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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah I don't have a good enough alternative to even want to switch to something else. I mean, there's a community on lemmy and that's worth a lot.

I've thought about building something but making it federated is going to take a ton of effort and by the time we're done we'll have lost momentum.

I'm working on a native app, and the http api is okay. But not perfect. I was thinking to build a NextJS frontend to improve SEO.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have but technically building something like this is trivial. It's a community problem to run a site. And Lemmy will do fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well I'll leave the tech stack to you, but if you want any help on the UX/design end of things I'm happy to put in some effort

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I actually think that would be great on the mobile app I am working on. But let's first see where this community is going.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I've seen kbin, it is technically a lot more solid from what I've seen. But let's see where this thing is going.