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Wonderful!
One suggestion: change !announcements to !announcements@discuss.online. The former does not work from every method of access i.e. some apps, while the second one always works.
It's so great that we can be so welcoming to new people coming in!:-)
Good call, updated. I didn't want to lead off with talking about the Fediverse and keep things simple for anyone not familiar with it, but if there's clients that don't understand that, that probably just confuses and/or breaks things even more
Good thought. Yeah and I don't even know which ones but reportedly it's the case. This will also get people used to the best practices that they can follow for all other future times when they want to write it on their own. They can handle it!
We need some stats and graphs!
Here's the numbers since we enabled applications in January:
We're obvious not going to overtake Reddit on user numbers anytime soon, but fairly impressive IMO for a site that requires an application to join. Almost everyone's been approved. The few that weren't were either obvious spam or they didn't fill out the application properly, like just putting . in the text field instead of answering the questions.
Neat! Thanks.
Welcome to the fediverse, new users of discuss.online! Hello from programming.dev!
Here's another new user welcome thread that might be of interest as well: