sunaurus

@sunaurus@lemm.ee
  • Head admin @ lemm.ee, a general-purpose Lemmy instance
  • Creator of lemmy-ui-next, an alternative Lemmy frontend
  • Lemmy contributor

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sunaurus,

Hey, indeed it appears that the community was somehow removed by you:

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/17e4595d-63bc-44c3-bf9b-aaa52251db98.webp

Notice it says “Deleted by creator” .

Can you check in the top right corner, in the area visible in my screenshot, is there not a small “Restore” link? This should in theory let you un-delete the community.

sunaurus,

Aha, I think this restore feature is missing from the standard Lemmy UI.

Maybe this will help: I quickly implemented a very basic restore button on lemmy-ui-next. Can you check if you see a “Restore” button in the sidebar at next.lemm.ee/c/eurographicnovels? Note that you must be logged in as a moderator to see this button.

I need to step away from my computer for a while, but if this doesn’t work, then I will be able to look into it further during the weekend.

sunaurus,

Can you try logging in first at next.lemm.ee/login - or are you seeing this while already logged in?

Why the sudden increase in removals? (lemm.ee)

Not trying to start anything, and if this is the wrong place to post about it I apologize, I’m not sure where else to broach the topic, but as a user I’ve noticed an enormous increase is moderator action today and I’m curious if there was some catalyst that the userbase should be aware of. Prior to today, the modlog shows...

sunaurus,

Just to clarify a few things:

  1. Our mod log will show all federated mod actions, not just actions by lemm.ee mods and admins. So if any other instance is generating a ton of actions, it will also be visible from our mod log. In fact I don’t think there has been any increase recently in lemm.ee mod actions at all.
  2. The mod log does not actually get cleared, there is simply a UI issue in Lemmy which makes it a bit hard to view the mod log chronologically. The UI makes it appear as if the mod log is one single list of actions, while in fact it’s different lists combined together (one list per each action type). You will notice some really old actions even on the first page of the mod log, this makes it seem as if there is a “missing period” in the actions, while in fact you are actually just seeing the first page for each different action type. If you navigate to subsequent pages, you will find all the “missing” actions there.

In practical terms, it’s not really possible to clear the mod log at all, thanks to federation. Even if one instance will delete their local mod log records, those records would still be visible in other instances which they previously federated out to.

sunaurus,

Purging is something that can’t really be used to hide mod actions, as any federated instances will still retain their copy of any purged content. Purging is a feature which is only really useful for completely removing illegal content from our servers, it’s used quite rarely and in fact leaves a trace in the mod log as well.

sunaurus,

We had a temporary delay with outgoing federation. Everything should be recovered and back to normal now!

sunaurus,

Yes, they indeed blocked us a while ago, AFAIK it was planned as a temporary thing, but no idea where they stand on it now.

sunaurus,

We had a temporary delay with outgoing federation. Everything should be recovered and back to normal now!

sunaurus,

I agree that using the mod log to attack other users with inaccurate mod action reasons is not really justifiable.

We now have some additional guidance about this here under the moderator responsibilities section:

Ensure that they only provide accurate and clear reasons for mod actions

I will make a separate announcement post about this as well shortly.

Unfortunately, due to the nature of mod log federation on Lemmy, it’s not really possible to retroactively change mod action reasons currently. I am sorry about that. If this does end up causing problems for you in the future, you could point people to this thread for context.

sunaurus,

Hey! Do I understand correctly that your app is trying to fetch any /post/<id> directly from its source instance API? If so, I have a few ideas:

  1. If you detect anything that looks like a Lemmy post URL (<host>/post/<id>), you could first try to make a request to <host>/version, and only treat the post as a Lemmy post if you get a JSON response from that endpoint where .software.name === ‘lemmy’. Otherwise, open that URL in the browser.

  2. The above will already “fix” the issue, but custom frontends on subdomains is actually quite common, so if you want to handle those links without resorting to a browser, then: in cases where <host>/version is not a Lemmy response, but <host> includes a subdomain, you could repeat the same logic from step 1 for the parent domain as well. If you detect a Lemmy API at the parent domain, then just use that to fetch the post.

sunaurus,

Interesting idea, I think that will also require a small change in the Lemmy backend, but I think it’s doable. Thanks!

sunaurus,

This is planned after the 3rd milestone is complete!

sunaurus,

I’m already accustomed to the light theme of Lemmy and can’t find how to switch from dark to light in “Next.”

This is planned after the 3rd milestone is complete!

The red, green, and blue buttons in the footer seem to do nothing.

They should change the primary color in the UI - are you sure it’s not doing this for you? Maybe it’s just enough of a subtle change that it’s not immediately noticable?

The notion on every post that “Your IP is hidden from another Lemmy instance” is kind of annoying and useless. Why is it there?

Most (all) other Lemmy frontends will always leak your IP to external media hosts, I wanted to handle this a bit differently in lemmy-ui-next by proxying by default (to improve user privacy). The message is there to let you know if a specific piece of media is being proxied or not - and the only way for something to not be proxied is for the user to manually approve it first.

I guess not all users will care about this, so maybe I can add a setting to hide the proxy indicator completely… I will think about it!

I dislike a little that it tries to copy the old Reddit interface. Although that interface wasn’t bad, and I’m the one who would first say “don’t fix what isn’t broken,” I’m more prone to seeing something new, some experimentation. Right now it feels more like “next to the old Reddit,” which isn’t exactly bad, but still…

It was an initial goal and guiding principle to heavily take inspiration from the great UIs of existing link aggregators like old reddit and hackernews. At the same time, I realize that this approach is not for everyone, so I am not against adding some different layouts (especially for the post list view) in the future.

Thank you for all the feedback!

sunaurus,

You can check the federated/defederated instances for any instance on the /instances page. For example:

sh.itjust.works/instances

beehaw.org/instances

sunaurus,

I’m a simple man:

“What day is it?” asked Pooh.

“It’s today,” squeaked Piglet.

“My favorite day,” said Pooh.

sunaurus,

I’m in the middle of this book right now and I can’t believe how many spoilers they managed to fit in the trailer 😅

Friendly tip if you don’t like spoilers: don’t watch more than the first minute of this trailer.

sunaurus,

I’ve been a bit overloaded at work for the past week or so, haven’t had a lot of time or energy for hobbies. Hopefully will be able to finish up some bigger topics this week so I can relax a bit. Really looking forward to the weekend.

Welcome to lemm.ee, /c/casualconversation!

sunaurus,

I subscribed to this community with alts on the most populous instances:

Not sure if you’ve heard of this, but lemmy-federate.com is a tool which automatically does the same thing, and has the benefit of letting instance admins disable it as well if they don’t want it.

sunaurus,

incorporated into the UI, rather than a piece of text in the post.

How would other instances (or other ActivityPub software) know about it if it’s not a piece of text in the post?

sunaurus,

Should work just fine for posts and comments as well, for example, here’s a search result containing your comment

sunaurus,

That’s true, it will only show content which has been federated to lemm.ee, so indeed if you want to search for more content than is available on your instance, you would need some additional tools for that.

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