MTGZone is a discussion forum and social news aggregator dedicated to Magic: the Gathering. We’re federated, running the amazing Lemmy software, and created this community as a better, user-friendly, open alternative to Reddit! We plan to build more out in the coming days as we get the communities created, stay tuned!

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    2 years ago

    This looks fantastic. I’m kinda new in the fediverse, but I really hope this gets off if reddit doesn’t back off their API policies.

    For now, I have a suggestion, which would be creating a community for cube, and a question, which is: When I try to create a post, there’s a text box with URL before it, and I’m just puzzled for what should I put there and what purpose it serves. Thanks.

    • AndrewMA
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      2 years ago

      Welcome and great questions!

      I can absolutely make a Cube community, I originally bundled it with Limited but I’ll make it now.

      When posting, I believe you can optionally include a link in the URL box for your post if you want to link to another website. I agree the current Lemmy UI has quite a few necessary improvements it needs, I’m hoping its added interest lately helps contributions.

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    2 years ago

    So if you had a post that mentioned specific cards, what method is recommended to link them to the post? Can this site use bots like Reddit that grab the image from scryfall?

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      2 years ago

      We will need Cardfetcher or some other bot, but I believe want to continue with the [[ Card name ]] format for auto fetching cards.

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        2 years ago

        Cool, that works good on Reddit. Would you mind posting when that is up and running?

        • MikeOPMA
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          2 years ago

          Yes I’ll post an announcement when we have that up and running

  • Evu
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    2 years ago

    Thanks for making this site, admins. I’m a fan of the Fediverse in general, so I’m excited to hang out here regardless of what happens with Reddit.

    • MikeOPMA
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      2 years ago

      Thank you for being active! Andrew and I used to run a magic forum on this domain back in the late 90s so it is a true joy for us to be able to bring this back to life in a new form.