I think it's time for the open source and/or fediverse alternatives to Trakt to get some love.

The price change is listed as going from $30 a year to $60 a year, and they're also changing everyone to that price:

Starting May 20, 2025, all VIP renewals will move to a standardized price. This means that any legacy, promotional, or grandfathered pricing will no longer apply to renewals processed on or after that date. Instead, all VIP memberships will renew at the new standard rate going forward.

People are not happy on their forum:

forums.trakt.tv/t/upcoming-vip…

This user poll suggests that around 97% of respondents (at the time of making this post) will not renew

We discussed our plans for 0.2.0h last week but wanted to give a more complete breakdown of what you can expect in this update.

Private Leagues

We plan to enable Private Leagues when 0.2.0h releases using the Path of Exile 1 website for now. There will be no extra mods available for these Private Leagues but we'll be expanding the functionality of them soon. We wanted to get the ability to create Private Leagues released sooner rather than later for those that want to start over in a fresh economy by themselves or with their friends.

Quick-Use Currency Buttons on Strongboxes and Essences

We've added Quick-Use buttons that appear below the labels of Strongboxes and Essences. For Strongboxes, the currency displayed is dynamic based on the state of the Strongbox and is only displayed if that currency is in your inventory. As an example, if the Strongbox is unidentified it will only display a Wisdom Scroll.

If it is Normal Rarity it will display an Orb of Transmutation, if it has one magic modifier it will display an Orb of Augmentation. It will also be able to have buttons for Orbs of Alchemy, Exalted Orbs, and Regal Orbs. We have intentionally not included currency like Divine Orbs as that would be a mistake to use.

Essences have also received the same change but with Vaal Orbs for corrupting them into the Corrupted Essences.

Breach Improvements

Breach had significant issues with spawning monsters in very narrow or tight areas. It was expected to be worse in those areas because you can only fit so many monsters in a given space. This made Breach encounters worse than we wanted and resulted in a very boring experience where you felt like you failed even though there was little you could do about it.

We've made a change to how monsters spawn in Breaches to be more reliable. This drastically raises the minimum experience of a Breach encounter.

Additionally we have changed the minimum time of a Breach, assuming no monsters are killed, to 20 seconds from 12 seconds. We have also made the time extension granted by killing monsters account for Monster Power. This means if you kill Magic or Rare enemies during the Breach it will extend the time more than killing Normal monsters.

Previously we spoke about dropping fewer stacks of Splinters in larger quantities, but instead of that we're making a more drastic improvement. We will now vacuum up all the Breach Splinters dropped during a Breach encounter and drop them at your location when the Breach concludes. If you are in a party it will drop multiple stacks that are randomly allocated.

Azmerian Wisp Improvements

Azmerian Wisps have received two changes. The first is that when you activate a second Wisp, while pursuing one already, that Wisp will now always target the same Rare monster as the one you were already chasing. This was uncommon during the Campaign and mostly presented itself in Endgame especially with Atlas Tree investment but when it did happen, you would lose one of those Wisps commonly which felt purely negative.

The other change is that the Spirit of the Spring Hare and Spirit of the Fox were far too rare, we've made these three times more common. They can create some pretty hectic and rewarding outcomes and we wanted to give more opportunities to encounter these and their rewards.

Rogue Exile Visibility Improvements

Rogue Exiles had one main issue. Often you would be clearing through a Map and all of a sudden have a large life bar on the top of your screen with no connection to a boss or monster. This was because the Rogue Exiles had a very large aggro range. We've reduced this aggro range so they are far more commonly on-screen before it appears, that way you see them before the life bar presents itself. If you were to hit them off-screen using projectiles or other skills, they'll still aggro immediately though.

The second issue is that even when you did find one and they were on-screen, you could barely see them especially in darker maps. In order to alleviate this we have both added Minimap Icons to them once they've engaged combat, and we've made the light on them far brighter to help them stand out and be more obvious when surrounded by other enemies.

Further Item Drop Improvements

We did a major patch to update overall loot drops but there are still some outliers we're working on improving. In 0.2.0h we're going to be making Perfect Jeweller's Orbs and Level 20 Uncut Skill and Spirit Gems significantly more common. These will still be relatively rare but it was often the case people would get very far into their Endgame and character progression before even finding one.

