Good question sometimes I find posts that have been posted 3 years ago in Hot... It seems really broken

Aye

Wtf just do your calls in the stairway awkwardly smiling at passing coworkers like the rest of us

Sure they can, they can ban the user from the entire instance or from the community. To all users of sh.itjust.works for example the content will still appear, but it won't show on beehaw anymore.

Here's the PR that implemented this: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1298

It seems to me like they don't want to give up any control by adding mods (currently it's only the admins) and choose the easy way out by reducing the amount they have to moderate...

Especially the UI seems hastily coded

I added a mark as read button to the posts but now patiently waiting till the WebSockets -> REST API transition is complete so it can get merged.

The front end needs a lot of work… Every bit is appreciated and the maintainers are pretty fast at reviewing and providing feedback which is nice to see.

Let’s not kid ourselves UI/UX needs a lot of work not just a little, but it’s making progress and all done by volunteers and that’s impressive on it’s own.

Another problem is that you never actually receive a confirmation if your application was received and/or rejected, you are just sorta stuck in limbo after applying.

And I especially appreciate that you chose the "harder" native app approach instead of going the simpler route of creating yet another webapp wrapper.