Flairs and ability to block instances as a user would be soooooo nice. Thank you.
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This is great news! What happens if the Lemmy devs dont accept the changes upstream, though? 🙂
Then it'll be a feature only in our site and any other sites using our version of lemmy
Oh ok seems fine as long as the code continues to merge cleanly with upstream. But once that stops happening, could be hard to continue development without branching off and going our own way.
Will the custom code be open source and made available to us? If so, where would that be?
Yeah should be fine, dont think any changes made are going to severely overhaul the base structure so everything will be able to merge in (and if it does change then makes sense to branch off at that point)
Yeah it'll be in a github repo. Currently trying to brainstorm a name and then I'll share the repo publicly
and if it does change then makes sense to branch off at that point
I really hope it doesn't come to that. I don't want to become a fork of Lemmy. I would consider going to a different instance if that happened, because I would need to weigh pros/cons of sticking to OG Lemmy dev team or programming.dev team.
I don't think this will be a very big issue for the majority of the cases though. As long as it's configurable and not a (very) controversial change. Especially, since I don't think that feature requests on a programming focused community will be that much controversial...
What I have observed so far: I think the maintainers are relatively open to changes (compared to a few other open source repos).
I would like the ability to hide posts, that way I don't keep seeing posts I've already viewed or not interested in.
Pretty sure, that there's already a github issue on lemmy itself (too lazy currently to search it though)
ah sorry, I was just going off the list in the OP. I'm fairly new here. (ah, i see "on lemmy itself," I'm not totally clear on how that works but that makes sense.)
All good, well maybe not exactly the issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3580 (maybe you find something else there, otherwise, just open an issue there)
Also just discovered via this, that there's already a "Show Read Posts" setting in the settings
Just listing some features I find valuable, some of them got issues already
- Migrating communities to another instance
- Ability to subscribe to communities in bulk
- Notification for new communities on particular instance
- subscribe to post replies when you're not the poster
- mentions by username notification
- subscribed + local/all feed together
- local/all feed without subscribed
- mark as read on posts
No idea how hard it would be but it would be nice to have code blocks with syntax highlighting like on Github, so you could write something like
```python
def f(x):
return x
```
and get

This is great. I think "instance post/comment links" would be a great addition to Lemmy core in general, but don't know how easy it would be to implement. What I have in mind is: when someone provides a link to a post/comment in another instance, it would be converted to a link the person is logged in from. I think it would be OK to leave the link as is but add an icon next to it that goes to the correct URL for that instance.
Yeah no idea how that would be connected. I know theres an extension that does it so I might need to look at the source for that
I believe there is an API to convert such a link, but detecting that a link is going to a Lemmy instance might be difficult (or non-elegant).
Should be able to just compare against the list of known instances. It'll miss the ones that aren't connected yet, but that should fix itself once someone subscribes to a remote community on the missing instance.
Yeah, that's what I meant by non-elegant. I think the way Lemmy assigns IDs to posts and comments should be re-thought. Dictionary lookup is a solution, but not a good one.
Hmm, yeah, I see what you mean. Wasn't thinking about having to convert the IDs. Plus the actual local copy of the post needs to be available, not just a connection to the remote instance.
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