Hey everyone. I’d like to let anyone who wants to use my themes/is already using them know that I pushed an update to the github, but I’m not sure what the best way to do that is without either making a single post somewhere and crossposting all over, or simply posting all over.
Is there any community where most server admins will see a post? Any other system to let them know? If you look at my post history a little you’ll see that I had to make a post on both a lemmy.ml and a beehaw.org community to let people know whats up.
As an admin of a (small) server myself I have heard of no such place. (Also I am not sure that I would want much but just important official sort of chatter in such a place if it did exist, not updates for a theme I am not using.)
My advice would be to create a community somewhere on Lemmy that is likely to be seen by everyone (e.g. not beehaw/shi.it-just.works/lemmy.world) and push admins using your theme to subscribe there for updates via your github/docs/etc. Also, just accept the fact that probably most users will end up on an old and broken version of your theme at various points for various amounts of time, haha.
There is maybe room for some sort of mailing list for lemmy (IIRC Mastodon has one), or maybe some sort of system for a “mailing list” of PMs within lemmy you can send to interested users. That last thing is actually a useful tool/bot/something I may look at building at some point…
Would you be interested in using such a tool/hosted bot if I were to build it? I am thinking something that uses a bot user on whatever instance you want. People can message it to subscribe to updates, and the the bot’s owner can message it to relay their messages to everyone that has subscribed. It could also possibly post to communities eventually.
ETA: I just saw what instance you use…
iusearchlinux.fyihas made my day.Ok, for now Ill post on my instance and maybe setup a mastodon or something specifically for it. The tool you describe I would definitely use!
