julian

For Developers

There's no requirement to support pluralized strings in your templates — they are opt-in, but they are fairly easy to support.

Where you would normally write a translation string like so:

{
  ...
  "foo": "%1 bar(s)"
  ...
}

You will instead put in an "ICU Plural" string that looks like this:

{
  ...
  "foo": "{count, plural, one {{count} bar} other {{count} bars}}"
  ...
}

Comma separated:

• count is the variable substitution you'll use in the latter half of the string
• plural is hardcoded, it's always plural
• Then the forms:
  • one denotes the singular form in the proceeding braces
  • other denotes the plural form (in English) in the next set of braces

For translators

This means that any converted strings have lost their existing translations. You will need to manually go in and translate them again (plus their plural variants), or rescue the existing translation from the history.

However, note that for plural strings, there is a new placeholder {count} to be used in addition to the %1, %2, etc. that we already use. We use {count} for simplicity, but it could be named anything.

Yeah, that's kind of the disconnect here. Lemmy and Piefed are content aggregators, but NodeBB is a forum, and historically, those have been more insular in nature, with a local-only-first focus.

It's a UX-choice, but definitely not a rejection of the federated nature of ActivityPub — want to make that clear.

@caohuak@moon.lonewolf.zone @silverpill@mitra.social I see some :thinking_face:

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Perhaps guests can't see reactions... Will have go check.

@silverpill@mitra.social hmm are you sure? I see a few new emoji reactions to OP since I last posted...

@tom@tomkahe.com How did you send an emoji reaction from Mastodon?!

@informapirata ah! I realize that there may be a difference in understanding here.

I think when you are asking about moving topics to a remote category, you're intending to also share that discussion to the remote category, yes?

So, for example, you see a good discussion that comes in uncategorized, and you share it with a community on Lemmy.

Yes?

It makes sense, but I am not able to do that from a protocol point of view because there's inadequate federation vocabulary to achieve this.

So I could make movable, but it won't show up on Lemmy or Piefed unless that software supports whatever vocab I come up with.

So it's partly a technical limitation as well.

In general, moving topics between remote categories is disallowed because it's misrepresentation. You're limited to moving uncategorized topics to a local cid, topics between local cids (of course), and cross-posting topics to local categories.

There are some gaps in federation, as @informapirata states. I've been actively working toward finding and closing those gaps.

@informapirata @sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net @kichae@wanderingadventure.party

@informapirata indeed, I fixed a number of federation issues between NodeBB and Lemmy, in v4.14.0, and again since. I'd recommend updating to the latest stable version and running those federation tests again.