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Can you code? We need your help to improve lemmy (self.technology)

submitted 1 year ago by Gaywallet to c/technology

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About two days ago we found a bug with the registration system on lemmy. Because of this we have updated our registration process a few times, and cannot deny any applications as the person registering does not receive any message and cannot re-apply.

We currently have several hundred people that we are waiting to deny, and some unknown amount of people that we denied prior to finding this issue which we would really like to contact and give them a chance to register as they didn't write enough in their registration for us to really evaluate if they were a good fit for this instance.

If you're a developer please take a look at this github issue and please work your magic to help fix this problem.

As an aside, we also have a list we've been working on for enhancements that would make moderating and administering this instance a lot easier, and enhancements we think users would enjoy in terms of UI and UX. We'd love to share these as well as facilitate a discussion to surface more ideas (and we plan to in the future), but right now we need to focus on the most pressing issue to us running this website, whether people can create an account here and participate.

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[–] reka 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How does this work with a federation model. Is it possible that there can be lots of different clients with different UX’es?

[–] lungdart@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

That's pretty much how mobile apps work, so very likely.

[–] Skelectus@suppo.fi 3 points 1 year ago

Lemmy backend and lemmy ui are separate components. Look up LemmyBB, that for example is an alternative to lemmy-ui.

[–] OneRedFox 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fediverse platforms in general are just different UIs for the same content since they all interop to varying degrees. You can subscribe to and interact with Lemmy content from Mastodon, as an example.

[–] chinpokomon 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does that go in reverse too? Subscribing to a Lemmy instance, do I have a Mastodon account by extension? I thought they were different federated services, but being able to authenticate and authorize through one (or more) accredited account(s) would make sense for both services.

[–] OneRedFox 2 points 1 year ago

Lemmy has yet to implement the functionality needed to follow non-Lemmy accounts, but it is in the todo list. You should check out kbin if you're interested in a similar UI that currently supports this functionality.