I would love to host other events besides Canvas!
If anyone has ideas for events they would like to see done, message me on Matrix or shoot me an email
Like xuv said, it was a matter of moderation and how Matrix is much better setup for moderation. I failed to remove the mentions to the chat though, which did confuse people, sorry about that.
for next years I would like to better connect the on-site chat with Matrix to make chatting a lot easier (and bridging a Discord server to the Matrix space)
the pxls backend was spammed by reports done by the software itself (such as "account logged in with ip shared with 2,000 other users" due to a bug related to reverse proxy settings)
a lot of them we just couldn't get to because the aforementioned bug created 60+ pages of reports with no bulk delete or filter options
next year's system will be a lot better setup to avoid these types of issues happening tho!
I sent a couple messages into the Lemmy Instance admins Matrix room, but a lot of instances ignored the posts I made 😅
lemmy.world was voting internally on when to announce it but the event would've been over before the internal voting concluded they are interested in joining the next event tho 👀
and to any Lemmy instance admins reading this, join the admin room so you can be aware of the next one :)
it was really hard to get the word out for this event, but the next time this event happens I'll be announcing it on this community and in the Matrix space
the config switch wasn't as clean as I wanted lmao
thanks for participating everyone!!
nope, once the event concludes I'll post the final canvas & the pixel placement log for data visualization people
The plan is to lock the canvas and release the final canvas as well as the pixel placement logs
I expect people will release visualizing tools to see the progress
Some other projects that people can work on are background elements (like Green Lattice, Minecraft Grass or Terraria backgrounds)
If you load your template into the settings menu you can share the page url to share your template and location
Let's get the canvas filled!
Like the others are saying, if more people are planning on participating we won't need a smaller canvas
Getting instances on board was initially very hard, but thanks to some community members posting it on other communities we were able to get this big
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