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I cannot code. 🫤
But it occurs to me that we need a couple of features - although maybe they already exist.
One is the ability to back up a Lemmy account and download the data.
The other is account portability - the ability to move an account from one instance to another.
But I suspect that #2 might be impossible.
mastodon has some portability features but not the ability to fully move the content of your account: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/ though you can move some stuff like friend lists etc.
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Off topic but I'm really happy that the developers chose Rust to code Lemmy in. Low maintenance + high performance is the ideal combo for open source server software.
I'd second this. Knowing that the back-end is built on Rust was definitely big part of drove my excitement for this project!
Yeah, I only found out recently but it's the cherry on top
Is there a way we can minimize the stickies? It’s a quality of life but would be great to read it once and shrink it so I get to my feed quicker.
My dev days are a little while behind me, but I have experience in project management, QA, etc. Happy to help.
I can't code, but I'd be happy to send donations to those who can to work on Lemmy. I'm not a rich man but I'll happily help how I can.
I am a software developer. I will look at it this weekend at some point. I'll try to help if I can.
Bit of a tangent here, but if you’re ever looking for experience designers to help out here and there, or to just give something a second set of eyes, I might be able to lend a hand or connect y’all with some bright and chill people.
You probably don’t want me making any PRs, but I know my way around Figma and a user test plan.
I'd love to see you redesign some parts of the Lemmy UI!
In my option, a lot of designing work is still to be done so I'd love to see mockups you can make and your thoughts on design work!
If we could end up with a theme that looks a lot more like https://kbin.social, I'd be so happy. My biggest gripe with Lemmy is all of the white space, and none of the current themes improve that at all. All of the theme options offered by kbin look amazing by comparison, and to my understanding Lemmy theming is done via CSS based on Bootstrap v4, so new theme creation should be straightforward enough.
It's to the point where, when visiting Lemmy instances, I use a custom CSS extension to modify a few properties to make it a bit more palatable to me.
If you guys ever need help creating custom themes to offer to users I'd be happy to contribute.
Can you post your user style??
But I would very much support having a more compact theme available without a browser extension. I think some tightening up up would make this place look more welcoming. It feels sort of "empty" due to all the white space.
Hey there, sure, currently I'm using this. The border between comments on a comment thread doesn't look the best, but it makes it easier for me to track comment levels so I like it, though there are certain properties I'd like to change but can't.
Either way, I'm using an extension called Amino to apply my CSS changes on a domain-level.
This fixes a lot of the whitespace and borders to make differentiating between posts and comments a little easier, while minimizing white space. I think it looks nice.
.container-lg {
max-width: 1600px;
}
.col-md-8 {
max-width: 80%;
flex: 0 0 80%;
}
.col-md-4 {
max-width: 20%;
flex: 0 0 20%;
}
.post-listing {
border: 1px solid rgba(34,34,34,.125);
border-color: #c80000;
border-bottom: 0px;
padding-top: 10px;
}
hr {
display: none;
}
.border-top {
border-top: 1px solid rgba(34,34,34,.125)!important;
}
.border-light {
border-color: #e4e4e5!important;
}
thank you I like it! I hate when websites force me to have so much blank space. Like I remember what an improvement it was in 2002 when everyone got into sans serif fonts and padding to their table based layouts and using % widths, but the craft has moved on from those days... For this kind of website I am thinking more of a newspaper and less of a coffee table book.
looks like Amino is only available for chrome and edge. For other ff users I will say I use an addon called Stylus but it might not be the best one; kind of resource hungry on big pages.
Hey so just a heads up, I made a few more changes that I quite like (again, for the red theme, tweak appropriately for the default green theme), so thought I'd just update you.
This changes the main feed quite a bit, adding a bit more of a card-like design to posts, though I have done my best to make sure there isn't too much white-space from this change, I just feel it looks a bit more modern, but again, feel free not to use it :)
It also, and this is my favorite change, changes the title color of any post you've visited, something that I feel is basic but for some reason Lemmy didn't have before. So now any posts you've visited before will be a light-gray color instead. Hope you find some value here.
