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Seems like federation has been broken for a little over a day. Comments don't seem to be propagating to or from other instances, checking All/new it suddenly switched from a constant stream of posts from other instances to exclusively posts by local users.

Programming.dev seems to be experiencing slowness intermittently again. It is most pronounced on Tesseract, but also on the default UI. Using a mobile client such as Voyager seems more responsive, so maybe the API isn't suffering from it.

Hi,

I saw that someone replied to one of my topics, and I wanted to react or reach him back. But I've saw the following :

I suppose it's only the Network community ? (where the post was hosted ? )

I've discovered the modlog

https://programming.dev/modlog?page=19&actionType=ModBanFromCommunity&userId=1227688

But this user seem to have a lot of activity :) So I don't find why on Network he was Banned ?
is there an easy way ?

Thanks.

If you ever run into issues with the instance make sure to report them to someone on the admin team so we can fix them (Ive seen some people mention some stuff I didnt know about before since it wasnt brought up). Duplicate reports about the same issue is better than no report at all so dont worry about reporting something someone else already might

Most of the team can be reached quickly through the discord and matrix channels (more of the team is on discord but theyre federated to each other)

As well since I already got this question due to the lemm.ee shutdown just wanted to also mention here we did onboard someone new to the admin team since when we asked in the post and the instance is doing fine

I fixed a slowness issue so you might see the instance get quicker but if it still bad let me know. Ive been clearing out some tasks in my backlog for other projects im doing and am planning to start doing development work on some things relevant to the instance again sometime in the summer. For things related to the community side of the instance prioritize reaching out to someone on the community team (list is on the legal site) as always since they are the team that deals with those aspects)

Hi everyone! Were currently looking to get two new members of the community team: one for programming.dev (our forum and link aggregator) and one for bytes.programming.dev (our microblog)

Tasks would include making sure the community side of the instance runs smoothly so that people can enjoy the content on it

For programming.dev that would include helping with handling reports that come in, handling applications and making sure content hosted on the instance follows the CoC. For bytes it would be the same bar applications as bytes does not have an application process. You can see the full administration guidelines on our legal site here: https://legal.programming.dev/docs/administration-guidelines/. The primary communication platform for the admins is discord but all channels are also bridged to matrix

Anyone interested feel free to reach out to one of the team members listed in the administration guidelines (apart from snowe) or comment on the mirror of this post created on the programming.dev side (you can reach out on discord, matrix, programming.dev, or bytes)

The process for getting added onto the team would include an interview and permissions being added slowly to make sure new additions understand the guidelines and how they should be handling reports

Programming.dev finally got official administration guidelines. This document codifies what has up until now only been loosely discussed topics throughout the year in the private administration chat channels.

We hope that by putting the guidelines into writing and making them public, we can ensure a consistent level of moderation by the administration team. But also more importantly, let everyone know by what guidelines and metrics the administration team should follow, making it easier for you guys to hold us accountable and report any instances of an administrator overstepping their role, or decisions you disagree with.

While the primary focus of the document is aimed at administrators specifically, it also includes information to users on how they can contact the admin team if they want to report another admin for deviating from our guidelines.

As always, feedback is more than welcome and we would be happy to discuss any thoughts you may have on our guidelines, nothing is ever perfect.

I've been here a while, and I appreciate the community and the defed/hiding list.
I also know programming.dev contributes to upstream Lemmy repos.

I saw another post about another instances funding.
Which reminded me....

Is programming.dev on track for funding?
Need some more donations?
Is there a runway?

Aeharding, Voyager app dev, released a tool showing if an instance has improperly configured progressive streaming, which seems to be the source of images and videos sometimes not loading properly on third-party apps. This instance shows up with an error with this tool.

This post is just to raise awareness of this tool to admins and if it was something that can/should be investigated? Has anyone else had the issues described on this page? I can say I've had images and videos fail to load from time to time.

Progressive Streaming Tool

It's pages and pages of this. Maybe you want to restrict who can log in and create repositories.

Programming.dev now has official community guidelines. These should help clarify what sort of local communities we allow to be hosted on the instance and the rules we expect them to follow.

As most programmers are aware, anticipating every edge case is generally not viable, so these are just guidelines, not written-in-stone rules. The admin team will still evaluate communities on a case-by-case basis, and exceptions are always possible.

