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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Smaller steps. One at a time. Test.

    I started off with HA, integrating all my devices i had at once, totally enthusiastic as I was. There were times where I installed several automations and integrations within just a few minutes, not giving them time to work for them selves, especially not in a „productive“ environment with wife, kids, neighbours, etc. all involved in the system.

    Lots of automations broke or did not work as expected and I saw my self confronted fixing so many building sites at once.

    I am through the roughest part. But should I start from scratch any time I will most surely start I’d small, test, iterate and move on.















  • The problem is not a technical nor architectural problem but a user/usability issue.

    Look at the workflow how people create a new community. They are registered on one instance, probably fixed to that bubble and probably don’t interact with other instances at all (subscribing to other communities is a pain. Other problem.) They might (if at all) search for a similar community on their instance. If they don’t find one, they’ll create a new one. Searching every single community is not implemented in this flow. You need to call up feddits search to do so.

    My suggestion: Either do a name (fuzzy) check when creating a community, listing the ones already existent on other instances. Or at least implement the search feature from feddit.