There will always be "First we need this, then we will start supporting it" excuse. If you think better migration tools are needed, support the developers so that they can make it happen.

[–] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Suggest me devs who are willing to make such a tool to support it

[–] rglullis 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The Lemmy devs themselves.

[–] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You just said in another comment that lemmy devs have limited time and budgets to implement better migrations tools. If i find a dev who promote a project lime that i would donate

[–] rglullis 1 points 2 days ago

If we all donate a little bit to the project, their budget will be larger. If their budget is larger, they can get more steady collaborators.

And even if they can't get more people, by helping them we show we value all the work they have done already.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If the devs care about that part of the software (or any dev who's got the time and interest since it's open-source), they would be working on it. They've signalled to users that they don't care. Let those who care do it. And if no one cares, then it doesn't need to be done.

[–] rglullis 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is absurd and shows some ridiculous entitlement.

Software development is not just a drive-thru restaurant where people just make an order with their preferred menu, and 30 seconds later it is handed it out to you. Developers have to balance a bunch of priorities, deal with bugs, make sure that new features being added can be maintained in the future adequately. It's also not easy for anyone to just drop by and submit a huge piece of functionality without making sure things works as expected. And they are doing this all while getting basically no money in donations (~3000€/month, for 3 developers is less than minimum wage for pretty much all of Northern Europe).

If you think it's just a matter of "they don't care", go ahead and write the code yourself.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 2 days ago

If you think it's just a matter of "they don't care", go ahead and write the code yourself.

There's one big issue with that: I don't care enough either. It's not a priority for me.