I was gonna do this quietly since I was doing it mostly for security fixes, but now I guess I gotta announce that I deployed lemmy 0.18.1 to the awful.systems cluster. changes include
- sweet christ did this UI get smaller and uglier? whose idea was this.
- we have more theme options! most of them are terrible. there is a vaporwave theme I kinda like in a geocities way. if you come here and it looks like geocities I switched to that one
- they fixed like 3 out of the 4 webdev 101 security holes they left in the code
- there’s some small new UI features?
- sometimes they just make changes for no reason
- let me know if anything looks broken
the vaporwave theme is so close to being good! they didn’t think to make it usable though. now I’m torn between what’s a higher priority, hacking together a better CSS theme, or fixing the fucking shocking security and dev mistakes the lemmy team keeps making
like fuck I have an entire rant building but maybe focusing on dumbass growth hacking and stupid ideas while your UI just string templates HTML together with no sanitization at any point is a terrible idea? maybe???
White and light blue on a light grey background is the wave of the future, clearly. We’re disrupting the concept of visual contrast
fuck it you’re right,
darkly-pureblack(this name is so awful I had to check to make sure I didn’t hallucinate it) it is. ima miss the red highlights but somehow they broke those in 0.18.0 so they don’t work on mobile? so this is at least consistentwelcome to open source, comrade! here are both pieces. thank you for our bug fixes!
I vow that this quote will headline the README for the fork, both as a personal attack towards the lemmy devs and as a mission statement
some days you’re Stakhanov, some days you’re Boxer