cross-posted from: https://lemmy.basedcount.com/post/475954
As anticipated a few days ago in our last announcement post, we are now rolling out user flairs for our instance.
At the moment they are only active in !pcm@lemmy.basedcount.com , however they can also be enabled in other communities if the moderators desire it. Of course flairs aren't necessarily limited to the Political Compass. Mods (looking at you @serial_crusher@lemmy.basedcount.com and @kingludd@lemmy.basedcount.com ) can use them however they see fit.
For the next few days the only way to add, delete or modify them will be by kindly asking me (I need to manually edit the database), however I plan on bringing those features to the UI as soon as possible.
A couple more notes:
- flairs are only available and visible to users of this instance. Users from federated instances will look unflaired, you will look unflaired to them. It's just the way it goes, this service isn't part of the Lemmy server and thus doesn't federate.
- flairs are only available on the website. If you browse through an app you won't be able to see them either. Same reason as above.
Roadmap
There are some more updates to be made before we can say we are done with flairs:
- Adding mod tools to the UI (mod only window to create, edit and delete flairs in a community they moderate
- Adding limited support for other instances through a browser extension
- Porting flairchange_bot and basedcount_bot to !pcm@lemmy.basedcount.com . Possibly other communities as well.
We don't have any plans for adding flairs support to mobile applications.
Yay!
I’m on mobile right now but will pop in and flair up some time this weekend. Thank you for all your hard work on this!
Thanks! Btw do let me know if you want me to add some flairs to your community. It will take me a while to implement the mod side of flairs, so for now we'll have to go the manual way.