Hello all, that time of the week again!

In case you’re new and want some context, here are the previous parts:

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5

TL;DR

  • New Theme - Its very shiny!
  • New front-end client - old.lemmy.zip!
  • Bot updates - bot does even more than last time!
  • Funding - Thank you so much!
  • Interaction - Weekly reminder to not lurk!
  • We want a mod or two - we promise not to refer to you as “landed gentry”!
  • Server update - graphs and stuff!

New Theme

Sami has been hard at work looking at themes and tweaks to make Lemmy.zip stand out as a unique instance. Sami put together this awesome looking theme and we’ve applied it as the default theme so all new users get to see our glory. If you do notice any issues, let Sami know so he can look into it.

We’ve discussed other themes too, maybe a custom light mode theme so watch this space. You can set any theme you want in your user settings.

New front-end Client

In a bid to continue to provide cool ways to interact with Lemmy.zip, at the beginning of the week we set up and tested Old.Lemmy.Zip which is a really cool reddit-alike front end with features such as infinite scrolling. If that is your sort of thing, check it out! (We notice some of the bigger instances have copied us now :))

Bot Updates

Following on from last week when the bot PM’d all new users, the bot will now PM anyone who creates a new community with helpful information on how to gain users and traction. It looks a little like this:

We’re still working on adding suggestions so if you have any you think would be useful for new moderators to get users, let me know and I can add them in to the PM.

Funding

As always, a massive thank you to those who continue to support Lemmy.zip financially.

As we’ve existed over a month now we’re starting to see invoices rolling in which have been added to OpenCollective, and we’ll continue to add these as we get them. Once we’re in a clearer position r.e. long term funding, we’ll look to invest in an improved server. Hopefully we can share more info come August.

Interaction

Welcome to all the new users of Lemmy.zip this week, whether you’re just browsing different instances or have made Lemmy.zip your home.

As I like to drone on about, Lemmy lives or dies on content and interaction. So if you were previously a lurker, please don’t be afraid to join in. This isn’t Reddit. You’re not fighting against bot spam and power mods. Everyone is genuinely interested in your opinion here.

Please make sure to vote, comment, and create posts or communities :)

A call for Mods!

We’re looking at growing our “official” (I’m not sure thats the right word but it will have to do!) communities on Lemmy.zip and are looking for one or two people who would like to help out. Currently that would be the Home and Gaming communities, but we’re open to the creation of other communities.

If this is something you’d be interested in doing, please join our Matrix Chat and either send me a PM or let us know in the chat, and we can discuss further. There aren’t any restrictions (preferably a Lemmy.zip user who is active) and we’ll consider anyone interested on a case by case basis.

Server updates

Time for the fun graphs!

This is the CPU usage over the last week.

And here are some bonus network related graphs over the last week:

Our image bucket continues to fill up nicely:

And here are our Cloudflare stats over 7 days:

Not much has changed in the way of visitor traffic, USA still tops the leaderboard:

And here is our bandwidth over the last 30 days:

Interestingly the numbers seem to show that Saturday is the least busy day for us, with an early/mid-week peak!

That’s all this week, but as always let me know if there is anything else you’d like to know about.

Thanks

Demidogrick

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    It really is in a strange place! I think the stat is 95% to 99% of people are lurkers. Which about lines up with our userbase too. We’re slightly (and i mean very slightly - about half a percent) more active than the big instances, which is why I try to encourage people to interact wherever they can.

    Upvotes are great, then you know people are seeing the content, but comments and other users posting absolutely help to build a community.

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        1 year ago

        I’ve seen people are starting to add hashtags to posts that link to the mastadon trending pages, so by all means go for it. I’ve not used mastadon (have never used twitter or similar personally) so not sure how it works when linking to lemmy, but I imagine if they’re federated with us then they’ll be able to follow those posts via mastadon.

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            1 year ago

            I’ll have a look today if I get chance, been meaning to check out mastadon anyway!

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                Ah yeah that would make sense! As you’re probably the first person to seek these communities from that mastadon instance then you would need to subscribe before the content here pulls through, but once that’s done everyone should be able to see the content here. Glad it’s sorted :)