Hi everyone.
A while back, we announced our intention to move Hexbear back to Lemmy. This post will serve as our second transparency report on our progress.
We're happy to share two more features have been successfully ported upstream, with a third very close to completion:
Last time, I mentioned we had some work to do porting Hexbear's database schema back to Lemmy's. I'm very happy to announce that, as of three hours ago, we successfully ported a recent database backup from Hexbear to Lemmy's schema for the first time. We have used this to start up a local Lemmy instance running with the past two and a half years of of Hexbear data on it. Here's a sneak peak!
None of this would have been possible without the volunteer developers. In particular, I want to again give a massive shout out to @makotech222 - he has been doing the bulk of this work and we cannot thank him enough. :stalin-heart:
Progress continues to be made, but we still have a lot of work ahead of us. Whilst we are at the stage where our core features have been ported over, there are some features we'd lose. For example, upstream are not interested in explicit pronoun support. We have a workaround for this which allows for pronouns to be set and displayed as is shown in the screenshot above, however, with more volunteers we could work on a better solution that upstream are interested in: user flairs. So please, if you are a developer who wants to help port over the last couple features upstream, reach out to either me, CARCOSA, or layla.
That's all for today. We hope this was useful and answered some of your questions. If you have more, some of the team will be in the comments for a while so please feel free to ask. Thanks, and viva la Hexbear! :hexbear-static-logo:
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Ok, but the actual issue posted on Github says none of that. It's an incredibly bare-bones issue, just the basic idea and nothing more. So as it stands, it's a giant roadblock in our way, and they're basically demanding that we do a whole bunch of extra work to build out a preferred feature of theirs, which they don't appear to have fleshed out much at all, in order for us to get back in sync with upstream. I realize they don't have to care about us, but honestly we are the most active and heavily-used lemmy instance that currently exists, so they probably ought to.
Also, something about the response comes off as pretty rude to me. TimHexbear posted a comment back in August, no one ever responded to them, and then Nutomic closes the issue yesterday, without saying anything other than another link to the (basically empty, as mentioned above) user flairs issue. That doesn't seem very cordial or polite to me.
Edit: Sorry if my tone is bad; your points are good and valid and I just need to stop being grumpy about it lol
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