Should be posting these daily for awhile
Ategon
joined 1 year ago
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There was one open a bit ago but its now closed. tldr the swap to Bun from node broke things on some operating systems
The bot works on an opt in system, mods have to approve it for communities otherwise id be violating the lemmy.world bot guidelines
I remember there was some equivalent action but dont know for sure what it was since I didnt use mobile
Oh huh I didnt even realize you could pan like that, guess one of those has to be removed and moved to something else unless its detected between hold and tap
scrolling the scroll wheel scrolls the map and clicking down on the wheel over a pixel color picks
The only thing that was removed after the canvas freeze was the map flag
You could middle click to color pick in the event
To get it actually running you need to do more than set up just the env but ive got what I needed to do here
https://share.ategon.dev/u/IzcMWM.md
If you want to allow logging in so you can test the features that get unlocked from that heres some code changes to get it working so you can bypass setting up openid
http://share.ategon.dev/u/W7IODE.md
Client will be up at localhost:5173
Its fixed in the build im working on now and will be back soon. Just finishing up one other feature
the green is blank pixels, its white on the actual canvas
Been working recently on a theme library for sublinks that will let themes be written in json files and then be read in and swapped between easily. (Ideally would allow people to make a theme at runtime using UI on instances that then generates a json file or zip file)
Attached is an example theme with some basic colors added in. The assets would be taken to populate theme lists when looking at your themes and variants are variations of a theme (that share everything defined in config but also have their own versions of certain aspects)
Below is some of the variants of the theme (accent color is different between the variants)
This theme is currently on a repo https://github.com/sublinks/starlight but note images will not work yet as previews arent set up
How color parsing works
If just a color is entered for a variable (e.g. #1f1f1f) then the variable is set to that color
Mentions can be entered to do the same color as another variable. (e.g. @accent gets the accent color.
Operations can be entered to an operation on the previous value. Putting values fter the operation is like passing arguments to it (not all operations need arguments, some are optional and some have multiple arguments). (e.g. @accent > darken > 2 darkens accent by two steps).
> is used to separate parts of a string that the parser needs to identify
To handle operations, first the string has all of the infix operators replaced with postfix operators. So @accent > darken > 2 becomes @accent > 2 > darken. Then things in the chain between > are interacted with one at a time. If its a color or value it gets popped onto a stack. If its an operation it pulls things from the stack, does the operation, and then pushes the result onto the stack
Site link: https://bytes.programming.dev Blog post: https://stacks.programming.dev/posts/bytes/
Introducing the official release of Bytes, our programming microblog. This is being run for the most part in a similar way the main programming.dev instance is and anyone is free to join even if youre not a programmer (but be warned most topics will be about programming or similar aspects).
The software the site is using is called iceshrimp which is one of the misskey forks which has a better UI than mastodon and a lot of advanced features and customization
Microblogging
Microblogging is essentially making small posts of text or image to share things going on. This can include things like sharing things happening, progress on things youre working on, making polls for people to vote on, chatting with others, etc.
As opposed to programming.dev where things are sorted into communities, bytes works based off hashtags where you add tags to your post based on what categories it falls into.
Timelines
Theres 5 main timelines in the instance to browse (excluding custom ones).
- Home is the place to see posts from everyone you are following.
- Local shows posts from everyone in the instance.
- Social shows a combination of posts from home and local.
- Recommended show posts from instances that have been recommended by the admins (currently I have this set to mastodon.gamedev.place, peoplemaking.games, and gamemaking.social)
- All shows posts from all instances the server is currently pulling from.
Antennas
Antennas are a feature where you can set certain keywords to look out for and it will generate a feed of posts that have one or more of those keywords in them
This has further options such as making AND conditions, OR conditions, excluding posts with certain keywords, getting notifications, and changing the source of posts (to things such as posts made by certain people or on certain instances)
Reactions
As opposed to only having one thing to react to posts with (aka a like) you can react with any emoji you want on a post. We have added some custom emojis to start off with on the server but if you have ideas for more feel free to reach out.
Translation
If theres a post made in another language, you can select the translate option to translate the post into english to then be able to read!
Lists
Lists are a feature where you can set a bunch of people and it will make a feed with posts from those people.
Drive
The drive is a spot where you can upload photos for usage around the site or externally. All users have a limited amount of drive space but it should be high enough where you wont run into it unless youre uploading a lot of large files.
Chat
The site has a private message system thats a bit more advanced than the one on programming.dev. You can make group chats that contain multiple people.
Pages
You can create pages that contain text or images to link to or for other people to browse!
Channels
Channels are the equivalent of communities. You can make posts for certain topics in channels for that topic. This feature currently doesnt federate and is still a work in progress though.
Customization
The site features a very large amount of customization where you can customize the content of both of the sidebars to many different options, set a custom theme for yourself (with a built in theme editor), add plugins, mute specific instances, mute posts containing specific words, etc.
Hope you enjoy the new instance!
Its been a couple days which means I have the results of the threads federation poll we ran on the instance. The percentage difference between all of the options stayed relatively the same through the entire thing.
This was ran as ranked choice voting which means the least voted option gets eliminated every round and the votes for that option are distributed among the peoples second or third choices depending on if that was their first or second choice.
The total votes table shows the current votes for each option in each round. Differences shows the increase in votes the options gained from the last option being eliminated. Percentage shows the total % of votes the options have for each round.
Silenced was the first one to be eliminated with much less votes than everything else at 18 votes (aka 8.5%). Next up was limited being eliminated at 53 votes (25%). Out of the final two, blocked has the most amount of votes with around 55% of the vote total or 115 votes.
This means that threads will be fully defederated from on our instances. I will be running a poll again in around 6 months as a check in after threads has been federating for a bit to see if we want to change the decision or keep it.
- also note you will notice some numbers in the tables not being the same round from round, some people voted for the same option multiple times which means I couldnt give them a second or third choice since they only did 1 or 2
Back with another update on the home page. Ive added a new communities section on the right, made the right sidebar be able to be hidden, and added in the post sort and scope options above the post feed (as well as fixed some misc bugs)
Will be spending future days now cleaning everything up, adding in behaviours for choosing post scopes and sorts and having that reflected in the feed, and fixing bugs that popped up
Auth has also now been merged in so ill be integrating that into the home feed for things like the subscribed post feed
This update came a little later than I wanted to since ive had some other things I had to finish up but ~~ill be having another update posted tomorrow~~ edit: doing some auth shenanigans which is breaking the build. Logging in is now implemented and added to the home page though :) update soon once some things get merged in
You shouldnt need to platform there, you can just walk up to the dragon and it will continue