Please welcome @[email protected] to the discuss.online admin team.

I’ve known lazyguru for over ten years. He’s a close friend. His skills are like mine. He will be able to help contribute to all projects of the discuss.online ecosystem.

lazyguru will help with moderation, system administration, monitoring, and development of new features. Joe has already improved some monitoring and is working on some changes to the infrastructure to make it more scalable. He will soon be helping with SocialCare.cloud once the first beta is released.

Please, take some time to welcome him!

Thanks, Jason

I have these really low points where I cannot do anything, no matter how hard I try. For example, I have a bunch of notifications on Lemmy that I've not responded to. No reason other than that I cannot do it.

For things like mod reports, I act quickly. But the other stuff has been difficult for a couple of days.

What do you do to get motivated or get that drive back? "Just do it" doesn't work for me.

tl;dr;

We use SendGrid to send our emails out. By default, SendGrid enables link tracking. Link tracking was causing issues with allowing users to verify their accounts. In short, I disabled link tracking, and links should work for all new emails in the future.

Contact support if you need your account activated. [email protected] from the email you used to sign up.

Issue

When new users sign up or when existing users reset their password, an email is sent to verify ownership of the account. These emails are sent from us through a service called SendGrid.

SendGrid, by default, will mask all the URLs to enable what they call link tracking. It's a marketing thing to track engagement with email. I have no use for it, but I didn't disable it before.

The issue is that sometimes this link doesn't resolve. An HTTPS error is shown to the user.

Resolution

The quickest and most logical resolution was to disable link tracking. I never use it. I did just that; however, any previous emails sent will still be broken.

I will continue to investigate the issue in hopes of resolving previous links.

If you are unable to verify your account, please email [email protected] from the email you used to sign up. We'll manually verify each account that hasn't been able to be activated.

The small outage from this morning was from a planned update to Lemmy 18.3. Let me know if you notice any issues!

I refuse to use Instagram; however, I've been looking at https://pixelfed.org/. I'm thinking of either joining a server or starting my own. I bought the domain https://social.photo/ (nothing on it yet). I'm not a fan of any of the current names, and I'm looking for something more professional sounding to use.

Is there anything you use besides Lemmy and this community to share?

Canon EOS 5D Mark IV Sigma 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM Sport ISO 100 600mm f/6.3 1/800 sec

Hello,

There is a unique problem of the fediverse. When an instance goes offline, its communities will never sync again.

Recently, vlemmy.com shutdown. Quite a few communities synced with discuss.online and other instances. Because vlemmy.com is not longer brokering communication, these communities will never be in sync again.

We have a several options:

1. Leave them there. Do nothing.
2. Leave them there but make a post that it's dead and hope people see it.
3. Purge the communities. Act like they never existed.
4. Build some elaborate system to work around vlemmy being gone. This would take a lot of work and collaboration with other instances.

Let me know what makes the most sense to you as users. Are any of you still using vlemmy communities? What about long-term planning? Maybe this isn't an issue now but what if lemmy.world vanished?

Please, let me know what you think. I'm torn on this one.

Thanks, Jason

I'm looking to get member feedback on the design of the site.

Lemmy comes with many default core themes. Some parts of these themes are broken with dark mode. For example, upload boxes might show white if your system is set to light mode.

I want to set a decent default theme. If unaware, you can change your theme in your account settings. There are 10 different themes currently.

There are 12 different theme options:

1. Browser Default
   • When this is set, it uses Darkly or Litely depending on browser settings
2. Browser Default Compact
   • When this is set, it uses Darkly Compact or Litely Compact, depending on browser settings
3. Darkly
4. Darly Red
5. Darkly Compact
6. Darkly Pure Black
7. Litely
8. Litely Red
9. Litely Compact
10. Vaporwave Dark
11. Vaporwave Light
12. i386

I currently have the default set to Browser Default Compact, which should set dark or light mode depending on whether your browser is dark or light.

I use Vaporwave Dark, personally.

What do you use? Which do you prefer?

I could make something new. I tried some new ones that broke with an update. I didn't fix them after the update, so I removed them. I could create new ones again.

Let me know what you think. This is a discussion/poll on what I should do as a default.

Thanks, Jason

What game(s) are you playing now? What are you playing on?

I have a couple of handheld emulators I typically use or my SteamDeck. I prefer to the miyoo mini+.

I've been playing a lot of NES Tetris as of late.

1. Retro Gaming Enthusiast
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   • https://discuss.online/c/retro_gaming
2. Retro Gaming Enthusiast (BST)
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   • https://discuss.online/c/retro_gaming_bst

Retro Gaming Enthusiast (BST)

Description

Buy, sell, or trade retro games or consoles!

Links

• Direct link
• Local link

Retro Gaming Enthusiast

Description

Discuss retro games and consoles.

Links

• Direct link
• Local link