Patient Gamers

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A gaming community free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.

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How to revitalize this sub? (lemm.ee)

submitted 7 months ago by verycoolusername@lemm.ee to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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I love the original patientgamers subreddit so I was stoked to find this community. And because lemmy seems to have a more knowledgeable crowd any topic I posted here had great engagement and discussions, despite the small community. I am too busy to be a mod but maybe I can help by sparking this discussion: what would be needed to keep this sub going?

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Also, on the user side of that, for when someone doesn't use said syntax, note that there's a Firefox, Chrome, and Edge extension, "Instance Assistant for Lemmy & Kbin", where one can set one's home instance. It'll add a button in the sidebar in threads on remote instances where one can just click on "view in my home instance".

!instance_assistant@lemmy.ca

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lemmy-instance-assistant/

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/instance-assistant-for-le/mbblbalkjcikhpladidpimlfiapdffdh

https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/instance-assistant-for-le/hnlndgeokcaocdklkbfjbfjplfnedehb

https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago

Finally got around to trying that extension out. And wow was it significantly less useful than I was expecting.

I was first offput by its settings page. "Home instance" is clear enough, but then it also needs a list of instances to "change display". No idea what that's supposed to do.

But the real problem is that it doesn't actually do anything useful. Yeah if I'm on lemmy.world/c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works, I can click it and be taken to aussie.zone/c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works, but I can do that really easily manually. The actual useful convenient thing would be if I were at https://lemmy.world/post/14353571 and clicking the button took me to https://aussie.zone/post/8919002

But instead, clicking the button displays this popup: