The Sublinks team has written up a little survey, which we feel is both thorough and inclusive. It covers a wide range of topics, such as user privacy, and community engagement, along with trying to gauge things that are difficult when moderating.
Hi, just a heads for those who might be curious about sublinks and its development. There's an official account posting development updates at @sublinks, and if you're interested in seeing the really cool progress with the frontend there's @Ategon
Will be starting to share progress on the Sublinks UI that ive been working on
Starting off with some progress I’ve been making on the Home Page. Been taking things I enjoy from both alternate frontends such as Photon and Tesseract, as well as Misskey forks like Iceshrimp and Sharkey.
People who followed me as I was developing Pangora might recognize a lot of similar design decisions. Still in progress but ill try to share new progress at least every couple of days when I work on it with new additions
The left sidebar can be collapsed to show only icons for people who want a bit more space for post cards. Hovering over an option adds a popover saying what it is. In addition when you scroll down the navbar shrinks a bit to give you more space for post cards. On mobile the navbar hides completely when you scroll down and then shows again when you scroll up
The frontend is still heavily in progress so things may change a lot still before release as I refine it. If you’ve got suggestions feel free to give me them
(this is basically a mirror of my programming.dev post but wanted to start posting them here as well)
@sublinks oh whoops! I don't know how I missed that 😅
I think it might be because, as a developer, I automatically look at the website footer to figure out what it's running (that's when I don't open the source code) :html5:
Is there an easy way to change the footer text? A "Lemmy frontend, Sublinks backend" would explain all 🤔
Of course if you're anyway putting up a new frontend soon then maybe don't bother
It is still early enough in the #redditmigration that #lemmy or #kbin can easily be replaced if something superior comes along. So if #piefed or #sublinks can develop their consumer facing products better and faster then they will inevitably get the community support. And since sublinks uses the existing Lemmy API it might have the best chance to do so.
You never know, the current Lemmy devs might be pushed aside tomorrow, anything could happen.
@ecksearoh the even better prospect is that with all these platforms with group threads with voting systems, there will be even better standard tooling, transferability, apps, and discovery ecosystems that work across all the federating platforms.