Joining other unlisted communities with an account registered here?
I was trying to search for [email protected] so I could subscribe with this account. However, I couldn't find any of the midwest.social communities aside from the synthesizers one. Is that by design, a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
My process: open Communities. Search [email protected]. I leave the Community and Creator fields set to All. Search again as I've seen some people instruct to do. Nothing populates.
And after patching configs all weekend after launching this instance I have learned that Lemmy's implementation isn't the most solid one.
Their default configs don't work 🤷🏼♂️ so I can imagine that this instance is running a different config than other instances.
Oof. I'm not gonna pretend to know how much of a headache that was but it sounds painful. Super thankful you've put this together, despite any potential hiccups that may occur in the beginning.
Are you sticking with it despite all its issues? I am a product engineer and the UX is really dicey. I have a strong urge to improve on it but I'm not confident in the foundation I'd be building on top of
It seems like a good candidate for a hypermedia-type front end as reactivity is minimal on a forum. That would hugely simplify and speed up development. Are you familiar with HTMX? Basically you render everything on the server and send it in pieces as needed and avoid needing to manage state on the front end. I haven't seen any features on Lemmy that would be noticeably less reactive. Anyway just a suggestion
There is something called KBin which has a similar interface to Lemmy but seems to be more focused on cross-fediverse interop. That might also be worth looking at if you're going to be doing big drastic changes. I do like how Lemmy's interface is streamlined though.