Speed of development. It could take months for a PR to get into Lemmy core and then a new release.

Things that get into Lemmy core have to be well thought out and the core Devs have to want them in there.

Running custom code is a way to make changes without having to get their approval, and if it proves popular enough, then maybe they’ll implement it upstream.

FYI, whitewashing makes perfect sense to use there:

to deliberately attempt to conceal unpleasant or incriminating facts about (someone or something).

It has nothing to do with race in this context.

So, don’t learn to code? If you don’t have any reason to and can’t find any motivation, maybe it’s just not for you.

The user experience is nicer as a native app, if done right. With a PWA, you have to deal with anything crappy that the browser inflicts on you, and the developer largely can’t do anything about it. For example, Chrome sometimes just crashes or freezes entirely on me, which means Voyager can too.

See elsewhere in this thread for examples of little things that stem solely from being a PWA .

Don’t get me wrong, I think Voyager is great for a PWA and it probably gets a lot of value out of being a PWA making it easier for people to contribute. But it’s just not as good as native for me.

But then you’ll have to learn the syntax of this instead.

I suspect that if you actually start using Melody you won’t find it as helpful as you think you might. Maybe I’m wrong. Let’s see in a year’s time.

But you can do that already in many languages using extended Regex syntax.This doesn’t add anything except more verbosity and another syntax to learn.

Who is this for? People who write lots of regular expressions won’t need it because they know what they’re doing and people who don’t write lots of regular expressions probably won’t find it anyway.

It just seems like a weird type of user who actually wants this.

My favorite password is the string “a”, but I never get to use it anywhere due to these ridiculous restrictions 😔 Can you tell me which online services you administer so I can sign up for them and enjoy unfettered use of my favorite password?

You mean like this?

Lemmy already has image hosting; your instance may or may not support it.

Voyager doesn’t show the inline image above, but it’s there. Check out how this thread looks in a browser on a Lemmy instance and you’ll see it. You can even reply and attach your own image, just like I did.

I think this is not really inline with the philosophy of the main Lemmy devs. For this to happen, I think someone else would have to do the work of creating the random selection service. If it was popular enough, maybe they’d put a link on join-lemmy.org

Easy, just create the equivalent of multireddits.

Can your instance not do that as is? Just spin up a bunch of fake users and make them all vote on something?

So if you’re the only user (let’s assume for ease) then, that represents all the updates (posts, comments, votes) from each community that you are subscribed to?

That seems high when you extrapolate that to 10000 users, like a larger instance might have.