After being helped several times with my various community issues by our kind site-runner, I would like to make a useful donation at this time. Oy, but there seems to be a problem:

Now, I use an add-on in Chrome called "uMatrix," which is a script-blocker. This add-on forces me to hand-enable whatever necessary java-scripts there might be on sites, but it's not perfect. Okay, fine, so in Ko-fi's case, I wound up having to turn the tool completely OFF in order to get to the final payment-step, for anyone reading who had issues with such.

Now, to the final step:
My donation / pay options are evidently these: iDEAL, Bancontact, Przelewy24 and EPS.

New problem: I have utterly no idea what those are.
Is there a way then to donate via PayPal, perhaps?

EDIT: Sorry, I guess this should have gone in "Support." Please do move as necessary.

Yes, I'm the very same ~~moron~~ person who accidentally deleted his community, then had it restored by our excellent admin / site-runner a month or two ago. Yup!

Now for today's stupid-idiot complaint:

Around June 9th I found that I could no longer display images in comments & posts. The specific problem seemed to stem from some broken code that was being auto-added, namely:

"https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url="

IIRC my co-mod opened a thread on this stuff around a week ago." And... in the words of the kids? "Shizzle's still broke." I.e., the code still doesn't work, and still breaks every attempt to share images.

But sadly, there's more. Namely, it seems that lemm.ee communities are no longer showing up in one of the significant FV search engines, i.e. "lemmyverse.net."

For example, one of our biggest communities here on lemm.ee, i.e. "movies" is now totally missing from the results. So, (currently) every time people look for stuff on search engines like that, lemm.ee communities will be invisible to them.

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=movies

My community is:
https://lemm.ee/c/eurographicnovels

The post I was working on was:
https://lemm.ee/post/2890991

To be clear-- I, in no, way, shape or form intend to delete my community. I wish the community to remain undeleted, thanks.

In case it matters:

57 users / day
150 users / week
444 users / month
1.53K users / 6 months
635 subscribers
317 Posts
902 Comments

EDIT: Google retains the specific URL's of a bunch of our posts, such as the "Moebius" ones.

First of all, thanks Ella & crew for clearing up Lemm.ee's recent image-hosting issues! 🤘

Unfortunately, I note that there are still several post images I uploaded here that went missing ~2 months ago and never did get restored. Some examples: [1], [2], [3].

Whatever. I'll just move them over to Imgur.

As a matter of fact, at this point I'd rather just host everything at Imgur so as not to burden LE with images, which can frankly get pretty big at times. But that's where I just now noticed a seemingly big problem with how LE processes image uploads:

• I noticed that the original 95k community banner which I uploaded a long time ago was turned in to a significantly worse-quality WEBP file at around 250% the size of the original.

• In my attempt today to completely move the banner over to Imgur, I uploaded a higher-quality link today, then noticed the same issues. Also, it seems the banner file got moved over to LE (against my intent) and bloated to ~440k for you folks. Not what I intended, and seemingly not good.

So to recount: whatever process is currently handling image uploads seems to be 1) needlessly re-saving them as less-efficient WEBP's, 2) reducing their overall quality, and 3) the software is forcing all logo & banner content to be hosted at the local instance rather than offering the choice of being hosted elsewhere.

EDIT : I WAS SIMPLY AN IDIOT

EDIT: Sorry all-- I was having a pretty good meltdown and health issue that day, not properly understanding the issue and the responses. Apologies for my testy replies, and thanks for treating them with the respect they were due.

Just now I tried adding to our community's [FAQ] (Where can I pick up such comics, both in physical and digital format?).

Yet for some reason: Amazone.es, Lireka, Rakuten, Momox, AbeBooks, FNac and Giver Joseph ...are now producing the message below, also killing the links:

PAGE NOT FOUND

The page you are looking for does not exist.

Click here to return to your homepage

and now:

Error! There was an error on the server. Try refreshing your browser. If that doesn't work, come back at a later time. If the problem persists, you can seek help in the Lemmy support community or Lemmy Matrix room.

If you would like to reach out to one of lemm.ee admins for support, try the following Matrix addresses: @sunaurus:matrix.org The server returned this error: {{error}}. This may be useful for admins and developers to diagnose and fix the error__**

Just to be clear: as you can see in the link code, in NONE of those outgoing links (as usual) did I attempt to draw back to my native instance (lemm.ee).

By comparison, look at how all the other outgoing links worked perfectly fine across the very same post: https://lemm.ee/post/2890991

What the heck is up with all that, mates...?

EDIT: Okay, instead of implying: well, the URL protocol has changed, WHERE THE heck WERE YOU? The protocol did NOT change in that regard, call me crazy?

EDIT2: And if what the genius brigade said was actually true, then why doesn't the fix work...?

Our specific sub is this:
https://lemm.ee/c/eurographicnovels

There is nobody better than my co-mod Nacktmull to carry on our community, but unfortunately, mod-powers are surprisingly-limited in basic-nature upon Lemmy, seemingly.

Regardless, could my co-mod "Nacktmull" please be elevated to the same level as my basic mod powers? Again-- I'm the creator of the community, and main content-contributor.

Title: The Monster that Haunted the Sewers.

Inspector Lestrade (joyfully sarcastic): "Is that your gigantic monster, Holmes? It's just a big rat!"

Watson: (hears something a trifle alarming just behind)

(visual: a giant spider is seen emerging)

Pardon if this doesn't quite belong here. I searched Lemmy explorer for a Holmes community, but saw none. It doesn't quite fit my own community, either (Euro Graphic Novels), so I figured maybe here?

In any case, this little cartoon is by Nicolas Barral, and is part of a bande dessinees series called Ex-Libris, published by Fantasmagories.

Note: if someone wanted to start up a Holmes community on Lemmy, please tag me so I can subscribe, thanks!

• Asterius - Terrific, sprawling, puzzle-ish roguelike, easy to play but with lots of secrets to discover, and a long learning curve to win. (note: I've written a guide with hints, which I'd only recommend using as a last resort)

• Bounty Hunter Space Lizard - Ah, so delicious. It's a fun roguelike, a bit like Pixel Dungeon, but with more condensed runs, and loads of character. As with PD, you'll move through different stages and battle different end-bosses.

(thanks for reading; the other 18 are in the link)