Caint.ie Changelog

james

Politics / Religion / Gambling … all things that should be avoided in polite company In an ideal world there would never be any issues but … is this an ideal world?

padraig

@james said in Should Caint have a Political section?:

is this an ideal world?

Certainly not. It would be boring if that was the case, haha!

padraig

This is just a note that the email address for website communications has been updated from nodebb@mg.39.ie to caint@mg.caint.ie

Please whitelist the email address if password resets or notifications go into your Spam/Junk folder.

padraig

Moderation is key to keeping a community website such as Caint running smoothly and effectively.
There are rules in place, of course. (See https://caint.ie/post/23) but that alone is sometimes not enough.

So, for now, I have decided to restrict the @politics section for all new members.
But if you wish to have access and post in the @politics section, you must now join a group.

To join the group, click the icon on the left. Click the “Politics” group, and click the green “Join Group” button.

Existing members are already part of this group, no action is required, but you can leave if you want.

If you are having issues trying to join, please check out this handy GIF explainer from the new @Caint.ie-Mule [Not a real mule]

We know that discussions can be heated, so hopefully by allowing you to join/leave the @politics section, it will help keep things calm.

We’re always looking for ways to improve things here at Caint, so please let us know in @Comments-Feedback

padraig

2025-09-18
Added a new @external section. This will be for external discussion boards (ie. Lemmy, Piefed, nodeBB, Discourse, etc) - These will only be for topical discussions. External memes and politics discussion boards will still be placed as sub-forums of @caint

Added “Technology” sub-forum linking to technology@lemmy.world in @external
Added “Games” sub-forum linking to games@lemmy.world in @external
Added “Selfhosted” sub-forum linking to selfhosted@lemmy.world in @external
Moved “Fediverse” (fediverse@piefed.social) from @technology to @external [This ensures that Fediverse discussions that are coming in via hashtag and the Piefed feed are separated]

Added tracking #iepol in @politics
Increased image upload permission size from 100kb to 5MB.

padraig

2025-09-18
Added @news-feeds, RSS of Irish publications

EDIT:
Removing @news-feeds - May come back at some point.

I am not happy that they are simply just ‘links’ and not even an excerpt of the article.

padraig

2025-10-01
Removed ‘Uncategorized’ from home page. You can still access it by clicking on the
icon on the left side. This has been reverted as access to certain ‘Remote’ categories were missing.
Categories within @caint and @external have been updated to include the source location name.

padraig

2025-11-05
Registration has changed from ‘Open’ to ‘Admin Approval’ - This means that when you register, you will see this message. You will need to wait for me to approve registration. I will try to catch it within a couple of hours, but if I don’t, ping me on @padraig@mastodon.ie or email caint@caint.ie from the email account that you have signed up from.

padraig

2025-01-28
Cross posting is now available to everyone (as part of the newest NodeBB update). Go into any thread, and click “Cross post Topic” and select where it should be cross posted to. Example below.
Fixed emoji on posts. And the ability to create emoji’s by typing :star: has also been fixed.
The ability to ‘Spoiler’ text has been removed as it was broken. It may return in the future.

Cross post Example:

In @music, you will see the Video Game Music thread.

In the thread, click Crosspost Topic on the right

Here, you would select the category that you wish to cross post to.
Select the topic and click Cross-post

And the post is now crossed over to the Gaming section.

At the moment, there is no ‘permissions’ for this, so this will be monitored until permissions become available.

padraig

2026-02-01
@caint is now only accessible by joining the ‘The Lock-In’ Group. Details on how to access the group is the same method on how to join @politics - See here for more details. - All existing members have access to this, you are free to leave the group if you desire.