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I considered replacing my profile picture, so I went to my settings and tried to upload a new one. At first it looked like it was working, but when I refreshed the page after clicking ‘Save’, nothing happened.

So I turned off my content blocking extensions, allowed Opera to permit trackers, advertisements, and protected content, and I retried to upload my profile picture.

{"data":{"error":"rate_limit_error"},"state":"success"}

I decided to modify my browser to accept all cookies, and this time I tried browsing outside of private mode.

{"data":{"error":"rate_limit_error"},"state":"success"}

At this point I thought ‘fuck it’, switched to Microsoft’s awful Edge browser, and tried to upload my picture from there.

{"data":{"error":"rate_limit_error"},"state":"success"}

Piss, piss, PISS!

ETA: I figured out what the problem is. The page didn’t want to save because the description had too many characters in it.

I want to match the cool kids from Hexbear, but I don't have spare characters in my username.
Thx.

Normally I would trust ContentBlockHelper with something like this, but for some reason it isn’t working right on Lemmygrad and I’m tired of trying to fix it and all that I want to do is turn off a bunch of annoying images.

Edit: Fixed, thanks nemesis! I had to select the languages in my profile settings on firefox mobile, though it seems that isn't the only way to do it.

This is the post: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/773089

If I open the link I can only see the title of the post. I can see that there are 11 comments but they don't show up.

The only thing I can think of why that is is that the post was made with the English language option instead of Undetermined.

But other people could see it and pinged me (otherwise I wouldn't have noticed that the post existed in the first place)

Do I have misconfigured settings? I see that in profile settings there is a language selector thingy, but I can't figure out how it works.

I have been trying repeatedly to add a handcrafted transcript to the thread for this video, but the ‘loading’ circle spins endlessly.

It took me a while before I realized that a transcript of 23,364 characters exceeds the character limit, and therefore cannot be posted.

If you really need to have a character limit, please let the user know what it is and explicitly warn them when a message is too long. Don’t just give them a circle that spins endlessly. That’s bad programming.

This is a test as to whether or not Lemmygrad strips metadata from images when uploaded.

It used to be that when I went to the login page, I could enter everything normally without a worry. Now when I try to log in, I get an error message saying ‘Couldn’t find that username or email.’

I can still log back in when I select the ‘forgot password’ option and ‘reset’ my password, but it’s really annoying to do this every time that I want to log in. Please stop this.

From the link:

We're getting ready to release a new version of Lemmy, which will require a database upgrade, so we'll have a few hours of downtime.

I have created a reply bot that I posted earlier. With it, I can create any bot that replies to users' comments with a set message. It can also get information from the comment and include it in the reply if needed.

The reply bot I made is pretty advanced in terms of what it can detect because it uses PCRE2. For example, I can detect only things that start with something, or only things that have specific characters in specific locations and don't have other characters before or after.

Does anyone know any bots on Reddit that they may want brought to Lemmygrad (other than parenti bot, that's already been brought over), or have any other ideas for bots that could be added?

Does anyone have any idea how this bug occurs? I've been thinking about it, but do not know enough about net code or web design to give more than rudimentary guesses. Furthermore, are their anyways in which this could be exploited in a harmful manner against Lemmygrad, or should it be a low priority bug fix? Any answers are appreciated, Thank you!

I wonder if it would be possible to add some cheeky emoji/stickers ala Discord/forums to spice up the conversations here. Maybe they could be suggested and voted on by the community!

I believe it's site related being I forgot my password and entered my email to get a sign in email yet it hasn't come. If you could help it'd be nice because I dont want to keep using my old laptop. thanks.

I'm going to be posting 8K photos taken with my phone using a macro/flat field/telephoto snap on lens of the motherboard and other things on here when I post my workstation project...

I've tried posting 8K photos like of the kiddie pool pond I made for my frog babies. But I had to downsize to 6K for it to work.

The mobo for example definitely has to be 8K for folks to see all the necessary little details and lettering on the board.

Should I try to upload to IPFS or something and link here?

A while back I made a light and a dark theme for lemmygrad.ml. Unfortunately, due to current code restrictions, a custom selected instance theme doesn't have a light and dark mode.

As suggested by Nutomic, I would like to request that the new themes replace the litely and darkly files so that the red theme can default according to browser preferences. I recognize that this may be hacky and might need to be reapplied on code updates, but it seems like the best solutions. If needed (I don't think it is), the original litely and darkly themes can be renamed to litely-green and darkly-green to keep them available.

(@[email protected] )

Additionally, the admins should determine a policy for commandeering abandoned communities. I know some websites have a policy where if no staff log in in [x] weeks, any user is allowed to request moderation. Maybe I should make another post about that.

This in particular is an excellent example. The only staff member, @[email protected], made this community, made (and deleted) two posts, and apparently hasn't done anything else for 3 years. This is an important community to the site and deserves attention.

As it stands, the sidebar is useless. It could explain the difference between Lemmygrad and the Lemmy software, link to better communities for contacting the devs for feature requests, give advice for people asking questions, link to relevant chatrooms if any, that kind of stuff. This preventative assistance helps prevent the place getting filled with useless, redundant or off-topic questions.

Automatically filtering out the post from my home page that I've already voted/seen. I mean it's annoying to browse through the same post again and again to see the new post in home page. So there should be an fix/Option where the post I've voted automatically gets hidden/removed from my home page. And I see new content each time I refresh the home.

We're currently under a DDOS attack, and are doing our best to fix it.

Update 31 May: Recently, Chromium addressed an important scaling issue making this issue much less relevant.

It would be great if four sizes (scaling factors) of the logo could be served. This way, the logo will look just as crisp across different displays.

<img alt="Logo"
     src="/pictrs/image/gB8yP0oFF5.png?format=webp&amp;thumbnail=64"
     srcset="/pictrs/image/gB8yP0oFF5.png?format=webp&amp;thumbnail=32 1x,
             /pictrs/image/gB8yP0oFF5.png?format=webp&amp;thumbnail=64 2x,
             /pictrs/image/gB8yP0oFF5.png?format=webp&amp;thumbnail=96 3x,
             /pictrs/image/gB8yP0oFF5.png?format=webp&amp;thumbnail=128 4x"
     width="32"
     height="32">

Hi, I think lemmygrad.ml should use variations of the default light/dark themes with red accents instead of green.

• Keeping the layout similar yet colors distinct from other instances (especially lemmy.ml) makes it clear that you are on the same kind of site but a different instance, and that this one is very much red
• This is an easy fix to make (changing a few color codes in the .css files)

If you've put in a membership application, please hang tight. it can take anywhere between a few seconds and a few hours for the admins to get to your application, y'all are flooding in so fast.

Your applications are read by real humans, thank you for your patience.

There's enough news/propaganda about it lately, that i feel like Lemmygrad would benefit from having a community specifically for it. But I already moderate a lot of communities, so I don't feel like I should open that one.

As per the sidebar:

3. Be respectful. This is a safe space where all comrades should feel welcome, this includes a warning against uncritical sectarianism.

I think that we can both tell that this is outdated nonsense.