this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2023
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Steam Deck

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A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.

Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.

As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title

The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.

Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.

These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.

Rules:

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I used to use Apollo daily. I'm so glad someone suggested that I set up this sublemmy as a backup. Loving lemmy and this community so far.

I restricted the subreddit to allow any guides etc to be available again, but such that no new content can be posted. If Reddit really goes back on their changes, I might public it again, but tbh that's unlikely.

I have been blown away by the amount of people that have already jumped ship, and joined this little community. Honestly had almost forgotten I had set this up. Glad to see you all here!

Edit: just to be clear, I was the mod of r/steamdeck_linux, not the larger r/steamdeck. It was a smaller, but more linux focused, subreddit.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I want to point out that Lemmy is actually super active right now, but unfortunately there is a bug in 0.17.4 that stops front pages from updating shortly after the server is restarted, thus resulting in "hot" showing very old posts for example.

I have fixed this issue on https://lemm.ee already, you can check our front page to see fresh posts. The fix will soon land in the main Lemmy codebase as well so other instances can take advantage, you can track the issue here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3076

I have also advised other instance admins that regularly restarting their Lemmy server will work as a band-aid workaround until the proper fix is released, so some admins have already implemented this in order to get their post rankings working again (but unfortunately for you, it seems sopuli.xyz has not done this workaround yet).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, I was wondering why newer posts weren't showing up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It is pretty unfortunate because that's a rather serious bug, it gives the impression that Lemmy is less active than it actually is which is not great for newer users unaware of the bug.

edit: I'm not sure if it applies to "active" or just "hot", still not great though.

edit 2: Apparently it does apply to "active" as well, interesting.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Let's hope it's patched shortly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does it affect "active" or just "hot"?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It affects active as well unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I guess that's a good thing and a bad thing - it means Lemmy is really more active than it appears so that's good, but it's also a bad thing because the timing of this bug with so many new users is not good lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is so cool; thank u for the hard work ❣️ I personally use the sopuli domain on jerboa app & sort by comment novelty so all's smooth sailings for me ⛵ ^•^ I sort it this way so I can contribute actively :))

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I KNEW IT!

Felt super weird seeing posts from over a day old, it's like they haven't changed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hey man, I appreciate the information - was wondering why the sorting was borked lately. I’ll keep an eye out for the update and occasionally restart my instance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It seems i chose my server... wisely

Edit: how can i donate to lemm.ee, i guess i should throw in my buck o' five.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Much appreciated! There are two options: either GitHub sponsorships or Ko-Fi.