bahmanm

bahmanm, 8 months ago

When i read the title, my immediate thought was “Mojolicious project renamed? To a name w/ an emoji!?” 😂

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We plan to open-source Mojo progressively over time

Yea, right! I can’t believe that there are people who prefer to work on/with a closed source programming language in 2023 (as if it’s the 80’s.)

… can move faster than a community effort, so we will continue to incubate it within Modular until it’s more complete.

Apparently it was “complete” enough to ask the same “community” for feedback.

I genuinely wonder how they managed to convince enthusiasts to give them free feedback/testing (on github/discord) for something they didn’t have access to the source code.

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PS: I didn’t downvote. I simply got upset to see this happening in 2023.

bahmanm, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

TIL indeed!

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bahmanm, 8 months ago

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/1a7acec0-64a8-47b3-8343-03b1c7bd5d4e.png

bahmanm, 8 months ago

Feedack from Emacs Matrix room:

The code will fail if a sequence contains duplicates
Also, seq-* implies that it is assuming to work on any sequence type, not just lists

bahmanm, 8 months ago

Thanks. Yes, lemmy-status.org was where I got the initial idea 💯

automatic list

For the website I’m thinking about, I’d rather keep it exclusively opt-in. I don’t wish to add any extra load since most of the instances are running off of enthusiasts’ pockets.

bahmanm, 8 months ago

I still haven’t made up my mind as to what is a good interval. But I think I’ll take a per-endpoint approach, hitting more expensive ones less frequently.

So far I can only think of 4-5 endpoints/URLs that I should hit in every iteration as outlined in the post above.

web/mobile home feed
web/mobile create post/comment
web/mobile search

I think those will cover most of the usecases.

bahmanm, 8 months ago

Thanks all for the input 🙏

I did a quick experiment w/ the APIs and I think I have identified the ones I’d need. Obviously, all is open source (GPLv3) available on github: lemmy-clerk

As the next step, I’m going to expose that data to Prometheus for scraping.

bahmanm, 8 months ago

That’s a fair use-case.

You see memes in your feed (despite not subscribing to meme’y communities). Three things come to my mind, thinking out loud here:

(1) Could it be b/c the community is not granular enough? Remember we’re in the early stages of Lemmy w/ big “holistic” communities. I’d suppose as we grow, a overarching community will specialise and be split into several more specific ones?

(2) Creating “filters” based on tag/content is a fair usecase and I would second the idea as long as the main dimension of organisation remains “community.” I’m a bit over-attached to “community” b/c I feel that’s a defining element of Lemmy experience & am afraid that touching that balance may change the essence.

(3) Tags can be used to achieve (2) indeed but is the added complexity (❓) to the codebase and UI/UX worth it?

bahmanm, 8 months ago

OK, I think I see your point more clearly now. I suppose that’s what many others do (apparently I don’t represent the norm ever 😂.)

So tags can be useful for not only listening but also discovery.

I guess my concern RE tag & community competing. But I’ve got no prior experience designing a social/community based application to be confident to take my case to the RFC.

Hopefully time will prove me wrong.

bahmanm, 8 months ago

a list or database of projects that were open but then closed down

That’s a great idea! Esp if the list is actively maintained & updated.

Since I am NOT the author of this extension, do you think you could write down your thoughts on the project’s issue tracker?

bahmanm, 8 months ago

That’s a fair point 👍 I just wanted to point out that I’m not the author.

As I said, I very much like the idea. It helps raise awareness around the current trend of switching licenses to curb competition/make $$$.

bahmanm, 8 months ago

I articulated my thoughts on the topic in a separate post: [DISCUSS] Website to monitor Lemmy servers’ performance/availability

Please share your thoughts/feedback over there.