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[-] 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 210 points 1 year ago

Lemmy Devs: peacefully developing the Lemmy code for free

Reddit Refugees: "WHY IS THIS SO BUGGY?"

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 221 points 1 year ago

We're probably hitting close to the all-time high of unread notifications on github... I'm at 1752 rn, only watching lemmy projects.

It does feel like I've become the personal issue tracker for a few thousand people all the sudden. 99% of ppl are nice, but there's always someone demanding free labor to fix their pet issue, while offering to do none of the work themselves, and making ultimatums that they won't use your software until it gets added.

It's like okay then???? I'm not selling a product, so I don't care. I've essentially set up a free cookie stand and they're complaining at me that I don't have rainbow sprinkles.

[-] BinaryEnthusiast@beehaw.org 51 points 1 year ago

First off, thank you for working on improving lemmy, it is greatly appreciated. How does one go about helping work on lemmy? I’m a software engineer myself, and I’m looking to provide help during down of my free time. I’m not the most familiar in Rust, but it’s on my summer bucket list

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 48 points 1 year ago

No probs! The best way to get started (after you've learned some rust), would be to find a smaller issue or feature you'd like, and then comment on that issue, or in our dev matrix chat, if you need any help. We appreciate any help we can get on improving the code.

[-] BinaryEnthusiast@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I’m already familiar with REST apis, since that’s what I work on normally, so hopefully the learning experience will be smooth. Where can I find the dev matrix chat?

[-] odium@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

Even if you're unfamiliar with rust, you can still help with open source lemmy front-ends/apps that aren't written in rust

[-] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago
[-] JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I’m sort of new to lent, how do I save this comment??

[-] alamani@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'm also a noob and have no idea how to on desktop, but the jerboa app has a save post/comment feature with a button under each post/comment. Can't say whether other apps do as well, since I've only tried jerboa so far.

[-] Blaze@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you for your work!

[-] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I’m not the most familiar in Rust, but it’s on my summer bucket list

Guess you could say you have a rusty bucket

[-] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago

How come I can't install Lemmy on my grill and have it cook me hotdogs?

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

It doesn't even integrate with my smart kettle, what are they even spending their time on, silly things like stability and bugfixes?

[-] LSlowmotion@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

It works on my smart fridge but it's running slow. What are they doing smh my head.

[-] george@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago

I tried that but the app froze

[-] donut4ever@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago

Dude, thank you so much for your hard work. Ignore those people.

[-] renlok@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

This is the reason I ended up hating my old open source projects. It's not enough you give people something for free some people just always demand more.

But awesome work with lemmy hopefully working on it doesn't wear you down too much and you get some enjoyment from it still.

[-] Max_UL@lemmy.pro 11 points 1 year ago

Don’t worry about those asshats! You guys are doing great work, Lemmy is awesome!

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I'm a backend dev of a little over a year of experience in Python. I've started teaching myself Rust so that I can make mod tools and solve issues that bother me.

[-] Resonosity@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Thank you for making this software. It's really opened my eyes about what the internet could be in the future, and how it really mirrors real life in many ways. Take your time, I'm sure you (and any other dev) will knock out the big issues with the software if they ever pop up. The small stuff can wait

[-] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I wonder if making a separate bug-reporting place and having some people sort them to lessen the load might be helpful. Im a very newbie programmer and know nothing in rust but still want to help out, and sorting through bugreports seems like something that might be helpful, and need minimal rust experience, just sorting individual requests into piles of same problems to lessen the sorting needing to be done by those who can actually work on fixing the bugs.

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.one 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Actually, to be fair, they're being paid salaries to work on Lemmy lol

Though the 0.18.0 update was quite nice and solved a lot of issues I had, so it's definitely cool to see how well it's progressing.

[-] Distributed@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Honestly lol. Real-time stress test!

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