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I’m going to see if I can get one of the templates going, but I’m not 100% sure I understand how it works. Here goes.

https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/e241a7b6-7db3-42bd-aeb1-7cc1d4f40b11.png

ValueSubtracted, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Does this URL work?

canvas.fediverse.events/#x=127&y=95&zoom=11&tu=ht…

Edit: It seems to work - the delta should be visible in the upper-left quadrant of the canvas. You’ll just have to open the Settings and turn down the template opacity to see the actual canvas underneath.

Edit 2: At this point, you can probably toggle the template off entirely.

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Since you’ll have to scroll and zoom around to find it, here’s its relative location:

https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/2017ed5c-b0fe-4bad-a1a6-24b70027bc5a.png

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Cool - I’ve been using TOS gold on the delta itself, but we could switch to black for that bit.

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Yep - you have to pop open “Settings” and crank down the opacity of the template to see the actual pixels underneath.

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Direct link to “Enterprising Young Men” from Star Trek '09 on YouTube

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Quark’s has received a stay of execution until summer significant bugs with the private communities can be fixed in a future Lemmy update.

As much as I’d prefer to keep discussion of Quark’s going private restricted to the original thread, I want to take a moment to acknowledge that your concerns have been the most compelling ones expressed so far. I think we’re coming at the community from slightly different angles, but you have been heard!

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the dream

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I’m legitimately curious: what is the appeal of this community to a remote user?

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Thanks for the response.

We’ll probably relax the rules on c/startrek a bit to allow a degree of Trek-adjacent content that we might have previously punted to Quark’s.

I’m thinking of stuff like the Paramount acquisition drama, which is off-topic but clearly still relevant.

Expanding outward from there into stuff like “here’s what Frakes is up to,” we approach territory that can be covered just as well elsewhere in the Fediverse.

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And to be clear, Trek-adjacent discussions will continue to be allowed in Quark’s. I just don’t think making the community private will be some great blow to the Fediverse.

If it helps, we will allow sales of expired Yamok sauce in c/startrek, provided the seller can produce a certificate of authenticity.

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I mean, if we’re talking about the sidebar…

General off-topic chat for the crew of startrek.website.

But I do understand and appreciate the perspective. It’s in-line with the internal discussion we had when making the decision.

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If the concern is that we’re going to have a sooper secret, members-only Star Trek discussion group, that is not the intent. If we were going to do that, we’d just make the instance private.

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Oh. Okay.

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From what I can see, you’ve only participated in this community once, nine months ago.

The other communities (StarTrek, Daystrom, Risa, etc.) are all staying open and federated.

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It was just a point of clarification in case you misunderstood.

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OK

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If you don’t like the content hosted on this instance, why do you have an opinion on this at all?

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spam

Inigo Montoya, with the caption “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

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YOU KILLED LEMMY

YOU BASTARDS

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Yeah, it’s probably good to mention that all (I think?) of our DMs are open if someone has a suggestion for us.

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I’m not familiar with Venus Prime - it’s apparently based on the short story Breaking Strain, which has been spun into a novel series by Paul Preuss.

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Brannon Braga, eat your heart out!

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Have you checked your user settings? It’s possible that the update reverted your preference to the default. i386 should still be available.

Never mind, I did some digging, and it looks like something has changed and/or is broken with the theme itself. I’ll keep an eye out for a possible solution.

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But my takes will be lukewarm by then, at best…

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Time to start growing that beard…

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I think it’s definitely a bubble that will burst eventually.

At the same time, I don’t think there’s any way to put the toothpaste back in the tube. This technology is out there, and even once the hype has died down, we’re going to be dealing with it forever.

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preach

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Could someone please adapt this video into a full-length stage musical? That’s the only type of content I consume so it’s only reasonable for someone to do this for me.

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Yeah, I thought this one was particularly notable since they were a relative unknown prior to Discovery.

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Yeah, it’s hard to speak in defense of their comms over the past few years.

I’ve never had an overly bad impression of Bakish, though - at the very least, he didn’t make a total ass of himself during the strikes, and seems better than, say, Zaslav over at Warner.

But as always, there are no true “good guys” at this level.