Hello all! 👋

A few things to cover here.

First of all, I would like to thank all who donated for their generosity. I don’t know if I’ve said it before, but 100% of the donations are going directly to the hosting costs.

I believe I fixed the issues with federation (it was just a problem in my nginx configuration), so interoperability with mastodon should be working again. Sorry about that! I haven’t tested other software, such as friendica and kbin, but I’m hoping they should be working again too.

We’ve surpassed 2,000 users! 🎉 I love seeing the all engagement! Also, thank you for the reports as well, I would like to keep this instance safe & welcoming to all, and can’t do it without your help.

I’ve also noticed there’s a few servers that my e-mail server is not happy trying to send e-mails to. by default it’s set up to be fairly picky about the servers it connects to, and I’ve noticed that it’s refusing to deliver to some with self-signed or certs that don’t match the domain. I’ll be working on getting that resolved in the next few days too.

Last but not least, I’ve added @crb@lemmy.ca to help me out with some admin duties. Please give him a warm welcome! I plan on adding a third soon too.

As always, let me know if you have any questions, concerns, suggestions, or whatever.

  •  smorks   ( @smorks@lemmy.ca ) OPEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    wow thanks for your detailed feedback. looks like others found feature request/fixes for most of them.

    i can submit feature requests for 3 and 6 if you’d like, they sound like good ideas to me.

    for (3), so the poster sets the default comment sorting, and that applies to all users that view the comments in that post?

    and for (6), i believe i know what you mean, but just to clarify: if you were to type something like https://lemmy.ca/c/some_community_that_doesnt_exist_yet, it would say something like “this community doesn’t exist, do you want to create it?”.

    •  Troy   ( @troyunrau@lemmy.ca ) English
      4•1 year ago

      Yes, you understand (3) correctly.

      For (6) what I mean is behaviour like (1), where if you start typing with /c/ or c/ it automatically suggests links to communities. This behaviour already exists with !

      It could make things feel a bit more familiar to Reddit migrants. But isn’t strictly necessary.

      However, you’re interpretation of (6) is also a great idea! It’s something that exists on Reddit. It’s a softer landing than a 404 :)