eviltoast.org has been upgraded to lemmy and lemmy-ui 0.18.1. Release notes copied below.

Release v0.18.1 Release · LemmyNet/lemmy · GitHub

What’s Changed

  • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Oh that is very interesting. So it ony shows you communities that eviltoast members have subscribed to? If so, how are people supposed to find new communities that they may be interested in? I had no idea that’s how it worked. I guess i would use that communities search link that you provided?

    • eviltoast admin@eviltoast.orgOPMEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yup, it’s one of the main downsides so far. There’s not really a good built in way to discover remote communities yet.

      There’s the lemmyverse link and a few similar apps that all aggregate communities into one list, using one of those is easiest imo for now.

      I think I can finish the script I was working on to import all or most communities so that they show up in the search results, but the subscriber count will still only reflect the local users and not the real count.

      • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how do I subscibe to communities that don’t show up in the search here? I can’t figure it out.

        Edit: nvm i got it. Yea if you could just pull in all communities with users over like 15 or so, that would be great!

      • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.orgEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Wait something is still weird. I’m not seeing comments on other communities that I manually added. I can see them if i visit the instance directly but not through evil toast when loged in. Do you know what’s going on?

        • eviltoast admin@eviltoast.orgOPMEnglish
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          1 year ago

          As far as I’ve seen so far, posts and comments only start showing up from the time you subscribe to a community. When you manually search for a specific community and subscribe to it, I think it does pull the last 20 or so posts, but not the comments for those posts. There’s no backfill or history fetching in lemmy.

          The script I’m using to pull in popular communities is the same as searching for each community it finds, so it doesn’t actually subscribe or pull posts either. I might try that for a few days though and see what happens, I’m not sure how much it’d cause the disk or network to explode.

          • FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.orgEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Wait let me get this straight. If i subscribe to a large community, it only pulls in the last few comments and then it shows comments going forward? It doesn’t show historical comments?

            Is this by design of Lemmy? If so, that sounds like an odd design? Like say I join a techsupport community and I’m trying to search for how to fix something. I won’t be able to see all the old helpful comments unless I search for it on the actual instance it’s hosted on while NOT logged into an account on eviltoast? Seems like an odd design choice? Is it designed this way because Lemmy is still scaling and the devs didn’t want to overwhelm small instances with data?

                • eviltoast admin@eviltoast.orgOPMEnglish
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                  1 year ago

                  I agree. In its current form, it’s somewhat more similar to something like twitter (or mastodon) vs reddit, at least for newer small instances. I doubt they’ll make it so everything gets federated everywhere by default since that’d be pretty bandwidth and disk intensive, but it’d make sense to at least be able to show those historical threads.

                  https://www.search-lemmy.com is trying to index all lemmy instances. https://github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search/issues/20 is open to track opening those search results inside your home lemmy instance. Maybe lemmy-ui or one of the other frontends will end up integrating with it so that you can search for anything and have it pull the results into the instance you’re using?