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Lemmy Development Update 2024-12-06 (lemmy.ml)
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Here is our regular update that explains what we have been working on for the past two weeks. This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.

We should also have a bugfix release for a few issues with the last release, and have 0.19.8 sometime soon.

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[–] iso@lemy.lol 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for the changes πŸ™ I wonder, is 0.19.8 going to be last 0.19 before 0.20? I’m planning to upgrade if its stable enough.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not sure, if ppl find other bugs we may need to do more 0.19 releases. 0.20 will have a lot of breaking changes.

[–] testeronious@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

what is necessary for lemmy to reach a version 1.0.0 ? Does the current 0.19 number mean that lemmy is not stable enough yet?

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 16 points 3 weeks ago

The current number is because it's very much still in early development and the developers reserve the right to make breaking changes with any release.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know that we'll ever get to a 1.0 status, because feature development hasn't slowed down, and doesn't seem to be anytime soon. We'd need like 3 more devs to even not get behind.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you!

[–] zante@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for your work.

Ignore the ungrateful ones

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

No probs!

[–] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Any update on improving Lemmy fundraising process?

KDE recently did a post where they describe the result of adding a notification asking for donations. the money they received from only paypal alone in the 7 days of December is almost 5 times higher (62K) then their biggest previous month (October 13K).

Lemmy donations are down from march to today , while piefed is having a modest organic growth . maybe this could boost development resources bringing features users have been asking for years and improve the speed of experimentation that will help perfect Lemmy's design and feature set.

Thanks for the hard work again!

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

No probs! We have an issue to discuss more funding options, because it definitely is a problem. Only 2 full-time devs is not enough to handle this project and all its requests, and we need to grow our lemmy dev coop to keep up. Minimum I'd say we'd need 4 full-time devs in different areas just to keep up with issues.

I'm definitely open to adding those annoying wikipedia-style notifications inside lemmy-ui to hit a fundraising goal, because they do work. There are other possibilities too.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

maybe this could boost development resources bringing features users have been asking for years and improve the speed of experimentation that will help perfect Lemmy’s design and feature set.

Most of those features have been funded: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-09-11_-_New_NLnet_funding_for_Lemmy

[–] wiki_me@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

iirc they were already listed as goals in previous NLnet grants, so it has already been a while, not mention that Lemmy budget is a drop in the ocean compared to reddit and that money could definitely be used.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

If you're referring to this: https://codimd.tyhou12.xyz/s/TukD_H96z , I think this was a plan before they got the grant.

Money could be useful, but I also feel that now the issue is finding people willing to write the code

[–] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Awesome!

Is there a roadmap somewhere?

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

I have some issues I'm prioritizing, but you can either look at our github, or the milestones as to the upcoming features.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks!