Mlmym (also known as old.lemmy) isn't maintained anymore, and features are starting to become unusable as instances are migrating to newer versions. Would someone be interested in forking the project?
I have some interest in trying to take that on if it's really unmaintained now. I use mlmym and want to make sure we continue to have an interface that works w/o JS. I have relevant web programming experience, but not with Go specifically.
@nnrx@lemmy.world FYI, if you're still here.
That would be great!
Maybe petition the Lemmy devs to not pointlessly break API v3 since they're moving to v4?
Isn't the whole point of having different api versions to not break compatibility, so apps can continue using v3?
Yep, and that's how we do API versioning at work. One app is on like API v9 now, and I think we support back to v5 or maybe even v4.
Their justification is that pre v1.0, you can break whatever you want whenever you want. But when you've got a large community of people developing for the ecosystem over several years, it's kind of a slap in the face to keep breaking the API. I appreciate that 0.19.0 - 0.19.11 has been fairly stable, but breaking v3 while also rolling out v4 is just inexcusable.
I get that v3 will eventually need to be deprecated and apps move to v4, but you'd think they'd put all their breaking changes in v4, let v4 stabilize and run concurrently with v3, and then drop v3 a few versions down the line. Except a few paid apps, I don't think most of us are doing this full time and have other things to deal with.
But what do I know? It's not like I do this for a living. Oh, wait...
Playing devils advocate. Lemmy isn't reddit and the only reason people used old reddit was because new reddit was unusable to them.
As with new context and new front ends that Lemmy has, no one with the technical skills seems to care about this enough and blaming Lemmy Devs for not tiptoeing around unmaintained software so development grinds to a halt isn't fair. It's like saying "they don't want to support it, and I don't, but you shouldn't spend your free time doing so".
Lemmy isn’t reddit and the only reason people used old reddit was because new reddit was unusable to them.
The comment in the OP shows that at least one person cares.
Mlmym also has the "show images" button that the default Web UI doesn't
no one with the technical skills seems to care about this enough
That's what this post is trying to solve
blaming Lemmy Devs for not tiptoeing around unmaintained software so development grinds to a halt isn’t fair.
I'm not blaming the Lemmy devs (I should rephrase if the post comes as such), the goal of this post was mainly to find someone interested in keeping mlmym up-to-date, not to blame anyone
New lemmy isn't nearly as bad as new reddit, but I still prefer old because it's more compact. The formatting on new vs old displays 7 vs 12 posts on one screen, which feels like a lot of wasted space. I know, first world problems and all that
Lemmy isn't reddit and the only reason people used old reddit was because new reddit was unusable to them.
If “because new reddit was unusable to them” is a polite way of saying “because new reddit is a bloated, buggy, and worthless coding disaster” then I agree completely.