reply with features and bug fixes you’d like to see in Philthy, the lemmy fork that runs on this instance. no guarantees I’ll get to any of them soon, but particularly low-hanging fruit and well-liked features can be prioritized.
reply with features and bug fixes you’d like to see in Philthy, the lemmy fork that runs on this instance. no guarantees I’ll get to any of them soon, but particularly low-hanging fruit and well-liked features can be prioritized.
I’m fairly certain they did based on how it works – if that’s the case, I consider it fairly low hanging fruit to swap to something more sensible. this’ll break our compatibility with other instances in a minor way if we do it since we won’t be rendering posts in the same broken way, but I feel like the risk is fairly minor. I’ll check on this and post an update once I get started on the rebrand for the frontend
so the frontend uses markdown-it which is fairly popular; I think the problems with it are the settings they configured for
markdown-it’s parser, and the almost 800 lineMarkdownTextAreamaking interacting with the damn thing so clumsy. we can probably get a pretty good improvement out of changing to a sanermarkdown-itconfiguration and swapping theMarkdownTextAreacomponent for something well-supported from NPMI was percolating on this. And here’s a maybe-nasty workaround that may even be usable in federated manner (I have no idea if this is even viable, need to learn some AP)
Internally store posts in raw and some kind of decorated-raw format, where the “decorator” is essentially some frontmatter that specifies rendering/renderer properties. Think
<!-- renderbits: […..] -->\n\npostgoeshereUpside of this approach is that if it is federable (and again, dunno, will need to check still 😅), it can allow each instance to self-handle as needed, along with providing own fallbacks and stylemaps
not a bad idea! there might be an existing format that’d handle this well. I need to confirm what format Lemmy uses for styled text interchange — I think it might just be markdown?
looks like both markdown/source, and html? this and this is what I drilled down to