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Subreddit refugees be like... (media1.giphy.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Presolar_Grains@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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[-] Liz@midwest.social 13 points 1 year ago

If you go to the areas where people are suggesting features, it's almost 100% "please implement my personal favorite feature from my personalized Reddit experience."

Now, I'm going to say that wanting the features you found useful in your old social media is a perfectly reasonable desire, but it's the Dev's job to make sure all the feature and UI changes are self-consistent and not overload for the user. So, naturally a bunch of requests are going to have to be ignored, at least for the time being.

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

I've never contributed to open source projects before, is it open to community contributions? (as in could I go pick up a feature request and make a pull request for it?)

[-] fangleone2526@lemmy.fmhy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Yes! The devs would have to accept your pull request for it to be merged into the main instance, but even if they don’t, you don’t have to use the main instance, you can spin up your own which you build out whatever features you want on.

[-] lightingnerd@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I love this thing that people forget about open source. Like the whole FreeCAD community, there's a whole group of people who don't even use the vanilla UI--because they don't have to, haha! Of course, it does take skill, but if you're skilled enough to make pull request...

[-] Bonolio@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I am a shitty programmer, and I would never want most of what I do to go anywhere near Main.
But as you said, I have a few things that I run as forks, with my own little tweaks.