This would be cool
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2024
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@[email protected] Just wanted to check in to see if there is any progress on this. Anything we can do to help expedite the development of this feature?
Realistically, try to contribute directly is the likely answer.
Something in between organising and contributing might be starting a community for getting people to help and organise as best as they can on community contributions.
My own community [email protected] is such an attempt. At the moment it’s been mostly a learning rust community, but getting some group contributions organised was always on the roadmap and now would be a good time to start doing that there if you’re interested.
If you are interested at all in this or the general idea, let me know how I can help.
@[email protected] This. If youre interested to work on this feature or others, feel free to ask for guidance in the relevant issue, or in the dev chat.
In terms of contributing directly, while I can hack together some terrible python code, I have never done any development in Rust, or on the scale of Lemmy.
I'll keep the Matrix chat and [email protected] in mind though. Thanks, @[email protected] and @nutomic@[email protected] for your thoughts and suggestions!
No worries!
If you’re interested in learning rust (I’ve certainly enjoyed) feel free to try to do so in the community. We’ve just about gone through the main course now, but I can very much see another round starting if people are interested.
The whole idea is to treat contributing as a group learning challenge rather than something onerous and hard.
Otherwise, if you’ve got sql/DB experience, that’s often just as relevant AFAICT (as is the case across the fediverse). I’d bet that if anyone sorts out a good query or schema someone else could integrate it into the code base.
A bounty is an interesting idea. Has it been used for Lemmy development or similar before? I'm not aware of any examples, but I don't closely follow development.
iirc yes, there was actually a link on every issue opened (see example), it was on bountysource which eventually died and iirc it was at a time where lemmy was not nearly as popular.
Fyi, piefed has such feature
Yup, it was actually the piefed announcement which prompted my original post on this.
Does this feature have any interoperability yet (i.e can I follow an Mbin or Lemmy comment from piefed), or is it strictly piefed only?
You can subscribe to Lemmy communities from Piefed, so I guess it works wherever the community is hosted
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but if Piefed doesn't yet have an app, how do the notifications... notify?
I.e, will my phone to vibrate or make a noise, or do I still have to check my inbox manually? (Still easier than checking multiple threads manually)
Very late reply - the 'app' at the moment is just a PWA, so it requires a manual check
Would be a great feature, trying to follow ongoing discussion in a thread you've already visited is annoying currently.
I wish I could follow this post. I personally leave a comment in a post I want to follow so whenever I get the comment it reminds me of the post.