Western utah after driving through a storm two weeks ago.
A couple years ago, my buddy and I had just finished enough of his SAS project on the hundie that we needed a test drive. This trail is relatively close and has some great views. We managed to rope our other friend (who owns the orange FJC) into it as well.
Nothing failed and all the welds stayed welded, so that was nice.
This was shot with a full moon behind me. I was happy to get the unique moonlit landscape with some faint milky way at the same time.
Me and a buddy are trying to find some good photography locations for the Oct. eclipse in the United States. Was able to get some decent shots out in western Utah.
I created this community as a landing zone for reddit offroad refugees. I've only got so many trip reports and Jeep/Land Cruiser photos though. If you're new, please help us flood this new community with photos of your rig and trips.
Taken from Tibble Fork Reservoir.
80 series solid front axle. IMO - this is possibly the best overland rig out there - great balance of offroad capability and space.
I agree -- the FOMO thing is real.
However having a clear path to follow would really help capture/retain those users. In other words "Wow, Lemmy is so popular it can't handle the traffic -- here's an up-to-date list of instances to try anyway", or some other option.
Possibly a pinned post where instance owners can comment info on their own instances without having to wait for someone to update a master list?
Mastodon during the twitter migration had a problem where folks were standing up instances, but new users were having trouble finding them, or overwhelmed with lots of "interest-based" instances. Most users don't care about a "furry" specific instance, or an instance focused on San Francisco Donut enthusiasts. They just want an instance.
Another problem is as time went on, some of those instances shut down abruptly and wiped out accounts for folks. Having a few centralized and supported instances at first will help solve that problem as well.
I have the technical know how, given a "GettingStarted.md" file to read to stand up an instance, but I'd rather put my time/energy into supporting an existing one. Dealing with the horde of people currently joining and about to join will require some coordination.
I'm super new to this and still trying to learn stuff. Looks like folks can pin posts to the instance. Something like a "New to Lemmy? Start Here." kind of post would be helpful. Right now, I just saw the "lemmy.ml is overloaded, use other instances instead" and wondered if I was in the wrong place.
I'll try to post some photos myself. Not sure if lemmy just doesn't like imgur or what though... previews aren't showing up.
Yeah -- its gonna be a while. Gonna post in some of the ones that do exist and see if I can help develop them.
Ah -- got it. You should probably drop the [OC] tag in the title.
Was gonna say... this sunset is pretty outstanding.... then noticed it was night time. Awesome shot... unfortunate for the park though. I also wanted to say, I follow your IG -- I love your photos. I hope you keep posting here.
/r/welding /r/machinists /r/cherokeexj /r/jeep made it though (and some wrangler community... so, yay?)
A pinned post like "Welcome to Lemmy!" on Lemmy.ml and other instances with that link would help I think. Also, I think it would be a more streamlined experience (and less disorienting) if the "Join" links on that page went directly to the instance's signup page instead of the local instance feed.