Item Labels Additions to Important Items

For those not using custom Item Filters and were in Endgame you might have observed some more important items not being obvious enough. We have added outlines to the labels for Precursor Tablets, Expedition Logbooks and Expedition Chests to help them stand out when you have many other items on the ground around them.

Shrine Improvements

We've made a few changes to Shrines.

Firstly, we've disabled the Greed Shrine and the Corrupting Shrine. These were just bad and often you right-clicked off the buff because converting good items into Gold, or Corrupting equipment is rarely beneficial.

On top of that we've made some of the rarer Shrines such as the Diamond Shrine and Divine Shrine appear far more often, and we've extended the duration of almost all Shrines. Some of the Shrines will now last 90 seconds (from 45 seconds) and some 60 seconds (from 45 seconds).

New Stash Tabs

We're adding the Ritual Stash Tab which will be able to store your Omens and Audience with the King Fragments.

We're also adding the Socketable Stash Tab which will hold all your Runes, Talismans and Soul Cores. This tab comes with a button that allows you to upgrade your Runes from one tier to the next, instead of having to use the Reforging Bench.

These will be for sale in the Microtransaction store shortly after the patch is deployed.

Misc Other Improvements

Here's a quick-fire list of other changes we're also making for this patch.

• We've updated the visibility of the 'Corridor' skill for the Arbiter of Ash to be far more clear very quickly.
• We've added bindable actions for being able to quickly allocate Strength, Dexterity or Intelligence on your passive tree. You can bind these to keys and then hold those keys down when selecting attribute nodes to quickly allocate them to your desired attribute.
• We've added a new batch of submissions to the Twilight Reliquary Key. Thank you for your Support.
• We'll be allowing Charms to go into the Flask Stash, or any stash with the Flask Affinity set.
• We're adding a quick-travel button for Town on the right hand side of the Waypoint screen.
• We're adding the shortcut for Ctrl+Right-Click to bulk move currency items of the same type between inventories. This is common mostly when doing larger trades of currency using the Currency Exchange.
• We're adding a Filter property to be able to Filter Unidentified Items by their Item Tier.
• We have fixed fifteen separate Client or Instance crashes.

Estimated Deployment Timeline

We're hoping to deploy this by the end of the week. We have many more changes and improvements to make and we'll immediately start on our next update bringing even more improvements to gameplay and quality of life.

cross-posted from: lemmy.one/post/27858506

This post serves as notice that Lemmy.one will be shutting down in 90 days.

Unfortunately, the moderation features in Lemmy never progressed to the point required to continue maintaining this service, and Lemmy simply does not have the userbase to justify the cost of this service. Myself and the moderation team apologize for the inconvenience this will cause.

This is sad news. Hopefully the comms can migrate to other smaller instances.

jonah

2025-05-13 14:29:20

Lemmy.one will be shutting down

This post serves as notice that Lemmy.one will be shutting down in 90 days.

Unfortunately, the moderation features in Lemmy never progressed to the point required to continue maintaining this service, and Lemmy simply does not have the userbase to justify the cost of this service. Myself and the moderation team apologize for the inconvenience this will cause.

Anche oggi pomeriggio, la mia solita bontà creativa si esprime, nella misura in cui ho iniziato (si spera non semplicemente “creato” e fine della storia, visto che ovviamente non è nulla finito) un nuovissimo progetto dall’utilità discutibile, ma forse dall’interesse condivisibile, non essendo nulla di eccessivamente oscuro ma bensì qualcosa che può essere di immediata […]

octospacc.altervista.org/2025/…

minioctt

2025-05-13 22:31:15

aggregoctt aggregocttanza, il sitino della notizianza (nuovo aggregatore news/RSS personale)

Anche oggi pomeriggio, la mia solita bontà creativa si esprime, nella misura in cui ho iniziato (si spera non semplicemente “creato” e fine della storia, visto che ovviamente non è nulla finito) un nuovissimo progetto dall’utilità discutibile, ma forse dall’interesse condivisibile, non essendo nulla di eccessivamente oscuro ma bensì qualcosa che può essere di immediata utilità ed ispirazione per tutti… Ho creato aggregoctt.github.io, un (mio) aggregatore di notizie da RSS, incredibile e basato. 🔥

