Being able to respond to old posts is a good thing, like classic forums. I always hated that Reddit didn't allow you to do that, and Reddit also didn't have sort options for New Comments or Active.
Imagine if someone made a post about a tech issue, it ranked high on Google results, lots of people in the comments with the same issue, and you found the solution, but the post was too old to reply to.
I still feel like adding those API routes and making PRs is easier than a full rewrite, with less fragmentation too
It's there now, the crawler found you. Congrats!
An issue for this has been filed https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2951
For now, try this tool https://lemy.lol/post/19638974
Searchability is bad.
Growing a new community is hard. I wish people used lemmyverse more often.
Try this https://lemy.lol/post/19638974
I don't think the chosen language should matter that much, I'm just worried about the fragmentation of the contributors
duplicated work that could've just been done together, or as 3rd party tools that link to the base Lemmy database/API, or plugins/extensions eventually
Yeah we actually have a pretty good number of posts and votes but not enough comments in them usually
I guess because people post about the niche they're interested in, but there aren't enough people to always find many others interested in it too
Also the moderation tools could've been Java and connect to the Lemmy database/API (maybe with some pull requests to add to Lemmy's API), which to me sounds a lot better than saying fuck it and rewriting everything, it could've lived in its own repo anyways
When it comes to moderation tooling I'm honestly a little confused that there isn't more work or noise around a developing a sideloaded tool.
Yeah we just need volunteers to dedicate their time to it. But it's a lot easier to complain than it is to contribute.
I believe there are a large number of feature requests on Lemmy’s GitHub page, making it difficult for developers to prioritize what’s truly important to users.
Btw GitHub allows you to sort issues by number of thumbs ups, and I believe the devs use this
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc
But also Steam hardware survey shows Linux at only 2%, and Steam Deck I think was only half of that? So these numbers for desktop usage are higher than what Steam is seeing.