If you have any feedback on the guidelines, we are more than happy to hear them, so please post them below.

Transcription: picture is a screenshot of a user inbox page with a new message containing a photo of a woman with dark hair. The message reads "Hi I am Nicole but you can call me the Fediverse chick". There's more text but this is very obviously a bot attempting to get people to join a particular server.

On a side note: I can't delete this message as I get an error about dms not being available. I've blocked the bot already. Does programming.dev support dm's?

Seems like its been pinned there somehow, despite being 2 days old. Happens when logged out as well.

How do admins feel about users requesting (or creating) communities on here for blogging purposes? For example /c/online persona or /c/online persona sibling or something similar.

I saw somebody talking about how they started doing that on another server and simply linking to it on reddit to get traction in the fediverse. It seems like a great idea to me. Blogs are shared quite often and them being on Lemmy allows for new entries to simply show up in the local feed. They can be easily crossposted and commented on in Lemmy and across the fediverse if I'm not mistaken.

The only problem I could see is are naming conflicts. For example if somebody reads this and immediately creates /c/onlinepersona to block me from creating that to force a report to the admins. Or the reverse, a user creating the name "programming-guides" to then claim a community with the same name.

Thoughts?

Anti Commercial-AI license

The !just_a_test@programming.dev community is an empty, dead community created (moderated) by an inactive, empty account.

I would prefer it if it were deleted so as not to clutter the instance community list.

Does this instance have a concrete guideline or precedent for that or would be able to decide at the discretion of an admin?

As a follow up to our previous announcement post, we have now set up a page to display every community that is hidden for our local users.

As explained on that page:

Programming.dev will hide political communities, NSFW/pornographic communities and communities that have a majority of their content produced by bots. While a community is hidden, it and its posts and comments will not show up in post feeds or in the search results unless you have explicitly subscribed to it. Communities themselves currently do not show up in community search results, this may change in the future; see #2943.

Users can subscribe to a hidden community to remove the hidden effect status of a community, however it can be difficult for a user to find out which communities are due to them not being searchable.

As per our policy of hiding political communities, pornographic communities and communities hosting bot spam, !news@lemmy.world is now set to hidden as its content is mainly USA centric political news.

Those of you who want to continue to see posts from !news@lemmy.world are encouraged to subscribe to the community, which will make the it visible for your account.

The mods over !news@lemmy.world have already been notified of this move and understand our decision, please do not bother them by pinging them here.

A previous announcement post of other hidden communities can be seen here

Disclaimer: I'm not sure if a community request should be made here or not.

https://old.reddit.com/r/programmingcirclejerk is the only reason I visit reddit. I don't have an account over there but it's fun to see programmers making fun of other programmers but also not taking themselves too seriously

Please.

Edit: this exists now! If you're a programming.dev user you can nominate yourself as a mod.

Will be reindexing all of the tables I havent reindexed yet just in case some of them also got corrupted

Seems like some peoples profiles are also affected by the issue although its much rarer

Doing another round of maintenance to fix some issues related to posts

It might only be down for a bit within that window but im giving myself two hours in case some things take longer than I expect

Will be attempting to fix some issues. If theyre still there after this maintenance I'll be doing another round tomorrow or on the weekend around the same time slot since there's less activity then

Sorry if this has been answered somewhere, just made an account moving from another server and noticed that programming.dev is on 1.9.5 but others are already at 1.9.8, is there any timeline for updating or reasons why it might not happen?

Hey all,

Just wondering if there is a list somewhere that I can't find that lists the comunities that Programming.dev have defederatd from (or the inverse)?

I'm not sure if this is a weird bug with the search or there's something weird in the database. It's also odd that they show different subscriber counts. Both link to !til@lemmy.world.

Edit: This is related to a known problem as Ategon mentioned. Disregard! :)

Programming.Dev is going to be going down starting at around 00:01 UTC Monday Dec 2 to attempt to fix the database corruption that happened relating to communities.

This has been affecting attempting to look at the pages for certain communities (it would end up loading forever instead of actually showing the posts for the community) and was affecting federation in some cases.

This is the second attempt to fix the issues with the first one needing to be rollbacked from due to the fix not working.

This fix could take several hours, so the outage window is going to be from 00:01 - 06:00 Dec 2.