Is it possible to make a lemmy instance private were no communities, posts, user profiles and the homepage is not available unless your logged in?

  • BlueÆtherAEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I wonder what the consequences would be if you updated the database?

    • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      On boot, with both options selected, the server locks up.

      Updating it after boot? I don’t know.

      • BlueÆtherAEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I guess it was worth the test to find out https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3237

        https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3073

        On start-up Lemmy checks if both the private_instance and federation_enabled flags are set. If they are, it raises and error which stops start-up meaning administrators are unable to edit the settings which cause the error.

        As a means of prevention, I’ve added some validation when editing or creating a site to ensure that both options are never selected at the same time.

        I thought about adjusting start-up behaviour to disregard one of the flags (like ignore federation if the private flag is set) but I thought it would be easier to just prevent the invalid state from being saved.

        This could probably coincide with a change to the UI as well but I can do that after.