I wanted to take a bit to highlight some communities in the instance that people might be interested in!

• Programming - A general purpose programming community
• Programmer Humor - A community for sharing memes, jokes, etc. about programming
• Experienced Devs - A place for experienced developers to talk
• Learn Programming - A community for people who want to learn how to program
• No Stupid Questions - A place to ask any programming related questions you want!
• Ask Experienced Devs - A community to ask experienced developers any questions you may have for them

Theres also many other communities in the instance you can check out. On web you can navigate to them from the communities button up top

Hope you enjoy the instance!

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

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

I will be taking the server offline for an upgrade in 35 minutes at 4:00 UTC

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

For anyone who wants a quicker chat to discuss with members of the community and mods feel free to join the discord! https://discord.gg/YF8ZgV3AtB

This also applies to anyone who wishes to get help with thing such as signing up for the community

The server is currently a bit small but can either be built up or switched to another platform based on interest

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.

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?

I just opened someone's profile in another instance and saw this message

"You are not logged in. If you use a Fediverse account that is able to follow users, you can follow this user."

but I don't see anything about following a user here, do we have this disabled here? if so then why?

for some reason I still can’t find this community from this instance, neither searching method works, and I waited hours and tried again and still nothing

https://programming.dev/search/q/https%3A%2F%2Fenterprise.lemmy.ml%2Fc%2Freddit_memes/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1

https://programming.dev/search/q/!reddit_memes%40enterprise.lemmy.ml/type/All/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1

this is the direct link to it https://enterprise.lemmy.ml/c/reddit_memes

and this link doesn't work either https://programming.dev/c/[email protected]

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

Firstly, thanks for running this instance. After reddit harakiri, this is god sent.

I was wondering how resource intensive is it to run this server? I hope the reddit refugees won't put a big hole in your hosting bill.

Others like me could also host a server, if there is tremendous load on this one.

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 😂

Please comment with what communities you would like to be added here.

For mod creation I need both the url style name (experienced_devs) and the Display name (Experienced Devs)

The sidebar states "Please see the request thread to request more communities" but I'm not seeing such a thread.

Not sure if this is the best place to post, but I'm trying to figure Lemmy out. Suppose I want to subscribe to [email protected] using this account.... how do I do that?

When I go to the "communities" tab and search for "news"... doesn't show up there. I can search for "technology" and find results for [email protected]. I can go to a URL on this domain for that community; but plopping the word "news" instead of "technology" in that URL gives me a 404.

Do the admins of this instance have to whitelist specific other communities before people here can subscribe to them? Have they done that with "technology" but not "news"? (I understand if that's the case. Probably want to keep programmers.dev on topic. Just trying to figure out how lemmy works)

Can posts have a body and a URL?

Is markdown supported?

Console.WriteLine("Hello, World")

Do code blocks work?

What about with syntax highlighting?

console.log("Hello, World");

Can I make a code block with indentations?

var a = "Hello" var b = "World" console.log(${a}, ${b});

Let's see what quotations look like,

This is a quote.

And this one will be multiline.

Line one. Line two.

There should be a space above.

I think that's enough testing for now.

Welcome to the community!

My name is Tyler Thrailkill (@snowe or @snowe2010 on almost every site). I am currently the main mod at r/experiencedDevs on Reddit, and am starting this site up in the hopes that we can make a collective developer community free from VC influence. This is partially because of the recent API changes Reddit has declared, but also because developers are the ones that can most likely make a community like this succeed.

It will probably not go well, I understand that. It will probably be crazy expensive. I understand that. I do hope that the community is able to work together to actually make this a success though.

I've started by creating 3 communities:

• meta
• Programming
• Experienced Devs

meta is for discussions about programming.dev itself. I think this is one of Stack Overflows best ideas (was it their idea?), because it allows for incremental improvement as a collective group. Please use this to discuss things you think need to change about the site.

Programming is for general purpose programming discussions. This is an analogue to /r/programming on reddit.

Finally, Experienced Devs is an analogue to the /r/experiencedDevs sub that I currently moderate on Reddit. I hope to pull some of my mods over from there, but we're still talking about it because we don't even know if lemmy is built to handle the traffic that this site could generate.

I will be creating several more meta posts in the coming days, so be on the lookout for those. Thank you for reading!