Threads Federation Poll by Ategon in c/meta@programming.dev

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago

Link to it again outside of the url field: https://polls.programming.dev/lR76

Looking for a friendly matrix / discord server of enthusiast programmers and nerds by Ategon in c/programming@programming.dev

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We have a discord and matrix community for programming.dev. Currently there isnt much there in terms of chatting about programming itself (mostly just things happening in the instance and lemmy) but there could be

Was bridged but the bridge broke so theyre temporarily disconnected https://discord.gg/3ZzW6dJxHR https://matrix.to/#/#p.d:matrix.org

Any idea about update timeline to 19.3? by Ategon in c/meta@programming.dev

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Probably soon, just been making sure nothing major broke in the 0.19.3 update before we move over

The 0.19.1 version isnt ideal but its still usable if the server is restarted every day so gives us some time and after the situation with 0.19 0.19.1 were being more cautious

Instance admin updates + Blahaj by Ategon in c/meta@programming.dev

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago

For the first paragraph: year fair. I'll likely do some more additions to our admin guidelines for expected conduct on non admin accounts and I can do a general expected conduct when participating in the instance (for all instance users) for behaviors that anyone shouldn't do regardless of whether they're an admin or not. Can add that to the support site im making

Most of the pronoun situation just stems from discrepancies in different frontends where the "main" frontend shows it but most people are on mobile apps that don't show it leading to people assuming visibility when that isnt the case. In your second paragraph people who don't realize the discrepancy in these frontends may think they're making it clear as you say

But yeah overall things in the conversation wasnt done maliciously and was able to be resolved fine

There was some other branches other than the pronoun situation although that was one of the main ones pointed out to me for defederation reasons

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Advent of code starts in less than 12 hours! (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago by Ategon@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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For anyone interested, advent of code is about to start! (first puzzles dropping at midnight ET which is in around 11 hours)

We have a community in the instance at !advent_of_code@programming.dev for discussion about the event and that will have solution threads where you can post and compare against other people

Advent of code is a programming puzzle advent calendar where new puzzles drop every day until the 25th. They can be done in any language and puzzles are released on the AoC site

https://adventofcode.com/

Advent of code starts in less than 12 hours! (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago by Ategon@programming.dev to c/advent_of_code@programming.dev

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First puzzles dropping at midnight ET, ill be making a solutions thread a bit after it drops after the leaderboard fills up a bit

Community list sidebar update - Can now toggle between local and all (thelemmy.club)

submitted 2 years ago by Ategon@programming.dev to c/pangora@programming.dev

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Added a couple more buttons so you can see active communities from all connected instances as well

In addition youll see that the active users today is much larger values due to the site & community stats update I did in the instance where it now takes into account post and comment likes in addition to post and comment creations

(Note this and other updates wont be pushed out to the beta site likely until after 0.19 releases and the instance updates to it since ive been messing with the new authentication system)

Community health check-in | November 2023 (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Ategon@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

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Starting up a new monthly post where I look at the communities in the instance to see how well all of them are doing

From this we should be able to see what communities are struggling so that they can be focused on for adding activity across the instance

My goal for december will be increasing the amount of communities that appear in the active and moderate sections and will compare to see the activity change then

For community activity levels im breaking this into 5 categories (note these stats are based on the new users/month stats in the instance)

Lively- 5k users/month or above
Active - 201-4999 users/month
Moderate - 51-200 users/month
Quiet - 11-50 users/month
Dead - 0-10

Communities in each category

Lively communities: 2 (1%)
Active communities: 11 (6%)
Moderate communities: 27 (15%)
Quiet communities: 45 (25%)
Dead communities: 92 (52%)

Most active communities

!programmer_humor@programming.dev (7.4k users/month)
!programming@programming.dev (5.12k)
!godot@programming.dev (1.37k)
!linux_memes@programming.dev (1.3k)
!meta@programming.dev (1.09k)
!software_gore@programming.dev (1.02k)
!android@programming.dev (974)
!rust@programming.dev (816)
!gamedev@programming.dev (786)
!linux@programming.dev (782)

Least active communities

(These are ones that will be prioritized for making active) (theres a lot in the dead category so these are random ones from that, not all of them)

One other community that should be interesting to see the growth is the advent of code community as that is about to start

!advent_of_code@programming.dev

currently at 136 but I assume thats going to grow much larger

Instance and Community Stats Update (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Ategon@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

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Hey everyone, I just pushed a change that changes how active users/month, etc. is calculated

In Pangora I've swapped this to include both post and comment likes to more accurately reflect activity in addition to the default things it counts (By default it only counts people who have posted a post or a comment but thats not everyone who is active in the community) (Its not counting people who have looked at the community but not voted or posted but its closer than before to getting most activity).

