to start: after some consideration, we’ve altered our entry question a little bit so that entry is not guaranteed. during the daytime you can basically expect waits of 30 minutes or less when it comes to approval/disapproval, but overnight it’ll be anywhere from 6-12 hours. just FYI
if you’d like to introduce yourself without it getting lost in all the posts already made, i just made a thread for that over here
our sidebar should give you most of the information you’re looking for about us, but to reiterate some: we are pretty relaxed here, but we have a well carved out understanding of what we want to be. if you would like more elaboration on that, you can find elaboration on that at length in the following two posts:
for some less lengthy and more relaxed elaboration, see the discussion in the comments of this post.
as for funding: we are 100% user-funded. if you would like to contribute to our ability to keep the website up, you can donate on OpenCollective, which supports both one-time donations or monthly donations.
a few other questions occasionally pop up like “why do we have the set of communities we do?” and “why can’t people make their own?” (the latter is a feature of lemmy). for elaboration on that, you can see the following post and the discussions here. we are open to suggestions and creating communities as demand sees fit; see also discussion here.
downvotes are disabled on this instance and that’s a thing we’re not liable to change. if you’d like elaboration for why that is, see this comment. this may be a point of friction for some coming from reddit, but i hope you’ll understand why we’re doing it even if you don’t necessarily agree with it.
if you’re interested in our governance to this point and a brief idea of our long term goals, see the comment here.
feel free to sound off on other questions you have; i’ll try to update the OP with those and our ability to answer them as time goes on.
Ahoy! I originally joined here a few weeks ago, when Reddit first started rumbling about charging for API access, but didn’t really post anything until today.
So hello all!
Quick question: At the top of this thread it says that there are 55 comments, but I can see maybe 1/3 of those. Where have the rest gone? I commented on another post that had 4 comments, but I couldn’t see any of them…
Just a guess, but your browser might be blocking JS from loading more comments. They should load when you scroll to the end of the page.
So, having done a bit more digging, it’s not Safari. Arc is exhibiting the same behaviour.
To make matters more annoying, I have replies that I can see in my inbox and reply to, but if I try to load them under their posts, the posts won’t load. Again, in Safari and Arc.
With the release of Lemmy 0.17.2 there are language settings that are frustratingly confusing. I still can’t wrap my head around it. You could try going into your personal settings, here at Beehaw, and see if you can figure things out.
Ah! I just set. my language to “Undetermined” and I can now see your reply to me in the music thread, which I couldn’t before. Except now the other comments have disappeared…
I’m sorry that the languages thing is so confusing and frustrating. I kept messing with it until I could see everything, but it was so long ago that I don’t remember how I got it working.
I think I’ve figured it out… I selected all the languages and hit save.
I guess the problem is that some people leave it set to Undetermined, others set it to English when they post, so a user’s individual setting will only show comments tagged as one or the other.
Yeah this change is fairly new, with a recent update, and I feel like it’s not implemented perfectly yet.
Make sure to also have Undetermined selected, since many people post that way.
Yeah, I’ve selected the lot. So I’m looking forward to seeing some folks posting in Urdu.
@sexy_peach
Yes, it seems like Undetermined should be included for everybody by default. If they really want to allow people to filter *out* undetermined language posts, that should maybe be a separate toggle.
Suggestion: instead of just a plain
<select>, consider making the language selector a table with a checkbox for each language.Aha! That fixed the problem for me. I checked undetermined, English, and español and now I can see the comments on my own post.
Hmm, I have JS enabled, and Safari is usually pretty solid for this kind of thing.
I’ll have to do some digging!