jgrim

Hello everyone!

Just wanted to say hello!...

Announcement of Sublinks (discuss.online)

cross-posted from: discuss.online/post/4522403...

jgrim, 4 months ago

The front-end is coming later. It’s fully compatible with Lemmy’s API so the demo site currently uses the Lemmy front-end.

jgrim, 4 months ago

Thanks a lot! There are currently 13 contributors; it’s coming together very quickly. I’m super excited.

jgrim, 4 months ago

The front-end is coming later. It’s fully compatible with Lemmy’s API so the demo site currently uses the Lemmy front-end.

jgrim, 4 months ago

We are creating a Sublinks specific API that is much more optimized than the Lemmy one. Our front-end will be using that. Also, we’ll have tons more features that the Lemmy core doesn’t support.

jgrim, 4 months ago

The LW admins have helped contribute to Sublinks. They’ve given me full support and access to all resources to help grow it. They’ve been extremely helpful.

jgrim, 4 months ago

Exactly, we already had 13 contributors working on it before it was announced.

jgrim, 4 months ago

1. I referenced the Rust code to determine what was sent and received. We’re implementing better code logic; we’re not just copying their API. We want to be compatible to attract users and support all the hard work used to create Lemmy phone apps.
2. Java is for the core Sublinks API/core. Golang is being used for the federation service that operates independently. Once it’s done, it will be platform agnostic if someone else wants to use the federation service for their fediverse project. They communicate through a message bus.
3. Yes, we plan to do the new API correctly. We will support Lemmy’s API for as long as it is relevant, primarily for mobile apps.

Multiple domains aren’t possible yet, but that doesn’t mean we cannot add it later.

I’m unhappy with the Lemmy roadmap, development speed, and quality. I wanted to contribute but found it difficult to. I did the next best thing and created a somewhat drop-in replacement with a much larger community of developers who are willing to support it.

You can see the complete Sublinks roadmap here: https://github.com/orgs/sublinks/projects/1. The first release of parity (v0.10) will use the existing Lemmy front-end. All releases after that will no longer support the Lemmy UI because that’s when the enhanced features start to roll in. We don’t want to support or fork the current Lemmy UI.

jgrim, 4 months ago

It’s basically a fork of Lemmy. But rather than forking, we’re rewriting the entire tech stack to something easier to support and enhance. You can see the full roadmap here: https://github.com/orgs/sublinks/projects/1

jgrim, 4 months ago

Yes, there is going to be a tool that exports from Lemmy via a direct database connection and adds to Sublinks via the API. Sublinks is heavily event driven by design. We’ll want some events to trigger during import.

jgrim, 4 months ago

I’ll get it on there on the sidebar. Thanks a lot for the feedback. The demo site has been up for so long that I didn’t think of it when I announced it.

jgrim, 4 months ago

Basically, it’s a replacement for Lemmy. Ground-up rewrite of the source using a language with a much larger community.

jgrim, 4 months ago

Lemmy is the software that runs discuss.online, lemmy.world, etc.

jgrim, 4 months ago

It’s just forking Lemmy, but it will be fully compatible with it for federation, etc. It’s not meant to create a ruckus. I simply wanted to move faster with some features and I cannot do that with Rust.

jgrim, 4 months ago

I know, I tried to make it sound friendly and not anti-Lemmy.

jgrim, 4 months ago

The change won’t be noticeable until we start adding new features. The main reason to create Sublinks is to move quicker with features & functionality that the current Lemmy team cannot maintain for various reasons.

jgrim, 4 months ago

Lemmy, Reddit, Sublinks, Kbin are all Link Aggregation social networks. They mostly share links to articles and the like. It’s just the category they’re in.

jgrim, 4 months ago

Yes, it’s a drop-in replacement for Lemmy. The only thing you may notice is having to reset your password because the password hashing is currently different on Sublinks. Everything else will be the same or better.

It’s a migration to Sublinks not a switch. That means all data will be transferred over.

jgrim, 4 months ago

It’s not a code fork it’s a completely new codebase in a different language.

It’s not just about implementing “pet features”. I’ve worked closely with admins of all major Lemmy instances to build the feature set for this and the roadmap plan.

jgrim, 4 months ago

Yes, that sums it up pretty well.

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How is everyone?

Today is a good day. I’m feeling talky… what’s going on?