Caused by the same db issue thats been causing issues
Yeah they appear in the feeds. So people primarily use it through sub and local sorts atm
old is still supported, what comment section are you trying to look at
Newer communities arent affected
it cant have the same slug, just for the idea of remaking
it doesnt fully break communities, you just cant look at the page for the community and new people cant sub (but they can still be posted and read from). humor has still been active with posts while broken
next downtime hopefully should be soon to do another round of fixes
Theoretically remaking the community is the exact same as moving it to another instance since new communities arent affected. Everythings been getting worked on openly in the support channel on discord/matrix so if anyone wants to help can help get things fixed there
Been getting worked on, last downtime fixed some of the issues but script still needs to be adjusted a bit since some communities break again a bit after being fixed
People interact with the site that dont have accounts on the site
Making it local only would lock them out of news and discussion about something they interact with
There was some maintenance to try to fix things but things ended up not being resolved so had to be rolled back and there should be another maintenance period in the future again
should be back
Been getting worked on and people have been figuring out how best to fix the issue
there are references which is why its a pain to fix and isnt just dropping duplicates
Been working recently on a theme library for sublinks that will let themes be written in json files and then be read in and swapped between easily. (Ideally would allow people to make a theme at runtime using UI on instances that then generates a json file or zip file)
Attached is an example theme with some basic colors added in. The assets would be taken to populate theme lists when looking at your themes and variants are variations of a theme (that share everything defined in config but also have their own versions of certain aspects)
Below is some of the variants of the theme (accent color is different between the variants)
This theme is currently on a repo https://github.com/sublinks/starlight but note images will not work yet as previews arent set up
How color parsing works
If just a color is entered for a variable (e.g. #1f1f1f) then the variable is set to that color
Mentions can be entered to do the same color as another variable. (e.g. @accent gets the accent color.
Operations can be entered to an operation on the previous value. Putting values fter the operation is like passing arguments to it (not all operations need arguments, some are optional and some have multiple arguments). (e.g. @accent > darken > 2 darkens accent by two steps).
> is used to separate parts of a string that the parser needs to identify
To handle operations, first the string has all of the infix operators replaced with postfix operators. So @accent > darken > 2 becomes @accent > 2 > darken. Then things in the chain between > are interacted with one at a time. If its a color or value it gets popped onto a stack. If its an operation it pulls things from the stack, does the operation, and then pushes the result onto the stack
Site link: https://bytes.programming.dev Blog post: https://stacks.programming.dev/posts/bytes/
Introducing the official release of Bytes, our programming microblog. This is being run for the most part in a similar way the main programming.dev instance is and anyone is free to join even if youre not a programmer (but be warned most topics will be about programming or similar aspects).
The software the site is using is called iceshrimp which is one of the misskey forks which has a better UI than mastodon and a lot of advanced features and customization
Microblogging
Microblogging is essentially making small posts of text or image to share things going on. This can include things like sharing things happening, progress on things youre working on, making polls for people to vote on, chatting with others, etc.
As opposed to programming.dev where things are sorted into communities, bytes works based off hashtags where you add tags to your post based on what categories it falls into.
Timelines
Theres 5 main timelines in the instance to browse (excluding custom ones).
- Home is the place to see posts from everyone you are following.
- Local shows posts from everyone in the instance.
- Social shows a combination of posts from home and local.
- Recommended show posts from instances that have been recommended by the admins (currently I have this set to mastodon.gamedev.place, peoplemaking.games, and gamemaking.social)
- All shows posts from all instances the server is currently pulling from.
Antennas
Antennas are a feature where you can set certain keywords to look out for and it will generate a feed of posts that have one or more of those keywords in them
This has further options such as making AND conditions, OR conditions, excluding posts with certain keywords, getting notifications, and changing the source of posts (to things such as posts made by certain people or on certain instances)
Reactions
As opposed to only having one thing to react to posts with (aka a like) you can react with any emoji you want on a post. We have added some custom emojis to start off with on the server but if you have ideas for more feel free to reach out.
Translation
If theres a post made in another language, you can select the translate option to translate the post into english to then be able to read!
Lists
Lists are a feature where you can set a bunch of people and it will make a feed with posts from those people.
Drive
The drive is a spot where you can upload photos for usage around the site or externally. All users have a limited amount of drive space but it should be high enough where you wont run into it unless youre uploading a lot of large files.
Chat
The site has a private message system thats a bit more advanced than the one on programming.dev. You can make group chats that contain multiple people.
Pages
You can create pages that contain text or images to link to or for other people to browse!
Channels
Channels are the equivalent of communities. You can make posts for certain topics in channels for that topic. This feature currently doesnt federate and is still a work in progress though.
Customization
The site features a very large amount of customization where you can customize the content of both of the sidebars to many different options, set a custom theme for yourself (with a built in theme editor), add plugins, mute specific instances, mute posts containing specific words, etc.
Hope you enjoy the new instance!