To line the instance up to pangora functionality and since I can do this without needing to touch the code I made it follow how pangora calculates it.

users/day on some community gives a tally of all users that have done one of the following in the past 24 hours in that community:

posted a post
posted a comment
voted on a post
voted on a comment

The community stats have already been updated and the instance-wide ones should update soon next time it recalculates the stats

(note these stats only show in the instance since each instance calculates their own set of stats for all communities. If youre looking at a community in this instance from another instance the old stats will show. However this also means that communities in other instances when viewed in this instance show the new stats)

I'm Ategon, one of the admins on programming.dev and developer for Pangora, AMA! (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago by Ategon@programming.dev to c/iama@programming.dev

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Hey everyone! been a bit since I ran my last AMA so am running a new one. Feel free to throw down some questions below and ill answer them. (my AMAs are more asynchonous but everyone should get answers)

I'm a student in university and typically do both web and game development. Youll likely have seen me in the instance doing things related to community management to make sure things are running smoothly

Pangora is the name of the programming.dev lemmy fork thats been getting built up slowly with pangora-ui being the new frontend being made (very early alpha is up at https://beta.pangora.social/ and community on programming.dev is at !pangora@programming.dev )

Other misc topics I can answer about: I compose music & make pixel art, my favorite games are minecraft, SCP:SL, everhood, battlerite, and metal slug 3, and recent games ive been playing are Mistward, Revita, and Puzzmo

Pangora-UI Alpha 2 (thelemmy.club)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Ategon@programming.dev to c/pangora@programming.dev

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Pushed an update to https://beta.pangora.social/ that has the changes ive made to the site since the last alpha

Updates include:

Lists of active and new communities on the sidebar
Community names can have custom gradients
The post feeds works with javascript disabled
The posts in the post feed now have less transparency and the background on the post previews have less transparency
The post previews have been centered more
The URL now changes to match the post when looking at a post preview
A system theme has been added to the theme switcher and should be set by default
The icons in the post feed scope & sort buttons now are not trapped inside the button
The community view now allows you to sort posts
You can now view posts from multiple communities
code block text size has been made larger (might not work for comments)

Viewing posts from multiple communities

You can view posts from multiple communities at once by setting them all in the url. Separate each community by a plus.

for example https://beta.pangora.social/c/programming+opensource will show you posts from both programming and opensource

If you want to add in a community in another instance add it in in the format community@domain

e.g. https://beta.pangora.social/c/programming+opensource+technology@lemmy.world+opensource@lemmy.ml

Wildcard

You can put a wildcard (star symbol *) instead of the instance domain to search for that community name in all instances

note that this will only pull from the biggest instances for now due to limitations from this being only in the frontend currently

e.g. https://beta.pangora.social/c/programming@* will get all communities named programming in different instances

Wildcard instance exceptions

You can make a wildcard ignore a certain instance by first adding a minus sign after the wildcard (-) to mark a new rule, then an exclamation mark (!) to mark a negation, and then the instance domain

e.g. https://beta.pangora.social/c/programming@*-!programming.dev-!lemmy.zip will get all communities named programming in different instances except for the ones in programming.dev and lemmy.zip

Composition

You can combine the above as much as you want to get complex queries. You may run into rate limits if you add an extremely large amount of communities though

Example Query

WARNING

This is implemented only in the frontend currently so certain aspects will be broken

Hot and active sorts for multiple communities will not work

Active and New Communities (thelemmy.club)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Ategon@programming.dev to c/pangora@programming.dev

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Added in some sections on the right side of the screen in the home page that shows the 5 most active communities, and the 5 most recently made communities

This is essentially the equivalent of the trending communities section in lemmy-ui but isnt using the severely broken hot community sort

Section in lemmy ui below

Also you might notice that some communities now have different gradient colors. I added in support for different community gradients and set some values for some of them. (Note this is all hardcoded into the frontend current until I touch the backend).

It also affects the colors of the community names in post feeds such as is done below

As well I made the site sidebar card and the new community list sidebar cards show information when javascript is disabled. Ill be going through and trying to make that happen for as many things as possible

The site theme now also follows prefers-color-scheme by default

Ill likely be changing how the home feed is handled a bit so that it can support javascript being disabled before I push things out to beta.pangora.social

Start of a multi community view feature (thelemmy.club)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Ategon@programming.dev to c/pangora@programming.dev

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I started implementing a feature that lets you see posts from multiple communities at the same time. Above ive got it pulling from 5 different communities.

