About two days ago we found a bug with the registration system on lemmy. Because of this we have updated our registration process a few times, and cannot deny any applications as the person registering does not receive any message and cannot re-apply.

We currently have several hundred people that we are waiting to deny, and some unknown amount of people that we denied prior to finding this issue which we would really like to contact and give them a chance to register as they didn’t write enough in their registration for us to really evaluate if they were a good fit for this instance.

If you’re a developer please take a look at this github issue and please work your magic to help fix this problem.

As an aside, we also have a list we’ve been working on for enhancements that would make moderating and administering this instance a lot easier, and enhancements we think users would enjoy in terms of UI and UX. We’d love to share these as well as facilitate a discussion to surface more ideas (and we plan to in the future), but right now we need to focus on the most pressing issue to us running this website, whether people can create an account here and participate.

  • HrBingR@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    If we could end up with a theme that looks a lot more like https://kbin.social, I’d be so happy. My biggest gripe with Lemmy is all of the white space, and none of the current themes improve that at all. All of the theme options offered by kbin look amazing by comparison, and to my understanding Lemmy theming is done via CSS based on Bootstrap v4, so new theme creation should be straightforward enough.

    It’s to the point where, when visiting Lemmy instances, I use a custom CSS extension to modify a few properties to make it a bit more palatable to me.

    If you guys ever need help creating custom themes to offer to users I’d be happy to contribute.

    • crank@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Can you post your user style??

      But I would very much support having a more compact theme available without a browser extension. I think some tightening up up would make this place look more welcoming. It feels sort of “empty” due to all the white space.

      • HrBingR@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Hey there, sure, currently I’m using this. The border between comments on a comment thread doesn’t look the best, but it makes it easier for me to track comment levels so I like it, though there are certain properties I’d like to change but can’t.

        Either way, I’m using an extension called Amino to apply my CSS changes on a domain-level.

        This fixes a lot of the whitespace and borders to make differentiating between posts and comments a little easier, while minimizing white space. I think it looks nice.

        EDIT: I’ve made a few more changes in terms of color.

        .container-lg {
    max-width: 1600px;
}
.col-md-8 {
    max-width: 80%;
    flex: 0 0 80%;
}
.col-md-4 {
    max-width: 20%;
    flex: 0 0 20%;
}
.col-sm-2 {
    max-width: 10%;
    flex: 0 0 10%;
}
.col-sm-9 {
    margin-left: 5px;
    max-width: 80%;
    flex: 0 0 80%;
}
.post-listing {
    border: 1px solid rgba(34,34,34,.125);
    border-bottom: 0px;
    border-color: #c80000;
    padding-top: 10px;
    background-color: #fff;
}
hr {
    display: none;
}
.border-top {
    border-top: 1px solid rgba(34,34,34,.125)!important;
}
.border-light {
    border-color: #e4e4e5!important;
}
body {
    background-color: #ecf0f1;
}
.navbar {
    background-color: #fff;
}
.card {
    background-color: #fff;
}
.comments {
    padding-left: 5px;
    background-color: #fff;
}