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I've been here a while, and I appreciate the community and the defed/hiding list.
I also know programming.dev contributes to upstream Lemmy repos.

I saw another post about another instances funding.
Which reminded me....

Is programming.dev on track for funding?
Need some more donations?
Is there a runway?

Aeharding, Voyager app dev, released a tool showing if an instance has improperly configured progressive streaming, which seems to be the source of images and videos sometimes not loading properly on third-party apps. This instance shows up with an error with this tool.

This post is just to raise awareness of this tool to admins and if it was something that can/should be investigated? Has anyone else had the issues described on this page? I can say I've had images and videos fail to load from time to time.

Progressive Streaming Tool

When I’m logged into my moderator account I see “[email protected] is completely empty” despite having 3 posts. When I log out and use a private browser tab I see it.

It's pages and pages of this. Maybe you want to restrict who can log in and create repositories.

Programming.dev now has official community guidelines. These should help clarify what sort of local communities we allow to be hosted on the instance and the rules we expect them to follow.

As most programmers are aware, anticipating every edge case is generally not viable, so these are just guidelines, not written-in-stone rules. The admin team will still evaluate communities on a case-by-case basis, and exceptions are always possible.

If you have any feedback on the guidelines, we are more than happy to hear them, so please post them below.

Transcription: picture is a screenshot of a user inbox page with a new message containing a photo of a woman with dark hair. The message reads "Hi I am Nicole but you can call me the Fediverse chick". There's more text but this is very obviously a bot attempting to get people to join a particular server.

On a side note: I can't delete this message as I get an error about dms not being available. I've blocked the bot already. Does programming.dev support dm's?

Seems like its been pinned there somehow, despite being 2 days old. Happens when logged out as well.

How do admins feel about users requesting (or creating) communities on here for blogging purposes? For example /c/online persona or /c/online persona sibling or something similar.

I saw somebody talking about how they started doing that on another server and simply linking to it on reddit to get traction in the fediverse. It seems like a great idea to me. Blogs are shared quite often and them being on Lemmy allows for new entries to simply show up in the local feed. They can be easily crossposted and commented on in Lemmy and across the fediverse if I'm not mistaken.

The only problem I could see is are naming conflicts. For example if somebody reads this and immediately creates /c/onlinepersona to block me from creating that to force a report to the admins. Or the reverse, a user creating the name "programming-guides" to then claim a community with the same name.

Thoughts?

Anti Commercial-AI license

The [email protected] community is an empty, dead community created (moderated) by an inactive, empty account.

I would prefer it if it were deleted so as not to clutter the instance community list.

Does this instance have a concrete guideline or precedent for that or would be able to decide at the discretion of an admin?

As a follow up to our previous announcement post, we have now set up a page to display every community that is hidden for our local users.

As explained on that page:

Programming.dev will hide political communities, NSFW/pornographic communities and communities that have a majority of their content produced by bots. While a community is hidden, it and its posts and comments will not show up in post feeds or in the search results unless you have explicitly subscribed to it. Communities themselves currently do not show up in community search results, this may change in the future; see #2943.

Users can subscribe to a hidden community to remove the hidden effect status of a community, however it can be difficult for a user to find out which communities are due to them not being searchable.

As per our policy of hiding political communities, pornographic communities and communities hosting bot spam, [email protected] is now set to hidden as its content is mainly USA centric political news.

Those of you who want to continue to see posts from [email protected] are encouraged to subscribe to the community, which will make the it visible for your account.

The mods over [email protected] have already been notified of this move and understand our decision, please do not bother them by pinging them here.

A previous announcement post of other hidden communities can be seen here

Disclaimer: I'm not sure if a community request should be made here or not.

https://old.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk is the only reason I visit reddit. I don't have an account over there but it's fun to see programmers making fun of other programmers but also not taking themselves too seriously

Please.

Edit: this exists now! If you're a programming.dev user you can nominate yourself as a mod.

Will be reindexing all of the tables I havent reindexed yet just in case some of them also got corrupted

Seems like some peoples profiles are also affected by the issue although its much rarer

Doing another round of maintenance to fix some issues related to posts

It might only be down for a bit within that window but im giving myself two hours in case some things take longer than I expect

Will be attempting to fix some issues. If theyre still there after this maintenance I'll be doing another round tomorrow or on the weekend around the same time slot since there's less activity then

Hey all,

Just wondering if there is a list somewhere that I can't find that lists the comunities that Programming.dev have defederatd from (or the inverse)?

I'm not sure if this is a weird bug with the search or there's something weird in the database. It's also odd that they show different subscriber counts. Both link to [email protected].

Edit: This is related to a known problem as Ategon mentioned. Disregard! :)

Programming.Dev is going to be going down starting at around 00:01 UTC Monday Dec 2 to attempt to fix the database corruption that happened relating to communities.

This has been affecting attempting to look at the pages for certain communities (it would end up loading forever instead of actually showing the posts for the community) and was affecting federation in some cases.

This is the second attempt to fix the issues with the first one needing to be rollbacked from due to the fix not working.

This fix could take several hours, so the outage window is going to be from 00:01 - 06:00 Dec 2.

The last post that was federated to LW is from three days ago, and I can't see the community at all via https://programming.dev/c/programmer_humor

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/21031156

Slightly triggered by the post My blog now has Lemmy comments, I thought it would be a good idea to take a closer look at another great representative of the Fediverse world: Lemmy. Of course, also with an eye on the possibility of developing another Mentions United Provider Plugin, along the lines of what “Coship” can do, I also can do and that for everyone ;) ...

Posting here also, because [email protected] commented that the API should work as expected on lemm.ee for instance and I don't know where is the right place to post my question. Can someone help?

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/20954226

I try to get comment data for my posts via API from my Lemmy instance, but whatever I try on using the GetComments endpoint it delivers an empty array.

For example ... GET https://programming.dev/api/v3/comment/list?post_id=20878811 leads to:

{
  "comments": []
}

I want to ask here, before creating an issue. Has someone a hint?

Looks like all of the alternate theme subdomains are down. I'm assuming this is due to the maintenance but wanted to point it out just in case.

https://t.programming.dev/

https://p.programming.dev/

https://a.programming.dev/

https://old.programming.dev/

https://v.programming.dev/

I tried accessing https://programming.dev/c/programming_languages but it tells me that the community can not be found. Is that a lemmy bug?