About the posts asking for career / college advice.
no way other than mentioning it. Used to use keywords to trigger it but that got removed to comply with bot guidelines (and since it only really detected the messages correctly half the time due to how lemmy provides the comments to it). If you type in part of it it should give you an option to autofill if youre using lemmy-ui
PMs would be ideal but it doesnt work across platforms. I can try to put in a check to see if someones on lemmy and switch to messaging if so but would be a bit since I have a lot of other things to finish up in my backlog of tasks for things like pangora (someone else can feel free to make a pull request though)
Oh weird, it shouldnt be functioning in this community since it hasnt been added to the allowlist
For anyone else who wants to test it out please use the other version of the post and going to fix this bug, deleting the messages in here it makes
Update: Bug has been fixed
People in the instance have more varying viewpoints since its oriented towards a niche/content category (+ same is true for other niche instances). People interacting in the instance can be managed but its difficult for people interacting outside to be moderated to make sure theyre actually following our rules since admins dont get reports of people in their instance being reported, only the instances of where they interact in do.
Politics communities (aka communities that only talk about politics rather than something like a hobby (and lgbtq+ isnt politics)) are now hidden by default on the instance though hence why you probably havent noticed the two are federated still since people dont stumble in and need to explicitly choose to see the content (leading to less people arguing on different politics communities since they just sub to the one they want and then sees that one as normal)
Theres no official pronounciation
The most common ones are guh-dough & go-dough (+ other variations) with the t silent, but the lead developer as well as a bunch of others call it go-dot and some people put the d in the first syllable instead to do things like god-oo
Your site activity here is fine, would be happy to have you. Already went through and dmed a couple people that that priority for the role before making a post here so going mostly off of fcfs for people that are at least decently active around various parts of the instance
If you pass me your discord account I can add you to the admin chats
Maybe around 5 hours a week. Definitely depends on what tasks youre doing though and for some things its mostly spread out in small intervals. No specific day that its concentrated on currently. tends to depend more on events in the space
Will send you a dm
Update here, for anyone else who hasnt already posted space is filled but if you want you can still post for if we ever need admins again in the future
Mostly depends on the question content
If its related to the instance topics in any way its fine here or in no stupid questions
(if related to experienced devs then it fits in ask exp devs, related to cs as a career then cs career questions)
If not then it might fit in !lifestyle@programming.dev
If not then !random@programming.dev exists as a collector for everything else and could also get a new community started for specifically that (although I assume itll fit into one of the other two categories)
This is a collecting community that gets every topic in the instance (so people can go to it and then be naturally sent into the other ones in the instance) so questions in here are fine.
The main question communities in the instance though are:
!no_stupid_questions@programming.dev
!ask_experienced_devs@programming.dev
!cs_career_questions@programming.dev
If youre talking in a community on an instance thats still federated with one of them you still don't see their posts
Each instance stores its own copy of a post for its site members to view
Some threads in lemmy.ml when looked at from lemmy.world have a bunch of comments not visible due to this
Heres a couple other game dev ones from programming.dev since youve got some of them there
!godot@programming.dev
!pico8@programming.dev
!roguelikedev@programming.dev
!voxel_dev@programming.dev
!game_design@programming.dev
!play_my_game@programming.dev
!destroy_my_game@programming.dev
!inat@programming.dev
edit: !haxe@programming.dev
Seems like thats more oriented towards development as opposed to fediverse admins but if theyre fine with admins coming in I can try talking to them. Do you know how I would contact the people running that
LemmyBB is just an alternate frontend. It is possible to not federate with any other instances though by turning federation off in the instance settings
Yeah its not ideal but its due to this being a feature programmed in the lemmy backend but not the lemmy frontend (I had to manually do http calls to get things hidden). In the new frontend im making for the instance itll be much more apparent that a community is hidden rather than just having no posts
Ill see if I can get it working better with various aspects like that as well while developing
Ok I might be semi misunderstanding what your rss reader does by what youre saying but ill go through everything that happens with this feature
For anything relating to rss readers im using fluent reader as that is what I use
Typical Behaviour (In P.D)
When someone navigates to a community in programming.dev and the community is hidden they are shown this
With the no posts text appearing on the left but the stats on the right having posts
Then when they subscribe to that community they are shown this
With all of the posts now appearing
RSS Feed behaviour
When you look at a community page initially (either from manually going to it or getting sent to it by some other thing) you get the same view as in the default behaviour
if you then right click on the rss symbol beside the post sort dropdown and click copy link you get a link to the rss feed for that community
If you then add that link to your reader it will show posts in it
In terms of getting to the content, direct links to posts still work while the community is hidden
if your rss reader just navigates to the community link and doesnt do anything else no posts will show no. You would need to subscribe within the reader that case (although all of them should support the rss post feed)
From when I tested it rss feeds still gave the exact same posts ignoring the fact communities were hidden (since rss feeds arent tied to what happens on the site at all). What rss reader are you using, I can check
RSS feeds arent affected by this, hidden communities being hidden is handled by the UI and things that dont take that into account still see posts as normal
For people seeing this post, theres an update at https://programming.dev/post/2652745
This community got voted to be a collector community for all of the programming content in the instance
So that kind of thing is allowed to be posted here and people in the comments can give people communities to crosspost it to lead them towards that area for future posts
This makes it so users can be lead to other communities in the instance to then post in instead of not knowing where to do so (if theyre in another instance they cant browse our local communities very well in the default UI without needing a third party site)
I can add a way to automate that with a bot in the comments