Caint.ie Changelog

padraig

Update 16th September 2025:
This thread will now serve as a public changelog for whenever I make changes and where necessary, provide explanation. The first 7 posts here are merged posts from several different topics.

If you would like certain forums/categories to be created, or if you wish to help out with the site. Please register and drop me a ‘Chat’ on here

I am happy to announce the creation of the ‘Regional’ forums. @regional
This will allow for localised topics.
It is broken down into provinces and then counties.

From the home page of https://caint.ie, you can click directly to a province, and then click into a county.
If you click on “Regional”, you can see a full list of provinces and counties.

padraig

I was thinking about introducing a Politics section, but I know that moderation of it is going to be a big issue.

There will be a ruleset put in place to ensure that we won’t encounter issues (Real talk: There will be issues, it is inevitable, but we’ll address them as they come up)

If you have comments about it, please let me know.

padraig

The Politics category has been opened.
Head over there now: @politics

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.