Hi,

I'm sorry to bother you again, but I have a question regarding old.slrpnk.net

Other instances using the old. format, they have an expand button. So you can quickly see text posts or an image and see if it worth engaging with further.

I haven't been able to see that in old.slrpnk.net. I'm wondering if there is a way to add it in the preferences or something that I'm missing?

Thanks and I apologize again for all the questions.

Hi,

I'm sorry to bother you again (I waited a week before messaging you), but I wanted to check in on something. Last weekend, I wasn't able to access old.lemmy.world.

Around Tuesday or so, I could access the site, but I can't see any comments. I always get a 403 Forbidden error (with the words nginx at the bottom).

Is this is a problem on my end that I can fix?

That might have been true for some subreddits, but not all.

I've had people reply on pretty obscure subreddits years ago, on posts that were years old.

Awww man...I mean its kind of a good idea, but on reddit I've had people reply to 10 year old posts.

Its a weirdly nice feeling.

But I do think we're in a data hoarding mentality and wish to preserve everything. I think it is important to let things go.

Edit: Though on the flipside, I do appreciate especially on technical posts, to go back and look up people's answers/solutions to questions I have.

Even if the answer is no longer valid, perhaps the person who provided the answer can offer an alternate solution.

Thanks for the suggestion.

That is down, as is old.slrpnk.net, I'll give old.lemmy.zip a shot and see what happens to it

Has it been working for you? It's been down for me all weekend

Two things, you were right; my misunderstanding was due to my failure to have an intuitive understanding of defederation.

What happened was that I signed on in lemmy.world to make a post on lemmy.cafe (through lemmy.world).

My second question: I tried all weekend to access old.slrpnk.net

But the site was either really really slow (like a page would pop up after a minute or two) or would just result in an error.

Is this a problem on my end? Or is something going on that should be sorted out soonish?

Thanks again and keep up the good work.

So just as an update, I checked both old.lemmy.today and lemmy.today; both seem to require an email address.

On lemmy.today is explicitly says email is required. On old.lemmy.today I tried fiddling around with various entries in the email field such as na, not_applicable, etc, but that didn't seem to work either.

Is there something obvious I'm missing?

Cool thank you so much!

I'm so sorry to constantly pester you, but I have another question.

I've been enjoying old.lemmy.today for the past few days. The biggest praise I can give it: I haven't missed reddit at all, and the smaller community actually makes it feel like an upgrade. Like the reddit of old.

But I wanted to make an account on Lemmy.today to make a post, however to register it seems I need an email address.

I don't want to give an email address. I could give a disposable one from one of those sites, but that would be obvious (to what it sounds like is a human curation process).

I know you said its to ward off bots, I'm wondering if its a temporary pause, or if its a permanent policy?

Oh man thank you so much on both fronts (for your other post also)

Small simple things that make the entire thing so much easier

Thanks, and again, keep up the good work!