Just saying. How're yall doing, by the way?

  • silent_water [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    yeah, I wish they'd just append the pronouns to the display name so the main field could be edited.

      • silent_water [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        it's not trivial. it means storing the pronouns field in the database separately from the display name and then updating frontends. and there's issues with length limits that have to be sorted out. I'm also not sure if the lemmy devs would accept the PR as they seemed kinda sour on the idea of adding pronoun tags when it got suggested in an issue.

              • silent_water [she/her]
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                1 year ago

                So somebody makes it, they send the change over using a pull-request, and the other side has the choice of accepting it declining it?

                yes

                Why wouldn’t they just trust our devs? They’re clearly competent.

                it's not really about that. it's a process thing to make sure changes are well-thought through, do what they're purported to do, and don't have any knock-on effects that would be unexpected. the model is used in basically all forms of software development -- most projects use them even for core devs. people only push changes directly into the repo when there's an emergency and something needs to be fixed immediately.