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General Discussion @forum.guncadindex.com FeaturedJanuary 1st is Here; Make a Fucking Suppressor
For those in the US, the BBB has now kicked in and the tax cost for filing a Form 1 has dropped to $0. The only thing stopping you from building your own suppressor (or SBR!) is paperwork.
Do it, you owe it to yourself to have dozens of these things. They're basic hearing protection devices; don't let anyone tell you any different. File more Form 1s than you have guns and build them all out. Here's what you need to know:
- How to file a Form 1. See our fresh new wiki's guide on that or OpenPew Project's slick website for more (he wrote the guide on the wiki, too -- go give him love). You'll need to do your prints, which is easily done through OpenPew's site for a small cost or via free methods detailed in the aforementioned guides.
- Where to find a can to print. Here are [the most popular des
General Discussion @forum.guncadindex.com Hoffman is Being Sued by Rare Breed
Fuckin' Rear Breed Triggers at it again, desperately trying to immolate the value of their company.
Announcements @forum.guncadindex.com The Default UI is now Photon
The default UI for the GunCAD Forums is now Photon. This comes as a result of unanimous support for the frontend when I polled for it.
What does this mean for me?
If you are using an app, nothing at all. Just move on, you don't care.
If you are using the web UI (i.e. you're a desktop user), the default UI of the site is now this slicker interface instead of the really simple HTML one. If you want that one back, check out the sidebar or click here and adjust your bookmarks accordingly.
Please report any bugs or issues with the interface here. If you notice weirdness, log out and back in at least once before reporting here.
I Don't Like X
If you don't like certain parts of the interface -- coloration, collapsed thumbnails, alignment, whatever -- you can customize it by hitting settings on the left.
Announcements @forum.guncadindex.com The old.reddit UI is Back
GO HERE FOR OLD REDDIT UI: https://old.forum.guncadindex.com/
This UI used to be bugged, with a couple rate-limiting issues among other things. Courtesy of some bugfixes, it's back in action again.
It's called mlmym, and if you ever need the link to it, it's in the sidebar.
If you encounter any bugs or issues with it, please report them here. Note that it might not have all the features the other UIs do as a result of basically just being the Old Reddit interface.
Announcements @forum.guncadindex.com Which UI Should Be the Default?
Running a poll for this on birdsite: https://x.com/theshittinator/status/1997182340561265031
The TL;DR: We have two UIs:
- https://forum.guncadindex.com/ - Lemmy-UI. This is the default UI that ships with Lemmy with a custom theme slapped on top of it.
- https://p.forum.guncadindex.com/ - Photon. This UI is slick, but it's missing a couple admin features (which isn't a big deal) and had a bug when we first deployed it where new user signups would erroneously get a "token validation error" or something. I don't know if they've fixed it.
The question I want you guys to answer is: Which do you prefer? I assume most people think Photon is slicker, but I could be mistaken.
If most people like Photon, I might give it a shot in the limelight again to see if they've fixed that bug yet.
Announcements @forum.guncadindex.com GunCAD Index 1.2.0 Released
These last few releases were tiny, itty-bitty things, truly. But this one? We've got a few new features in store. Buckle in, we'll go over it
Source code: https://gitlab.com/guncad-index/indexMatrix: https://matrix.to/#/#guncad-index:matrix.orgDonate on Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/theshittinator
Lemmy Integration
The first, biggest thing I'm happy to show off is that we now show discussions below each release. This is a huge thing that was facilitated by our move to Lemmy -- I can now search via a proper API and display the results right there under the listing. Effectively, this is a search result for the name of the release along with any links to it on Odysee, LBRY, or the GunCAD Index. Link to thing
Announcements @forum.guncadindex.com /r/FOSSCAD Archives Restored to Lemmy
@gsgmfg@fosscad.io did it, the madman. In conjunction with a kind user from the Index's Lemmy instance, he was able to restore almost all of the data from /r/fosscad. There's a bit of a loss in images, but the text -- the oh-so-valuable advice and discourse -- is all there.
And the best part: it's federated between both of our instances. There are now not one but two copies of the data: one local to his instance and one local to mine.
Find it here: !ark@fosscad.io
Announcements @forum.guncadindex.com Gimme some Emojis
Apparently we can have any number of custom emojis added to the server. Gimme some suggestions.
FOSSCAD @lemmy.ml Hello from GunCAD Index!
Hello... lemmitors...? Lemmings? FOSSCAD enthusiasts by another name.
If you're interested in an instance to call home that's guncad top-to-bottom, come check out https://forum.guncadindex.com/ !
(EDIT: If this is out-of-place, I apologize. I needed another relevant forum with which to confirm we had working federation. If this is out of line for your instance, please let me know)
Announcements @forum.guncadindex.com Known Issues (new users please read!)
Well it wouldn't be a software launch if it didn't have problems. I think we've eliminated almost all issues, but for completeness, here's what we had to endure:
The ones that are mostly user error:
- I only see one post - Make sure you're viewing the Local instance, not just your Subscriptions
- Invalid Passwords when Creating Accounts - Your password must contain a special character and be a reasonable length -- make sure you're not doing "hunter2" or something
Here are the ones I think I've resolved. Chime in if you see these again:
- Image uploading failures - Sporadic failures stopped once I bumped the rate limit for image uploads. If it comes back, I'll try a solve at nginx
- Email validation links not working - This one happened because the Photon frontend (the "Modern" one) can sometimes verify your email twice. The first one succeeds, then the second one fails because you've already verified. If you get this one, you're good, just log in. By switch
Announcements @forum.guncadindex.com FeaturedWelcome to the GunCAD Index Forums
Hello all, and welcome to the official GunCAD Index Forums, a place for anyone to discuss DIY gun content and all things adjacent. Browse around, everything should feel pretty familiar.
If you haven't yet, hit "Sign Up" in the top-right corner to make an account and get to posting. You can make posts in existing communities or create whole new ones if you want your own space.
If you'd rather browse, either scroll through the feed on the main page by hitting the logo in the navbar or hit "Communities" and browse for a
subredditcommunity that seems interesting. Play with the selectors and sort options, too.:::spoiler A Note on Reddit's Rule Changes
/r/FOSSCAD was banned a while ago, but starting October 9th, Reddit is adjusting its rules such that the following are now verboten:
- User-to-user and user-to-vendor transactions of firearms and accessories (including things like magazines) where one of them is not a "licensed vendor". This completely destroys /r/GA
It is exactly the same process for privately-manufactured SBRs. Do it the same way you would a can and make up a serial number, just pick "SBR" instead of "Suppressor" in the dialogs.