Hi,

I’m sorry to bother you again, but I have a question regarding old.slrpnk.net

Other instances using the old. format, they have an expand button. So you can quickly see text posts or an image and see if it worth engaging with further.

I haven’t been able to see that in old.slrpnk.net. I’m wondering if there is a way to add it in the preferences or something that I’m missing?

Thanks and I apologize again for all the questions.

Hi,

I’m sorry to bother you again (I waited a week before messaging you), but I wanted to check in on something. Last weekend, I wasn’t able to access old.lemmy.world.

Around Tuesday or so, I could access the site, but I can’t see any comments. I always get a 403 Forbidden error (with the words nginx at the bottom).

Is this is a problem on my end that I can fix?

That might have been true for some subreddits, but not all.

I’ve had people reply on pretty obscure subreddits years ago, on posts that were years old.

Awww man…I mean its kind of a good idea, but on reddit I’ve had people reply to 10 year old posts.

Its a weirdly nice feeling.

But I do think we’re in a data hoarding mentality and wish to preserve everything. I think it is important to let things go.

Edit: Though on the flipside, I do appreciate especially on technical posts, to go back and look up people’s answers/solutions to questions I have.

Even if the answer is no longer valid, perhaps the person who provided the answer can offer an alternate solution.

Thanks for the suggestion.

That is down, as is old.slrpnk.net, I’ll give old.lemmy.zip a shot and see what happens to it

Has it been working for you? It’s been down for me all weekend

Two things, you were right; my misunderstanding was due to my failure to have an intuitive understanding of defederation.

What happened was that I signed on in lemmy.world to make a post on lemmy.cafe (through lemmy.world).

My second question: I tried all weekend to access old.slrpnk.net

But the site was either really really slow (like a page would pop up after a minute or two) or would just result in an error.

Is this a problem on my end? Or is something going on that should be sorted out soonish?

Thanks again and keep up the good work.

So just as an update, I checked both old.lemmy.today and lemmy.today; both seem to require an email address.

On lemmy.today is explicitly says email is required. On old.lemmy.today I tried fiddling around with various entries in the email field such as na, not_applicable, etc, but that didn’t seem to work either.

Is there something obvious I’m missing?

Cool thank you so much!

I’m so sorry to constantly pester you, but I have another question.

I’ve been enjoying old.lemmy.today for the past few days. The biggest praise I can give it: I haven’t missed reddit at all, and the smaller community actually makes it feel like an upgrade. Like the reddit of old.

But I wanted to make an account on Lemmy.today to make a post, however to register it seems I need an email address.

I don’t want to give an email address. I could give a disposable one from one of those sites, but that would be obvious (to what it sounds like is a human curation process).

I know you said its to ward off bots, I’m wondering if its a temporary pause, or if its a permanent policy?

Oh man thank you so much on both fronts (for your other post also)

Small simple things that make the entire thing so much easier

Thanks, and again, keep up the good work!

Hi I just wanted to follow up on something

Since last evening, I can’t access old.lemmy.today (I can still access lemmy.today but that’s not an interface I like).

Are you having bot issues again or is there something I messed up on my end?

Why would they do that? I’m unaware of internal issues in Lemmy at this point?

First, thank you for all the hard work you do.

Second, as someone still struggling to understand lemmy, one of the reasons I’m not a fan of old.lemmy.world is that I have to turn on cloudflare.

I have noscript running and I have cloudlflare blocked.

Your response implies otherwise that you don’t have cloudflare running either.

So why am I always greeted with cloudflare when I visit old.lemmy.world?

Edit: Oh I misread the title. Its old.lemmy.today that you’re talkinga bout, not old.lemmy.world.

My goof. Please ignore my post, but do take my gratitude.

Edit 2: So I went over to old.lemmy.today. It is tempting to switch. I like the default interface and it has content from a lot of places (on quick glance). One of the reasons I’m not a huge fan of old.slrpnk.net is that I can’t figure out how to access content from other instances. I seem tempted to switch.

Yeah, as someone who is struggling to understand the concept of federation…this doesn’t help me at all.

I guess what its saying, if you’re on lemmy.world, you can’t access content on lemmy.zip?

I apologize, I have another follow up question (again all stemming from failing to grasp an intuitive understanding of federation) to point 1.

I’m fairly sure I was able to sign on lemmy.cafe and make a post in a community over there.

Basically I am trying to understand why was I able to do that there and not at slrpnk.net. Is it something unique to lemmy.cafe? Something unique to slrpnk.net?

Another stupid follow up question (related to 2.)

How did you see this post?

In other words, exactly how do I get lemmy.world content on slrpnk.net?

Thanks, this seems like a good option. I appreciate teh old.reddit like interface that old.lemmy.world also has

Two comments

1. I can’t log in with this account to slrpnk.net. Should I create a new account, or am I doing something wrong?

2. A very minor minor comment; one thing I don’t like about old.slrpnk.net & old.lemmy.world, is the site by default loads to hot posts. I found the active tab to be far more interesting; there is more engaging discussion that I can learn from. If perhaps due to a cookie setting or something, the site could default to the active tab; I (and possibly others) will appreciate it.

3. I know I said 2, but I’m still struggling to understand the concept of instances. So slrpnk.net is a separate world from Lemmy.world right? Can I engage in lemmy.world’s content or no?

Thank you; thats a much better solution than mine.

And keyboard works fine if you need it also