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[GeorgeSG]

Please use this thread as a temporary solution to report broken links or links that need correction. I'll try to keep up 🚀

If you want, you can also open PRs to fix broken / miscategorized links. Thank you! 🙏

[GeorgeSG]

Hello folks. This thread is not meant for suggesting new links, but reporting issues with existing ones. You can suggest new links once we reopen from the form on the website. Thank you!

[ZeroPaladn]

The links lemmy.world/c/buildapc and squabbles.io/s/buildapc are not associated or related to r/buildapc in any way. We do not own these links nor are we associated with the owners. Please remove these links.

If you require verification, reach out to us through sub modmail here: https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2Fbuildapc&subject=&message=

[GeorgeSG]

Hi @ZeroPaladn,

lemmy.world/c/buildapc and squabbles.io/s/buildapc are not marked as official (this is the "verified"-like checkmark icon on the right of discord.gg/buildapc). This clearly indicates they are not associated with r/builadapc. They would be filtered out if people filter by "Official".

I will not be taking the links down.

If you decide to create your own alternative on any of those platforms and mention it as an official alternative in r/buildapc I'd be happy to list it on sub.rehab and mark it as official.

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On a personal, non-sub.rehab-official note, it is pretty concerning and uncool that you are trying to censor alternatives. As a r/buildapc lurker, I am disappointed.

[ZeroPaladn]

Censorship to alternatives was never the intention, only to not promote links that we aren't associated with. The site is laid out in a manner that promotes completely unrelated communities to r/buildapc and we aren't looking to mislead our users into thinking that we've jumped ship or have an alternate platform (when that time comes, we'll clearly announce it). We've already been approached by users asking if it's ours our not. Without knowing if they happened upon those communities from your links, we're not sure if your ✅ is satisfactory to ensuring that r/buildapc isn't misrepresented.

[GeorgeSG]

@ZeroPaladn, glad to have that cleared up and apologies that my initial response was a bit too accusatory!

The goal of the checkmark is to clearly indicate exactly which alternatives are officially endorsed by the original subreddit and which are community spin-offs.

We are trying to indicate and promote official alternatives by:

1. Marking links as official only if they have been endorsed officially in the original subreddit (sidebar, pinned post, subreddit privated message). We have a moderation process setup to verify that.
2. Showing official links at the top of the list for each subreddit
3. Showing a tooltip when you hover the checkmark (screenshot 1)
4. Allowing users to filter only official links and showing a tooltip when you hover the "official" filter (screenshot 2) - i think the wording on that one can be improved. Maybe "Communities that have been endorsed or created by the original subreddit staff"?
5. A section in the FAQ page that explains what "official" is (screenshot 3)

I am open to suggestions on how to improve the wording and visual clarity of the indicators. I think having a bigger visual gap between official and unofficial links is possible and viable.

I am not a native speaker, so I could definitely use the help on wording as well 😅

The goal of sub.rehab however is to list alternatives - not only officially endorsed ones. If people decide to stop using reddit and want to use other platforms, I want to help them find communities they are interested in. So I will not delist unofficial links - I'd rather shut down the entire site than do that :)

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Checkmark hover:

Filter hover:

FAQ section:

[GeorgeSG]

Having thought about this a bit more, I made the following changes:

1. Improved the "official" filter explanation:

2. Improved the FAQ sections of the website:

3. Added more distinct visual separation between official links and spin-offs:

I hope this alleviates the concerns of misrepresentation and resolves this thread.

[ZeroPaladn]

Hey @GeorgeSG - appreciate the changes you've made, you've already done a lot of what I was going to present for edits and we're very satisfied with the new distinction and explanations added.

Appreciate the continued effort here - consider this thread resolved!

[dojoteef]

Please change r/machinelearning to official. See this stickied post:
https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/14ionyi/additional_resources/

[GeorgeSG]

Thanks, updated! And thanks for linking sub.rehab in your pinned post!

[NicoCharrua]

Under 196, the kbin alternative is listed as https://fedi196.gay/, which is the instance, not the magazine (community). I think the link should be changed to https://fedi196.gay/m/196, since that links to the magazine, and it would work properly with the home instance feature.

Worth noting that the mods of r/196 are the ones who linked to the whole instance instead of the magazine in their announcement, but I'm guessing this was a mistake since it just makes it more confusing for new users.

[GeorgeSG]

Agreed. I think we will start to require a community specified for all lemmy links so the Home Instance feature can work.

[Thebestpercy]

When submitting a link I misspelled r/lotrmemes to r/lotrmems if that could be adjusted it would be greatly appreciated

[GeorgeSG]

Will fix, thank you!

[nyxiereal]

Broken link: https://ramble.pw/f/piracy

[ornato-t]

https://forum.basedcount.com/c/pcm is incorrectly labeled as a "spin off" and not official. I had already mentioned that we were official in the application form but that must've been overlooked. The community is being moderated by the original r/PCM mod team and is maintaned and hosted by the PCM bot team.

Please let me know if further verification is required (some people might miss their notification and require a ping on Discord, with which I'll happily help).

[GeorgeSG]

We probably marked it as a spin-off, because there is no link/endorsement r/PoliticalCompassMemes. We typically look for a pinned post (or at least a post from one of the mods), sidebar link, or a link in the privated message (if subreddit was private).

I reached out via mod mail to verify.

[GeorgeSG]

Promoted to official.

[ornato-t]

Thanks!

[ornato-t]

Hey it's me again, I have one more issue.

We recently had some severe problems with our instance, which caused us to have to move domains, from forum.basedcount.com to lemmy.basedcount.com. As such PCM is now on https://lemmy.basedcount.com/c/pcm.

Could you please update the link on sub.rehab?

[muznyo]

The r/protonmail spinoff is official, also it should reference r/protondrive, r/protonvpn and r/protonpass too, since its general community for proton's products

[GeorgeSG]

Unfortunately, this does not meet our criteria for marking something as official. It needs to be communicated in the original subreddit somehow, or on some other official channel.

[muznyo]

I don't know if this official enough, but

[muznyo]

Ok, so it's official, because proton mail account replied too

[muznyo]

Just a reminder you haven't updated it yet

[NicoCharrua]

Under r/braves, https://fanaticus.social/c/braves is marked as misc when it should be lemmy

[NicoCharrua]

Broken link for discord under r/weirdal link. It's https://4wktfg2/ , should be https://discord.gg/4wKTfG2

[GeorgeSG]

Thanks, fixed!

[MaillPierre]

Broken link for r/RimWorld, sends to https://rimworldporn.cloud/m/RimWorldPorn but the page redirects to a 404 error.

[NicoCharrua]

https://lemmy.world/c/guiltygear should be marked as official.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Guiltygear/comments/14fv0t1/rguiltygear_on_lemmy/

[kitten7280]

r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH link to lemmy is broken. I guess they switched top-level domain.

The correct link is: https://lemmy.fmhy.net/c/freemediaheckyeah
Proof: https://www.reddit.com/r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH/comments/15l6tpe/we_fixed_lemmy/
Another proof: https://www.reddit.com/r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH/ (sidebar)