tldr: chapo.chat isn't ready yet.

Don't worry, you'll get to be called libs by the users from lemmygrad.ml Soon™.

[chapo.chat is] running a heavily modified version of lemmy forked months ago, for not just the front end, but the back end as well. Once they’re up to date with the most recent lemmy versions that have federation working, then we can try federation, on the back end at least. Their back end devs are great, but their front end devs contribute nothing upstream, and will have to re-create all the federation-related parts of the lemmy-ui code for their own fork.

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EDIT: See @Beatnik's comment

  • pepe_silvia96 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    1. why would front end differences between this and lemmy matter? if the backend responds with data that's compatible with both the lemmy frontend and this, wouldn't front end differences be meaningless? unless they're sending a server generated html response...never had a look at their repo but I doubt they are.

    2. I've never had a job in tech, or contributed to open source before, but I'm self taught in python, golang and js(have used vue.js before). I've played around with rust a bit since joining this place out of curiosity but as it is probably cant do much with it. is there a way I can in some way get involved with the dev team? at the very least I'd like to get caught up on the the short term goals. i went through the open issues, but idk what I'm supposed to look for to get caught up.

    • eiknat [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      this weekend we're going to get some information up on how y'all can contribute

      • pepe_silvia96 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        cool. is the post gonna be on main or a different community. if you know ahead of time which user is gonna post the announcement, could you tell me so I dont miss it?

        • eiknat [comrade/them]
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          4 years ago

          probably going to be featured at the top of the site this weekend, you won't miss it. beatnik will make it :)

    • chmos [any]
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      4 years ago

      Because the data probably isn’t compatible with both front ends after federation was implemented. Chapo chat needs to add some new ui features to be able to see linked instances, what instance a post or community belongs to, and so on for the site to really be usable. That’s my guess.

    • ThePeoplesGuillotine [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Tbh IDK, federated content should just be flaired/tagged with some indication the source is from a different host server. You could spruce the uiux up around that but the core concept is incredibly simple and not worth drawing attention to