Se di per sé, da solo, il fatto che ora esista un sito (in più) dove vengono ripubblicati in modo completamente automatico articoli e notizie di vario tipo, da siti più o meno interessanti e che potrebbero o non potrebbero fare forse fin troppo spam (…cosa per cui indubbiamente dovrò trovare una pezza, per evitare di incorrere nel solito problema in cui il rumore sorpassa ampiamente l’informazione), magari non è eccessivamente curioso — anche perché, in generale, ne esistono svariate di queste piattaforme, l’idea di aggregatori di notizie non è nulla di nuovo — è tuttavia per me ganza l’idea di uno costruito e mantenuto a livello personale… 🥰

In questo senso, ci sono diversi livelli di “zamn” da poter osservare. Innanzitutto, boh, chi gradisce il sito e inizia ad usarlo potrebbe finire per guardare le mie stesse fonti, magari scoprendo post o siti interessanti che a me non capita di ricondividere, e penso che ciò non faccia male. E poi, almeno per come adesso il sito è architettato, ossia come completamente statico e su GitHub (anche se per delle cose future mi servirà un backend, per ora non pensiamoci)… chiunque può cliccare il tastino fork e fare il suo sito uguale con i propri feed RSS favoriti!!! Nel footer del sito c’è il link alla repo, infatti — che per ora è una sola, con dentro sia i sorgenti che tutti gli articoli… metterò più ordine (e documentazione) a breve, nel caso. 🤥

Sul livello tecnico è figo, perché è un sito statico con Jekyll, che si aggiorna in automatico… e appunto può essere clonato da chiunque, non serve avere un server personale o la mia solita roba snob, basta GitHub. C’è lo script delle Actions che parte da solo ogni X ore, eseguendo uno script Python che scorre i feed RSS per ottenere i nuovi elementi — addirittura scaricando l’intero contenuto dei post, e le immagini in locale, una mossa furba che potrebbe servirci più tardi — quindi fa il commit per salvare definitivamente le novità, e il sito viene allora ricompilato. (Proprio a proposito di ciò… abbiate pazienza, devo ancora implementare delle ottimizzazioni per bene, che al momento per motivi di scalabilità il sito è tipo lento a caricare.) 💥

Comunque, nella pratica… come mai ho fatto questo? (E la domanda non è completamente retorica, ahimè.) In primo luogo, come al solito io ho visceralmente bisogno di perdere tempo, ma sempre in modi che siano in qualche misura produttivi, e con sempre un minimo di varietà… quindi un giorno sitini, l’altro programmini, e così via. In secondo, anche solo nella vana speranza che questo possa riaggiustarmi il mio programma del sonno, avrei una mezza voglia di riesumare il mio Kindle — che letteralmente da mesi prende polvere, visto che non sempre ho cose lunghe da leggerci sopra, e infatti lo usavo spesso per articoli e cose di questo tipo — ma tutti gli altri servizi a mia disposizione per RSS e simili sono troiai, lì sopra… per cui, avere un sito semplice e veloce, che funziona e basta, può essere la soluzione. 🙏
Ironicamente… al momento proprio il Kindle è il dispositivo dove non funziona, probabilmente per via di qualche libreria JavaScript minchiona, che dovrò quindi addomesticare seduta stante. Però oh, come si suol dire… Roma non è stata costruita in un giorno, e Aggregoctt non è stato costruito in 2 giorni; pure se a vedersi superficialmente parrebbe sia questo il caso. E a proposito… consigliatemi feed RSS interessanti, che qui ce n’è bisogno vitale. 🥴
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While I enjoyed receiving feedback on my art, I'm just getting tired of people ignoring the link in the description, baselessly accusing me of using AI and not apologizing after I correct them. The latest accusation was on Tumblr and it was then that I just thought to myself "you know what, I've had enough of this"

I've kept receipts associated with my art on Internet Archive. I am also vehemently against using AI image generators, especially as someone who has had her art used without permission for usage in an AI output.

While I cherished the positive comments that I got, I don't want to associate what is my hobby with any form of hostility, don't want anxiety about people spreading misinformation about me as an artist so I've decided that from now on, I won't be posting my art online. I'm still going to keep my old art up, I just won't be posting any new art even though I'm still drawing.