He called Git simple lol. Some good points here though. GIMP is definitely a bit clunky. Kdenlive does crash a lot for me, and often fails to recover the autosave, and it renders slowly. But there’s a lot of other good open source programs too. Firefox, OBS, Blender, some people in the comments were saying Krita but I haven’t tried it yet. There’s also Chromium and VSCode but obviously those are backed by huge companies.

It’s there now, the crawler found you. Congrats!

Did you try these searches while logged in or anonymously? Lemmy (and probably other platforms) don’t allow searches for remote objects unless you’re logged in, this prevents abuse of server resources. The fact that you’re getting replies and you can see them and reply to them means it’s probably all working fine.

Because if I didn’t use Discord then I would be the only one in the community. Discord has a massive userbase especially with gamers. You give them a Discord link and there’s a decent chance you’ll see them join and post a message. Give them any other link and they’ll never make an account, they probably won’t even click the link to see it.

I provide links for Discord, Lemmy, Kbin, Mastodon, Steam group, and GitHub. I see lots of people come in on Discord, but 0 on the others except for myself lol.

Only the few actual contributors use the GitHub, don’t think I’ve ever seen a non-programmer submit a bug report on my GitHub or use the discussions or leave any comments on releases or anything.

I’m also on Moddb and NexusMods, got a few comments on Moddb, none on Nexusmods yet.

I also have Twitch and YouTube of course, I get small numbers of people commenting on those.

Nobody has even asked for any other type of community, Discord is just want they want. If I just wanted to talk to myself then I wouldn’t bother creating a community/forum at all.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4406

oh btw 3rd party apps aren’t working with 0.19.0 yet, because of changes to the authentication API

Well now you can use :0.19.0-rc.5 :)

it’s in alpha currently, but you could still run it

I think you might have to use the :dev tag to get this update, a bit risky to stay on that tag though, maybe wait for the next docker image of an alpha release

in v0.19.0 Lemmy will automatically delete entries over 7 days old

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4113

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/commit/cb01427dcff14b3d88e30220695fc97978786a9a

currently it waits 3 months before deleting

yes you’re right, also that config flag was renamed to cache_external_link_previews

in v0.19.0 you could try disabling pictrs caching https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/commit/1d23df37d86cc5cb6d7d9efaaf4360ecc9a9796f

    cache_external_link_previews: false

I don’t think that will clear the existing cache though

inertia is very strong apparently

I setup Gogs once like 6 years ago or something lol, I remember it being pretty easy and it is nice. Although if Gitea is more actively maintained then it’s probably worth giving that a shot first.

looks like the 0.19.0 backend will support it, but idk if it’ll be exposed in the frontend yet https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2397

Which is part of why we should want all the popular social sites to be federated, so that holding the userbase doesn’t create an insurmountable monopoly and you can easily move to a better alternative without leaving your friends and content behind

https://youtu.be/o97uNzbBfis?si=YZ1BewzBvjK6S_KM

Many years ago I ran my own Gogs and it was pretty good, would recommend

ScummVM supports many many games. Some people might think it’s an emulator, but it’s actually a collection of reverse engineered game engines.

eDuke32 and other Build Engine source ports

so many good alternative frontends exist

don’t forget the mobile apps are frontends too, which shows how flexible we can be while keeping the backend intact

I think forking might be an overreaction at this point, a better idea would be to work on plugins/extensions support

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3562

And also new frontends can be made without touching the backend, so you could fork just lemmy-ui or one of the phone apps or one of the many web uis