I've let the survey run for long enough now I suppose (at least I'm not getting any new responses) so I'm making this post with the "results". If anyone is interested in the raw data I'll post it but for now I'll just focus on the conclusion I've drawn from it.

For the most part responses only varied slightly but most of the questions were only there to help make a decision about the core question: What do you want to happen with this instance now?. The responses to which varied a lot compared to the other questions.

There were some votes against opening up the instance to other series discussions but I myself and the majority of votes are in favor so that's what will happen. However I really dislike seeing empty discussion threads so there will be some rules in place so this doesn't end up like a spam machine. As is with all things in life these are subject to change.

#1: There must be at least 3 users interested in regular discussions for a series to create a community for it here. There should be some regular volume of discussion for the series and 3 core users should facilitate that.

Note: If there already are discussion or fan art posts for a series on the Fediverse feel free to provide some of them to show that the newly created community would not just rot in a corner.

#2: If the series does not have weekly chapters there should be some form of plan for how to structure this so there is regular activity.

There is little sense in using a community only for volume discussions and nothing else those could just as well take place in !lightnovels@ani.social. As such there should at least be some discussion in between volumes (discussions about characters, fan art, whatever really)

Note: If the series does not release on J-Novel Club please be aware that @Mestionora@bookwormstory.social will be unable to automatically create posts for it. In those cases threads need to be manually created every week.

If anyone is interested in a series and thinks they can meet these 2 rules please message me either here or via Matrix (@neshura:neshweb.chat) so we can discuss the details.

Additionally I'll post a list of links to any volume or chapter/part discussion threads to the weekly thread over at !lightnovels@ani.social. It's something I should have done with the PrePub discussions for Ascendance of a Bookworm as well but I didn't think of it until now.

Before I get into this I apologize for giving you all a heart attack. Actually no, I know what I am doing with that title, suffer!

Unfortunately the main story of Ascendance of a Bookworm released its last Pre-Pub chapter last week and with it a stop to the very regular weekly discussion threads. Obviously we will have Side Stories to look forward to, however those won't provide nearly the same regularity as the main story did.

Up until now the Pre-Pub threads have been the main driver behind activity on the instance and the closure of the story then opens the question of what will happen to this place going forward. First of all this instance will likely not be disappearing. I have my only active lemmy account on here and since I have 0 real hosting costs I have no problem keeping this going indefinitely, I also think it might be an opportunity to change things up a bit. However first and foremost this is a place for you all, not for me alone, so your opinion about what should or should not happen to this instance weigh a bit more than my own. As such I (with input from ludrol, btw thanks for always being there for me to push decisions onto) have compiled a survey about that topic. Do feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments as well though.

With that out of the way I'd like to express a sincere thanks for all the fun discussions we've had here so far, I genuinely enjoyed every moment of them and look forward to more of them.

The initial hiccups with Federation seem to be resolved with 0.19.1-rc.1. Since I also managed to test the new Version of the Mestionora Bot (it should now actually post Part 2 and Part 3 Manga discussions in parallel instead of only Part 3, hooray) I will update the instance after PrePub discussions die down a bit.

Expected Timeframe is Wednesday 16:00 UTC - Wednesday 18:00 UTC.

During the Update changes to the expected downtime can be checked on status.bookwormstory.social.

If anyone has any questions please feel free to ask away.

Taglines

We want to add Taglines that will be displayed at the top of the site. We would like your help with populating it with quotes from the book. Please leave your suggestions in the comments. They should be quite brief, no longer that two sentences.

Vote For Emojis With Spoilers

We have added some emojis to the instance but they all are anime safe. We would like to know your opinion on adding emojis that are covering characters from part 3, 4 and 5. I will leave a comment and please upvote all the option that you are comfortable with seeing.

Defederation Policy

We would like to incorporate defederation from instances that are part of censure list on fediseer.com. It would help us catch toxic instances quite early. There will also be provided reasoning why we defedarated from certain instances.

- Ludrol

Hi guys I recently tested lemmy's email feature and found on lemmy.world there are no issues with email (both in recieving the verification email and replies/messages).

When testing bookwormstory.social however I am unable to recieve emails (both in recieving the verification email and replies/messages).

Background context:

Lemmy.world version --> BE: 0.18.4

bookwormstory.social version --> BE: 0.18.4

same gmail account was used testing.

A silly conversation with myself (for testing)

https://bookwormstory.social/comment/462332

https://lemmy.world/comment/2537944

Hi guys I made a shortcut that autoblurs a selected image, uploads it to catbox.moe, and copies the link. It also automatically uploads a unblured image in markdown syntax so you can directly paste it in post body.

Shortcut:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/c17814055c3a42b78c82984049deb13d

Actions app (required for blur, its free and open source):

https://apps.apple.com/app/id1586435171

https://github.com/sindresorhus/Actions

Hi guys, kinda curious on what the stance is on cross posting art from r/HonzukiNoGekokujou. If its allowed (not sure if it is or isn't) kinda curious about how much cross posting would be considered to much.