Cr4yfish

Nemmy went offline recently due to it exceeding the usage limits after moving it to a free tier due to high costs.

It will go up again soon, but until then it'll stay offline, I just can't pay that much money again for a sideproject.

I'll adjust some things, so it'll stay online in the future and won't exceed any limits.

After all this time, I finally found and fixed the issue.

Browsers affected were at least the chromium ones.

Comments, Posts and other stuff should load now correctly again.

Also, I scrapped the full-on poll support and moved back to the simple upvote/downvote graph feature.

There are mainly three reason:

1. I want to prioritize more important features
2. The announcement post had a 0 score for most of the time, just made it to 1 recently. So there isn't much demand I think.
3. While the database & backend was set-up, I think it would be smarter to first add this feature to Lemmy itself.

Let me know if you have any feeling about this decision.

This new iteration of the Poll feature will include custom Polls.

Right now Nemmy only supports Yes/No Polls that use upvotes and downvotes.

The new system will allow users to specify their own poll with their own options.

Here is the link to the post in the screenshot:

On nemmy

On Lemmy ui

Edit:

I almost finished the backend for handling polls (see updated screenshot). The numbers you see in the screen are already from the new database which Nemmy will use going forward for all extra-features that aren't built into Lemmy.

I will also use this new database to build my own Image store integration with which will make uploading images directly finally possible.

Also, this post has currently 2 Upvotes and 2 Downvotes.. I guess polls as a feature are controversial?

Maybe I should make a poll asking if you guys think polls would be a good feature :D.

Note: Nemmy will automatically upgrade your account by logging you out. Yeah I know it's not a pretty solution but it should work.

The backend is done, so everything that worked before should work now + some features using the new system.

New feautres:

• Account copy

Works by adding a new account with the same username as one you already added but with a different instance

• Instance hot-swap (

In the user menu there's a new dropdown on the instsance name where you can change the instance in real time

• New default instance

The default instance has been changed to lemmy.ml due to the massive downtimes on lemmy.world.

This does not affect you if you're logged in, which will override the default instance

I'll try to migrate Accounts but be prepared to be logged out again :((.

The new system will allow users to have multiple instance logins under one account - this will make it possible to seemlessly switch accounts when one or more instances go down.

Use case example:

You browse Nemmy with your lemmy.world account when suddenly lemmy.world goes down, then Nemmy can automatically switch you over to your synced lemmy.ml account, which has the same subscribed communities. Now you can continue browsing your feed, posting Posts and Comments - as if lemmy.world was still up.

Basically this is the next step of the instanceless featureset of Nemmy which takes over instance handling which is currently handled by the user.

With every new App published on IOS I wonder again how the financing works. Just through donations, or do you "take one for the team"?

They would be displayed in a censored version of course.

The current behaviour is just not to display them.

Vote by upvoting/downvoting. Graph support currently only in the Nemmy App.

This enables you to quickly create a custom feed by selecting which communities you'd like to see posts from.

Edit: It's 1am but I've got a working prototype now:

Had to make my own Lemmy API basically since there is no API to get Posts from multiple communities.

Usually I lack behind in terms of features but not this time! The official UI forgot to de-reference character references in post titles.

Notice the "&"?

Not present in Nemmy!

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I have an idea to make loading almost everything very fast but it comes at the cost of having to load everything double.

Voting:

Use twice as much data but be much faster: upvote

Only load everything once but be just as fast as every other lemmy app out there: downvote

I recommend viewing this post on Nemmy since it has a poll feature (WIP)

I'm currently working on making Polls possible.

Right now they only work with upvotes/downvotes and a Chart is automatically displayed when "[POLL]" is the first thing in the post title.