- Alexandrite (a.programming.dev) has been updated to version 0.8.20
- Photon (p.programming.dev) has been updated to version 2.2.2
- Tesseract (t.programming.dev) has been updated to version 1.4.41
- Voyager (v.programming.dev) has been updated to version 2.42.0
Hope you enjoy the new changes on them! Theres too many changes to list them all here but if you’re interested you can look at the releases page for each one.
]]>Tasks would include making sure the community side of the instance runs smoothly so that people can enjoy the content on it
For programming.dev that would include helping with handling reports that come in, handling applications and making sure content hosted on the instance follows the CoC. For bytes it would be the same bar applications as bytes does not have an application process. You can see the full administration guidelines on our legal site here: https://legal.programming.dev/docs/administration-guidelines/. The primary communication platform for the admins is discord but all channels are also bridged to matrix
Anyone interested feel free to reach out to one of the team members listed in the administration guidelines (apart from snowe) or comment on the mirror of this post created on the programming.dev side (you can reach out on discord, matrix, programming.dev, or bytes)
The process for getting added onto the team would include an interview and permissions being added slowly to make sure new additions understand the guidelines and how they should be handling reports
]]>This has been affecting attempting to look at the pages for certain communities (it would end up loading forever instead of actually showing the posts for the community) and was affecting federation in some cases.
This is the second attempt to fix the issues with the first one needing to be rollbacked from due to the fix not working.
This fix could take several hours, so the outage window is going to be from 00:01 - 06:00 Dec 2.
]]>Tesseract is a fork of Photon with some differences displayed on the project’s GitHub page.
The overall main features being:
- Full Media Support in Feed and Posts
- Community Browser / Enhanced Discovery
- Media Bias Fact Check (MBFC) Integration
- Fediseer Integration
- Distinguished and Sticky Comments
- Keyword Filtering
- Multiple Account Support
- Improved Moderation Tools
You can find the Tesseract frontend at https://t.programming.dev
Along with this, Photon is currently only semi-supported as opposed to being one of our main Alternate Frontends. Due to a recent swap in Photon’s tooling we are unable to update to later versions of Photon. As such, for now the alternate frontend will exist frozen and will continue to exist in the future until either: a new lemmy version breaks that version of the frontend or the issues are fixed and upgrading becomes possible again.
]]>The main change for this would be that things like alternate frontends will be under the Programming.Dev category instead of their own (but they still have a tag for people who want to filter by only that subdomain)
Ive also cleaned up the posts to organize them better in the source code by appending the date they were made in front of each ones file name and ive added some more tags (such as an Alternate Frontend tag)
]]>Everyone has access to a shared pixel art canvas and can place a new pixel every so often! Pixels placed onto the map color that pixel the color you choose which every person then sees. People often coordinate with things like templates to get art of different things onto the map.
An example of canvas
Last year we participated and managed to get a pretty big zone for programming.dev. This year however will have much more participants than last year so need more support and help constructing our area. I’ll be attempting to establish a technology zone on the canvas so if theres any instances or communities that have to do something with technology and want to do something feel free to reach out and we can help each other.
Programming.Dev’s area in last years canvas
If you’re interested in joining the event theres three locations we will be talking. Theres event channels on the discord and matrix (that are bridged to each other). We also have an event community at https://programming.dev/c/events which most canvas posts will go in from now on. Hope to see you all there!
If you want to organize a section of the canvas for your community (e.g. c/godot) you can request a channel for your community on the discord and matrix which will help you organize better. Feel free to reach out to me (Ategon).
If you want to help out the instance itself make sure to join the locations and things will be announced for updates. If you want to help organize things (organizing the instance for the event) feel free to reach out so I can get people to lead the pixel placing for things like when I’m sleeping.
The current design for this year
Should start making some more blog posts on stacks as I come back to be active in the instance again. Took a large-ish break to focus on some game dev and now back to power through things.
]]>Its being ran as a fun way to see various kinds of music from around the world, sharing more between our online communities across Lemmy, and as a way to songs from lesser known artists. We are participating with game soundtracks as an opportunity to showcase new advancements in the game development space, especially for indie games that might otherwise not get much exposure.
There was a national final to determine the song our instance would submit in the programming.dev event community. After voting the song Your Inception from the game Casette Beasts was chosen.
Submitted Songs and Voting
Ive compiled all of the songs into playlists on three different platforms for watching
Feel free to listen to them and vote using the voting link https://tally.so/r/nWNgKQ. When selecting what instance you are representing theres an option to select programming.dev for people voting from the instance.
