New Communities
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/[email protected])
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.
Image Attribution:
Fahmi, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
I am in support of this. No need to go back and alter the old content in the sub, unless you're bored or something. But moving forward this would be helpful.
It would make the community a lot more useful. I'm not interested in visiting every new community but it would be nice to know they exist. Meanwhile having to open every post is very inconvenient compared to simply reading it in the title and know it exists if I want to check it out.
Yep. Title could just be a link to the forum itself. Would include the name and the Instance, giving people that basic info right off the bat.
If we're talking about posts in [email protected], then I'm 100% on board! I think that would be really helpful.
If we're talking about lemmy.world-wide across all communities, then I respectfully oppose this suggestion. I can easily see the community name underneath the title of a post. Adding the community name will cause communities to have pages and pages of posts that all start with the community name. Furthermore, if we ever get post tags, they will take up even more space and overwhelm the reader.
I'm talking about this specific community yes. Since >90% of posts here are done by @Akhuyan this is barely a meta post lol
+1
I would go a step further: Make it required for posts in [email protected]
My personal favorite would be: Titles must include the community identifier ([email protected]), and the name or a description if the identifier does not speak for itself.
The goal would be: People can tell from the title ...
- do I already know the community, do I remember it?
- what is it about, am I interested?
There's a PR open (https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/214) but I'm assuming Ernest has a million other things going on right now too.
[META] Can We Please Include The Community Name In The Title?
New Communities - A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
Formatting
Please include this following format in your post:
[link text](/c/[email protected])
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
I'd also welcome some basic descriptions. Some titles are pretty obscure to people who don't know what it is, but still might be interested. Especially the abbreviations like crcg or whatever.
It looks like Lemmy doesn't do that, but I see them after every post (in a smaller font) over here on kbin.social. Here's a quick link to your own post over here - you might need to open it in a browser where you aren't logged in, I'm not sure: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/103987/meta-Can-We-Please-Include-The-Community-Name-In-The.
I think this is just something we need to fix locally on kbin inside the single article template. Currently now it just says (kbin) when I would expect it to say the name of the magazine/community it came from.
We have that data on the feed back (it shows correctly there), but on the single page it seems to be incorrect.
I'd be keen not only on seeing the name, but also bringing in the little icon and having it clickable to jump to that community.
Little UI changes like that are happening now on kbin so I'll bring it up in the developer chat and see what can be done to fix it
I just meant for this community. The only reason I didn't message @Akhuyan directly is because they obviously chose not to include the community name and creating a post would indicate it's popularity in order to validate my request/opinion.
Hello, I never really thought of it that way. I thought it would be more useful for a description since some community names don't make sense by themself, but I think including both the name and a description in the title would be more useful.
Saw this post earlier and wanted to respond before continuing to post with the community name added this time but got sidetracked into an internet rabbit hole accidentally, so sorry for the delay in response to this post
For clarification, a post title would be like this? Just to make sure I'm understanding correctly:
New Communities - A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
Hey, thank you!
Basically whatever the url is in the title as well as the description. On Reddit I would upvote any new subs I thought were positive, open ones I might join in another tab, and make mental notes of any useful sounding ones.
Having both the url and the link in the title posts really streamlines things and increases the value provided.
It just says "kbin.social" in small after the title on Kbin, which is neither the community name nor the server on which the community exists. Am I missing something?
No, on the home page it shows the community/magazine name in the bottom right.
I'm not OP, but when I'm looking at each title on kbin's links feed page i DO see the community name, but when I'm on a post's comments page itself i DON'T see the community name.
Here's what it looks like commenting for me (kbin/firefox/desktop):
https://i.imgur.com/8k61Pq3.png
Here's what it looks like in the feed:
https://i.imgur.com/fxJrmr9.png
Obviously, for a noob it's confusing to see kbin next to the title, when this post is actually on lemmy.world.
This kind of thing really needs to be ironed out, if we want the fediverse to ever gain mass traction with the unwashed masses. Assuming that's something people want.
Hopefully upcoming apps will make it all easier for casual users.