Definitely take your point about removing friction. Thanks for having a look at the project!

Reminds me a bit of Slashdot’s meta moderation, back in the day. I used to pick that up maybe once or twice a week, if I had a moment. The user experience was excellent; its benefits to the community were less clear to me, but I put that down to a transparency issue.

Aye

Oh, thanks for the heads-up! cc @electrona@beehaw.org

Yeah, I’m hosting a Synapse instance; have been for a few years now. The biggest complication was the reverse proxy set-up, because I didn’t want matrix in my handle. 😁 But they’ve got great docs around that (and more) these days; and there’s a good community in the Synapse Admins room too.

What are the banner & icon recommendations / requirements when it comes to dimensions and format? Does anyone know? I’ve found a few posts where people ask, but no answers. And I’m getting errors on my own profile, for example.

Oh, and, so this isn’t completely off-topic, :P I forgot I made this:

Which was also getting rate-limited or something, until I scaled it down and dithered it.

Ditto. Nice one.