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In 1974, a brand new technology called teletext was being rolled out. It would, over the next few decades, have far-reaching implications, not only in the UK but worldwide. These are the stories of those involved in the production, restoration and art of the blocky medium that graced UK TV screens until 2012. You’ll hear from the pioneers, those who made teletext tick, and the newcomers keeping the medium alive 50 years after its inception. This is a social record of teletext, and these are the teletext people.

 

'A part of me is cavalier about survival... I can be a lunatic at times' - Rhod Gillbert and Angela Barnes on tackling one of the world's most dangerous roads

 

#sonic #retrogaming #digitiser With the help of their special guests Ashens, Larry Bundy Jr, Dan Does, Sooz Kempner and Beanus, Mr Biffo and Gannon take a lo...

 

I've been running this community for a while now and want sure how it would plan out. Thank you all for subscribing and posting both beautiful and creepy fae folk art. (Edit: I meant to post a bit more often myself but due to personal issues it's fallen by the wayside a bit)

As a Christmas special, in this thread only, please post photos of your Christmas tree fairies. 🧚

(I'm posting this from an alt as feddit.uk is down)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The dev does plan to open source it I believe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Shame, but understandable. I'd pretty much come to the same conclusion that the interface and concept is really nice, but the backend just isn't working properly. I've migrated most of my communities off already due to issues.

 

Aertel was formally launched in 1987 and will close on Thursday, 12 October.

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

You need to go to https://fedia.io/m/teletext/t/308883/-/comment/1720255 and click on it as Lemmy doesn't federate the attached image.

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

Hopefully this will work... the advert in full.

 

TL;DR: Please resubscribe to !britishcomedy / @britishcomedy


When I joined Kbin/Fedia back in June I was optimistic that it would surpass Lemmy in every way. I still prefer the interface, but because it's early days for it there isn't (quite yet) an API for running 3rd party apps and bots. So I signed up for Lemmy a month or so later and then discovered Connect, and I've been using that more and more and Kbin less and less.

It didn't really matter that some of my magazines (as Kbin calls them) were on Fedia as I could still monitor them from Lemmy and then log in if any moderation needed to be done (you can assign Lemmy users as mods but they can't do anything), right? Well, it appears not. I discovered a bug which means posts to a Kbin magazine don't federate properly unless somebody on the host instance interacts with them.

The bug has gained no traction at all even though I've proved it happens, and I'm getting increasingly frustrated with having to log in to Kbin just to upvote everything to get it to push articles and comments out to other subscribers. Especially as I have no way of knowing something is waiting until I log in...

So, the upshot of this is I'm moving this community/magazine to feddit.uk (arguably where it should have been originally but I wasn't familiar with Lemmy at the point I created it). I'm still optimistic for Kbin's future but the backend needs to improve!

Please re-subscribe using whichever of the following works for you:

 

The official lyric video for Sam Ryder - SPACE MANSam Ryder will represent the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 in Turin with the song 'SPA...

 

On 18 September 2023, the Felling relay transmitter will close as a result of demolition. A small number of households who receive their signal directly from the transmitter may lose services once the transmitter closes.

 

The two comics celebrate Ted's 10th birthday and the beautiful British countryside as their perfect series returns for a sixth time

 

TL;DR: Please re-subscribe to !yoursinclair

I have taken the decision to move this community/magazine over to Lemmy. The main reason for this is because I want to run a bot to post some random issues/pages to make this community a bit more interesting and alive.

The new community is hosted over at retrolemmy.com as that seemed like an appropriate place to do so.

New links

One of these should work, if not then searching for the full URL usually works best in Lemmy.

!yoursinclair - Lemmy

@yoursinclair - Kbin

!yoursinclair - generic link for clients to decide what to do with

 

Half-remembered facts, forgotten memories and made-up lies about Britain's best-selling Spectrum magazine, Your Sinclair.

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

Yeah, it's a bit dead round there. Looks like there are a few rapids in Rhyl - and a big mostly 7kW hub which might be useful if you spend the day there.

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

Where abouts in North Wales? There are a few good spots - probably one of the better ones is the open-to-all Tesla Superchargers in Flint, and there's a bank of Instavolts at a farm shop... can't remember the name of the place off hand.

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

Bring back Tim Vine!

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

It's working now!

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

Maybe a coincidence, or very popular, but I've not been able to get onto Stewart Lee's website since you posted that link!

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

Remember that April Fools joke about Worms having been written for teletext? This is actually Worms on teletext, apparently.

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

I realised some time back that my first name backwards made me sound like a knight. I've failed to utilise this in usernames except maybe once.

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