Comment on Starting guide needs update
AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world 1 week agoUse the search and select “federated” “Communities” filter
This only finds communities that someone on that instance already subscribed to. Absolutely not feasble for small instances and niche topics.
Know about the Lemmyverse because it’s in their guides
What guides though, that’s what i mean. Or can you link me the feddit.org, slrpnk, sopuli etc guide?
Blaze@feddit.org 1 week ago
Ah, I see. There could be indeed some improvement on that side, but I guess admins just assume that their users know about Lemmyverse because they got pointed to !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca when they joined like in this kind of comments lemmy.world/comment/11995882
@Emperor@feddit.uk, @poVoq@slrpnk.net what do you think? Do you think instances should add links to starting guides in their sidebars?
Emperor@feddit.uk 1 week ago
I’m not sure about “should” but it is well worth flagging the issue up with Instance Admins who may have overlooked this and are happy to rectify the issue.
AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Not starting guides, like jlai.lu it’s there but some links deep hidden. This is such an obvious user experience problem that this - in my opinion - needs to be featured prominently in the main sidebar. Almost everywhere you have to dig deep to even understand that you cannot find all the communities hosted on other instances, unless you use these tools, or have a huge instance like world so basically everything is subscribed to by somebody.
That’s why mander.xyz, lemmy.ca and aussie.zone get my gold award :)
Blaze@feddit.org 1 week ago
Pinging @SorteKanin@feddit.dk, @ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone and @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com as well
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I have a getting started guide I wrote a long time ago, but it’s probably a bit of old now. Do we have any decent recent guide?
Blaze@feddit.org 1 week ago
Probably