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Lemmy Directory
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this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2023
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New Communities
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A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
Rules
The rules may be more established as time goes on, but it's important to have a foundation to work on.
1. Follow the rules of Lemmy.world - These rules are the same as Mastodon.world's rules, which can be found here.
2. Include a community title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.
Formatting
Please include this following format in your post:
[link text](/c/community@instance.com)
This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't
You should also include either:
or instance.com/c/community
FAQ:
Q: Why do I get a 404?
A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.
Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that?
A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn't get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn't actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.
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Awesome, thanks for your work! Bookmarked.
Fast and light weight is great.
Feedback: I accidentally clicked on links. The clickable area of for example "Lemmy.world - lemmy.world" extends across the whole width, although most of it is apparently empty space. Either make the whole width look like a button or make the part unclickable which does not look clickable ;)
It would also be very practical to include discovery links, like !lemmy.world@lemmy.world. The smaller the home instance of a user is, and the more niche the community they search, the higher the chance they must discover it first using this bang link.
To add to your list, here are other similar projects:
lemmy.directory seems to be down for a day or so. It's a regular lemmy instance dedicated to subscribing to all communities in all instances, in order to replicate something like /r/all. Which means you can search from their site to find communities. If it's up.
Thanks for the feedback! I'll try to fix/add those things.