BoarAvoir 1mo ago • 100%
BoarAvoir 2mo ago • 100%
surprise! we browse the trans mega!
sie/hir has been added, give them a shot!
BoarAvoir 10mo ago • 100%
(Note: this is not in any way an official statement by the admin team, I'm just a tech dweeb)
Proposal: Do Nothing, but improve searchability by making the shortcode autocomplete also search by tags, not just the canonical name.
We have the ability to add basically unlimited alt-names or descriptors to the tags for each emote, which has made searching in the emoji picker much more viable even for obscure emotes (provided they are well-tagged). Problem is, nobody uses the emoji picker, most people don't even know it exists.
Make sure the library is reasonably well tagged and make that tweak to the searching and this whole conundrum goes away.
Examples below of some existing tags from a previous effort to tag all the emotes:
We might also want to make the alt-text more descriptive for people with screen readers but that's a separate conversation
Edit: Oh it looks like a dev (comrade makotech222) has already chimed in on this below:
also, its maybe possible we can enhance the inline emoji window to use keywords as well. would have to do some experimentation with it.
::: spoiler This would also basically address the following other suggestions:
https://hexbear.net/comment/4396592
https://hexbear.net/comment/4397267
https://hexbear.net/comment/4396837
https://hexbear.net/comment/4396793
https://hexbear.net/comment/4396237
https://hexbear.net/comment/4395861
https://hexbear.net/comment/4397894
https://hexbear.net/comment/4395895
https://hexbear.net/comment/4397730
https://hexbear.net/comment/4397711 :::
secondary option if this isn't feasible: remove the unicode emojis from the emoji picker so it goes straight to our custom emotes when opened, and make it more prominent in the UI somehow (highlight it in a different color, make it bigger, make it sparkle, idc). And still finish the job tagging them all
BoarAvoir 11mo ago • 100%
BoarAvoir 1y ago • 100%
As others have mentioned, that was implemented in a hurry due to tightening up security and safety around embedded images. I've brought it up to the devs to hopefully rectify, as if an instance is trustworthy enough to federate with (aka, not actively malicious) then it is probably safe to show their embeds (behind a blur).
At the latest, this restriction will go away when lemmy upgrades to pictrs 0.5 which will support proxying image requests, but unless there are objections from the rest of the team we will likely add all federated instances to the image allowlist before then.
BoarAvoir 1y ago • 100%
Working on this very site. So nothing cool, no
BoarAvoir 1y ago • 100%
I really hope we can restore the old Active algorithm, it's still on the table afaik, but I'm told the way that lemmy's database schema works has changed enough that it isn't trivial to switch back to.
BoarAvoir 1y ago • 100%
BoarAvoir 1y ago • 80%
Also dosent all modern operating systems have extracting files Just build in regardless of the format?
No.
BoarAvoir 1y ago • 100%
HOW AM I JUST FINDING OUT WE OWN HEXBEAR.COM???? WHICH ONE OF YOUZE
BoarAvoir 1y ago • 100%
Yes, you are on the right track.
What actually happened is, for the migration back to upstream lemmy, our devs developed and contributed the custom emoji feature, so that we could keep them, but since we were uploading them through the UI not baking them into the app when it was built as static assets, they had to go into pictrs (the image backend), which doesn't support SVGs yet. So as part of our migration we converted all SVG emotes back to PNG (apparently at a pretty substantial resolution).
They render correctly on our side because the UI recognizes that they are a local custom emoji and applies different CSS than we do for other embedded images, but as currently written, there is no simple way to differentiate a federated emoji from any other embedded image, so when federated, our emoji get rendered as just any image, at whatever size the file is. We will likely contribute a fix for this upstream, though resizing all of our emotes to a consistent size would also do the trick, and may be undertaken as a stopgap in the mean time.
BoarAvoir 1y ago • 93%
yes! Movie night going on now at live.hexbear.net
BoarAvoir 1y ago • 100%
for posts and comments made from other instances, that button links to the post/comment on its home instance
BoarAvoir 1y ago • 100%
if you browse the frontpage by "All" you should see more and more posts from other instances as time goes on. Federation doesn't really work retroactively, at least not yet, so it isn't immediate.
You can see what servers we are federated with at hexbear.net/instances and if there are any comms from those that you want to see, you can paste their URL into the search box here on Hexbear to find and sub to them (or to force an initial sync of the comm, as they dont federate unless at least one user here has subbed to it)
BoarAvoir 1y ago • 100%
aren't two or maybe even all 3 of the people in that picture firmly gen Z? Anyhow idc generations are fake and everyone is cringe
We will be down for ~30 mins. If you can't get in after an hour, check our [Mastodon](https://toots.matapacos.dog/@hexbear) or twitter for updates, or try force refresh, clearing cache, etc. EDIT: doing another quick hotpatch. You may see some interruptions
BoarAvoir 1y ago • 100%
You can get it on archive.org. I've done so once or twice
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