.container-lg {
max-width: 1600px;
}
.col-md-8 {
max-width: 80%;
flex: 0 0 80%;
}
.col-md-4 {
max-width: 20%;
flex: 0 0 20%;
}
.col-sm-2 {
max-width: 10%;
flex: 0 0 10%;
}
.col-sm-9 {
margin-left: 5px;
max-width: 80%;
flex: 0 0 80%;
}
.post-listing {
border: 1px solid rgba(34,34,34,.125);
/*border-bottom: 0px;*/
border-color: #c80000;
border-radius: 5px;
margin-bottom: 8px;
padding-top: 10px;
background-color: #fff;
transition: all .2s;
box-shadow: 2px 2px 1px #c80000;
}
hr {
display: none;
}
.border-top {
border-top: 1px solid rgba(34,34,34,.125)!important;
}
.border-light {
border-color: #e4e4e5!important;
}
body {
background-color: #ecf0f1;
}
.navbar {
background-color: #fff;
}
.card {
background-color: #fff;
box-shadow: 2px 2px 1px #c80000;
}
.col-12 .card {
box-shadow: none;
}
.comments {
padding-left: 10px;
background-color: #fff;
}
a:visited .d-inline-block {
color:#d6d7d9!important;
}
.my-2 {
margin-bottom: 0px!important;
}
Thank you for sharing! I will try it when i am on desktop.
I actually used your code as base to start to fix some things that bug me the most.. all spacing/positioning the colors are a total mess. So i am interested to see what yours is like. I can tell from looking that yours is more efficient because i do not know what im doing so it is trial and error.
Do you think there is a better place than wherever we are to post? A repo or other code sharing? I think the stylus extension connects to some sort of website but i never investigated it.
Hey so I setup a repo; swap to the default green litely theme, and then test a few of these out, I think they turned out quite well!
https://github.com/HrBingR/Lemmy_CSS/
Please feel free to submit pull requests if you have other colors or ideas you think would look nice. The more the merrier!
I was thinking of creating a Github repo for it, maybe make a few different theme variants as well for people that'd want different than the standard two colors etc. Might take a crack at it, will let you know.
omg did you add drop shadows??? wowwowow i love it
Glad you like it! :)
I have Rust experience and will consider helping out. I've been wanting to help out Lemmy recently anyway.
It seems like a lot of developers have responded already but I'm a c# developer with some experience in Rust so I'll see if I can help with any issues that crop up on GitHub.
Likely need to define some basic rbac controls. They signed up, sure, but don’t receive a “user” role until after approval. Then in the home page, when signed in with no roles assigned, they get a banner saying they’re still pending approval and will not be able to post or comment.
The major concern will be retroactively applying user roles to the existing users.
I probably should start learning TypeScript. Foundry VTT and VSCode also use TypeScript. I haven't had motivation professionally. I might need to take it up as a hobby.
I professionally develop in C, C++, C# and Python.
If you code in C# then you'll find it dead easy. Microsoft essentially made it a web version of C# so that their developers could easily switch to web.
Knowing TypeScript is similar to C# is uplifting. Thank you.
I would love to help. Senior software engineer with a lot to learn 😂
I’ll take a look at it and submit a post request with fixes within the next week
Pull request*
I'd be happy to help contribute as best I can. I don't have much Rust experience but I'd like to learn more. One thing I'm noticing: I like that there are a good deal good first issue tags for the backend repo, but only one for the frontend. I'm not sure if there's really that far fewer intro tasks for the frontend or if they're just not tagged as thoroughly.
It’s possible, once they have a good ecosystem of apps plus a lower priced tier (maybe around at macbook air pricing?) However, I can’t imagining it ever shredding the feeling of dystopian-ness of it
Hiya! Lemmy was actually one of the reasons I started learning Rust, but I do also know JavaScript, Python, a bit of Julia, C, C++, MASM, NASM, MIPS, a bit of TypeScript, and Java. I've worked on both frontend and backend although I think my expertise and comfort lies with backend primarily. I'm not sure if I'd be able to help with y'all's issue as I'm not familiar with the Lemmy codebase, but I'd be willing to try and help debug the issue and hopefully get it under control.