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This is a community for discussing things about programming.dev itself. Things like announcements, site help posts, site questions, etc. are all welcome here.

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/314158

Announcement

The bot I announced in this thread is now ready for a limited beta release.

You can see an example summary it wrote here.

How to Use AutoTLDR

  • Just mention it ("@" + "AutoTLDR") in a comment or post, and it will generate a summary for you.
  • If mentioned in a comment, it will try to summarize the parent comment, but if there is no parent comment, it will summarize the post itself.
  • If the parent comment contains a link, or if the post is a link post, it will summarize the content at that link.
  • If there is no link, it will summarize the text of the comment or post itself.
  • 🔒 If you include the #nobot hashtag in your profile, it will not summarize anything posted by you.

Beta limitations

How to try it

  • If you want to test the bot, write a long comment, or include a link in a comment in this thread, and then, in a reply comment, mention the bot.
  • Feel free to test it and try to break it in this thread. Please report any weird behavior you encounter in a PM to me (NOT the bot).
  • You can also use it for its designated purpose anywhere in the AUAI community.
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From here the stats are far lower than viewing from lemmy.world. is it just me?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Ategon@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev
 
 

Edit: if you already voted see edit at bottom of post

Hey everyone, this is another post regarding choosing the icon style for communities in the instance

There was a bunch of issues raised about the last poll so Ive remade it. The last poll results will not count and instead these ones will be used

  • Voting is done by single transferable vote
  • You can no longer accidentally click vote

There are two Parts of the poll: The icon style and the icon shape

Icon Style

Note this is just to determine the recommended style for communities, individual communities can choose not to follow it if they want

Option 1: All Unified Same Color

This option is for every icon to have the same style and same color gradient

Option 2: All Unified Diff Colors

This option is for every icon to have the same style with the black background and gradient. However each community has their own colors for the gradient rather than having the same one for all of them. For example the godot community might have a blue purple gradient for their logo and functional programming might have orange red.

Option 3: General Unified Same Col

This option is for general communities (such as experienced devs, meta, programming, game development (things that arent specific to one language, engine, etc.)) have the unified style but other communities instead have the logo for the language, engine, etc.. For example game development would have the gradient icon but godot would have the godot logo

Option 4: General Unified Diff Col

This is a combination of options 2 and 3 where general communities have the gradient style but they also have different colors from each other

Option 5: No Unified Style

No gradient logos for any communities, instead having different style ones for every community

Icon Shape

This is the default shape that you want community logos to have when they show up. If a community logo has a specific shape (ex the godot logo) the voted on shape is overridable. Users will also be able to override whatever gets chosen locally, its just the default. Currently lemmy uses circles for both users and communities.

Poll Link

Edit: the website that was being used makes it very easy to cheat by just downloading a new browser and voting again as many times as you want. Due to this voting will be happening through dms to me. Sorry for all of the iterations of the vote but this will be a big change in the instance and I want to get accurate info

If you want to vote send me a dm with the options ordered based on your preference. Here are the available options (for the two different votes):

Icon Style

  • All Unified Same Color
  • All Unified Diff Colors
  • General Unified Same Col
  • General Unified Diff Col
  • No unified style

Icon Shape

  • Circle
  • Squircle
  • Square
  • Diamond
  • Hexagon
  • Pentagon

Rank each category from your first choice to your last choice. If your first choice ends up having the least amount of votes then your second choice vote counts instead, etc. until one option has 50% or more of votes.

To dm me go to my profile Here and click on one of the send message buttons (secure message sends it through matrix while the other just sends it through lemmy)

Ill respond to you when I note down your vote to be counted (shouldnt take longer than 8 hours and I try to respond quickly, if I dont then something went wrong with the dm)

Voting will end in a week

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Hey everyone! Ive made a third bot for the instance called Linker. This bot will automatically detect when you try to reference a certain community and then give both relative and direct links to it in a comment for people to check out.

