I can do black, that does actually seem a bit better.

This sounds very good, I used it with a few changes:

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Youre right.

No that would be too annoying.

I was testing a new feature for Lemmy 1.0, native binary releases in addition to Docker. Sorry if it spammed your notifications, should have marked them as draft or prerelease.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5583

Actually thats true. Gonna remove that button for now, we can still add it back later if there are too many complaints.

You mean to add donation links for the instance? That makes sense, but I fear that it would be too complicated for users. Admins already have many ways to put donation links eg in the sidebar and sticky posts, but for developers theres only a small button at the top which is easy to miss. And our donations have gone down a lot, now only 2400 Euro per month.

Thanks for the suggestions. I changed the first sentence to “Lemmy is an open source project developed by volunteers and provided for free”, and changed the hide button text:

Edit: Also shortened the title so it fits in a single line:

Orange is actually the primary color in the theme, although green (secondary color) is used much more.

Thanks, changed the link.

Edit: Nope that broke the thumbnail, uploaded it to Lemmy directly now.

No worries that’s what the AMA is for. I thought about managed hosting before, but it would likely involve mainly support and sysadmin work, while my passion is programming.

Sounds like another issue with programming.dev, because here it’s working fine.

How much would you be willing to pay for this? Im not sure if its worth the effort because its not clear if anyone else besides you would be interested, and it would require a bunch of work to setup. It would require an automated way to check donation status, and a way to build and distribute these private releases. Feel free to respond via private message.

Lemmy is not for microblogging, so I dont think hashtags make sense.

Turns out the size limits for animations that we set on lemmy.ml also apply to proxied images. I would think its only for local uploads. Removed the limits now to get it working. Thanks for letting me know.

I live in Spain, the cost of living here is much cheaper than Germany or especially the United States. I also dont need luxuries, and have enough money saved to last for a while. If donations are not enough I could always work for some company, and spend less time on Lemmy.

Conspiracy is a good way to describe it now that you mention it. Makes me wonder how Pixelfed managed to get so much media coverage recently.

Youre welcome! Im not really an animal person, but I choose dogs.

The easiest solution would be to mention in the sidebar or in a welcome post that donations are not for you, but for the developers of the software. Also the frontend supports custom css so you can change the entire design. It is also possible to use a different frontend or write your own, as its all open source.

To be honest its quite bold of you asking to remove the donation buttons. Working on Lemmy has been our fulltime job for the past years, and we rely on user donations to pay for food and rent. Yet you are getting the results of our work entirely for free. Having some donation links is a very small price for that.

African or European swallow?