Reddit is removing content from the sub again. How do we make this place more popular?
Keep in mind I'm a mod on the subreddit too, so I can sticky stuff there/change automod rules. But I'm not sure what to sticky/change.
https://www.hexbear.net/post/272295
"We are planning on doing the final site migration to upstream Lemmy this Saturday. We are currently unsure exactly how long we need for the entire process. Our estimate is around **12 hours** of total downtime; we'll update this post when we have a more accurate estimate. Hexbear will be inaccessible during this time. For updates on progress on the day, please follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/chapo_chat Whilst we'll gain the ability to federate with other Lemmy & Mastodon instances, **federation will initially be disabled**. More on this in future posts. --- We expect to encounter a few more UX-related bugs after the relaunch that will require more work, so if you are open to volunteering a bit, we are looking for **frontend developers** who can help figure out and fix some of those UX issues. If you think you can help, please send me a message on Element ([@layla:chapo.chat](https://matrix.to/#/@layla:chapo.chat)) . Finally, none of this is possible without your continued support! If you enjoy the site, please consider donating via our [Liberapay](https://liberapay.com/hexbear) or [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/hexbear) :hexbear-retro: "
https://www.hexbear.net/post/245817
"Hi everyone. A while back, we announced our intention to move Hexbear back to Lemmy. This post will serve as our second transparency report on our progress. We're happy to share two more features have been successfully ported upstream, with a third very close to completion: 1. [Featuring posts site-wide](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/2585) 2. [Site-wide taglines](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/2548) 3. [WIP] [Custom emojis](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/2616) Last time, I mentioned we had some work to do porting Hexbear's database schema back to Lemmy's. I'm very happy to announce that, as of three hours ago, we successfully ported a recent database backup from Hexbear to Lemmy's schema for the first time. We have used this to start up a local Lemmy instance running with the past two and a half years of of Hexbear data on it. [Here's a sneak peak](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/h9YcEZ1lss.png)! None of this would have been possible without the volunteer developers. In particular, I want to again give a massive shout out to [@makotech222](/u/makotech222) - he has been doing the bulk of this work and we cannot thank him enough. :stalin-heart: Progress continues to be made, but we still have a lot of work ahead of us. Whilst we are at the stage where our core features have been ported over, there are some features we'd lose. For example, upstream are not interested in explicit pronoun support. We have a workaround for this which allows for pronouns to be set and displayed as is shown in the screenshot above, however, with more volunteers we could work on a better solution that upstream *are* interested in: [user flairs](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1456). So please, if you are a developer who wants to help port over the last couple features upstream, reach out to either [me](https://matrix.to/#/@ella:chapo.chat), [CARCOSA](https://matrix.to/#/@carc0sa:chapo.chat), or [layla](https://matrix.to/#/@layla:chapo.chat). That's all for today. We hope this was useful and answered some of your questions. If you have more, some of the team will be in the comments for a while so please feel free to ask. Thanks, and viva la Hexbear! :hexbear-static-logo: "
https://www.hexbear.net/post/240228
"JT will be answering questions below. ~~There are no strict time limits set for this so JT will come and go as and when his time allows, if he doesn't get to your questions be patient! This post will be edited when things end here.~~ *See bottom of post* JT will be posting from the account [@Secondthought_JT](/u/Secondthought_JT) . Be sure to check out The Deprogram if you haven't already! Available wherever you listen to podcasts. *** [The Deprogram](https://www.buzzsprout.com/1890340) | [Second Thought](https://www.youtube.com/@SecondThought) | [The Deprogram on Twitter](https://nitter.net/thedeprogrampod) | [JT on Twitter](https://nitter.net/_secondthought) [The Deprogram subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDeprogram) *** **JT is taking his leave now! Big thanks for doing this JT and for answering so much!** :meow-hug: :lenin-heart: Thread will be locked to preserve. Remember to check out The Deprogram!"
Hello from r/TheDeprogram over on Reddit. A comrade reached out asking us to also create the community on Lemmy, so here it is.
I'm not really sure what to do with community alongside the subreddit, open to ideas!
@layla
@lemmygrad.ml