I first became aware of this about 4 months ago.
GitHub issue is 3069:
It would be awesome if we could follow a post to be alerted of new comments added.
As we are at it, why stop with posts? I’d suggest also having such alerts with comment sub-trees would be nice.
I was in a thread in !fediverse@lemmy.world earlier today, and it seems like there is still interest in this feature.
Last I heard, it seemed like progress on this feature is dependent on fixing an SQL Paging and filtering issue.
Any progress on this? Anything we can do to expedite the development of this feature?
@nutomic@lemmy.ml Just wanted to check in to see if there is any progress on this. Anything we can do to help expedite the development of this feature?
Realistically, try to contribute directly is the likely answer.
Something in between organising and contributing might be starting a community for getting people to help and organise as best as they can on community contributions.
My own community !learningrustandlemmy@lemmy.ml is such an attempt. At the moment it’s been mostly a learning rust community, but getting some group contributions organised was always on the roadmap and now would be a good time to start doing that there if you’re interested.
If you are interested at all in this or the general idea, let me know how I can help.
@threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works This. If youre interested to work on this feature or others, feel free to ask for guidance in the relevant issue, or in the dev chat.
In terms of contributing directly, while I can hack together some terrible python code, I have never done any development in Rust, or on the scale of Lemmy.
I’ll keep the Matrix chat and !learningrustandlemmy@lemmy.ml in mind though. Thanks, @maegul@lemmy.ml and @nutomic@nutomic@lemmy.ml for your thoughts and suggestions!
No worries!
If you’re interested in learning rust (I’ve certainly enjoyed) feel free to try to do so in the community. We’ve just about gone through the main course now, but I can very much see another round starting if people are interested.
The whole idea is to treat contributing as a group learning challenge rather than something onerous and hard.
Otherwise, if you’ve got sql/DB experience, that’s often just as relevant AFAICT (as is the case across the fediverse). I’d bet that if anyone sorts out a good query or schema someone else could integrate it into the code base.
If you can’t develop it yourself, i suggest putting a bounty on algora or polar , and trying to crowdsource the money (e.g. by putting a link to the bounty on your profile with an explanation).
A bounty is an interesting idea. Has it been used for Lemmy development or similar before? I’m not aware of any examples, but I don’t closely follow development.
iirc yes, there was actually a link on every issue opened (see example), it was on bountysource which eventually died and iirc it was at a time where lemmy was not nearly as popular.