Lemmy doesn't provide any analytics. Give this post a like and/or comment if you use this instance. I'm trying to gauge usage by humans.

I'll let this census run for about a week to gauge usage.

Results might cause different changes to the services.

I'm doing this because the cost of running this instance is higher than most other instances due to reliability and disaster recovery implementations. I'm curious if I should back down many of these costs if we're not used fully. I don't see much activity directly in this instance.

I know that discuss.online wasn't listed on join-lemmy.org for about a month due to a bug with the Lemmy crawler. They just recently fixed it with their redesign. We are now listed but no longer featured.

tl;dr; is this instance dying? Let me know if you're here.

I usually update right away to the latest versions of stuff; however, I’m afraid that things will break. Apple has been making greater and greater changes each release that are breaking stuff I’ve used for years.

For example, the GPGTools won't work on Sonoma. See: https://gpgtools.org/sonoma

We are running the latest release candidate for Lemmy, version 0.19.0-rc.1. This release candidate includes many changes.

Every release comes with its own challenges; however, it resolves previous ones. We hope this release will resolve a longstanding issue with sync not working, causing a lot of manual work from the admins to keep things in sync.

Please let us know if you experience any weird behavior.

Some known issues so far are:

• HTML entities characters in posts bodies (Changing & to &)
• The spoiler tag crashes the site if used in the sidebar
• Mobile apps are borked again

Update 10/25/2023

• We are now running release candidate 3.

Let’s have a two-week contest for a new community banner!

The current banner on this community is a photo I took. I want to open it up to community members to submit a photo. You can put your logo in the corner or a link to your site.

You can vote to keep the current one; however, I’d love to rotate the community one monthly with a monthly contest.

Submit your photos to this thread. The photo with the most votes will be made the banner.

The content ends at the end of this month. The winner will be made the banner for September. Mid-September, we’ll start the contest for October, etc.

Seems fitting to share this now that Social.Photo is live. It’s our newest addition to the fediverse.

We launched a new Pixelfed instance. This is a newly growing community. Most Mastodon Apps work with it if you already have a favorite app like Ivory by Tapbots. They have a PixelFed official app that is about to launch.

Checkout Social.Photo today!

We now have a Pixelfed instance. Check it out!

Social.Photo. Signup is open!

Did you know that Discuss.Online has a Matrix server?

If you're not familiar with Matrix you can read more here: https://matrix.org/about/

Matrix is a federated real-time chat server.

Join the community space! Go to: https://matrix.to/#/#community-channels:discuss.online.

Need a username? Contact @jgrim@discuss.online or comment on this post. A registration code will be sent to you for [yourhandle]@discus.online

Matrix Clients Discuss.Online provides two web based client options. You can find more at: https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

Here are the Discuss.Online hosted ones:

• https://element.discuss.online
• https://cinny.discuss.online

See you there!

Does anyone have a suggestion for a tripod they use? My largest lens is the Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG OS HSM Sports Lens for Canon EF with the Canon 5D IV body.

I'm looking to take sturdy shots at a distance. I sometimes put my 7D on the lens and try to get that crop factor zooming.

I've been poking around but nothing has caught my attention yet. I'll keep looking for blogs and things. Looking for real-world suggestions though.

Thanks!

Please welcome @lazyguru@discuss.online to the discuss.online admin team.

I’ve known lazyguru for over ten years. He’s a close friend. His skills are like mine. He will be able to help contribute to all projects of the discuss.online ecosystem.

lazyguru will help with moderation, system administration, monitoring, and development of new features. Joe has already improved some monitoring and is working on some changes to the infrastructure to make it more scalable. He will soon be helping with SocialCare.cloud once the first beta is released.

Please, take some time to welcome him!

Thanks, Jason

I have these really low points where I cannot do anything, no matter how hard I try. For example, I have a bunch of notifications on Lemmy that I've not responded to. No reason other than that I cannot do it.

For things like mod reports, I act quickly. But the other stuff has been difficult for a couple of days.

What do you do to get motivated or get that drive back? "Just do it" doesn't work for me.