It's been a long while since I wrote a blog post. Some things have happened, which I will write about, and also we need to talk about fin...

The latest blog post about our .world and the Fedihosting Foundation. As you can read in the blog, the donations are no longer covering our running costs. If you are able to spare a few Euro’s or dollars or whatever currency, please check the list of our donation platforms in the blog.

Edit: I will add these to the blog: https://bunq.me/fhf (for EU bank transfers) https://github.com/sponsors/Fedihosting-Foundation (Github Sponsor)

  • make -j8@lemmy.world
    25·
    4 days ago

    Proposal: add custom animations in posts, let people pay for it. EDIT: like, dumb silly dancing frogs flying around the screen when opening some thread

    • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      I’m not sure about silly frogs, but I think showing something like a supporter icon or something could help? I’ll try making a quick PoC.

      Edit: I wrote something that takes the members of OpenCollective, gets their Fediverse username and then, displays it in the frontend

      Edit 2: GitHub for HTTP server serving usernames https://github.com/QazCetelic/supporter-shoutout, patch for frontend not included

    • The Velour Fog @lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      Please no… At least have a switch to turn it off or something… animations moving in and around the UI are very distracting for some neurodivergent folks, myself included.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 days ago

      Develop it yourself, the instance hosts are trying to pay to run the servers not edit the codebase. If anything, they’re probably looking to jump ship off the Lemmy platform over to https://piefed.world/ now that it’s up and running.