I agree, so many people disregard Debian, but if you’re not gaming and don’t need to keep up with the latest things - Debian is rock solid and most of your packages you can just use flatpak. For the majority of daily users who aren’t gaming, I think it’s a super solid choice.

As for the layout - yeah it’s the layout that the software nodeBB has set, and we could look into trying to customize the layout to something more intuitive. Thanks for the feedback :)

As for the potential for abuse - you’re right, of course - there will always be potential for abuse. However, the open source and creative commons community is what we are trying to align our community with, and will hopefully also contribute to building the community culture of collaboration in good spirit, without focusing so much on profit or business, but more on the collective good.

Thank you. The preset alt text in the markdown threw me off, as I thought the text was the url. It should be fixed now. Thank you so much for the in depth answer :)

I would love to, however I am not exactly sure how - Do you mean the alt text for the link? I can add a quick note below the image that says alt text, is that the best way to handle it? Sorry for my ignorance in the matter.

@1@activitypub.space this actually makes me wonder, would it be possible to feed all of the topics within nodeBB forum categories into a single category that can be easily accessed from other platforms like piefed/lemmy/mastodon?

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I think would be helpful to have a login button somewhere instead of one having to get all the way down to a topic.

The Forum Login is in the top right of every page (if the menu is not expanded, it will simply be an icon - so I could understand how it could easily be missed):

Login on the wiki is currently disabled (invite only) as we are currently still developing and building up the pages. But wiki login will be in the bottom left:

Are you writing anywhere about how you are doing this? Tech stack, team members, etc…

I don’t have anything super detailed yet, but I am trying to be extremely transparent with anything, and all of that is on codeberg: https://codeberg.org/UnfinishedProjects (Currently it has wiki backup info, “projects” is our kanban for building the platforms (we did most of it on another app, but just switched over to codeberg projects, so there is only a few tasks open atm). As time goes on, hopefully we will be able to flesh this out more, as well as actually building wiki pages with more information and detail - it will likely just take some time and motivation to get it all together. Also, since you mentioned tech stack - I just want to note that these are pre-built applications, we are not building them ourselves. The forum software is using nodeBB, and the wiki is using MediaWiki.

New project submissions, such as https://unfinishedprojects.net/wiki/Special:FormEdit/Submit_Project, should be behind login.

It most definitely SHOULD be. The entire wiki requires login submit or edit anything. If that isn’t the case, please let me know and I will try to fix it asap…but I think it should be disabled.

Lastly, when I see this “The Libre Community” makes me think that this would be even nicer if it was for all creators

We did think about allowing projects that were not open licensed, but it felt like there was too much room for abuse or issues. We want to prevent people from trying to use our platform to simply advertise - and instead it should be about collaboration. I think on the forum, we may end up being slightly more lax in terms of libre only projects (we will have to see how our community grows). As for the wiki, closed licensed projects could also cause legal issues that I don’t want to deal with or know anything about.
With that said, we do want to invite everyone, from any skillset or background (as long as you are respectful to others and the intent behind the platform). Nothing is stopping people from networking on our platform to meet others who want to start their own (closed source) projects outside our ecosystem, but projects within on our platform are intended to be contributing to the commons (open source/creative commons).

Not sure if any of that made sense, or it was just me rambling on - but I hope that answered your questions. Feel free to follow up if it didn’t (☞ ͡◉ ͜ʖ ͡◉)☞

Thanks! You and the rest of the nodeBB community have been super helpful in getting us up and running, responding to bug reports, and etc.

So thank you very much for the awesome open source software - I can’t wait to see how the software grows and evolves over time :)

So it is on its own instance - the forum acts as the instance and each category within the forum acts as a community. So for example !announcements@forum.unfinishedprojects.net is one of our categories.

Wow, never knew this existed. I usually don’t use gimp all that much compared to inkscape - so I’m not sure if it’s worth the trouble…but this is very nice. I honestly don’t know what they wouldn’t pull these settings into the default gimp, even if only as an alternative skin option you can select.

The major drawback of gimp for many people is the interface, I think. That’s why blender has really taken off since it’s UI/UX update.

Thanks! I might end up taking you up on that offer and sending you a DM to ask some questions, especially if we don’t end up finding someone else to join.

It would be nice if at the minimum we could have someone experienced look through our setup and ensure we are not missing something critical to properly function/be secure.

Exactly - I am hoping to find some smaller, close knit communities that align with our own to federate with. The goal isn’t to create another instance full of news feeds and etc…but instead I want to try and build a community that is focused on valuable interactions/collaboration and working to improve and contribute to the creative commons and open source community.

Oh, this is quite interesting - never heard of it before. I think this could definitely work to an extent, but I am already so deep down the rabbit hole for MediaWiki. Plus, I think MediaWiki is actually a great fit for this type of community, because it is community created, and has rollbacks of edits, and the community itself is able to collaborate and contribute very easily. While it isn’t in the fediverse, I think it will “essentially” be connected via the forum that is within the subdomain. The intent is for the forum and wiki to work side by side, and the forum will be the connection into the fediverse.

Regardless though, neodb.net is really cool - thanks for sharing :) I’ll definitely look into it more!

Sorry for the late reply, but yeah I tried both ways.

It’s me, the same person - just commenting from Lemmy/piefed. hello me!

Oh, I’m dumb - that makes more sense. Thank you!

Because you mentioned it might be a bug, I want to see if I am doing this correctly:

It says pending, and I remember this was one of the issues when I had bot fight mode on in cloudflare and the following of user profiles wouldn’t work in /world.

Is this the similar to the same issue?

Is this how I would correctly be adding an incoming community to a “similar Communities” section?

Well, I’m glad I wasn’t crazy then. :)

Yeah, but it was empty for me. Might require login or something. Or maybe there are just no related communities?

Eh, either way - not a big deal lol

Ok, that’s good news! Also, I checked the activitypub.space, and see they have a related communities section, but it wasn’t clickable for me (maybe it just requires login, or some other simple issue inm missing) - regardless that is a great feature and might be a good way to pull content into the forum without muddying the content within my primary categories. :)