Just to let you know. Most of the blocked instances you see for programming.dev (since your account is here) aren’t forums you would normally interact with but are various ones on the microblog side that cause issues (for hate speech, spam bots that have seo spam posted in various threads, cp, etc.). For forums running lemmy and piefed the amount is very low.

the bronies are by far the largest faction in the event and with pixel pulses you can catch someone griefing pretty quickly

Thanks everyone for participating <3 Hope to see you all next year again

The cursor dance party at the end was great

Hey those are various beetleball players (which is a game im a developer for). None of them have fediverse accounts since the game isnt part of the fediverse usually but you can join the discord to see activity relating to it (and each of the people you said there has a discord accoutn with a lot of history you can check) https://discord.com/invite/beetleball

thought it would be fun to do a design relating to the game so I announced it in the discord and some players signed up and have been constructing it. That design specifically is one of the icons for one of the beetles

I have a fix in progress for this atm

art doesnt have to fully show, interactions with existing stuff is why its on a shared canvas

does it do that every time you try to login and then log out out immediately? what account are you using

what error are you getting?

The scene in the top right turned out really good

What browser are you using?

theres no button for it atm. you get auto logged out after awhile though. For disabling it while logged in theres the toggle in settings

In addition to what grant said. Cursors dont show and arent sent when logged out or when on mobile and are anonymous so people can’t tell whos cursor is who. Just a fun thing to add some activity to the canvas and make it feel more like a community instead of you placing pixels into a void

I can add it to gitlab to track it for next year

Theres a flag area in the d2jam design you could add it into (different flags are going into hearts). Im going to rearrange it a bit so the hearts might move position a bit in the template though

If things go bad theres a killswitch so that the entire feature can be disabled but have my fingers crossed everything works the first time. Did some testing but havent been able to simulate 300 actual users moving around

Random extra implemetation info.

When viewing the canvas you send the left right top bottom of your screen and zoom to the server. The server then sends back all cursors that are valid to be shown based on what you sent. On future times you ask the server it only sends back what changed (so a cursor that doesnt move doesnt get sent again and your local version knows its just still in its same position). That helps cut down more on bandwidth being sent around.

The map is split into various chunks of different sizes. When you send the position and zoom to the server it tries to fit you nicely into chunks and then the cursors it sends back are the cursors within those chunks. Then if somebody else asks for the cursors and they fit into the same chunks it sends back the same data to them due to it being cached for those chunks instead of computing it again which helps reduce server load.

theres some interpolation so you dont just teleport to the new position but yeah its still a bit choppy. Not much I can do else to smooth that out unless I want a bunch more bandwidth used and I think its decent enough

For people on PC its on by default when logged in and can be turned off with a toggle in the settings. When logged out or on mobile its off

Only the cursor is sent and there isnt a name shown currently unless you then place down a pixel and someone inspects that pixel to see who placed it

Theres various things that are part of the change so that its optimized. You can only see cursors of people in similar zoom levels for example as one of those. Exact cursor positions arent shared but people just see the cursor snapped to the pixel on the canvas its hovering over so that objects sent are smaller

you get a new pixel every 30 seconds that you can use the paint onto the canvas. And then everyone paints onto the same large canvas

If you make a design outside of the event you can turn it into a template to guide what color you have to place where in the event and you can then share that with other people to help out

I do think having options like letting people disable dms, letting people choose to need to approve dms to get notifications about them and then having a whitelist makes sense. I can make tickets for those in the lemmy repo later if they don’t exist already