse.observer. There is an add instance page, and entering for example aussie.zone says it already exists, but the search doesnt find it. Lemmy.cafe, fosscad.io are included in the statistics (file instances/full.json.gz in the git repo), but not currently shown on the website.
Thanks to your comment I realized that we are only showing instances with registration application on the official site, as there was concern that others would be overrun by spam bots. I had a look at it now, and instances with captcha are actually fine. Here you can see all that are newly listed on joinlemmy.
The instance list is sorted by monthly active users with slight randomization. As these instances you mention are among the larger ones, it is expected that they show near the top. Is there a better sort method that you would suggest?
Follow these steps:
- Use the
nightlyDocker image for Lemmy and lemmy-ui - Setup postgres, pictrs and nginx according to the usual 0.19 instructions
- Specify plugins in Lemmy config (docs, example)
- You need to specify the hash for each wasm file (check logfile for error message), or set
DANGER_PLUGIN_SKIP_HASH_CHECK(not merged yet, part of the PR above)
Let me know if this works, then I will add it to the documentation. Or better yet, make a PR yourself ;)
Edit: Config from the test server:
plugins: [{
file: "https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-plugins/releases/download/0.1.3/rust_lingua.wasm",
hash: "e1f58029f2ecca5127a4584609494120683b691fc63a543979ea071f32cf690f",
allowed_hosts: ["0.0.0.0"]
}]
There is also enterprise.lemmy.ml which runs the stable version. And ds9.lemmy.ml but that is currently not active.
What exactly do you like about Alexandrite compared to the default? From what I can see:
- Full-page layout while lemmy-ui is more centered
- Posts open in overlay
- Comment search, neat!
- Card view (you can also try that on our test instance with Lemmy)
- Anything else?
And private communities. As mod you need to approve every follower manually. Others cannot see any posts/comments in the community.
Why? Do they think this is a videogame??
When people are told about Lemmy and look for it in a search engine, join-lemmy.org is one of the first pages that comes up. Here they should be able to find out what Lemmy is, and be able to register an account to start posting.
At the moment this still seems too complicated, so I'm looking for your suggestions to improve it:
- On the main page, is the text relevant and up to date or should anything be changed?
- How about the instance selection wizard (click "join a server" on the homepage), which lets you select topics and languages to select instances. Do the current options make sense?
- The instance list itself, is there any information missing, or potential design improvements?
- And the list of apps, what can be done here? For one thing the data is rarely updated, so we would appreciate pull requests.
- Any other suggestions you may have.
Since yesterday I already made a couple of improvements:
- Use biased random for instance list, so large instances are always near the top
- Rename Join to Sign Up in instance list
- Fix icon overflows by using inline-flex (by @dessalines)
- Add button to visit random instance (not merged yet)
Edit: Here is a draft for some changes to the frontpage:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/524
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