Gooottt iiiitttt!

Okay, when logging in again just now, I realised that last time I seemingly made the mistake of filling in the instance field with my community name, instead (i.e. [email protected]). So then-- seems to be working properly okay, now. :D

@[email protected]

If I may-- I would suggest that the service check to see if at the very least, the field entry for “Instance” looked like a proper URL. Even better I’d think would be to actually ping the entry, or something like that.

Because you know… careless idiots like me. ^^

Not just that, but I’d think it really useful to check that stuff right up front when a user logs in, including checking their ID & PW to see if it successfully logs in. Otherwise I suppose users are bound to see these “500” errors if they screw part of that up, I guess.

EDIT: Nah, even when I seem to schedule things, the tool just doesn’t seem to work anymore in terms of known time-differences.

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Thanks, mate!
So, both the acct and destination community were hosted by Lemm.ee. It’s one of the big-five or big-four instances (whatever) across the Lemmysphere, FWIW.

I suppose I could test this from FF (I’m on Chrome) if you think that might work, altho it did work fine in Chrome just a week ago. *shrug*

Hi, Elevator,
I started using the scheduler last week, and it worked splendidly at the time.

Trying it again the last few hours, I’m getting “500” errors when trying to put something through. Can you confirm on your end?

@[email protected]

EDIT: Solved! See below.

Sort of a ‘West Netherlands?’

I liked my original Mac too, but certainly missed the deluxe keyboard and two-button mouse. :S

I’m coming up on 1,000 subscribers, 500 posts, and 1.5+yrs of content creation in my bandes dessinées sublemmy, with myself being responsible for maybe 85-90% of total content creation. Your concerns are real and valid IMO.

Soon I plan to set up a bot to post small, ‘drip-like’ content every other day, supplementing the off-days with my beefier content, which are generally small reviews and content roundups. I guess my point is that it’s good to keep trying different techniques out, asking this and other communities for ideas, and having requisite patience.

Also, I think light-handed advertising across various platforms probably helps. Imgur and Reddit have worked okay so far, but frankly I need someone to help with other social media joints. That’s something an active mod could potentially help with…

1. GOOD: Someone recommended to me the other day an automated posting aid, which would be an enormous help in my being able to “drip” daily content to my sublemmy via a bot, leaving me space and time to work on longer-form posts.

2. BAD: A week or two ago I realised that Imgur had been dropping my content over a surprisingly short delay period (~six months), breaking likely the majority of older posts. I think I’ll slowly be able to restore at least the lead images, but with something like 400 posts to get to, it’s going to be a PITA, and going to take time, daggit.

3. GOOD: Lemm.ee’s issues with not accepting image uploads (I and others still have no idea why, given that our host admin has pretty much retired from interacting with the users) have been thankfully easing off lately, allowing me to work on stuff like recovering from step 2 and restoring some whole posts here and there.

4. BAD: Restoring multiple images posts is… ugh, going to be a real slog that will probably never get done properly. First, because somehow I seem to have misplaced a certain amount of the original image content, second, because it takes a lot more time than simply restorying a post’s lead image, and third, because lemme.ee only accepts up to 500k images (and bless 'em simply for that!), which unfortunately isn’t always up to displaying full pages properly.

5. GOOD: There have been a few user posts recently, which is always nice to see, and gives me hope that maybe just maybe the sublemmy can be self-sustaining one day. 🙂

Thanks for the reply, and oolala, that scheduler sounds groovy! Main concerns-- 1) as it needs my ID & PW to login, I’m naturally a bit wary. Do we know how safe this tool is?

2. I almost always upload images when I post, and that’s led to major problems at this point. For example, Imgur has proved worse than useless in the long run, and some days my own instance (lemm.ee) simply won’t accept image uploads.

So I think I’d need to pre-upload my images somewhere else, but I haven’t found the right place just yet. I suppose I might test out Google Drive at some point, but the file-name system is ridiculous. Look at the link at the bottom of my post here: https://lemm.ee/post/53557900

TBH, I’m just a scared idiot.

One of my friends is a Pulitzer-nominated dude whose CC got hacked, or whatever it was.

This is probably going to sound lame as hell, but I’m that type of caveman who hates giving out their CC# online. Any advice?

I tried to install from the dev’s site last year, but was told I was lacking some critical file it needed to run. Googled it up and it was hard to tell where the file was supposed to come from, or where I could get a clean, legit copy. :S

I think it was an MS file, FWIW.

Hi, Blaze. :-)

TBH, I haven’t finished sorting out the reptiles and pondering the possibilities. Also, one thing I regret in that post is failing to clarify that I’d like to find a reasonable degree of confidence in finding a site that will maintain my content (not unlike as in a “will”) in to the medium-ish future, given my personal health situation, plus the fact that I live in a country that’s pretty much jumping in to a volcano after its recent election-process. (TBH, I don’t see myself surviving the next 4+ years)

So, in terms of personally setting up some kind of host server that could potentially work for years after I’m gone, I’m pretty dang clueless over here. Maybe it’s a good option if I could coordinate such with my Lemmy-buds and some manner of financial legacy, I guess. Maybe. It seems like kinda unlikely to me, but who knows?

Now, circling back to the dreaded Imgur-- It really is confusing. Quoting myself from just an hour ago:

I’ve had stuff that I uploaded privately ~10yrs ago that’s still up on Imgur, and I’ve had some public posts that got traction at the time deleted after only ~8mos or so, plus other combinations of those factors, including file size issues.

Right now it’s pretty baffling trying to understand their method, and I would guess it’s more of just some internal issue relative to Imgur, for example, maybe they just say ‘this data bank is having issues, so let’s migrate the paid content, delete the rest, and retire the data bank, replacing it with newer hardware.’ Something like that, anyway…

Hmm, sounds like a good point. Here’s my sub:
https://lemm.ee/c/eurographicnovels

Can you tell me how our formatting might be messing search engines and stuff…?

(unlike Reddit, for example)

I use bold and italic a lot in post titles. Some of the other stuff wouldn’t make much sense I don’t think, but every little bit helps.

The Lemmysphere sure seems to get slammed a lot at places like r/RedditAlternatives. I wonder if possibly some of that is sockpuppet-stuff, as unlikely as that sounds. Still, more than ever we live in the age of misinformation and manipulation by opposition groups & monied interests, so the idea & practice is certainly on the table.

Unfortunately, there’s also the reputation of at least one of the primary Lemmy coders. Seems like the sooner Kbin, Mastodon, etc can get better integrated, the less notable that should be. *knock on wood*

Just make a community. Build it, they will come.

This is exactly what I’ve done, but I must say that in the particular community’s case, it hasn’t been easy. We’re going on 1.5yrs now, 900+ subscribers, and I’ve personally contributed ~360 posts (most of them curated mini-articles) out of 466 total posts, yet the sub still essentially needs me to provide the content.

So IME, niche-type subs can take a hell of a lot of work to take off, and we’re not even that much of a niche.

There’s also the running concept (or dada-ist joke) that Wondermark’s dodos are completely obsessed with the concept of time, with the implication being that they squandered their time in life, perhaps ultimately aiding in their extinction.

Example:
https://wondermark.com/c/1543/