EDIT: Might be able to get this set up. Hang tight!

There was a little bump in users, and the LemmyWorld admins posted this, but the included apps guide was out of date. I went to ask about it and saw the account that made the post is no longer active (moved instances). I then tried to update it myself and made progress, but got overwhelmed.

Two parts of my suggestion:

Part 1) Have a repository to pull from

Users don’t like to go off site, which is why a pinned post with the resources works well. However, pinned posts go out of date, and it’s a lot of ask for one person to manually edit it and keep it updated.

Instead, why not make a repository with a collection of markdown files containing the post body contents. Then there would be one source of truth that everyone can update.

The post contents would also include:

  • Link to the contribution page, so it’s easy to suggest changes
  • Last updated date, so that if a post goes out of date the users can ask it to be updated or just go to the source.

Whenever the post needs to be updated, the OP can paste in the newest contents.

Part 2) A nicer list of resources

I guess this is more of a ‘nice to have’ feature, but it would be nice if we had a site that was easier to navigate, ‘prettier’, and more accessible to casual users. We have this for our community/Subreddit, and it’s pretty easy to keep updated: https://ubcwiki.ca/index.html. It runs open source mdBook

Right now Lemmy has awesome-lemmy and [awesome-lemmy-instances](Owner avatar awesome-lemmy-instances). But they’re not the nicest to look at, and it’s a bit annoying to find content (especially awesome-lemmy) because of the format. There’s a lot of text on one page, and little variation in spacing/text size.

The new site could have the same contents, a lot could be copy and pasted over, and it could be updated from the same repo. Only difference is that it would be nicer to use.

  • SpziEnglish
    3·
    9 months ago

    I’m all for collecting information, keeping it up to date, making it accessible and sharing the workload to many people.

    For me, that screams WIKI!

    There is a Wiki which could very well use more contribution and updates: https://joinfediverse.wiki/What_is_Lemmy%3F

    I think a proper Wiki is the correct place for these things. Compared to a repository, a Wiki is more accessible for more kinds of people. It also allows better cross-referencing of information along with other relevant functionality.

    That being said, let’s not argue too much about where the best place might be. Getting things done is more important, so go ahead! It should be easy to copy the content to a Wiki at a later point.

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Getting things done is more important, so go ahead! It should be easy to copy the content to a Wiki at a later point.

      Appreciate this, we should hopefully have something up by the end of the week!

      Linking to all the other resources, such as https://joinfediverse.wiki/What_is_Lemmy%3F would be a part of the process while starting up, so the comments on this post have been extra helpful