If this link which took me 7 minutes to code, test and deploy gets more upvotes than other recent features that I spent a week on i might reconsider my life choices.
If I might voice something that I've noticed: your posts about new features tend to be written in a insider-y way. When I read them, I often have to take a moment to think "what does that mean?"
This post here is very simplistic in its wording and has a screenshot to show what it is talking about. That makes it way easier to understand and therefore more people might upvote it quickly and mot engage longer.
An instance admin is able to set a retention time for a community on their server. It doesn't delete the content from the remote instance, just the local, federated copy. It's done on a community by community basis and the default is to not delete. The retention times on piefed.social are managed by rimu, and he's not what you would call a meme-er(?), so they aren't too long for meme-y(?) communities.
if that also deletes the images, I could see how that would save a ton of storage space to delete memes after they get old, and if it's like Mastodon I think it only deletes the ones that come from remote instances
There are a lot of communities that have content which is amusing for a moment but which have no lasting value so I see no reason to keep paying to store it forever.
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rimu@piefed.social · 22 pts · 323d
If this link which took me 7 minutes to code, test and deploy gets more upvotes than other recent features that I spent a week on i might reconsider my life choices.
wjs018@crust.piefed.social · 8 pts · 323d
There's no winning against Blaze.
scintilla@crust.piefed.social · 5 pts · 323d
Its a really good feature ok.
sga@piefed.social · 3 pts · 322d
Blaze@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 323d
Sometimes complex things don't get appreciated enough.
On the other hand, I can tell you that when you'll add the emoji menu to the text editor, that feature will also get at least 50 upvotes.
Microw@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 311d
If I might voice something that I've noticed: your posts about new features tend to be written in a insider-y way. When I read them, I often have to take a moment to think "what does that mean?"
This post here is very simplistic in its wording and has a screenshot to show what it is talking about. That makes it way easier to understand and therefore more people might upvote it quickly and mot engage longer.
rimu@piefed.social · 3 pts · 311d
Yes, thanks!
recursive_recursion@piefed.ca · 8 pts · 323d
Seems like a solid idea and feature in my opinion as it eases the ability for anyone to prevent/call out ill-behaved fellow users, mods, and admins👍
Edit:
From the post screenshot:
I'm sorry what? but why?
wjs018@piefed.social · 12 pts · 323d
An instance admin is able to set a retention time for a community on their server. It doesn't delete the content from the remote instance, just the local, federated copy. It's done on a community by community basis and the default is to not delete. The retention times on piefed.social are managed by rimu, and he's not what you would call a meme-er(?), so they aren't too long for meme-y(?) communities.
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com · 5 pts · 323d
if that also deletes the images, I could see how that would save a ton of storage space to delete memes after they get old, and if it's like Mastodon I think it only deletes the ones that come from remote instances
rimu@piefed.social · 8 pts · 323d
Yes it deletes the images, to save space.
There are a lot of communities that have content which is amusing for a moment but which have no lasting value so I see no reason to keep paying to store it forever.
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com · 2 pts · 323d
Totally fair! That would definitely make a huge difference in server costs, and I've seen the same thing used effectively on Mastodon
recursive_recursion@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 323d
Reading your comment in addition to the comment chain it makes more sense now and honestly seems pretty reasonable🫡