• bottech [he/him]
      hexagon
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      Despite what others are saying in the other thread i think we do need to grow because we barely have any devs, if we had more people, more people would volunteer to be devs, so yes, evangelize more

        • Horsepaste [they/them]
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          edit-2
          3 years ago

          But when a forum grows, it tends to attract bad faith actors

          lol this site at launch had a bunch of feds spamming videos of child soldiers with john kerry’s head photoshopped on them.

          if anything, more people here dilutes the dudes coming back here for their paycheck

      • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Is there a list of open issues or roadmap or anything that prospective devs could glance at? I might be interested in a side project.

        • CARCOSA [they/them]A
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          3 years ago

          https://hexbear.net/post/159221

          "The proposal is to fork Lemmy again, this time deliberately not diverging too far from upstream so it’s easier to maintain the patches and apply them on top of each new Lemmy release.

          This is a large undertaking. There is no timeline, but we expect it to be a while before the site is migrated over to the finished fork.

          We’re still in the early stages, but the more people involved the sooner we can progress. Primarily, we need developers (Rust & TypeScript)"

          • blobjim [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            how about just not fork at all lmao. Why do you need to have features that you don't contribute back to Lemmy? And if there aren't enough devs to do the work, what's the point?

            • layla
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              3 years ago

              The only reason we'd actually fork again would be because upstream Lemmy wouldn't want some of our features. For example, they have been resistant to the idea of sitemods.

              • blobjim [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                It doesn't seem like people are resistant, just trying to think of the best way to implement something.

                • layla
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                  3 years ago

                  You're very strange

        • layla
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          3 years ago

          Yes there is a list. As others have said I can get you started and add you to the channels+GitHub org, just DM me on matrix (@layla:chapo.chat).