I only played it for a little early on and had meant to pick it back up. That sucks!
I see signups but no activity. I'm not really sure it's growing but people are trying it.
I tried that the but API lacked a lot of features that they were too busy to add, like proper pagination to find the latest changes, etc. I started a project like that first called socialcare.cloud but have since shut it down in favor of Sublinks.
Java isn't my preferred language. I did learn Rust to try to contribute but found the code base in less than ideal state and the process of contributing to risky. They don't always accept all PRs. I also have low faith in the success of Lemmy due to it's poor QA process and it's major lack of features.
I believe Java is the best option for this type of application, I almost did it in PHP. My goal was to attract as many people as possible to want to contribute. It's worked, I have a ton of people contributing in some way, Sublinks roadmap is clear and organized, and we have a super-motivated and driven team.
We won't fail.
People were reaching out to me to try to understand these details so I just made a blog post to just point people to.
We have 13 contributors with Sublinks so far. I expect more will come after the announcement.
We want to capture existing websites that run Lemmy. We'll have a migration tool to convert from Lemmy to Sublinks. Users will still be able to user their favorite Lemmy phone apps, etc.
Exactly, we already had 13 contributors working on it before it was announced.
I'm past the refund period. I wish I knew this sooner.
Yeah, there is a massive movement right now. It'll get there. I have tech friends that don't quite get it. It's so simple for me. I'm struggling to find an easy way to explain in.
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Thanks a lot! I'm exciting to get getting back into focusing on it :)