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https://pangora.social/join

Hey everyone! I recently finished up an instance selector similar to join-lemmy. There are a couple issues with join-lemmy with it sending the majority of people to the general purpose instances instead of growing the niche instances, as well as giving people way too many options at once which can turn into choice paralysis.

The selector will be the default when people visit the pangora site and people can also use it to select lemmy instances instead of using join-lemmy since im keeping pangora and lemmy as close to each other as possible.

How it works:

  • Users are presented with 10 main categories (technology, sports, art, etc.). They can choose one which will be the category of content they primarily look at
  • ~~If a category has no subcategories they will then be sent to a random instance for that category (e.g. if they choose sports they get sent to fanaticus)~~ Update: If a category has no subcategories they are shown a preview of a random instance for that category (e.g. if they choose sports they get a preview of fanaticus to look at and then possibly click visit)
  • Else if a category has subcategories they are then shown those to pick from (e.g. technology when selected will show programming, radio, etc.) (and when selected repeat previous step)

I added almost every active instance to the site so feel free to use it to check out some other instances for various topics

Hope you enjoy :)

site: https://pangora.social/join
source code: https://github.com/PangoraWeb/pangora.social

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Letting you know that I pushed an update to the site. Shows a preview of an instance with description, uptime, users amount, communities amount, where its hosted, and software, instead of sending the user to it instantly.

And regional has their own caategory + some other stuff moved around

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That was so fast, thanks for the update!

I'll share it around with friends :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You might already have this one, but in case it helps: https://lemmy.ca/post/3051719

Someone linked this list with more specialized instances

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

thanks, ill look through it for stuff to add to pangora once im done with ludum dare