Muchas gracias for giving folks a place to land when everything else blew up. I’m sorry to hear how things have been going offline and I hope you and the whole team have smooth sailing ahead.

From a content UI perspective I guess this is why I would lean in preference towards Lemmy. It’s pretty quick to figure out how to locate and browse similar content.

That said I will be up front about not having dived deeply into Sharkey to figure out all the potential that’s there to make it do things in a way I’d prefer. Though perhaps that’s a point against it as well, since it may take more work to get it functioning like that.

Depends on what you’re making. There’s nothing worse than under seasoned dishes. Freshly ground black pepper is a versatile ingredient that compliments many other flavors, but it’s hardly a requirement for everything. I keep two spice mills on the counter, one with black peppercorns, and the other with white, because there’s many things that can benefit from one or the other.

I think this would be a fair change and compromise.

Because logged in users can toggle both the NSFW Blur and the Auto Expand in their account settings it doesn’t seem as if it would significantly negatively effect current account holder users.

I suppose if there’s a userbase that utilizes the site without an account or without being logged in on a regular basis this could hamper their experience, but I guess that’s where the big question is. Would such a change effect the conversion of non-account holding users to account holding users on a positive, negative, or neutral basis?

I’m no marketing or analytics person so I wouldn’t know what sort of data would be needed to determine that, and if it’s even available in the current site version, but either way I don’t think there’s any way to tell other than making the change and seeing what happens.

ASSTR used to be my jam.

The site went through a big crash a bunch of years ago, and then apparently suffered more subsequent technical issues afterwards. The couple times I’ve been there recently, it’s been like doing the internet equivalent of urban exploring a mostly abandoned city.

There’s some things still functional, some people still active there and eking out an existence, but lots of the site structure is broken and a lot of the collections which aren’t being maintained are partially or totally broken.