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Great resources. Thank you!!
Posting the issue to Github is probably the best path if you're able to do so.
That allows other technical users to comment and puts it on the dev's radar instead of relying on a post that they may or may not see.
Got the links. Thanks!
I reported a bug earlier- but, honestly, I don't expect the dev team to get around to it soon.
My understanding, this project has a very small dev team, and this platform literally just EXPLODED in size, jumping from a very tiny niche on the internet, to literally exploding in size in the last few weeks.
And, I am willing to bet, before reddit enacts their final blow- lots more come over.
The main devs are just two, Nutomic and dessalines, who work on it full time, but since this is an open source project anybody can contribute and if it passes their tests and actually fixes whichever bug it was meaning to fix, they just merge it into the codebase. There's currently 11 pull requests for the main repo from community contributors. I believe one of the issues also has a bounty of $100 for whoever implements it.
EDIT: Right now there's a hold as they prepare for the 0.18.0 release which makes a LOT of changes to the internals of lemmy, but after that they'll probably merge and release more frequently.
Actually, it's been my experience that the right (even small) dev teams can be VERY effective, depending of course on the management. I've tried to do my part by contributing to Lemmy.world but, I guess we need to think about contributing to the software dev team for Lemmy as well? Is there a Patreon link or something? Inquiring minds want to know...
There absolutely is-
Its near the middle-bottom of their github.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
(Also, unrelated completely, I am completely ecstatic your comment notifications are successfully flowing to my instance right now and notifying me. That has been broke all day for me)
Awesome! Thanks for the tip!
Direct patron link for the lemmy dev: https://www.patreon.com/dessalines
(Sourced from their github page)
This is awesome! Thanks! So, I'm going 5-for-5 here. $5 for Lemmy.world and $5 for the Lemmy devs. I know it's not much, but I'm not rich and it's steady monthly income so, hopefully, it helps...
Every bit helps, I am sure.
I'll sit down here eventually, and try to figure out how the codebase works, and see if I can provide meaningful contributions to it.
Wow. That's the best kind of contribution, IMO...
Only- If I am able to make sense of it. I typically do C#/Python development. Everything in the code base is a bit foreign to me.
And- they already have ansible playbooks, and docker containers going. So.. shall see.
Understandable. I've done my share of Python and full-stack stuff as well but my job keeps me so busy these days that, sometimes, the only way to contribute to these types of projects is monetarily. I just do what I can, and I hope it's enough. I (we) definitely appreciate your time spent on trying to contribute more and I hope to do so as well once I can retire and tell them all to go F$ck themselves! ;)
To be perfectly honest, there is a good chance I won't be able to get involved enough to poke around in the code-base too much.
But, Gonna keep an eye on the development staff for a bit, and if they seem pretty dedicated, and up to the task of developing the tool to replace reddit, I'll slip them a hundred bucks or so.
Well worth it IMO, this platform does have promise.
I agree. There are two major bugs and, if they can work past those two issues, I think the future is bright. Once it gets to that point, it becomes better than Reddit IMO...