Lemmy Project Priorities Observations
I've raised my voice loudly on meta communities, github, and created new [email protected] and [email protected] communities.
I feel like the performance problems are being ignored for over 30 days when there are a half-dozen solutions that could be coded in 5 to 10 hours of labor by one person.
I've been developing client/server messaging apps professionally since 1984, and I firmly believe that Lemmy is currently suffering from a lack of testing by the developers and lack of concern for data loss. A basic e-mail MTA in 1993 would send a "did not deliver" message back to message sender, but Lemmy just drops delivery and there is no mention of this in the release notes//introduction on GitHub. I also find that the Lemmy developers do not like to "eat their own dog food" and actually use Lemmy's communities to discuss the ongoing development and priorities of Lemmy coding. They are not testing the code and sampling the data very much, and I am posting here, using Lemmy code, as part of my personal testing! I spent over 100 hours in June 2023 testing Lemmy technical problems, especially with performance and lost data delivery.
I'll toss it into this echo chamber.
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I opted not to comment on GitHub about the proposed community attribute addition of local-only posting (sort of like moderator-only posting to a community now).
I encourage the project as a whole to move away from these single-bit flags, aka booleans. I suggest a SMALLINT postgresql type and define 0 or 1 for values. And name the field a little more generic such as "posting_restrictions" and let 1 = home community only.
Down the road.. lemmy may have the ability to have private members-only communities, and a multi-value field could control different behaviors (0 = normal as Lemmy is today, 1 = home instance only, 2 = approved members only).
It is taking 20 source code changes to lemmy_server to add one single boolean. [email protected] has the same level of concern when adding features... 20 source files.