Instance Statistics

[Sjmarf]

Added a "Details" tab to the Instances page, which is similar to the community Statistics tab. In addition to the instance stats, some of the instance's preferences are also shown. Which preferences are shown is dependent on whether Developer Mode is enabled or not. Let me know if you disagree with any of these choices.

Statistics	Dev Mode Disabled	Dev Mode Enabled

Other changes

• Added community creation date to Community Stats, and refactored CommunityStatsView
• Refactored UserView a little (no UI changes)

[EricBAndrews]

Looks good!

I do think the detailed instance info should be visible even when dev mode is off--I think anybody who's actually browsing through an instance info page is going to want to see all the info we can give them

[Sjmarf]

I do think the detailed instance info should be visible even when dev mode is off--I think anybody who's actually browsing through an instance info page is going to want to see all the info we can give them

Here's my reasoning for why I hid certain settings:

• "Default Feed" could confuse the average user, because it only applies to Lemmy-ui and not to Mlem. Instead of hiding "Default Feed", I suppose another option would be to add an info.circle tooltip that clarifies it?
• "Federation Signed Fetch" is a technical option - I barely know what it does, but some instances have it enabled and some don't. 99% of our users won't care about this, so I hid it.
• I hid the slur filter itself for non-dev accounts because some instances use it to block what I assume is illegal content. lemmy.world has URLs in there, and a string of base-64 that's probably a hash/token for something. What's your opinion on this?

I agree it makes sense to always show the other currently hidden settings though ("Show Mod names in Modlog", "Applications email admins" and "Reports email admins")

[EricBAndrews]

We could maybe hide those in an "advanced" disclosure group--an instance admin or someone might still want to see them, but I agree that it doesn't make sense to put them top-level for the average user. Alternatively we can rename "developer mode" to "power user mode" or something similar, since "developer" carries the implication that the option will only reveal things that are salient to Mlem developers.

Re: default feed, what if we just label it "Default Feed (Desktop)"?

[Sjmarf]

Re: default feed, what if we just label it "Default Feed (Desktop)"?

Sure, sounds good 👍

To be honest we could just not show the Federation Signed Fetch at all... I'm yet to find an instance that has it enabled. That just leaves the question of what to do with the slur filter. Just show the option to reveal it all of the time?

[EricBAndrews]

Slur filter is publicly available information, so I don't think it's really on us to decide whether it's something we should expose or not. It might be worth putting some clickwrap on it to the effect of "this is a regex for detecting slurs, so it's probably going to contain some pretty nasty language" just to be safe.

[Sjmarf]

Done 👍

[EricBAndrews]

One typo, other than that LGTM 👍

[EricBAndrews]

Nice!