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How come only the support community has a banner?

This one:

Shouldn't it be on each community? :) Since we have one after all!

I'm a huge fan of Peter F. Hamilton myself (original username NorthernLightMountain after all) and figured there ought to be more of us around here!

My absolute favorite world of his is the commonwealth universe and really want him to get back to something on that scale again.

I've read both the Salvation and Arkship trilogies after that and even though they're both good I want brick sized epic space opera again!

Might just have to go back an revisit his books again.

I did see that he co-authored a book semi recently that managed to fly under my radar; Light Chaser (written with Gareth L. Powell).

Has anyone read it? No spoilers please :)

Now that we're no longer linked to lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works we can't subscribe to their communities any more.

How affected were your subscriptions? How many of your subs stopped working?

My subs were mostly beehaw and lemmy.world so I'm looking for new stuff. :)

Do you have some tips for interesteing communities on other instances?

I mostly bounce between local and subscribed myself with a dash of all now and then to see if there's anything new and interesting out there. Need to fill up my dub list a bit after all!

Something just struck me today when scrolling Lemmy, something that sticks out thanks to the federated aspects.

I've subscribed to a bunch of communities that looked interesting, both here on Beehaw and on other instances. They're mostly (but not only) tech and gaming related since I'm a big geek after all.

I tend to have ny fees listing my subscribed communities but since Beehaw's whole setup resonates with me I tend to switch over to all local communities as well to see what's going on. Here's the near part, I get to keep up to date with communities I normally might not follow. Take LGBTQ+ for instance. Can't say I'm particularly well versed as to what goes on in you guys' lives. Not from any negative feelings mind you, it just doesn't usually end up in my subscription lists. It's kind of neat, especially with the friendly good natured spirit around here it's nice to dip your toes in new areas you know?

It was an unexpected upside of it all for me and makes ones chosen Lemmy instance feel more like home.

It's like, my own corner (subbed) in my home (instance) in the bigger city (all).

Here's to keeping this place nice and cozy! We might not be as big as reddit and we might never be but I'm not sure that's really needed either as long as we're enough people to have an active and friendly area going.

Cheers guys! 🍻

I tried signing up as NorthernLightMountain but couldn't since there seems to be a limit on user name length at 20 characters. (There's a bug for that btw, you won't get an error message if the user name is too long, it just won't submit the form and stalls)

Display names seems to share that limit. Wouldn't mind seeing it raised a bit if possible?

No biggie if not, just hoping I could look like I had imagined :)