Just to note, while fortnightly is used frequently in many countries, it is almost never used in the US, which I think is what contributes to the posters confusion (assuming they are from the US) .
The branding for kbin is perfect for capturing the reddit migrators. The biggest friction point for the Fediverse is choosing an instance. If I want to join Lemmy, googling Lemmy takes me to a landing page with no join button, telling me to go to these other sites. Some of these sites even actively discourage signups, creating...
I think what would help is a sign up page that automatically assigns an instance randomly, and an "advanced" checkbox that let's you specify one instead. Each instance can host a copy of it, and then still redirect/point to another instance for new users who don't understand or care about federation.
Additionally, being able to "group" magazines would be helpful, so that you can have links to something like "gaming" which shows the lists of all posts/threads in gaming@server1, gaming@server2, etc...
@trex
yeah, I think we'd need some kind of "auto-grouping" of magazines that share a name on different instances, with both instance and user controls for which instances to exclude (e.g. You want tech@server1 and tech@server2 to combine in the ui, but want to exclude tech@troll-server to get rid of spammy posts from that instance)
Why does bi-weekly mean "every two weeks?" This has always bothered me because intuitively it should mean "twice a week."
Similar case in point: “bimonthly” means “twice a month.” That makes sense....
OC The branding for kbin is perfect
The branding for kbin is perfect for capturing the reddit migrators. The biggest friction point for the Fediverse is choosing an instance. If I want to join Lemmy, googling Lemmy takes me to a landing page with no join button, telling me to go to these other sites. Some of these sites even actively discourage signups, creating...