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I made this website to crawl and display Lemmy instances since the existing ones were lacking certain filtering and search options.

I have licensed it as MIT and the code is on https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer

Let me know if there's any issues, and create a GitHub issue if you want some features :D

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[โ€“] sunaurus@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Very slick, good work!

What's the reasoning for "Hide no banner"? There are lots of great communities without a banner, and having that filter checked by default will make those communities invisible for most users.

Edit: one more suggestion would be to include uptime % in the instances list - that's actually a super important detail for users looking for a home instance.

[โ€“] tgxn@lemmy.tgxn.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thanks for the feedback! The reasoning for the banners thing was that the best communities should have one set, and there are a lot of communities, and the display looks better with them ๐Ÿ˜

There was another comment on this, so I'm just deploying a change that will have it default to not hide them.

I could also definitely improve the layout for communities without a banner and instead show some additional details about them (longer description, languages, etc)

Regarding uptime, I don't really want to have to monitor every instance, but as I'm looking to build a "Join an instance" page I will want to have this data, I may look to use a similar method to this one which uses https://api.fediverse.observer/