We've been thinking about changing the banner for some time now, but we were unsure whether to use an existing banner from the subreddit (the one we're currently using is from a previous banner contest there) or to hold a contest to truly differentiate ourselves from the Reddit sub.

So, we decided it was best to put it to a poll. If any of you have artistic skills and are willing to create a banner, please comment below so we know. If more than one person is interested, we'll hold a banner contest. If no one is available, we'll instead hold a contest using banners that didn't win their previous contest (with proper credit, of course).

Please note that you don’t need to be an artist to enter—we also accept banners made with Photoshop, GIMPed?, KRITAd?, or any other editing software!

The deadline is until the end of the month for commenting if you are participating in the contest.

I'm not said student, found this /r/Mastodon. Sharing here since I think it would be good supporting research on this. Shortened description from the info page:

This project is part of a Master Thesis that aims to explore the factors that influence user activity on Mastodon and their role in sustaining decentralized networks. ... Ultimately, this research seeks to contribute to the future development of decentralized social networks by identifying key factors that support user activity, offering valuable insights for administrators and moderators in maintaining active and sustainable communities.

Survey link

EDIT: survey seems to have ended

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The giveaway has ended and the winner is: [email protected]. Congratulations! Have fun with the game!

Thank you all for all the funny jokes!

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Hello fellow SV fans. Every year I give away 1 Steam key for Stardew Valley to a random person. Past years it was someone from the Steam SV forum or someone from the comments section on a random YouTube video about SV. This year, since i migrated from reddit to Lemmy, I decided to do the giveaway here on this community.

To enter the giveaway just leave a farming-related joke as a top-level-comment under this post. Your Lemmy account must be at least one week old at the time of the drawing (18.11.23).

Please don't post offensive, racist, trans- or homophobic jokes.

The key can be redeemed globally on Steam (PC).

Doesn't matter if you already own the game, maybe you know someone you could gift it to. Or ma

Hi. Following on from my previous giveaway last month, I now have FOUR TorrentLeech invites that I'm just giving away. No bullshit, just say you want it and it might be yours.

My IRL friends wouldn't have a clue what to do with these so I'm just giving them away again.

I'll probably leave this up for 24hrs or so and then, as before, choose four people at random. Good luck :)

EDIT: I closed this early due to the crazy amount of responses. I took the number of responses (160!) and ran it through an RNG 4 times to make this fair. Congratulations to @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] and @[email protected]

Hey everyone

Theres been some discussion recently about the content allowed in this community so I wanted to make a quick poll to gauge what is wanted in terms of what people see here

The current description of the community is a bit ambiguous so this will determine whether everything is allowed here or if only more general programming topics are

You can just dm me with options ranked based on your preference (its ranked voting) to vote and ill share the results in a day of the overall vote tallies

1: Allow all posts relevant to the instance (main community)

This will let pretty much any post be able to be posted in here whether that be a help question, discussion, news, etc.

Allowed:

• What is your favorite music to listen to while programming?
• Has anyone else seen this interesting “challenge site” when googling a programming topic?
• Intellij and docker on vm memory issues
• [HELP][Python] How to use Selenium correctly
• Announcing TypeScript 5.2 Beta
• Discussion ES