Programming.dev one is currently stuck on the last version we can upgrade to (and looks like lemmings and reddthat as well) since any upgrades just makes photon a white screen due to the tooling upgrade
Ategon
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No, things are moving along though (pictrs upgrade was just completed). Again I'm not going to give a date were going to upgrade at apart from warning before we do so since it won't be followed due to us all being volunteers and things changing due to issues coming up
0.19.4 is annoying since it adds the hashtag additions where posts are auto hashtagged with the community name. I was aiming to Ideally remove that from the codebase before we upgrade but we might have to upgrade with that in it
That would massively hinder growth since actual users would get affected and then leave since they can't actually use the platform
Probably better to set up some link blacklists and then add things to it based on what spammers are linking to
edit: what you linked to is also not a community, did you mean !technology@lemmy.world or !tech@programming.dev?
pictrs is still upgrading but I believe its mostly usable atm
pict-rs is the image service yeah
Yeah I recently made it so that I can start building up an alternative to unixporn@lemmy.ml. Did the same for a couple other lemmy.ml communities that fit within the instance due to some recent lemmy.ml related threads
There probably will be a bunch of crossposts from the other ones until it gets large enough to have its own posts and im also going to cross post some stuff using my non admin account in the future. Encouraging some other users to cross post as well
The links to the other posts show up below in a cross-posted to section so you can still access it if you want. The limitation on it needing to be the same page comes from this handling happening on the frontend instead of the backend. Ideally imo backend should handle it like how it handles the cross-posts displayed when looking at the post itself
On lemmy-ui if both posts are both "visible" in the feed they will be compacted into one post if they share the same link meaning there wont be a duplicate post (unless you paginate and theyre on different pages)
Some other frontends such as sync dont do this though but they really should
If a community is shown with proper data its working and probably hidden (the one thats broken, nytimes, doesnt have correct data since its missing the stats and mod list)
But yeah lemmy has terrible UX for hidden communities atm
Yeah, I go through and hide things every once in awhile by looking though communities in the database with some queries
BBC is hidden since i just went though and hid them. Sub and youll see all the posts. Hackaday isnt fetching posts looks like (did anyone sub previously?)
The last one should be scientificamerican instead of scientificamerica and seems to be functioning but hidden so sub and youll see the posts
Federation seems to be working, just that one specific community broke for some reason
All these communities fall under the realm of things I hide from the main feeds though since its majority bot content so at some point youll have to subscribe to see the posts
Since mods and admins can't control what gets hashtagged it can hashtag the completely wrong things
For example we have a community called c/loud. This is a cloud community but will be hashtagged with #loud
We also have a community called c/meta and similar other communities but the hashtag should be something similar to programming.dev meta since meta itself doesn't make sense. Currently its assuming you know what scope of meta you're in due to it being attached to the instance but hashtags are free for alls so the hashtag is going to be impossible to follow (other communities that fall within this are comics, events, books as they are programming or programming.dev specific which is currently assumed due to the url)