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! 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