Hi, I made a comment on this post: https://beehaw.org/post/594846 "soliciting a new round of community suggestions"

Then, I got a notification that linked me to this post https://beehaw.org/post/598152 "Admins, you’re doing great, but please - fewer sticky threads." (this comment). @Los said

Did you mean to post this in the suggestions thread?

My browser window was still open with that tab (the suggestions thread) on top as I left it. Returned half hour later, I clicked the notification icon and this is my notification. I didn't even see this other thread before; I didn't open it or anything. In my Firefox browser history it says I have visited this URL 1 time (after clicking the notification).

So no idea how it got redirected here. I'm happy to admit to user error or potential user error but in this case I am 99% certain something weird happened.

Hopefully an isolated incident... But if there are imps running around in the server misfiling things that could cause quite the confusion.

Just sharing in case there is a pattern.... nothing to be done about it otherwise.

For example if I am on https://lemmy.ml/post/1181103 how do I most efficiently open it in beehaw so I can interact? There is a sidebar that says

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !fediverse@[email protected]

I have not been able to follow these instructions successfully. idk about anyone else.

I can eventually find my way to the beehaw post by manually adding the name of the group [email protected] to make the URL https://beehaw.org/c/[email protected] and searching in the page. Which is really not very smooth.

But what if I was looking for something that was not one of the most recently posted items? Do I just have to manually scroll?

Is there any corresponding identifier of the post that is consistent between instances? There must be, right? How else could they all interact otherwise.

Any help would be welcome as I am constantly ending up on other sites and this is very cumbersome.

I would like to try making a few minor changes to the CSS in either kbin or lemmy both of which I've been trying out. I favor a more dense interface and think styles could help visually separate different kinds of content. Maybe to reorganize some stuff if I got more ambitious.

I have some experience with web stuff, css. I can get around in git. But I am not a sysadmin or a programmer. And I have never worked on such a large comprehensive project.

Here are the repos I found:

codeberg Kbin/kbin-core

• seems to have no contib guidelines
• issues: 50 open, 4 closed

github LemmyNet/lemmy

• contrib - same link for both repos but doesn't really give much useful info

• Issues: 184 open, 1,594 closed

github LemmyNet/lemmy-ui

• issues: 197 open, 507 closed

Do I need to run the whole server with back end to fiddle with the CSS? Or can I use the developer tools in my browser to produce an alternative stylesheet?

Maybe it is just way above my skill set to make full PRs in something so complex. Should I post mock ups of how I'd like it to look as an issue?

Or just wait for someone who knows better how to get it done to come along?

What would folks think about using this tool to clone the existing subreddit? Losing the historical content would really suck. I make heavy use of subreddit search for solving technical problems.

rileynull/RedditLemmyImporter: 🔥 Anti-Reddit Aktion 🔥

This project translates Reddit API responses into a PL/pgSQL script which loads the data into a Lemmy database.

In other words, it takes Reddit posts/comments and puts them into Lemmy.

PS I am a pretty newb person and last time I tried to do much with a db I didn't get very far so please no one rely on me to get this done. I will see about giving it a shot but given the short timelines might not get it in time.

post from @[email protected] :

I am a software developer by craft and a linux system admin by hobby. I cannot commit to moderating and managing my own instance, but I would be glad to help someone with the technical aspects.

The most common complaint I saw in Reddit and here about switching to Lemmy is the difficulty of setting it up, so I thought I would help bridge this gap.

While I have never hosted my own instance before, I already checked the setup guide and it looks pretty simple to me, so I am confident I can do it. Please feel free to comment or DM.

It would be great if you can comment general questions. I can then respond to you here and maybe others will see it and know how to host their own instances too.