Running an instance myself, the lack of mod-tools is very frustrating for quite some time now. I totally agree with pretty much all improvements beehaw suggested in the past to solve these issues. It’s a shame how this topic is handled…

Calibre-Web can be used remotely just fine…?

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Defederated. What a waste of resources.

You can find the answer to that question in the linked release notes. (What is unique to Forgejo)

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All I can say is it would be a big, big loss.

Beehaw made me believe in the idea of building a healthy network, especially in the beginnings.
I remember the day I asked Chris to federate with us, we used allow-lists, and maybe this should have been the way to go, considering how much trash has happened in the meantime.

I totally agree with your criticism about the state of the platform itself, slow progress, missing and broken mod-tools etc. unfortunately it seems that development cannot keep up with the speed of growth and the associated demands.

So, imho, you make the Fediverse a better place that’s why I hope you stay ;)

Yes, it would.

Hosting an instance myself, I’m not amused, because if forces my instance to literally sync all content there is on the lemmyverse, drastically increasing traffic, storage use etc.

Please don’t force resource consumption beyond any rational usage!

Afterward it’s not significant.

Sorry, but unfortunately, it is, forcing a instance to sync literally every single post made on the lemmyverse.

It is a significant difference if an instance has to federate literally every post made on the lemmyverse.

Hosting an instance myself, I’m not amused, because if forces my instance to literally sync all content there is on the lemmyverse, drastically increasing traffic, storage use etc.

Please don’t force resource consumption beyond any rational usage!

I rented Populous for SNES as a kid but they didn’t have a manual so that was a pretty tough one to figure out.

Same for me, on the Amiga500, especially finding out how hero-raids and Armageddon work ^^

Played the crap out of Maniac Mansion but didn’t realize it was before the PC point and click craze

Got it on the C64, did you find out all five possible endings?
I freaked out finding the fuel for the chainsaw in Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders ;)

some genre pioneers

• M.U.L.E. (Multiplayer Strategy)
• ELITE (3D space sim)
• Populous (Godmode RTS)
• Maniac Mansion (Point & Click)

Back then, when you wanted some new games you could:

• buy them (over expensive)
• trade some on cassette tapes at the schoolyard
• Go to the library, grab some source code books, have fun programming them

Wrote my own text-adventure when I was 10, since then I came across Basic, Turbo Pascal, JS, Java, AS, Lua, Python, C++, maybe some more 😵‍💫