Good to know. I’ve been going nuts trying to make a community on and off for like a week and it just won’t go through when I press the button, I get stuck watching the spinning circle. I tried a couple different devices/browsers too. Hopefully it clears up on its own.
Is anyone else having trouble posting? I’ve had a lot of times when posts/comments fail to go through (“post” button stays as a spinning circle). Sometimes I can get it after a couple times, but I’ve been stubbornly trying to reply to one comment in c/games all day with no success, despite posting a thread there and making some other posts.
Yeah. I’m not necessarily asking how to do this for myself, but if this would be in-demand as a new feature, because I think i see some problems it could solve. I don’t want to return to Reddit’s system where the front page is heavily curated by admins but i think this could be less of a culture shock for some people.
How would people feel about a feature where instances have a default user block list, or, hide certain communities from the front page unless a user specifically searches them out. Similar to how EG some instances hide NSFW unless you are logged in, it prevents newbies from having their front page show them stuff that’s going to get them outraged at the whole site.
That could be a better solution than defederating some instances, like burggit, where users here are just mad about having a few weird porn communities shown to them. Ideally, communities could opt in the this flagging as well if they want to be less discoverable. Booru sites do this with default blacklist tags, for example, and it’s been a successful way of having their cake and eating it too with regard to having normies and weirdoes on the same site and avoiding controversy.
Me, personally, I wouldn’t mind if ONLY lemmygrad stayed defeated, but there’s going to be more issues like this in the future.
We have the man who wrote those words expanding upon them to say what he meant, and you’re still saying “actually he meant something else.”