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Which platform(s) should we use for discussing PieFed development? Question poll (piefed.social)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social
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Please only vote if you have contributed to PieFed in some capacity (e.g. coding, translation, reporting bugs, discussing bugs) or might in the near future!

Currently, we have two different developer chats on Zulip and Matrix. This means, that new devs will be confused about which channel to join and experienced devs have to actively look around in both channels for questions to answer. This seems like a really inefficient system, so we should at least decide on one official communication channel.

More discussion at https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1964543/we-should-rethink-how-the-communitcation-channels-for-piefed-devs-work

Personally I find Matrix to be a pain in the ass and prefer Zulip. But it hasn't managed to attract as many users as Matrix has despite pushing it quite hard for months. Also PieFed development has started to bleed over into PieFed naturally, such as !piefed_css@piefed.social and !piefed_plugins@piefed.social. So we're in an awkward place at the moment.

31% A PieFed community, only
3% chat.piefed.social - Zulip
10% Matrix channel
18% PieFed + Zulip
21% PieFed + Matrix
13% PieFed + Zulip + Matrix
3% Zulip + Matrix (what we have now)
3% Zulip
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[–] 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Altough it's already decided, i support your choice, that's a good decision.

Here is my point of view :)

I choose piefed community even tought i prefer zulip for its chat organization. It works as a git page where we can resolve topic, create topic based on discussion. It is well made and and their app do a very good job.

However, as you pointed out, it didn't attract new users for many reasons as being in another chat, create new account (while having so many accounts elsewhere)...

I think we can make piefed closer to zulip. Piefed already have the most important feature of zulip :

  • moving post to the correct category.

Maybe we are missing two things ?

  • subcategories ? for that we have flair. We can turn some flair into tabs. A dropmenu where you can chose the flair ?
  • moving comments on a new post or categorize comment by topic ? (Maybe it is only revalant on live discussion)
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  • [–] [S] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Yes I'm sure this will inspire many improvements.

    Something that occurred to me is - currently we have a bell to get notifications about new posts in a community but perhaps we need a bell for flair in a community. For people who are interested in Translation but not all other developer discussion.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Oh nice idea, it will fit nicely my fediverse community ! We can play a lot with flairs :3

    We can use them to hide content, to categorize content, we could add a related hashtag, make a search with include, exclude...

    mastodon's hashtag and piefed's flair are alike. On mastodon, you can create a timeline where you can mix username, hashtags, so maybe the next feed feature would include some hashtag ? :)

    The bell notification is a very good idea, i would like to expand it to hashtag. 😋

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    @rimu@piefed.social

    Maybe the list is overhelming but the bell notification for flair is already great idea.

    Since several months, I stopped suggesting new ideas on codenberg since there is already lot things to do. It will also add more API and the dev team is small. But yeah we can play with flairs. :)

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