After the (temporary) defederation announcement of earlier i checked the Lemmy repo to see if there was already a ticket on the federation limiting option like Mastodon’s that people mentioned Lemmy doesn’t yet have. Not only i didn’t find it, i also saw that there’s about 200+ open tickets of variable importance. Also saw that it’s maintained mostly by the two main devs, the difference in commits between them and even the next contributors is vast. This is normal and in other circumstances it’d grow organically, but considering the huge influx of users lately, which will likely take months to slow down, they just don’t have the same time to invest on this, and many things risk being neglected. I’m a sysadmin, haven’t coded anything big in at least a decade and a half beyond small helper scripts in Bash or Python, and haven’t ever touched Rust, so can’t help there, but maybe some of you Rust aficionados can give some time to help essentially all of Lemmy. The same can be said of Kbin of course, although that’s PHP, and there is exacerbated by it being just the single dev.
I started looking into building a theme for Lemmy, but it was quite difficult to get everything to run well locally. When I did a checkout the main branch had an error in the Rust code and the main branch of the ui had an error that prevented the websocket from connecting to the back-en. I did get it to work by fixing the small error in rust and using a branch that fixed the websocket error. But it was hard to get started.
I was wondering if there is a Lemmy development community here on Lemmy. I tried searching for it on Lemmy.ml, but the cummunties about Lemmy and support don’t really look like they are about development.
That’s a good point, there should be a community about developing Lemmy itself on the main Lemmy instance, pinging @[email protected] and/or @nutomic@[email protected], it would be the place to recruit to help, maybe even make posts about specific issues that need attention or something
If you have a matrix account there is a chat for lemmy development: #lemmydev:matrix.org
Thanks, I joined Matrix server.
That’s great to know! I’m contributing to the project but spent a whole night after work trying to find a working combination of branches for the ui and server. Their contributing docs for local development are poor. Which I should probably do something about besides complain… lol
What is matrix?
It’s a communication protocol with a federated network - see https://matrix.org/