User should create an account on one server

Mostly this. Some people might want a few accounts but those would be hardcore users.

the Summit app does it too

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1883

or will it stagnate and fade into obscurity like many other similar discussion boards?

well it wouldn’t really play out like that, if Lemmy gets overtaken by a replacement (like Mbin, Piefed, or Sublinks), it would be a transition not a death

a big thing we can look forwards to right now is if Pixelfed gets better support to interact with Lemmy/etc communities/groups then we can get a big boost in userbase, even if they aren’t using the Lemmy software we’ll still be seeing their posts and comments

I wish Mastodon would improve their compatibility with Lemmy too, but they don’t seem interested

Github pull request, examples:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/347

https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/pull/354

the instance needs at least 5 active users

you might need this feature before it can be done easily https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2987

this project seems interesting, will have to keep an eye on it

Yeah you’ll need an account. Once you have an account the easiest way to edit is to click the pencil icon at the top right of the file in the website. You can edit in the web browser and then submit a pull request from there automatically.

anyone can update the list and make a pull request https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/blob/main/src/shared/components/app-definitions.ts#L459

someone could make a pull request to add this

join-lemmy website code: https://github.com/LemmyNet/joinlemmy-site/blob/main/src/shared/components/main.tsx

docs code: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-docs/blob/main/src/introduction.md

How about a randomizer? Pick a game you like and see if there’s a randomizer for it:

https://video-game-randomizers.github.io/rando-list/

Semi off topic, but isn’t the subscriber count badge useless now since Lemmy fixed their reporting of that?

something that didn’t get mentioned but I think is nice, the Chat view has been fixed!

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1639#issuecomment-2172090390

I believe it was fixed here https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/2480

it even allows sorting in either direction, you can do Chat view with New or Old sort!

there is an in-progress proof of concept here https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4695

if you have a Github account you can “subscribe” to that to get email updates about it

In order to improve interoperability with Mastodon and other microblogging platforms, Lemmy now automatically includes a hashtag with new posts. The hashtag is based on the community name, so posts to /c/lemmy will automatically have the hashtag #lemmy. This makes Lemmy posts much easier to discover.

this should be interesting

image proxying also sounds good

Most niche communities (with some exceptions ofc:-) here aren’t as active as they were on Reddit, so many of us end up spending more time in the generalized ones - e.g. !technology@lemmy.world rather than specific ones like r/OnePlus or even r/Android.

I think we need to get better about crossposting to multiple communities. You could post to all 3 of those.

I filed an issue on Github for you

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4743

Especially with Lemmy getting support for plugins soon, I don’t see the need for making a new platform

A new sorting method for “unanswered” is a cool idea. I’m not sure if it’s quite as simple as just finding posts with 0 comments, because people can put additional questions in the comments but it’s still unanswered. Also how do you sort them for posts with the same number of comments/answers. But this is definitely something that a plugin could handle.

I’m still most excited about the ongoing work on plugin support

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4695

would you say this belongs in the 0.20.0 milestone? or is it too soon?

a pretty simple plugin idea would be a regex to validate post titles, deny the post if the title is invalid

I might try it unless someone else beats me to it

I guess to start with it could be a config file with a dictionary of community name: regex

and later it could be made to use the database with an api to set the regexes, could even allow community moderators to set their own regexes (might need a maximum regex length, maximum number of parenthesis/groups in the regex pattern, and disable lookbehind/lookahead, for performance reasons)