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plyth@feddit.org 4 weeks agolol hardcoded shit everywhere
It’s open source. Why not? People who want a configuration menu can create a patch.
I didn’t downvote your comment. But let me argue anyway.
Lots of people flock to PieFed because it is not made by the Lenmy devs who are unpalatably heavy handed in their “moderation” on the ml instance. One would hope this means PieFed offers more freedom to use the software how you like. So it’s funny that it’s even stricter “moderation” AND NOW ITS HARDCODED so it affects every instance.
So it’s funny that it’s even stricter “moderation” AND NOW ITS HARDCODED so it affects every instance.
Lol, people so afraid of Lemmy devs bowing to the CCP that they migrate to the fediverse option that actually implements CCP societal control features. McCarthysim really did a number on the Amerikkkan brain, dunno if it is impacting people from elsewhere that much. This surely was not in my 2026 Bingo card!
ITS HARDCODED so it affects every instance.
It’s open source. Every instance can change it and if something is common, people can maintain the patch together.
Lenmy devs who are unpalatably heavy handed in their “moderation” on the ml instance.
Which is their instance. I don’t like the hate they receive. They have established a social network that allows everybody to run their own instance with their own moderation. To present them as the villains must be nurtured by the establishment.
So it’s funny that it’s even stricter
Absolutely
That isn’t how it works. They would have to FORK the code and maintain their changes going forward with every update. That is poor software development practices no matter how you look at it.
I think the Brave browser does it with Chrome. Wouldn’t the source control tool do most of the maintenance?
Its already configurable—some people sent patches for those things already.
expr@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Just because code is open source doesn’t mean shit code can’t be called out. Shit code is shit code.
plyth@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
But why is hardcoding shit code for open source code? The code is easier to read because no if or switch statements are needed to distinguish between the options. No configiration menu has to be maintained.
notfromhere@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Open source just means people are free to edit it and distribute their changes. Hardcoding things like this is bad practice no matter if it’s open source or not. It’s not maintainable.
fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
That if chain is horrendous. You should have a config json file with an array of links and then use a for and check for each of them.
The advantage of having a config file is that it’s easily for others to see everything that can be changed dynamically without touching the code, and it’s much easier to maintain forks that change or extend the configurable behaviour.
Hard coding shit is bad because it’s actually harder to maintain. No programmer worth their salt has difficulty checking the json file that has the configuration for X list, hard coding an if chain is bad coding.