Hey guys, it’s been a long time. I was sick for awhile, so sick I have 2 hospital visits which almost landed me 6ft under. This is why I’ve basically been entirely absent the past few months. This has left Burger all alone to do both the public facing PR type stuff (which used to be my territory) and the backend.
Well, my situation is returning to normal, and thus I am also returning to Burggit. I’d like for you to voice your feedback and what you would like to change and any issues you have specifically.
Something I will be changing is, and I hate to be this guy who comes in and does this. I will be removing the 3Dloli community as I personally believe that community violates our at-a-glance policy. I can not tell the difference for most of these images “at a glance” and since I will be the one looking through these sorts of things for moderation. It’s best for everyone involved that I am able to make good accurate decisions.
I also know that there’s been issues with the Lemmy-NSFW fork being used, some people want us to fork it, make modifications to it and use that. I’m going to shoot this idea down now. Burggit is just me and Burger, there’s no one else here, and we do have other things we like working on. We’re not maintaining an entire special fork. It’s likely that we will just go back to the main Lemmy branch, though I would be open to arguments against that or maybe even suggestions for already existing forks to use.
However, I think The Entire Circus made a good point in this post and personally, I agree with his points.
Anyway this is just kind of an initial post letting you know that I am returning and things will be changing. Hopefully this will be overall a good thing for everyone involved. Happy to be back.
Apps have pros and cons, i personally use connect, its good for me.
Yeah i see where you come from but let’s be real, when you search for burggit you already know what it is about, Noone just finds us.
While that might be true, people have many different tastes and there’s lots of fetish content on this site. What might be appealing to one person could severely disturbing to another. It’s best not to flash people (in my opinion) with a ton of expanded NSFW images if they do not want to expand them. Back when we had things auto expand and unblurred, I personally saw some things that I was not personally ready for. Not like they outright disturbed me or anything, but they were just more than I was bargaining for in that very moment.
And having no NSFW shown at all unless you make an account makes the site seem like it’s way less active than it is. We’ve actually noticed a few new faces show up since we implemented the patch, I don’t exactly know if it’s due to the patch or not, but it’s definitely noticeable.
We tried an app called Boost and didn’t have any issues. And it’d be very difficult for us to make sure the site (which we are prioritizing the desktop experience for) worked on all the apps. Since they all might have their own little quirks as to how they grab/display content.
Connect had a patch today, seems to work better now, less broken, only problem is that i cant open profile pages on burggit, wich is acceptable.
And if its working good now i don’t have any problem, its just that i don’t think of people that don’t make a account here to customize their experience, my content is pretty tame compared to the other stuff for example. Its definitely good that the auto expand is off and the stuff stays blurred on web. (wich is one of what i like the apps for, as you can blur more specific than unblur all or blur all)