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.
Is that disclaimer necessary? It even uses annoying browser alerts and makes everything look broken. I presume people can see it’s NSFW from the description if it’s not obvious otherwise: Having to tell people what to do or not do based on who or where they may be behind their computer screen has gotten so old and weird for the modern day internet. Other than that I’m sorry you went through a rough time and am glad you’re okay, take care and thanks for everything you’ve been offering the internet!
The disclaimer is not necessary, however removing it without touching the code would be fairly difficult due to the way the LemmyNSFW fork is setup. Makes everything super hard to navigate and modify. All the code is minified and otherwise obscured beyond human comprehension. This is why we replace the text as opposed to removing the actual disclaimer altogether.
It’s less work for me. Since all I’m doing is a text replace at the reverse proxy level. I’m not having to change code for this since I’m just replacing what gets sent out. It’d be one thing if this breaks apps, but afaik apps just use the Lemmy API.