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Server is going to go down for an upgrade to increase capacity at 6 UTC. This could take up to 30 minutes

Looks like Lemmy Explorer added some neat new features for introspecting individual instances, such as instance uptime, version history, and user growth. In particular, I like how it can list all instance communities, including banners, without pagination:

• https://lemmyverse.net/instance/programming.dev/communities

You can compare our stats from the post's link with other in the fediverse. For example:

• https://lemmyverse.net/instance/lemmy.world
• https://lemmyverse.net/instance/beehaw.org
• https://lemmyverse.net/instance/lemm.ee

Tucked away in the hamburger menu, there's also an "Network Inspector" tab to overview stats for all instances, including distribution of instance versions, as well as suspicious instances.

• https://lemmyverse.net/inspect

You can check out the sites development here:

• https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer

If you're familiar with the topic of awesome lists on GitHub, then you should know that there is a community driven list just for Lemmy, including a convenient aggregation of links to instances, alternative front-ends, mobile apps, libraries, tools, guides, etc.

Trying to attach an image to a post gives me a SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data error. Is this a me issue, this instance issue or a global lemmy problem?

New to the instance. Had a couple good days using Connect for Lemmy on Android before I started getting a message that the server is "undergoing maintenance", but the web version loads fine after a Cloudflare challenge. I assume this is what's causing the issue. Am I missing something? Is there some way to allow app traffic? Anybody else experiencing this?

Compare browsing on this instance

https://programming.dev/c/[email protected]?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=New

vs

https://beehaw.org/c/technology?dataType=Post&page=1&sort=New

especially the post "Site to track Subreddit’s as they go dark" which was posted 21 days ago, still showing up at the top of New on this instance even above newer posts, but beehaw has all new posts instead

and I am subscribed to that community so it should be federated too

I think part of the issue might be because that post is deleted? or at least the permalink for it doesn't work

but also I just manually searched for https://vlemmy.net/post/430910 so now it shows up but still below the bugged post, but it shouldn't have needed a search to federate that post manually

I've gone and made accounts of a handful of Lemmy instances, all of them larger, more popular ones.

... and I can't access any of them directly today, likely due to the influx of users from Reddit.

Programming.dev is alive and well though.

Hey everyone! Its been a week since I opened the icon poll so here are the results of what people voted for

As a reminder voting is handled by single transferable vote so every round the lowest voted entry is eliminated and the next choices of the people who chose that option is given points. If a person didnt rank all of the entries and doesnt have a next choice no other option gets their points

Icon Style

The icon style vote had 58 votes submitted total

Heres the final graph:

Round one is all of the first choice votes for the people who voted. For round two no unified style was eliminated and the votes were spread to other options. For round three general unified same col was eliminated and for round four all unified same color was eliminated

The overall winning option was All unified diff colors, winning with 36 final votes compared to general unified diff colors' 16 (and having by far the most first choice votes)

Ill be switching some of the communities (ones I made the icon for) over to the new style and new communities in the instance will be created with an icon in the style. Community mods though have the final say in what their community icon looks like and can choose not to follow this result if they want

Make sure to follow the branding guidelines of your programming language, engine, etc. Some require attribution if you edit the logo, some dont allow logo modifications, some dont have a default logo, etc.

If your language, etc. doesnt allow icon modifications you can do the same icon style but instead of a gradient logo you just have the logo itself, you can make a new logo for your community, or you can just have that logo

Icon Shape

The default icon shape poll had 37 total votes and was handled in the same format as the icon style

Pentagon was eliminated first and then squircle was eliminated

The final result was circle winning with 23 final votes compared to hexagon's 14

Community icons will have a circle shape in the instance by default but I will be pushing out a change eventually to allow toggling between different shapes for yourself for the communities on web

Thanks everyone for voting! You should see icons start to change in the instance soon

The sidebar for our instance has a broken link for programming.dev - it links to https://programming.dev/programming.dev

Good day, I have some really hard time getting my gpu passed through to a vm, my current host is linux mint. The bios setting is fine, but for some reason I get a black screen every time the vm starts.

Im not sure if the card itself have limitations. Just want to confirm wether I am wasting my time on this card?

Im basically try to do a single gpu passthrough with scripts that will release gpu from host and pass through to vm, till the vm is shut down, then the host have control over the gpu again.

Just wanted to make another quick post just in case someone missed the other one

The icon poll to determine the recommended icon style for the instance is going to end tonight in around 11 hours

You can see the original post here https://programming.dev/post/190520 and make sure to dm me with the options ranked based on your preference if you want to vote (you can click on my name and then you can send a message through lemmy using the send message button that shows up in my profile)

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

• The bot only works in the [email protected] community.
• It is limited to 100 summaries per day.

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.

From here the stats are far lower than viewing from lemmy.world. is it just me?

I've never had any problems viewing other Lemmy instances on mobile but this one is completely unusable. Even if you ignore the broken layout you can't even sign in. Is this a known issue from whatever frontend this community is using? Any word on when it might be fixed?

Our instance was highlighted in the video above, with the exact timestamp here. It's a decent introduction for those migrating from Reddit; although it would've been helpful to showcase more of the registration process, such as creating an account, searching for and subscribing to communities, and navigating ones feed in general. E.g. using online indexes such as these:

• https://sub.rehab
• https://lemmyverse.net/communities

Still, it's hard not to appreciate the optimistic exposure. Hopefully moderation tooling and content archives will improve as the software and communities supporting the Fediverse grow and mature.

Hey guys,

Can one of you please try to subscribe to a community from a different instance? Say, for example, [email protected]. I see the text "subscribe", but it is not a button and it does nothing.

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

I will be updating the instance to v18 at ~~20:00~~ 22:00 UTC.

See https://programming.dev/post/181191 for the changes

edit: Lemmy.ml updated and seems to have gone down. We're going to wait and see what the outage was caused by and then proceed from there.

edit 2: lemmy was down due to a ddos attack. We will upgrade at 22:00 UTC

edit 3: we had issues with the email setup getting overridden again. If you tried to sign up in the past 8 hours please try to just log in. If you can't, please message me (discord, matrix, or mastodon)

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 [email protected] 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

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:

• Relative link
• Direct link

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:

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

Ive been working on some unified icons for the instance so the icons feel like they belong together

Let me know if you like them or if there's some adjustments I should make

Some examples from ones I've done

The majority of them are generated from https://game-icons.net/ with the settings of foreground being shrunk twice and position being x:2 y:2. Foreground color is diagonal from 2EE5D2 to A01FC5. And has a shadow with color 423025 and blur set to 15. The background color is just black

Hey everyone, I've just finished up my second bot in the instance after Frank my thread posting bot. This one is called Mega and is just used to auto post any new posts that come up from RSS feeds to certain communities.

Currently I just have it set up in the Godot and Unreal communities but if you're modding a community in the instance and want a feed added let me know.

I also have the source code available here if you want to look at it or host a version of it yourself.

In case something goes wrong with programming.dev infrastructure, it would be good to have a Mastodon account (preferably not hosted on the same infrastructure) to inform the public about the status.