Taken around 11:30 Friday night, although the picture sure doesn't do the real thing justice

A batch of ginger & citrus marmalade I made today, plus some ginger tea as a byproduct!

I'd like to request to be made a moderator of the !geocaching@lemmy.world community. The only mod there, @postman@lemmy.world, hasn't had any activity in the last 3 months. I tried conctacting them, and haven't received a response.

I was the only frequent poster on c/geocaching for about two months before a recent burst of activity, and I'd love to add a bit more of a wiki/sidebar now. Geocaching has been my main hobby for about 4 years, and I'd love for this community to keep growing.

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask for this, please let me know where I should post instead!

I've been plugging away for about 2 months now trying to grow a small hobby community here on Lemmy. It's doing well, up from 200 to 425 subscribers in the time I've been active.

But, sometimes it feels discouraging. I'm still the only one who posts with any regularity, and I miss the more in-depth discussions I was able to have at the other place. How long, or how many subscribers, does it take for a community to become self-sustaining?

Edit: !geocaching@lemmy.world for anyone curious

This is an update to this post.

I turned the backpack inside out to see the damage on the inside. Most of the black plastic coating was gone, and you can see the patch I applied in the outside.

I decided to coat pretty much the entire bottom with Shoe Goo sealant, like I did in my last repair. This gave the material a lot of extra stiffness, as well as waterproofing it. You can see it applied in the shinier areas:

Here is the sealant on the inside of the biggest rip, holding the patch in place:

I know this update isn't particularly visually impressive, but it felt like a pretty successful fix. I'm looking forward to being able to use this bag again!

Just apples, pumpkin, peanut butter and some spices... this was a fun afternoon project, and they turned out delicious!

This backpack has been stowed away at the back of my closet for a few months waiting to be fixed. It was being held together pretty tenuously: Sewed some of the smaller rips, then added repair tape to the largest one:

Next step will be to turn it inside out and add some more material to the large rip. The entire bottom is pretty much thin enough to let light through at this point. I'll try to post an update once I fix that!

Zipper pull made from some shoelace I had lying around:

Parts of the bottom of the bag were threadbare (literally starting to let light through). Gooped over everything with a bunch of Shoe Goo sealant, which turned out messy but effective:

Overall I'm pretty please with how this turned out. Maybe not too pretty to look at, but thoroughly functional, and I'm sure it'll extend the life of this bag quite a bit