The usual syntax when you want to reference a community is communityname@programming.dev with communityname replaced by the community name and programming.dev replaced with the instance the community is in

It will also detect when you link a community like this https://programming.dev/c/programming

Works for both posts and comments but will only handle communities that have been entered in the bot. To start with I've put in the top 50 most active communities in the instance but will put the rest in soon

If you have any suggestions for communities to link in on other instances let me know

Source Code

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Ategon@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev
 
 

Now that people have settled in a bit into the instance and we have over 100 communities created I've created a new community that new community requests are going to be moved into rather than the pinned thread

Feel free to post community ideas in there and they will be considered to be added once they hit 7 points from upvotes

You can also request to take over communities that have inactive mods there

You can find the it using these links:

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Community Icon Poll (programming.dev)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Ategon@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev
 
 

Edit: This link is outdated, see new poll here https://programming.dev/post/190520

Hey everyone

Wanted to run a poll about the community icons to choose between a couple options

Option 1 - Use UBP icons - Use unified icons for all of the communities similar to beehaw

Option 2 - Use UBP for general communities and specific language, etc. icons for specific communities

Option 3 - Dont use UBP icons

Vote using the strawpoll here (doing strawpoll so it can be ranked voting) [removed in favor of new post]

EDIT: I have remade the poll with two more options. If you voted in the previous one please vote again in this. The new options are just for adding different colored gradients to the unified icons for different communities

Quick example of this:

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I've tried solutions explained here and here. I am trying to subscribe to some communities on the TTRPG Network. Am I missing something?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by vilcans@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev
 
 

I registered on the web site today and then tried to log in on Jerboa, but it gives the Incorrect Login message. I figured maybe my first (autogenerated) password was too long or had invalid characters in it. So I've tried several times to change it, but neither the Change Password box in Settings nor reset password works. Both of them just changes the button to a spinner whenever I click it. What's up?

EDIT: It seems the same problem affects trying to log in (I'm still logged in on this browser, but I can't log in on any other). But it doesn't even seem to be specific to my user. No matter what username and password I give it, the button just keeps on spinning. Both on Firefox on Linux and Chrome on Android. So it should affect everyone. Strange.

EDIT 2: Logging in doesn't work on other servers running 0.17.4 (tried https://discuss.tchncs.de/login and https://sh.itjust.works/login).

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fjärrinlägg från: https://mstdn.social/users/stux/statuses/110582137637837383

Huh. In the list with "fastest growing #Lemmy instances" are only spam instances now

I'm currently creating an instance ban list for Geddit to block those instances if they don't take action.. This is a disaster waiting to happen :lemmy:

https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse

@lemmy

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I don't know if this is the right community to ask this sort of thing, but I think a community in the vein of thedailywtf.com would be a good fit for this instance. I'm sure we've all come across our share of WTFs.

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We should probably submit a request to include our communities here as subreddit alternatives:

There are some other similar sites we could also update to as well:

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Hey everyone! Just wanted to let you know of some features ive been working on for the instance and get some feedback on them to shape how they turn out

The main things mostly involve the addition of flairs around the website similar to reddit flairs

User Flairs

The first addition to be added is user flairs. Communities will be able to make flairs for use in their community with self assignable flairs, and flairs given by mods. These could include things like marking people who participated in a special event, adding in what specific programming language you use, or marking people who made contributions like making the community banner.

Mods will be able to create and assign flairs using a button beside the inbox button in the top right, and users will be able to get flairs from the sidebar

Flairs are put into flair groups which only allow certain amounts of flairs from that group to be chosen. For example if you have a role for choosing programming language and you only want people to choose one you can set a max of 1 for that flair group. (This can be set to whatever you want as long as its a nonnegative integer)

Post Flairs

Post flairs function essentially the same as user flairs but are put on posts instead. Flairs can be set to be only assignable by mods or able to be assigned by everyone and they are also in flair groups if you only want one of a type to be added (e.g. if you have category post flairs for help, news, etc. and dont want people to assign both help and news to the same post)

Community Flairs

Function the same as the other two but are created by admins and set by mods instead of mods and users. Are added to communities to show what category of community it is (e.g. gamedev, webdev, etc.)

