mschae

Oh, true, that’s completely understandable. I don’t even know myself how long I can keep this up. Though I also don’t plan on disappearing entirely :)

Though to be fair, mlmym doesn’t require much maintenance (with the exception of the upcoming API v4 migration, of course). Most instances of it are still on rystaf’s build, even, and I guess that’s ‘good enough’.

And it’s not critical. If need be, it can be shut down and users will just switch back to the main interface.

The worst part of hosting mlmym you’ll have to consider is that it causes a lot of unwanted bot traffic to the lemmy server, because it’s so easily scrapeable. Whether that’s worth it for the few users who prefer the old reddit design is your call.

Ah, that must’ve been from when I was doing a refactor of the HTML templates. I split that over multiple commits, so there was one where I got creating communities working again, for example.

Funnily enough, the three features you mentioned as an example were already in rystaf’s version :)

I have a changelog that lists all the new features, changes, and bugfixes compared to the FHF fork: code.mschae23.de/mschae23/mlmym/…/CHANGELOG.md

The reason for this chain of forks is that the original version (rystaf/mlmym) has been abandoned and the maintainer is unreachable. The FHF, running old.lemmy.world, made a fork to support their instance, but they understandably don’t have a lot of time to maintain it.

And I basically just started improving the project and fixing bugs a few months ago, using their version as a base.