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[META] Early feedback Thread - Any constructive criticism, ideas and general discussion appreciated. (fedia.io)
submitted 3 days ago by Nebula@fedia.io to c/surrealism@fedia.io
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Hi everyone, It has been ~5 days and there are already more than 300 people onboard and you have been very supportive and encouraging. If you are among them, you are an OG spartan here. Thank you. In this Thread, I'd like to ask for general feedback - which type of posts would you like more of and which ones do you dislike? How do you feel about the frequency of posts? And anything else you'd like to let me know. Currently I am mostly running this community myself, besides some video posts and artworks that I am grateful for. So any contributions are greatly appreciated. I hope the point is reached soon, where this community has picked up enough steam to fill itself with content. Until then I will try to continue doing that myself.

I will try to reply to everyone.

Thank you,

Nebula, alias nebulaone

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[-] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 9 points 2 days ago

It's great. Don't burn yourself out though - you could do a bit less and it would still be great :)

[-] Nebula@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

I appreciate it. 😊

[-] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Love it. No complaints although I agree about with the attribution discussions that seem understood and agreed now.

As for preferences: the only posts I don’t like (on any community/platform) are extremely fast moving posts like the recent bagel one. I suspect I’m susceptible to strobe effects.

Thank you for bringing something very new and exciting to the platform!

[-] Nebula@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago

Thank you, I appreciate it. I am still not sure about what to do with posts that may trigger especially photosensitive people. Marking NSFW just blurs them for some people and also hides them completely for others. Maybe I will put them behind a spoiler inside a text post, but I am not sure yet, as most will just scroll past it. If anyone has a better idea please let me know.

[-] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I appreciate the dilemma. It doesn’t sound like there is a good solution, from what you’re saying. My client (m.lemmy.world) might have an option to disable animations too, actually.

Edit: it does, but then none of the animations will play. If I choose to make playback “opt in” I still have no way of knowing which animations will turn out to be problematic for me. Hmm….

[-] paraphrand@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Cite authors more often.

[-] Nebula@fedia.io 7 points 2 days ago

If I am certain about authors I do. Unfortunately often I find content from secondary sources, or from collections. Also I can't edit posts at the moment, which makes adding authors later more difficult. This is definitely valid criticism and my answer is not an excuse, because I should do more research. Thanks.

Update: For art I will now only post if I can give credit. For memes I will not bother to reverse image search, feel free to comment if you know who OOP is.

[-] frankenswine@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

freakin awesome and what an output

i tip my fedore an awe

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

The stuff here is exactly what I wanted when I signed up. I'm sorry I'm more of a lurker but I do occasionally post and I'll keep this place in mind if I find something surreal that hasn't been shared yet.

[-] Nebula@fedia.io 6 points 3 days ago

Thanks :)

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