Hello, fellow Lemmy users! I’ve been thinking about how we can improve the way we handle issue discussions in our community, and I believe that moving these conversations from GitHub to Lemmy could be a game-changer. Here’s why:
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Threaded comments: Lemmy’s threaded comment system makes it much easier to follow and participate in discussions, allowing us to better understand different perspectives and ideas.
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Sorting algorithms: Lemmy’s sorting algorithms help us identify the most valuable contributions and ideas, ensuring that the best solutions rise to the top.
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Increased participation: By hosting issue discussions on Lemmy, we can encourage more people to share their thoughts and opinions without requiring them to create a GitHub account. This could lead to a more diverse range of ideas and potential solutions.
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Focused contributions: As @dessalines mentioned in a post on join-lemmy.org, it’s important that comments on issue trackers contribute to solving the issue at hand. By moving discussions to Lemmy, we can ensure that only the most relevant and helpful ideas are brought back to GitHub.
At the moment we are urgently working to solve major issues, such as optimizing slow database queries, ripping out the inefficient websocket API, and fixing a major security vulnerability (big thanks to deadcade). In addition we suddenly have to manage dozens of pull requests. To give us time to work on these priorities, it would be very beneficial if users could refrain from interacting with issue trackers when possible. Before opening an issue, make sure that it hasn’t been reported before. And when writing comments, make sure that they actually contribute to solving the issue at hand. Generally it is better to move discussions to Lemmy if possible. We are very thankful to everyone who contributes by writing code, hosting instances, moderating communities, and answering questions.
written by @dessalines on https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-06-17_-_Update_from_Lemmy_after_the_Reddit_blackout
By moving issue discussions to Lemmy, we can create a more efficient and effective system for addressing and resolving issues in our community. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this proposal and any suggestions you may have for making this transition as smooth as possible. Let’s work together to make our community even better!
On the other hand: Many comments from people unfamiliar with the code base and the project organizers’ plans are unlikely to be useful to the people actually doing the work. Discussions that are low-signal/high-noise are likely to be simply ignored by the people actually working on the code.
I think a compromise might be to have larger design discussions on Lemmy, rather than moving everything over.
Sometimes it’s helpful to hear about a lot of different experiences to bring up things that we might not have considered. Other times it’s spam.
I think we should have a bot that makes a Lemmy post for every GitHub issue created (and pull requests too?)
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Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !issue_tracker@lemm.ee
do you have the source code for the bot? I could maybe see myself using it
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Have you ever been a developer of a project that has a lot of public comment on it?
Judging by the code they posted to copy GitHub comments to lemmy I think it’s pretty safe to say no.
Right now it is way too hard to follow discussions on lemmy, you have to keep hunting for new comments that get added, not to mention with github you get email notifications, it’s a lot more efficient.
Lemmy has the “Chat” view option that breaks the tree formatting and just shows comments in chronological order
It would be nice if Lemmy could let you enable notifications for comments on posts, Reddit has this feature, some forums have it too
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I think it’s just buggy currently
That’s right, but mostly it has been the same on Reddit for my while I was using that.
That’s not an excuse to keep it that way, of course, I would love it if we could subscribe to replies of a comment, either recursively or only to direct responses.Not for me, Reddit enhancement suite “!read” filter (configured for marking clicked comments as read) and this extension makes it a lot better.
I very rarely use reddit on PC, even though I use a PC for almost everything I can.
The reddit client that I was using kept track of which comments after new ones, but even that did not tell me that there are new comments there that I may want to read.
