During the past month, we’ve been working rapidly on adding features to lemmy-ui. We also finished up the last major backend changes. This means we can soon go to the beta phase for 1.0, which will focus on testing, bug fixing and helping Lemmy clients to start updating for the new API. After that will be the release candidate phase when version 1.0 will be live tested on lemmy.ml.

You can see the changes in action on the test server voyager.lemmy.ml (which was recently wiped). Registration is open, you are welcome to try things out. To stay up to date with our progress look at the lemmy-ui 1.0 and lemmy 1.0 milestone issues.

The major changes during October were:

Full list of changes by user

matc-pub

dullbananas

SleeplessOne1917

MV-GH

dessalines

Nutomic

Or see the full list of changes at the links below:

An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and Nutomic work full-time on these tasks and more. As there is no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Even so there is barely enough time in the day, and no time for a second job. The only available option are user donations.

To keep it viable donations need to reach a minimum of 5000€ per month, resulting in a modest salary of 2500€ per developer. If that goal is reached we can stop worrying about money, and fully focus on improving the software for the benefit of all users and instances. We especially rely on recurring donations to secure the long-term development and make Lemmy the best it can be.

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  • aev_software@programming.devEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    Sweet. I’m not sure in what country a dev lives to accept that low of a payment, for I couldn’t afford my rent off of that.

    • Nutomic@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      23·
      2 days ago

      I live in Spain. The user donations alone would not be sufficient, but together with the money from NLnet it’s enough to pay the bills.

      Of course I could earn much more money by working for a company. But I don’t like to be ordered around by a silly manager, be stuck in an office for 8 hours every day and get stressed working on a project I don’t care about. With Lemmy no one can tell me what I have to do, and it’s work that’s actually meaningful.

    • Nutomic@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      @dessalines@lemmy.ml made various UI changes that seem controversial to me. Such as changing the theme colors or moving most post/comment actions from the action menu to the context menu. If you have strong opinions on the design it’s best to follow the repository on Github and comment in the issues or pull requests where these changes are made. Otherwise these may also get adjusted later during beta testing.

      • Dessalines@lemmy.mlMEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        Every other lemmy app I can find right aligns action dropdowns and thumbnails, we were the outlier. Pics of all those other apps were linked in my PR.

        I’m making lemmy-ui match jerboa more closely from now on, so that we can have a uniform UI standard that works better on mobile.

        • Champoloo [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          5·
          2 days ago

          Every other lemmy app I can find right aligns action dropdowns and thumbnails, we were the outlier. Pics of all those other apps were linked in my PR.

          Apps are designed for phones, but why should the website be designed like that? If someone wants to get the app experience they can install jerboa or any other app, but we need something designed with big screens in mind.

          At least have an option for it like Photon does:

          • Dessalines@lemmy.mlMEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            You’ll need to be involved in development if you want to contribute that setting.