End of January Updates - Sublinks, Community Stats, New Community Head, Hexbear, Expanding the Admin Team, & Something Releasing Soon
End of January Updates - Sublinks, Community Stats, New Community Head, Hexbear, Expanding the Admin Team, & Something Releasing Soon
Hey everyone, have a lot of updates on things occuring around the instance so figured would compile them all into one post. Will be pinned for 24 hours in the instance
Sublinks
In the past a bunch of you may have seen me working on a new frontend for the instance called Pangora. That has been merged into another project called Sublinks which should let progress go way faster (was previously 2 people who contributed to Pangora vs now 18 in Sublinks)
Sublinks is releasing with a lemmy compatible API and we should be switching over to it once it reaches parity. As the API is lemmy compatible all alternative frontends and apps will still be usable when we swap over.
For anyone interested in the project the matrix space for it is here https://matrix.to/#/#sublinks:discuss.online and the repositories are here https://github.com/sublinks
The backend is using Java, the frontend is using TypeScript with Next.js, and the federation is using Go
New Community Team Lead
Ive been prepping to stop being the community lead for awhile now so I can focus on the development side of things and ill be transitioning fully over the course of the next month into being only on the development team. The new community team lead will be @recursive_recursion@programming.dev
With me focusing on development I should be able to develop things for the instance a lot faster so you should see some new things popping up soon :)
Hexbear
Hexbear handles federation by votes and they recently had a vote and removed programming.dev, lemm.ee, and aussie.zone from their allowlist. Weve added them to our blocklist as well so theres no one way conversations
Community Stats
Types of Communities
- Lively: 5001+ members
- Active: 201-5000
- Moderate: 51-200
- Quiet: 11-50
- Dead: 0-10
Stats
- Lively: 0% (-1% from last month) (theres still 1 lively community but the total communities pushed it down to 0%)
- Active: 7% (~)
- Moderate: 12% (+2%)
- Quiet: 26% (-8%)
- Dead: 55% (+7%)
- Total: 243 communities (+55 from last month)
Overall the amount of communities has been getting significant expanded and starting out near the bottom in terms of active users. I assume these are going to start climbing up within the next month and there should be a boost to moderate and quiet. Moderate still has been growing and active has been holding on to its 7% even with the amount of new communities
Expanding the Admin Team
We have a new thing releasing soon and in preparation of that we are expanding out the admin teams. If youre interested in helping out in the instance (development, infrastructure, or community) feel free to reach out
New Release Soon
Speaking of the new thing releasing soon it should hopefully be released sometime within the next month as a subdomain here. For anyone who wants to beta test it its theoretically up now if you're able to find it. Good luck :)
Hint: Larger than bits