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Can you code? We need your help to improve lemmy (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Gaywallet@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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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[–] SubArcticTundra@beehaw.org 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

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.

[–] rimu 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

There are hardly any experienced Rust developers. It's going to be a big problem.

[–] Deebster@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

It's a very popular language for people to learn (as per the Stack Overflow surveys) which is good for a volunteer project.

Also, being somewhat inexperienced in Rust doesn't stop you from being useful, partially because the compiler will catch a lot of stupid mistakes. I don't think that "years using a language" is a very useful accurate proxy for skill with a language without the context of what else they've done, and your article is just looking at the raw averages.

[–] LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I might need to learn Rust. Java/Kotlin/C# are fine for work, but I'm interested in new stuff anyways.

[–] lonjil@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I've heard the opposite from open source devs, that using Rust has increased the amount of contributions they get.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

How much language-specific experience do you need? Rust is kind of it's own special thing, which is why the hype, but I don't know how hard exactly it is to break into.

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