If you go to the areas where people are suggesting features, it’s almost 100% “please implement my personal favorite feature from my personalized Reddit experience.”
Now, I’m going to say that wanting the features you found useful in your old social media is a perfectly reasonable desire, but it’s the Dev’s job to make sure all the feature and UI changes are self-consistent and not overload for the user. So, naturally a bunch of requests are going to have to be ignored, at least for the time being.
If Lemmy continues to get more popular and more 3rd party reddit app devs make Lemmy apps like what RiF is doing that’ll probably have a lot of people satisfied. I like Jebroah but I’d definitely love to see Baconreader for Lemmy.
Jerboah seems okay, though I do miss Sync. Keep getting weird Java exception toasts here and there that I believe are causing my votes to not register/comments to not post, though.
I’ve never contributed to open source projects before, is it open to community contributions? (as in could I go pick up a feature request and make a pull request for it?)
Yes! The devs would have to accept your pull request for it to be merged into the main instance, but even if they don’t, you don’t have to use the main instance, you can spin up your own which you build out whatever features you want on.
I love this thing that people forget about open source. Like the whole FreeCAD community, there’s a whole group of people who don’t even use the vanilla UI–because they don’t have to, haha! Of course, it does take skill, but if you’re skilled enough to make pull request…
I am a shitty programmer, and I would never want most of what I do to go anywhere near Main.
But as you said, I have a few things that I run as forks, with my own little tweaks.
I could, but I’d need to host it and I don’t really have spare money for hosting infrastructure. Is it likely if I developed a feature or fixed a bug (assuming it’s good enough quality) it would actually be accepted? Nothing more demoralizing than spending time and effort working on something for it to be rejected.
Also, what’s the official lemmy repo? Can’t seem to find it from googling thanks to all the extensions forks and clients popping up
Yes! Many people are joining right now, you can too. Pick Lemmy itself or one of the apps! There is also Tafkars, they are trying to replicate the reddit api for Lemmy. The goal is to make 3rd party reddit apps compatible with lemmy.
I first made an account and saw that one of my 2 favorite features of Apollo is built in (at least in .world, I’m not sure if it’s the same everywhere) and it just made me so happy. 🥹
(Rainbow lines on the side so I can keep track of who the heck is replying to who in long chains… The grey lines on official reddit make my head hurt, haha.)
If you go to the areas where people are suggesting features, it’s almost 100% “please implement my personal favorite feature from my personalized Reddit experience.”
Now, I’m going to say that wanting the features you found useful in your old social media is a perfectly reasonable desire, but it’s the Dev’s job to make sure all the feature and UI changes are self-consistent and not overload for the user. So, naturally a bunch of requests are going to have to be ignored, at least for the time being.
If Lemmy continues to get more popular and more 3rd party reddit app devs make Lemmy apps like what RiF is doing that’ll probably have a lot of people satisfied. I like Jebroah but I’d definitely love to see Baconreader for Lemmy.
I would love to see Baconreader as well. The only app that’s perfect for scrolling through posts while laying down. Just swipe.
Same here, I’ve been using it for over a decade.
The RiF dev is making a Lemmy app?
I may be wrong about that, I just heard rumors. I think at least one 3rd party reddit app dev is.
Jerboah seems okay, though I do miss Sync. Keep getting weird Java exception toasts here and there that I believe are causing my votes to not register/comments to not post, though.
I’m hoping Slide for Reddit gets resurrected and ported over to be Slide for Lemmy
What’s going on with RIF? That was my go to.
same
I’ve never contributed to open source projects before, is it open to community contributions? (as in could I go pick up a feature request and make a pull request for it?)
Yes! The devs would have to accept your pull request for it to be merged into the main instance, but even if they don’t, you don’t have to use the main instance, you can spin up your own which you build out whatever features you want on.
I love this thing that people forget about open source. Like the whole FreeCAD community, there’s a whole group of people who don’t even use the vanilla UI–because they don’t have to, haha! Of course, it does take skill, but if you’re skilled enough to make pull request…
I am a shitty programmer, and I would never want most of what I do to go anywhere near Main.
But as you said, I have a few things that I run as forks, with my own little tweaks.
I could, but I’d need to host it and I don’t really have spare money for hosting infrastructure. Is it likely if I developed a feature or fixed a bug (assuming it’s good enough quality) it would actually be accepted? Nothing more demoralizing than spending time and effort working on something for it to be rejected.
Also, what’s the official lemmy repo? Can’t seem to find it from googling thanks to all the extensions forks and clients popping up
Yes! Many people are joining right now, you can too. Pick Lemmy itself or one of the apps! There is also Tafkars, they are trying to replicate the reddit api for Lemmy. The goal is to make 3rd party reddit apps compatible with lemmy.
That would honestly be amazing, power to them. Can’t wait to have remindmebot here again and be able to use boost here
I first made an account and saw that one of my 2 favorite features of Apollo is built in (at least in .world, I’m not sure if it’s the same everywhere) and it just made me so happy. 🥹
(Rainbow lines on the side so I can keep track of who the heck is replying to who in long chains… The grey lines on official reddit make my head hurt, haha.)
@Liz @flashgnash Well stated.