Voting is done by ranking the songs from your favorite to your least favorite. Users from our instance can’t rank the song we submitted to keep things fair.
If you want to chat with other people about the competition theres a community for it here
Future Events
This post will be going into the meta community for people who might not know the event community exists (and i’ll likely be doing another post when the event Canvas is happening).
Any other future posts will be posted in the programming.dev event community. All major event posts will be made on our blog with the category set to the event name and the tag “Event”.
]]>I’m sure the recent news of lemmy.world’s removal of piracy communities has not escaped the attention of many of you. For those who have not heard, here is their announcement on the matter.
Now, being as transparent as possible, this is not a subject that the admin team of P.D have discussed in great detail up until this point. We have yet to create an explicit rule stating that piracy related content is forbidden on this instance, and doing so is not something any of us wish to do.
With that being said, this topic requires more deliberation and consideration. There is more complexity to this issue than taking a stance for, against, or tolerant of piracy. There are legal considerations. And the truth is that we are not 100% sure on what the legal implications are for allowing piracy related content to exist on this instance, either directly on our communities or indirectly via federation.
One thing that must be considered when looking into the legalities is jurisdiction. I believe being part of a larger federation complicates this more than a centralised service, but P.D must at a minimum be considerate of the laws of the country its server(s) is hosted in, and the laws of the country the person responsible for the instance resides in.
For those who don’t know, this instance is administrated by a reasonably large team of volunteers, but is hosted and ultimately provided by only one: snowe. There is no legal entity behind P.D other than his person, and this means that any ramifications of this subject ultimately fall on his shoulders.
After an initial discussion between us, it is clear that some professional legal advice is required. Snowe is intending to seek formal legal advice. Up until that point, we cannot say what the official P.D stance will be on this topic long term.
What I can say, is that nobody in this administrative team desires to impose any restrictions on users of this instance that overreach and limit discussion unnecessarily. So long as content here is not dangerous, hurtful or offensive, we have no wish to filter it out on an instance level. Communities can impose their own rules, for the most part.
You can expect a further update on this topic in the future, once we have a better understanding ourselves, and we will keep this topic as transparent as we possibly can. Until then, in relation to this matter, we do not currently intend to defederate from any instances or ban any communities that discuss piracy. Linking to websites that provide pirated content will also not be explicitly banned, but linking to or directly hosting pirated content on P.D is prohibited. Should any of these rules change, we will communicate it as quickly as possible and far ahead of any drastic action that would need to take place as a result.
I believe the majority of our users here will understand the pressure that any Lemmy instance faces by hosting content that can make them susceptible to legal action. To those of you who are understanding, we thank you for that, and are grateful for your patience with us while we get a better understanding ourselves.
Feel free to discuss this matter here.
Thanks,
The P.D. Admin Team.
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This was ran as ranked choice voting which means the least voted option gets eliminated every round and the votes for that option are distributed among the peoples second or third choices depending on if that was their first or second choice.
The total votes table shows the current votes for each option in each round. Differences shows the increase in votes the options gained from the last option being eliminated. Percentage shows the total % of votes the options have for each round.
Silenced was the first one to be eliminated with much less votes than everything else at 18 votes (aka 8.5%). Next up was limited being eliminated at 53 votes (25%). Out of the final two, blocked has the most amount of votes with around 55% of the vote total or 115 votes.
This means that threads will be fully defederated from on our instances. I will be running a poll again in around 6 months as a check in after threads has been federating for a bit to see if we want to change the decision or keep it.
]]>You can find the site at https://legal.programming.dev
The documents are open to changes and are not final so if you have suggested changes and ways we can improve them feel free to reach out either by creating an issue on the legal site repository, by messaging me (Ategon) or by emailing [email protected]
Included Documents
- Privacy Policy - How we collect, protect, and use information provided to us
- Terms of Service - Terms that govern your access to and use of our services
- Automation Guidelines - Guidelines when using any form of automation on an account
- Code of Conduct - Expected conduct when interacting on our sites or on communities on our sites
- Contributor Guidelines - Guidelines for contributing to our projects
- Cookie Policy - How we use cookies
- Defederation Policy - How we defederate with other instances
- Donation Policy - How we handle and spend donations made towards us
- Moderator Guidelines - Expected conduct when moderating a community
This poll is only open to people who have an account on programming.dev as it only affects those users (other instances decide federation on their own).
