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Cat.

Cat.

Christian's words were it would be a "gargantuan" effort. From what he's said in interviews / posts etc. I'm not sure he actually wants to rebuild it for another service. It's a shame as it's a fantastic app, but every endpoint for every action would need to be re-written, tested etc. and of course, Lemmy and Reddit don't always have like for like feature sets anyway, and the APIs could be vastly different. Essentially he'd be re-building the app from scratch.

I installed mediawiki for the first time yesterday. Just did a straight install on to a Linux VM.

One thing that caught me out was that it would take a loooong time to open, but once it did it was ok. It turns out I hadn't set up any caching and this isn't done by default. It's easy enough to do though in the LocalSettings.php config file. Open it in Nano (or your text editor of choice) and find the first line you see below.

$wgCacheDirectory = "$IP/cache";
$wgFileCacheDirectory = "$IP/cache";
$wgEnableSideBarCache = true;
$wgUseFileCache = true;
$wgShowIPinHeader = false;
$EnableParserCache = true;
$wgCachePages = true;

$wgMainCacheType = CACHE_ACCEL;
$wgMessageCacheType = CACHE_ACCEL;
$wgParserCacheType = CACHE_ACCEL;
$wgMemCachedServers = array();

In my installation the first line of the above was commented out so I uncommented it and then added the rest of the stuff you see there. Then, just make sure the cache folder has the correct permissions set and you should be good to go.

Otherwise it was pretty simple. I did have to make sure I had installed the pre-reqs as listed in the mediawiki download page - ensuring apache, mariaDB etc were installed and running, and then it was pretty simple from there on in.

Also, this video is quite useful if you're not sure on certain steps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpRfwCUC2uM&t=137s

Ah yes, the fun wait for approval from Apple whilst your app sits at the “In review” stage. Always fun 😀

"The one new rule that will be strictly enforced is that instead of each post beginning with "SLPT", every post must now begin with "Spez is a greedy little pig boy""

God I love this

As long as nobody suggests “Buble’s”…

The apps currently in beta seem to be getting updated every day or so with improvements. I’m posting this using Memmy and it’s working fairly well. Both Memmy and Mlem need a bit more work before they’re ready to go to general release imho but the devs are doing great work.

I don’t think it will be long before we have fully- functional apps in the App Store.

Yep agreed. Having the current feed would be more useful for most users I would think.

Second best thing, after cats.

I use bang shortcuts a lot on DDG. I’m often doing screen shares for work where I’m training people and I’ll sometimes need to grab latitude and longitude values for a customer’s location. I just type their town name followed by !gm and a few times customers have asked how I did that, and when I explain they say they’re going to have try DDG

Excellent news. Thanks for your continued work.