Grew up in Michigan, currently working as a Systems Administrator just outside of STL. 95% of my personal time is spent as a PC gamer, the other 5% is watching the occasional TV show or reading a good fantasy or sci-fi book.
Getting the ball smacked down 1/2 second after the snap was ridiculous! C’mon!
Fucking low velocity!? You think Cuno doesn’t know what you’re talkin’ bout? Velocity was FUCKING MAX!
Cross-Instance Links
Links to other instances always say I'm logged out (which, technically, I am) that makes the link useless.
For example, I am logged in at my home instance of https://midwest.social/ If I click a link to go to https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support it takes me to that community, but I am not logged in (to lemmy.ml) so I am unable to meaningfully interact with it. I have to manually edit each lemmy URL that I go to in the URL bar in order for me to go to that community with my lemmy account.
So I need to manually change https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support into https://midwest.social/c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml and I have to do this each time I click a link to another instance if I want to post there.
I've been a system administrator for 20 years, and this took me a few minutes to figure out. "Casual" users are just going to be SOL since they aren
Has the influx of new members exacerbated this issue? I found this thread because I'm seeing a few '504 Gateway Timeout' errors occasionally.
New midwest.social users look here
Hello! I do IT for the government. Currently in STL (not technically midwest, depending on who you ask) but I grew up in Michigan. I came here due to the news that Reddit will be soon charging 3rd party apps exorbitant and unsustainable (which is probably their goal) prices. Also on Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@Arindrew