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Cake day: December 7th, 2024
  • hono4kami@slrpnk.nettoFediverse@lemmy.world•As a reminder, ClubsAll is still showing all of Lemmy's content without federating backEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    Let me give you my opinion, specifically as a React developer, if you don’t mind.

    And let’s be clear: I intend this to be a constructive criticism. I hope you understand and don’t take it the wrong way.

    To be honest, I don’t know how good or bad federating one-way is. This is more of a “people” problem rather than a technical problem.

    But, to be honest, what I am bothered by, is the fact that the website doesn’t give an attribution in the UI about which instance certain users are from and which instance certain certain community are from.

    Take a look at this post: https://clubsall.com/posts/theyre-trying-to-charge-luigi-with-terrorism-imagine-that-qfF82

    The UI says that the post was posted by u[slash]BytesOnBikes. If I didn’t know better, I’d have assumed this was from a user from clubsall. But if you click the username, you realize that the link says u[slash]BytesOnBikes[at]slrpnk.net. I think this would be confusing as a user. What if there is the same user under the username BytesOnBikes from clubsall? At least if you include the instance name, user would know right away that both users are different. But if you didn’t include the instance name, I feel like this can be abused to impersonate user. This is a bad thing to happen to your website, don’t you agree?

    Now that we both understand that lack of attribution is a bad thing to clubsall… What’s stopping you from adding an instance name to the username? I’m sure the app has a way to know which instance certain users are from. From what I gather, I feel like this is as easy as appending a string in the code.

    I haven’t even talked about the community name on the UI. Or the ethicality of misleading attribution.

  • hono4kami@slrpnk.nettoFediverse@lemmy.world•Don't reply "just Google it"English
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    5 days ago

    As a software engineer…

    Don’t just say “just Google it”. Guide them to the documentation. Ask them about the detail of the question. If it’s an bug, try asking them if they can reproduce the bug.

    This reminded me of the time I’m looking for how to do certain things in a software. I found a reddit post asking about the same issue and this is the reply OP got:

    screenshot of a reddit thread where OP got a rude reply to search it themselves

    Here is the link: https://old.reddit.com/r/i3wm/comments/mupjsf/how_to_showhide_i3status_bar_taskbar/

    Imagine. You search the issue you have. Found the ONLY reddit thread that talks about this, and the ONLY thread that talks about the issue have NO USEFUL ANSWER and, worse, the only reply is TELLING YOU TO SEARCH IT YOURSELF. This got upvoted too 😭😭😭.

    Luckily, I found the solution (tbh the solution was there in the docs, but the wording wasn’t clear and it makes it hard to search) and I end up replying the OP the actual answer.

    So, this is a PSA for the fediverse: be nice. It’s free.

    While we’re still young, we have a chance to become a better forum.

    Also possibly an unpopular opinion: you shouldn’t downvote a question, even if it was asked multiple times. Guide them to the answer instead

  • hono4kami@slrpnk.nettoFedigrow@lemm.ee•How are you doing with your communities?English
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    6 days ago

    I prefer to have my own community, I already have my own vision/preference on what I want the community would be like

    I’ve said this before:

    I wanted something like Skyscrapercity forum but on Lemmy, or something similar to r/transit.

    (As a context, in Skyscrapercity is a discussion forum about infrastructures in the world, underrated website)

    Public transports are not limited to trams, trolleys, and street cars. It also includes trains, high-speed rail buses, etc. And my vision for this community is that I want the community to be discussion-oriented. For example, the accessibility of a public transport, the obstacles of building one, the ticket price, the effect it has on the city, integrations between modes, etc. Take a look at https://reddit.com/r/transit for example.

    To be clear, I’m not saying that !trams_trolleys_streetcars@lemmy.blahaj.zone is a bad community, it just has difference purpose, as far as I can understand. I’ll probably try to crosspost some of the post there.