It’s a pain that search results on lemmy show by default ordered by some useless relevance ranking. I can’t think of a single time I didn’t want newest first. I couldn’t find a preference to request that. It would be great if there was one.
The suggestion on c/support on lemmy.world was to make this kind of request on github, but it seems anti-FOSS to me to require a Microsoft account for a fediverse request, so I’m posting here and hoping for the best.
Thanks for any consideration!
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“anti-FOSS to me to require a Microsoft account for a fediverse request, so I’m posting here and hoping for the best.”
It’s more about efficiency and prioritization of actions than anything else.
Could the devs spend time and effort migrating the code to another repo, such as Codeberg? Yes. Would the benefits be worth the time and effort? Debatable.
You can just create a throwaway account for GitHub. Not ideal, but devs have said multiple times that they don’t have the time to track feature requests elsewhere than on the GitHub (and it makes sense)
Alternatively, if having code on a FOSS repo is very important to you, you can request it on https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/, the repo for https://piefed.social/
This is about getting issues to the devs, not hosting a copy of the code. Git is easy to self-host and that’s what I do with my own repos.
My suggestion is if you’re not willing to get heavily involved in the process of re-hosting the code, then you should just go along with the system the lemmy devs have chosen, which includes github.
By posting the feature request here instead of github, you’re volunteering other people’s time to improve things.
Generally speaking, if you want to make the world a better place you should volunteer your own effort and resources, not other people’s.
Well put
You can just create a throwaway account for GitHub
I know I’m getting off-topic, but the last time I tried this it ended up being locked either because it didn’t like a simplelogin email or because I didn’t give it a phone number. Hopefully that was an edge case but I haven’t tried again recently.
There are some apps that are better at interpreting the results. Most are free with some premium paid features.
I don’t want the software to interpret the results, I just want to get them sorted newest first without having to click an extra time. Also this being a free software activist project, the idea of adding on a paid feature seems pretty far out of place.
Understood and agreed. It is indeed hard to get volunteers who are paid nothing to pay any attention to what you want.
Shrug, if this gets to the devs I’m sure they’ll consider it. The main thing bugging me is the Microsoft angle that their suggested channel requires.
The thing that bothers me is how you’re like a living breathing example of perfect being the enemy of good.
So Microsoft gets $25/mo or whatever it costs to host this repo. And humanity gets Lemmy. Not a bad trade overall. The devil gets his due and the rest of us get loaves and fishes.
But you gotta walk over to where Jesus is handing out loaves and fishes. You can’t just be like “uh can I get mine delivered?”
Sometimes you just gotta give the big evil corporation $25 so millions of people can have a decentralized platform for communicating.
I agree, the search results should default to sort by new. Regardless of what your default user setting is. This is how it works on https://old.lemmy.world
Aha, I didn’t know about or forgot about old.lemmy.world. I’ll try that now. But, I’d be satisfied with whatever default, as long as there is a way to change it.
It’s in your settings dawg…
