Hello everyone,

Opening that thread following the latest discussions on !moviesandtv@lemm.ee.

I am now suggesting to retake this community or create another one that would be more structured, especially

  • weekly “what have you been watching lately” thread
  • dedicated threads for shows and TV. Discoverability of those threads would be eased by having a research bar in the sidebar.

What do you people think? Should we use this community, or create another one? If the latter, what would be the name? /c/moviestvreviews? /c/moviestvdiscussions? Feel free to share your suggestions

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukMEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Since the fall of lemmy.film, seems like no one wanted to manage a movies instance.

    I’d forgotten about that. However, there are many reasons an instance fails. There’s no obvious final message, it just looks like @jayrod@lemmy.film (using a federated link to get old messages) went MIA 7 months ago and the instance carried on for a couple more months. This seems common - it happened on feddit.uk when the original Admin’s enthusiasm waned. We came close to setting up a new instance and migrating everyone there but we got a message through and we were able to switch it over to a new sever and are just now working on funding. So it wasn’t that there wasn’t interest in keeping the instance going from the users but if you have a single point of failure (something else we’ve worked to correct) then, eventually, it will fail. It doesn’t mean it isn’t viable.

    @kingmongoose7877@lemmy.ml I believe you were the other Admin - any insight?

    • kingmongoose7877@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Dearest ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝,

      Yes, I was the other admin @ lemmy.film, “second in command” if you will. No, I have no insights regarding what happened over there as it wasn’t my server/instance. You nailed the timeline of events; after many attempts to contact @jayrod@lemmy.film, just like all of you, one day I went to lemmy.film only to see that Cloudflare “Web server is down” page. Hey, fun while it lasted and all that.

      If I may (now that you’ve woken me up), I think it’s kind of…dickish uncool…for this community to steal appropriate the graphics from !moviesandtv@lemmy.film. I mean, they weren’t mine or anything but still. Grave robbing, anybody? What does it take to come up with something new?

      • Blaze@reddthat.comEnglish
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        9 months ago

        If I may (now that you’ve woken me up), I think it’s kind of…dickish uncool…for this community to steal appropriate the graphics from !moviesandtv@lemmy.film. I mean, they weren’t mine or anything but still. Grave robbing, anybody? What does it take to come up with something new?

        It was more as a hommage than anything else. Do you know where it came from?

        Also, you might want to raise those concerns to !moviesandtv@lemm.ee, they are in the same case

    • Blaze@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      So it wasn’t that there wasn’t interest in keeping the instance going from the users but if you have a single point of failure (something else we’ve worked to correct) then, eventually, it will fail. It doesn’t mean it isn’t viable.

      What I meant is that at the end of the day you need at least two people interested in managing an instance on that topic.

      Nobody wanted to do this so far (we barely get enough moderators already, and adminis are even fewer), but maybe this might change in the future.

      In the meantime, I guess we’re here.

      And indeed, I had followed the whole thing on feddit.uk, it’s nice that you were able to save it