andobando

Just did some reading and it indeed does seem like GPL is not allowed in app stores as it does not allow any further restrictions (such as Apples store's requirements).

I have to do some research.

Just added the Apache License.

Goals:

1. Better UI (I am aiming for old.reddit) for lemmy with a new design (repetitive icons, hard to distinguish comments, terrible mobile UI) and fixing common issues, like freezing, spinners loading forever, etc.
2. Single codebase for web, native Android and iOS apps. This is possible with Svelte + Capacitor.
3. Svelte codebase which I believe will be far easier to develop on.
4. Rethink how communities are browsed/integrated as alluded to in this post. This is my end goal, but I need to have some discussions about what this will exactly look like.

My current goal is to just get the site working with all/most of the existing functionality. For that there is a lot to do. Profile/settings page, comment replies, community browser/subscriptions to name a few.

Theyre getting rid of websockets all together, which should give a big performance boost. Right now the backend maintains connection for every active user and pushes an ungodly amount of messages for no good reason

Im not sure what you're saying. Personally I want to avoid one huge centralized "community" as it no longer ceases to be a community.

It makes sense to me that different userbases have different /r/funny with different content that they find funny. Otherwise you just have one appeal to the lowest common denominator content.

I think so too, however we need some discoverability of these instances. At the very least we should be able to easily search for and subscribe to communities from different instances, and have some UI to easily navigate these.

I am working on this. But I need help, shoot me a message if you're interested. https://github.com/ando818/lemmy-ui-svelte

Nah I disagree. Turning things less serious is not necessarily a bad thing. People will visit to check it out but long term it will get stale and die off.

This is such a good point. Reddit nor any of the other giants can surpass the ability of open source. If this works out it will prove a very fundamental shift in tech.

The power user base is still there. 96+% of the site has effectively remained

Agree, let them do whatever they want.

If this place turns into rage bait content like reddit Im out. Way too nice outside to deal with cynical assholes to discuss irrelevant stuff that has no real impact

Ah, my ide auto pulls in imports sometimes. Thank you

Check out svelte, its pretty much native JS.

Doesn't get much simpler than this https://github.com/ando818/lemmy-ui-svelte/blob/main/src/routes/%2Bpage.server.js https://github.com/ando818/lemmy-ui-svelte/blob/main/src/routes/%2Bpage.svelte