Done by just listing all of the communities in the url with plus signs separating them. Its not pushed out to the pangora beta site right now but ill probably try to push out a build either this weekend or during the week

Currently just shows the first 50 from each, ill try to add some sort of addition to the backend in the future that will let me query for multiple communities so I can do the first 50 out of all of them so it doesnt have things out of order for the last post on a page and the first post on the next page

FCOTW: xkcd@lemmy.world (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Ategon@programming.dev to c/community_showcase@programming.dev

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The federated community of the week this week is the xkcd community over on lemmy.world! xkcd is a webcomic that frequently has subject matter relating to math, programming, and science

Top Posts

!opensource@programming.dev

Welcome to the programming.dev transcribing community! (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Ategon@programming.dev to c/transcribing@programming.dev

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In the past there was some dicussion about setting up a community and putting some effort into starting to transcribe content but the effort died down a bit

I'm reviving the push to transcribe content now that we have some other image based communities popping up such as !software_gore@programming.dev

How this will work is if you see an image post with no transcriptions yet, feel free to transcribe it and describe what is in the image. If you are posting images you can also add transcriptions of the image in your post body.

The majority of transcriptions will follow this sort of format

Image Transcription: [Insert what category it is here (e.g. meme, discord, reddit, code)]

***

[*A description of anything that might be worth describing about the image aside from what the text says. e.g. an unusual font, background images, etc.]

[The text]

***

I am a human volunteer who transcribes posts to improve accessibility on programming.dev and you could be one too! [!transcribing@programming.dev](/c/transcribing@programming.dev)

the description and text might be repeated if theres multiple images in one and each different image description should be separated with a horizontal line using three dashes

For example for the image:

Image Transcription: Twitter

Annie, @soychotic

Every time I have a programming question and I rly need help, I post it on Reddit and then log into another account and reply to it with an obscenely incorrect answer. Ppl don't care about helping other but they LOVE correcting others. Works 100% of the time

I am a human volunteer who transcribes posts to improve accessibility on programming.dev and you could be one too! !transcribing@programming.dev

Linux Upskill Challenge by Ategon in c/community_request@programming.dev

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Community created at !linuxupskillchallenge@programming.dev, if you make a post in it ill mod you (the option only shows up on post options)

Programming.Dev Feature Requests by Ategon in c/meta@programming.dev

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah should be fine, dont think any changes made are going to severely overhaul the base structure so everything will be able to merge in (and if it does change then makes sense to branch off at that point)

Yeah it'll be in a github repo. Currently trying to brainstorm a name and then I'll share the repo publicly

Why is programming.dev federated with exploding heads? by Ategon in c/meta@programming.dev

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, the goal is mainly to get everyone in the fediverse able to participate in the coding chats as long as they're respectful about it rather than being a free speech absolutism instance. An ideal scenario would be allowing users to participate in here while limiting the posts in their communities to not show up in things like the all feed if their instance is problematic

Decision should be pushed out soon, just making sure we get everything sorted out before we push anything and been a bit slower due to vacations

Why are you doing me like that, LinkedIn? by Ategon in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

^ This user got an instance wide ban due to spamming the same autogenerated troll comments in various communities.

Getting errors anytime I try to upload any image (even 7kb) by Ategon in c/meta@programming.dev

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 6 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

The error its giving is an issue thats been going on with the lemmy client currently where errors are given as a string instead of json. Due to that don't know for sure which error you're running into with the image you're trying to upload

If you send me the image (I have matrix in my profile or you can link it here) I can do some testing with it to see. Worst case though you can upload to a third party service like imgur and then direct link to the image there

The game engine distribution in the GMTK game jam by Ategon in c/gamedev@programming.dev

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

And here is the distribution for the top 100 games. Major changes are the gamemaker slice increasing and the unity slice decreasing

The Summer Fediverse Game Jam has Started! by Ategon in c/gamedev@programming.dev

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Communication about the jam with announcements about it and discussion between participants will be happening on the fediverse. Normally in jams you have people sharing wip stuff on discord and twitter while in this case well be aiming to get that all within the fediverse to encourage people to start using it more

We have a hashtag that people can use on mastodon to look at other things people are doing in the jam and theres communities here on lemmy to share your game

No usage of mastodon or lemmy required in the game (although you could do some references to them if you want). Just linked in terms of communication

Keep getting image size too big when uploading images. What's the max size? by Ategon in c/meta@programming.dev

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 6 points 3 years ago

yeah lemmy.world probably overrided the default limit with something higher. We havent done so yet so will still be on the default

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