This also only affects us pulling content from them. Them pulling content from us isnt stoppable on our side (and if it is they can still get it through things such as boosts from instances in the middle on the microblog side or by querying the api).
There will be mention of a link aggregator side and a microblog side. The link aggregator side is the main programming.dev instance and the microblog side is a new instance being started up where I wanted to get this poll out before I release it publicly.
On the side of Threads they are making interacting using activitypub opt in so the amount of users there would not flood out everything else as people need to explicitly change in their settings that they want to interact with mastodon, etc.
Regardless of whats voted you shouldnt notice any changes on the link aggregator side similar to how mastodon users barely pop up now
You can find the poll link here: https://polls.programming.dev/lR76
]]>Vault
Vault is a password manager running vaultwarden. It will be used to pass along login details when setting up accounts for users on the various contributor sites since registration isnt opened. The link for it is https://vault.programming.dev.
Files
Files is a site for file hosting and url shortening for then linking in places such as programming.dev. As an example heres a markdown file I added in https://files.programming.dev/u/9jsOS3.md and heres a link that redirects to an image http://files.programming.dev/go/meme.
Files can be given compression, a time it expires in, a maximum amount of views, and a password if you want to limit who can access it. The software used is Zipline.
The site for files is at https://files.programming.dev
Schedule
Schedule is a meeting poll site to find out what time people want to meet. This will be primarily used and have a poll link posted when we are scheduling events. The software used is rallly.
The site is at https://schedule.programming.dev and ive got an example poll at https://schedule.programming.dev/invite/Zwr8x2wrQBGA.
Polls
Polls is a poll site for getting information. Will be used when we want to poll the community about something or do something like a year end survey on stats for people using different languages, etc. Software used is input.
You can see the details of the issue here: https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym/issues/101
]]>The site is running using software called opengist and is essentially an equivalent to gists in github. Repo for it is here https://github.com/thomiceli/opengist.
Snippets are accessible both in the web interface and using git if you prefer adding in code from your text editor and then pushing it.
You can find the site here: https://blocks.programming.dev.
]]>Voyager (v.programming.dev)
Has been updated from version 1.37.4 -> 1.41.0
Main changes:
- You can long press on comments/posts to get the more actions sheet
- Gifs can be configured to autoplay always, never, or on wifi
- When tapping into a post the video continues to play seamlessly
- Videos in the feed have a mute icon you can toggle
- You can now hide self-post thumbnails in compact mode
- You can now set it so you always need to tap to reveal child comments
- Large post voting buttons can be hidden
- Community icons can be hidden
- Link creation now has a dialog for entering link info
- Subscript and superscript support for markdown
- You can now long press usernames to block
Mlmym (old.programming.dev)
Has been updated from version 0.0.36 -> 0.0.38
Main changes:
- Image uploads has been fixed
You can find the site here
How does navigation work?
The home page has a list of communities with pages. If you click on a community it will bring you to their list of documents that you can look through.
Some possible use cases for a community wiki are: a code of conduct page, a frequently asked questions page, information about the community, credits if you need to credit things such as your community icon, a page for related communities, etc.
Ive set up a couple example pages to start. The gamedev section of the site has 6 different pages that you can look through to set some ideas
How do I edit a page?
Editing is handled through git. Each page will have an edit this page button that will bring you to a page where you can fork the repository, make changes, and then make a pull request to get it accepted into the site.
The pages all reside in the content/docs folder while the sidebars are in content/menus. You can see how I set up some of the current pages for how to format things.
Pages are written in markdown.
Are other languages supported?
Yes! Currently theres only english set up as we don’t really have communities in other languages but it would be easy to add more language options in the site config.
]]>You can find the site here
Custom pages
The site is a self-hosted linkstack instance so as a little thank you towards donators, donators are able to get a custom page to put socials on. You can see an example of that over on my page at https://me.programming.dev/@Ategon. If you want a page and you’ve donated just reach out to me (Ategon).
Adding links
As new instances and sites get made new links will be popping up over on the site. I recommend checking it out for new things every once in awhile just in case you miss an announcement on something new were releasing
Whats this instance I don’t recognize?
You may notice theres something we haven’t announced yet on there. Left it in as a little early access for those reading our update posts before it releases later this week. Feel free to make an account and check it out before the floodgates open :)
]]>There should be many new releases coming out and being announced here over the next month as things that have been getting made start finishing up!
An rss feed is available for inserting into your rss reader at http://stacks.programming.dev/index.xml
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