I made this website to crawl and display Lemmy instances since the existing ones were lacking certain filtering and search options.
I have licensed it as MIT and the code is on https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer
Let me know if there’s any issues, and create a GitHub issue if you want some features :D
Damn, this is real impressive! Nice work!
This is one for the bookmarks! Amazing!
Very slick, good work!
What’s the reasoning for “Hide no banner”? There are lots of great communities without a banner, and having that filter checked by default will make those communities invisible for most users.
Edit: one more suggestion would be to include uptime % in the instances list - that’s actually a super important detail for users looking for a home instance.
Thanks for the feedback! The reasoning for the banners thing was that the best communities should have one set, and there are a lot of communities, and the display looks better with them 😁
There was another comment on this, so I’m just deploying a change that will have it default to not hide them.
I could also definitely improve the layout for communities without a banner and instead show some additional details about them (longer description, languages, etc)
Regarding uptime, I don’t really want to have to monitor every instance, but as I’m looking to build a “Join an instance” page I will want to have this data, I may look to use a similar method to this one which uses https://api.fediverse.observer/
You could add another row of numbers for Average Monthly Users, Number of Communities, and the software version of an instance (Many are on old versions that lack features and security and bug fixes)
Yeah I’m working on another couple pages that will show a better data-table of instances. With details like Incoming/Outgoing Blocks, Uptime and stuff like that.
I’m not saying that the table is a bad idea, but anything in that table and not on the main page will be ignored by most people that visit.
It’s a good point - I think it’s getting a bit cramped, maybe I could roll-up multiple metrics into a “score”, like if instance version is <3 out of date, it gives a lower score.
I’m one of the few that would be interested in the table.
