Meta

624 readers

4 users here now

Discussion about the aussie.zone instance itself

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

admin@aussie.zone

lodion@aussie.zone

About Community sidebar - Organising Source Links (aussie.zone)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone

10 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Leading on from an issue with some lost stickied posts on !environment@aussie.zone , i'm now gathering together useful sources of information in regards the Aus environment.

On !perth i gathered them in the sidebar, so they should remain if i decide one day to remove my account.

I'm currently thinking to do the same thing with !environment@aussie.zone since i've lost those good stickied posts anyway.

My question, probably for !lodion@aussie.zone or !Nath@aussie.zone , is, is there an ability to add drop down menus to the sidebar to enable better organisation of the links.

If you look at the !perth sidebar its already a bit messy and unwieldy, i assume !environment@aussie.zone will only be more so, with the amount of source links likely to be added.

Edit: sorry for all the stuffed links, i'll try to fix them

top 10 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] treevan@aus.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

I have the links. I think one of them is probably superseded now but I acknowledge the news links would be difficult to recreate.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I just copied a bunch of the links into a dropdown on the Perth/WA community. Is that what you meant? You can edit the sidebar to get syntax.

[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I went through lastnight and did the whole list on c/Perth/WA to experiment.

On my browser, firefox, it worked nicely.

On apps, less so.

Jerboa doesn't have the labels, just the arrow icon, but otherwise seems to work.
Sync doesn't seem to recognise Mark Up in the sidebar/about section, so its a mess.

Be interested to hear what it looks like on other apps/browsers and what peoples general thoughts.

I want to implement something like this on c/environment but if its going to look messy for lots of people, i'll have another think.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's a bug in the app(s). They're missing a basic feature of Lemmy. The developer(s) will likely correct it if you report it.

[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Reported on their community page.

[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Nice one Nath. Looks good.

[–] lodion@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So far as I know the sidebar is limited to markup available in regular posts and comments.

[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Okay. Thats a bugger, i guess they'll just have to be a little messy. I've been playing around with markup, so hopefully using that'll help organise things better.

Also, I don't know why the mention links for you and Nath didnt seem to work, sorry, trying to learn.

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If your scope of concern is primarily aussie.zone / lemmy users, then are the spoiler tag things (like what's used in the sidebar of !asklemmy@lemmy.world for example) sufficient for what you have in mind? The formatting won't work on some non-lemmy platforms, but I assume the activity on aussie.zone is overwhelmingly from lemmy users.

[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think i'll give that a go, see how it looks thanks!