I hear you, but "drawing folks into the fandom tent" was not what Quark's (or the instance for that matter) was created for. Quark's has always been "General off-topic chat for the crew of startrek.website.".

That said, if you or anyone else wanted to create a community with that or a related stated purpose (and promised to grow and actively maintain it in line with instance values) I would be more than happy to entertain the idea. But you can't have mine lol

The admin team doesn't make instance decisions based on what's "popular". It's actually against our mission statement. Though that doesn't mean community input is ignored.

But that being said, admins can see who's voting and we can see that the downvotes are not coming from users with much/any history in this community. So we are not taking their feedback strongly into account.

This has been on our todo list for a while, but turned into a harder nut to crack than I initially assumed. Thanks for the additional info. I'll comment here and make a new post when this gets sorted.

EDIT: It's sorted

Great!

http://old.startrek.website/

It's startrek.website but looks like the "old Reddit" UI

Also, it's working again.

Hm, I'll take a look at that. I haven't tried that app yet.

EDIT: Yes, looks like that's a bug with Liftoff

Is bureaucracy canon?

I think I might have fixed it, let me know if you encounter it again.

Thanks for looking into this more! A fix is in the works.

There's a known issue with any .website TLD, try adding this exception to your adblocker:

@@||*/pictrs/*$domain=lemmy.world

EDIT: It wasn't this- the problem has been fixed

Just for posts (in your user settings) not comments yet.

You are most welcome 🖖