It’s the crawler at lemmyverse that’s down - https://data.lemmyverse.net/ shows that it hasn’t updated in 11 days

Bonus repost:

Just for clarity: it’s not viewable through the API. As others have said, you need to spin up an instance. In contrast to the API, this means it’s not free (due to server hosting and domain name costs), and it’s not necessarily easy (for the non-techies).

I haven’t watched much Trek but I thought I’d check out Strange New Worlds (I was Sci-Bi-Curious).

meme: https://dmv.social/post/367939

template: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2481645c-57c0-445e-90f3-ee2a1e0f740b.webp

It’s only the lack of pencils in SW that stops this guy from killing you with one.

Probably, yeah. I made a post about how best to spoiler-protect stuff, but given the current state of Lemmy, it’s maybe best if we just wait a week or two.

Apologies. I left a gap 'cos I’d assumed Ahsoka’s finale would be more meme-worthy. Instead of it being … what it was.

I’ll renew my efforts for next week. Get in touch if there’s an idea you want to riff on, and we can dedicate a day to it.

Well, this is news worth getting out of bed for:

(Don’t worry too much about stuff we’ve already seen btw, anything older than a month would be fair game for reposting anyways)

I know what you mean about trailers - I always avoid them for films because of how much they give away. The Ahsoka one isn’t too bad, and it’s useful as something to refer to as what should be considered a base level of knowledge about a show. Otherwise we end up in the crazy situation of saying that Ahsoka appearing in the new Ahsoka show is a spoiler.

For things that are unarguably spoilers though, the post suggests waiting ‘a couple of weeks’. A meme I posted was reported, even though I’d followed the ‘usual guidelines’ of waiting a week.

We’re reluctant to curb people’s creativity though, and obviously the thing that’s just happened is going to drive much of the original content we especially appreciate. So hopefully, if people follow the suggestion about how best to prevent anyone accidentally seeing something too soon, we can reach some sort of compromise.

I tend to use photon.lemmy.world, but it’d be really cool if I could log in to lemmy.world using tesseract. It’s a fork of Photon - so I imagine it also has feature-parity with the official UI - but it’s “designed for media-rich feeds and content”. It’s what they use at dubvee, and db0 also provides it as an alternative

I don’t use the default one because it gets confused when lemmy decides to bring a gif in from an external site, and then convert it to a mp4 (it’s a pretty hit-and-miss affair in the Gifs Community), though I realise it’s ultimately lemmy itself that’s causing the problem.

PS wasn’t by me, sadly. Another mod (RHO) discovered it (reverse image search suggests it’s been kicking around the Internet for a while)

We try to have different themes for posts on a Wednesday. Memes should feature droids, memes should be across 4 panels, that sort of thing. Last Wednesday’s theme was ‘health and safety’.

Yeah it’s just the default web view that struggles.

I don’t think there’s much of a fix, because it depends on the arbitrary decision that lemmy makes as to whether to just link to the file on an external site, or to try to download it and cache it. If it chooses the second option, then you’re fucked.

The possible solutions all suck for one reason or another: make a text post and use an inline link in the body; use a big file and/or a low-bandwidth site so lemmy gives up trying to bring it in; or link to non-embedded version (e.g. https://tenor.com/en-GB/view/walter-didnt-know-did-not-know-that-idk-gif-17888366).

lemmy.world clobbered the gif in the main upload btw. Brought it in and turned it into a mp4, which the default web view doesn’t know what to do with when the thumbnail is expanded. (apps and frontends like photon have been able to process it though.)

Re: removing the link. Yeah, it’s probably for the best if links to services like that are kept to DMs (especially here on .world)

Space Whales are a thing in Ahsoka

Unpinned now. Theme day over.

Thank you for participating.

I’ve not had any luck joining any of these rooms. I click the link, continue with Element (the web app), I can see that I’m logged in and can access a room I’ve already joined (for moderating another community), but for these rooms, I’m just getting:

#lwgeneral:h-y-p-e-r.space is not accessible at this time.
Try again later, or ask a room or space admin to check if you have access.
M_UNKNOWN was returned while trying to access the room or space.
If you think you’re seeing this message in error, please submit a bug report.

EDIT: the updated links work for me now!

Unstickying now, so hopefully the change will federate.

Thank you to
@Sunforged@lemmy.world and
@The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website
for participating. If either of you have your own ideas for a Wednesday theme, please feel free to get in touch! (with either me , WhoRoger or RHO - the group that tends to co-ordinate these things.)