reply with features and bug fixes you’d like to see in Philthy, the lemmy fork that runs on this instance. no guarantees I’ll get to any of them soon, but particularly low-hanging fruit and well-liked features can be prioritized.

  • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
    4·
    8 months ago

    I was wiped when i got home yesterday 😅

    here’s the ones I gathered from various thread mentions:

    • modtools local-posts view
    • user flairs (non-federated to start)
    • repo and docs renames (I believe these have been done)
    • a review of the existing containers/container build flow, to see what’s in there
    • CI: open question as to preferred CI system, feedback welcome
    • button to allow auto-subbing users to new subs being created (strikes me that this would also involve user prefs work, to allow users to control that). might also open the door to an invite feature?
    • self@awful.systemsOPM
      5·
      8 months ago

      is it weird that I kind of want to start with (very limited, probably moderator-assigned) flairs? it’s like the least important feature but it’s one that I miss a lot

      • David Gerard@awful.systemsEnglish
        5·
        8 months ago

        user-assigned flairs per sub are great fun, i feel like being a shill for Big Basilisk again

        mod-assigned ones were useful on reddit buttcoin, whereas here we’d probably just get sick of their shiit and ban them

    • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      repo and docs renames (I believe these have been done)

      so, taking a look at this (because it seems like a good one with which to dive into the repo and gain a broader familiarity/see all the pieces), quite a bunch of places all across the source and docs that mention lemmy and use lemmy in element/crate/resource names:

      ❯ rg -icI lemmy | numsum; rg -il lemmy | wc -l
3741
411

      tackling it would be best in stages, I think. both because in general I’m not a big fan of gigantic branches (being a complete pain to review, and absent really really good testing it’s easy for things to slip through), and because that’s just this repo even

      for a staged rename of things, probably makes sense to try tackle subsystems one at a time? would we want to tag versions for each stage completion?

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
        3·
        8 months ago

        even just looking at the list of places the name got used… oof. some deeeeeeply baked assumptions in here

      • self@awful.systemsOPM
        3·
        8 months ago

        I want to hold off on this for a bit since it will impact our ability to grab commits from upstream; for now I’d recommend we keep lemmy as a legacy symbol and use philthy in new development. once we’re in a good place for this, I imagine it makes sense to do it in stages, in an outside-in pattern — that is, we’d start by renaming things like the executable that’s very visible but breaks relatively little, then gradually make more internal, breaking changes

        • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
          3·
          8 months ago

          that’s a fair point too. will probably take a little while to find/develop some patterns for do now vs do later