Mod List

Currently in community both admins and mods show up in the mod list. Im aiming to add a small update to only show mods so that admins arent shown (as they arent the ones running the community) unless explicitly added

Ive got an image showing a possible setup for flairs. Currently all the posts in here have the same flair format as its not built apart from basic ui but can give a rough idea of it

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Check the top comments from this thread "Reddit: Killing a Giant". I've seen our server URL floating around some of the sub comments in Reddit related threads on HN before this week, but this was the first I found linked from the top comment. Comment here if you spot anymore out in the wild. 🏞️

Welcome folks from HN! Feel free to say hello!

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Ategon@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev
 
 

Hey everyone! Just wanted to let you know that we have a matrix room at https://matrix.to/#/#programming.dev:matrix.org and a discord server at https://discord.com/invite/kwyxvYEYt4 for discussions outside of threads

If youre a mod for a community I also recommend setting up a group chat for all of the mods in your community so you can chat between yourselves easily (theres a dm feature built into lemmy but as far as I know its just for two people). Ive been setting up mine on matrix but you can chat to see what you prefer

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I'm new to Lemmy and decided to join this instance as /r/programming was one of the big reasons I joined reddit in the first place. Excited to be here, but I have a question on how do you create new communities? In some other instances I see that there is a button at the top called "Create communities" is it because my account isn't fully validated yet? Do I need my email assigned first?

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Hi! Are there any criteria in place as to how this instance and its accounts federate with others? For instance, there are a few communities on feddit.de which I'd like to subscribe to, but they are not listed here, am I doing something wrong?

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I'm really digging the symmetric look and iconography of the new logo for programming.dev. Very creative yet pleasantly minimal!

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I have a feeling the hosting costs are going to get expensive fast here, heh. Maybe an OpenCollective?

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Mods Wanted! (programming.dev)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Ategon@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev
 
 

Hello members of programming.dev! Currently weve got communities popping up that are being requested from https://programming.dev/post/5189 (if you want a community make sure to throw it in there)

If you want to mod one of the communities feel free to say so down below! In order for Lemmy to allow you to be modded you need to have a post in the community first as well

If you start running a community make sure to get some posts in there for people to interact with and get some activity going!

  • Edit some communities now have hit two or more members of the mod team. If this is case you need to apply to those mods rather than me as im letting them handle how they want to run it
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Hi all,

Thank you for joining me here! It's great to see that we have a community that wants to grow in such a new and exciting manner.

As it is, I thought it would be a lot easier to do this by myself than it has been. So I'm asking for some help!

I have several things I need assistance with:

  • setting up and moderating a chat community, for those times when users are having issues with the website. I think it's up to the community what software we use, but I would probably prefer Discord. Since this is all federation though I completely understand if others want to use something like Zulip or Matrix! So let's just use what everyone wants. If you have an opinion please post below.
  • database stuff. I'm absolutely terrible at database stuff, and that is not an exaggeration. If anyone is willing to help it would be much appreciated. Currently I have a need to set up pgbouncer, or we should modify the lemmy source to allow for setting up a bouncer. I also want to set up read replicas so that we can distribute the load a bit more evenly. As it currently is, the site was simply set up with the lemmy-ansible script, so everything is running on a single box 😬. If you know Rust and want to help modify the Lemmy source code for this, or you are a Database Admin and want to help, I'd very much appreciate it.
  • instance admins. I cannot be online constantly and I do have a day job. I'm getting messages and applications to join the instance along with needing to set up new communities, create and update rules, moderate, etc. I cannot handle this all alone.
  • I also need some general help.
    • email admin
    • migration of server to larger VPS (will have to bring the entire site down for this, unless someone wants to help set up a load balancer, a brand new box, and have some sort of migration strategy.)

If you want to help out on the server side of things I will want to know your real life persona, but for instance admins, chat mods, etc. I would just like to see some sort of comment history from you elsewhere.

And thank you once again, for helping create an inclusive community.

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When I first saw this community I though it was related to Facebook and completely ignored it. Did anyone else do the same, and is there a way to make it more clear to new users and or is there currently something in place that I just completely missed that points it out?

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@meta trying to create an account but stuck on loading.

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I'm trying to get the instance to run better, so I just adjusted the database pooling to hopefully make things run more stable. Let me know if it made stuff worse 😂

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