what time did you sign up?

Just checked and emails have sending out perfectly. Check spam or it could be a typo

Speaking of which I need to get myself some new admins to help out

Doubling posts like that are normally caused by a partial timeout as their end is probably overloaded

Server was overloaded earlier, has settled back down now so you should be ok now

Managed to replicate the error, investigating it atm but it should be ok for now

Once I feel happy with upgrading I will. There are still many bugs evident in the RCs. If you are unhappy with your account here you can make one on a bigger server. Thats the beauty of decentralization. In regards to federation issues we are early adopters, lemmy is very new to this scale and volume of users and posts. Patience is always welcome.

I’ll keep an eye out for it

This is a known federation issue being fixed in the next update

Thats cause you are the only down voter

Are you sure its not showing the down vote count because there are just no down votes on the post yet? I can see the down votes figures on the posts that have been down voted

has been restarted now

should be fixed for now, there are lots of bugs im hoping will be sorted in 0.18

devs are discussing a search implementation similar to this in upcoming updates, though im not sure how long this will take.

Yeah it is an issue and it is encouraged that you join an already existing group. Over time it think it will balance out and the default groups will become prominent.

Content movement: from the home screen when I select all, there is a loading period and the posts are populated. However as new instances collect everything just piles into the top making pics/posts I’m looking at move and self close. Is this expected behavior?

• This is a known but that will be addressed in the next update 0.18.

Ranking: imo the breakthrough reddit provided was in aggregating and ranking via votes. Whether it is through hot, controversial, top, etc there is an underlying algorithm that orders the posts. Due to the way content seems to come in from instances, I seem to get two different behaviors. The main page is either blocks of rank lists from each instance instead of a single rank order or the setting (hot, activity, top, etc) just doesn’t seem to apply. The linked image is a screenshot of an attempt to filter all by top of week. The top posts have 1-2 votes on them.

• This is also a known but that is being addressed though im not sure when a fix for it is due, most likely in 0.18 or 0.18.1.

I had a quick look, most of the posts are 2+ years old, lemmy doesn’t pull commemts from before the server/community was searched and federated. All new comments will be pushed through.

Yeah the communities filter is broken atm, hopefully the next update will sort it out.

So this doesn’t show up for you?

Did you do a page refresh after trying again? Search is still quite buggy atm. I just did a quick search an those 2 communities are coming up for me.