Sorry for the late reply, but yeah I tried both ways.

It’s me, the same person - just commenting from Lemmy/piefed. hello me!

Oh, I’m dumb - that makes more sense. Thank you!

Because you mentioned it might be a bug, I want to see if I am doing this correctly:

It says pending, and I remember this was one of the issues when I had bot fight mode on in cloudflare and the following of user profiles wouldn’t work in /world.

Is this the similar to the same issue?

Is this how I would correctly be adding an incoming community to a “similar Communities” section?

Well, I’m glad I wasn’t crazy then. :)

Yeah, but it was empty for me. Might require login or something. Or maybe there are just no related communities?

Eh, either way - not a big deal lol

Ok, that’s good news! Also, I checked the activitypub.space, and see they have a related communities section, but it wasn’t clickable for me (maybe it just requires login, or some other simple issue inm missing) - regardless that is a great feature and might be a good way to pull content into the forum without muddying the content within my primary categories. :)

Thank you.

1. I’ll definitely check out Anubis and your configuration to see if it will work for my scenario.
2. Ok, good to know - if it’s simply a bug then that that’s fine, mostly I wanted to make sure it wasn’t an indicator that something deeper was broken or getting blocked in the communication.
3. Sorry, I used the term instance when I meant community. But it sounds like the federation is more so to bring traffic into the forum, rather then out. Did I understand that correctly? If that is the case, then I may not opt to use it - as I was originally hoping for a way to push forum content into communities. I’ll explore this further I guess - because I’m unfamiliar with relays and fedibuzz.

Overall, I appreciate the detailed response :)

[Edit, for archival purposes]: I looked into Anubis, and it looks like a great option, but I have my nodeBB forum installed via Cloudron, and just a quick rudimentary search reveals that it may be difficult to set up alongside Cloudron. This post: https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/13957/deploying-anubis-ai-crawler-filtering-on-a-cloudron-server/7 shows an example of using a second vps to accomplish it, but …well it requires a second vps. If anyone comes up with a solution in the future and stumbles across this post, I’d love to hear how you worked it out.

Can mbin browse Lemmy/piefed? I would love to only use one app/login if possible. If one application can correctly view/post to each service - then it would seem logical to just use the one. I might switch to mbin If it can browse Lemmy content.

Oh most definitely, lol

Oooh, can I shamelessly plug my abstract strategy game I’m working on? https://github.com/GreenAnts/Amalgam_Webgame/tree/main

It’s completely free, open source, and licensed to the creative commons. But still in development. (Looking for contributors to help out though if you or anyone else is interested)

Pretty cool! Be neat to see how it can be used in application

Something definitely worth looking at, although it might add more complexity. Worth experimenting with the idea though.

The rules page on the main website is placeholder text - for the actual rules you need to watch the video or read the rules documents linked above. Planning to set up the main website rules page with more of a “tutorial” walkthrough type of experience, or animated gifs - just haven’t gotten to it yet.

That ui is actually tabletop simulator, but it’s playable in 2d on screentop.gg for current multiplayer (send a link to your friend) or against the AI bot on the main website.

https://screentop.gg/@Anthony/Amalgam

And yeah, It would be pretty simple to 3d print and play. The biggest thing is that the board isswlf is a bit large at full scale ~25 inches in diameter

Thanks! I cross posted :)

Thanks! Don’t expect much from the actually not you play against, but it will hopefully at least give you a feel for how the gameplay works ;)

If you remember/have the time to follow up with any feedback after you try it, id love to hear your thoughts (good or bad)

Yeah, it does take a bit of movement to set up, and I’ve tohed with the idea of drinking down some space, but as you learn to chain nexus movement (pearl and amber pieces together) as well as swaps and jade launches, movement can be sped up quite a bit. Also, with the range of the abilities it can get a bit too cramped (although of course ranges could be reduced)

Mostly what I’m getting at, is that I need more okay testing from experienced playtesters (that actually have gotten fairly decent at the game) to make an accurate decision if a smaller board would be a good idea or not.

Thanks for trying it out and the feedback though :) I really appreciate it! If you have any more feedback, I’d love to hear it!

Thanks for the detailed response.

One of the major issues is that I am not paying at all for any LLM, and only using free Claude projects (Claude code I think requires a paid API)

So this vastly limits my context and capabilities.

Regardless - this is some solid advice I will definitely try to apply.

As for the rules:

1. Main website’s rule page - yeah this isn’t yet implemented.
2. Are you talking about the actual rulebook: https://github.com/GreenAnts/Amalgam_Webgame/tree/main/assets/Rulebook . Because if so, these 5 pages I thought were very well outlined if you actually read the pages in order and in their entirety. If these are the ones you actually read, and are still confused, than that is good to know and means I need to revamp my rulebook.
3. The YouTube rules walkthrough exists, and is linked in the main GitHub Repo.

Other than that though, thanks so much for all the advice and tips - I will try to optimize an API/documentation of the rules.

Yeah, I have a bit of a longer reply in one of the cross posts, and I’m too lazy to type it all over again - but largely I’ve kind of accepted that I won’t be a programmer. Mostly its just about getting this one specific project finished (because it’s not about the actual software as much as it is about the board game, for me).

I’ve picked up and abandoned this project so many times, but each time it seems I get a little bit further - so baby steps I guess lol. More-so, I’m just hoping to get something that is “good-enough” to get people interested and playing the game - and since the game is open source and creative commons, maybe someone from the player base will get interested enough to make it properly.

I’ve tried to become a programmer in the past (and actually changed career fields after realizing it wasn’t for me) - but with new LLMs, I’ve figured maybe I can get by enough to at least patch something together that’ll pass as a demo. Being honest with myself, I’m not going to invest the time or effort to become “good”, especially on top of my day job.

But of course, I appreciate your input, advice, and time to reply :)