About two days ago we found a bug with the registration system on lemmy. Because of this we have updated our registration process a few times, and cannot deny any applications as the person registering does not receive any message and cannot re-apply.

We currently have several hundred people that we are waiting to deny, and some unknown amount of people that we denied prior to finding this issue which we would really like to contact and give them a chance to register as they didn’t write enough in their registration for us to really evaluate if they were a good fit for this instance.

If you’re a developer please take a look at this github issue and please work your magic to help fix this problem.

As an aside, we also have a list we’ve been working on for enhancements that would make moderating and administering this instance a lot easier, and enhancements we think users would enjoy in terms of UI and UX. We’d love to share these as well as facilitate a discussion to surface more ideas (and we plan to in the future), but right now we need to focus on the most pressing issue to us running this website, whether people can create an account here and participate.

  • biscuitsofdoom@beehaw.org
    28·
    2 years ago

    To work on bugs and test do I just need the UI and backend? Does the backend code have a embedded DB for local development? I can code, btw. I can figure rust out, great with JavaScript and JVM languages.

    • s900mhz@beehaw.org
      10·
      2 years ago

      The rust backend, Postgres Db and UI are all available as docker images. The rust “lemmy” repo has a docker compose file (if you are familiar with the concept) allowing you to spin up the whole stack locally pretty easily if you already have docker installed.

      • mobyduck648@beehaw.org
        6·
        2 years ago

        I didn’t know it was written in Rust. I looked at it years ago but never went anywhere with it. I bet I’d be much better at it having written Scala for the last six months, never really got into functional programming until now.

        • aksdb@feddit.de
          5·
          2 years ago

          Scala and Rust don’t have that much in common I think. Rust is closer to C++ than to Scala (unless Scala has changed significantly since I last used it years ago).

          • mobyduck648@beehaw.org
            3·
            2 years ago

            To be honest when I say a while ago I mean a really long time ago, I remember hearing about it being popular for its functional programming features but also as a C++ replacement and I’ve not kept up since so it might just be the latter now.

            • aksdb@feddit.de
              5·
              2 years ago

              popular for its functional programming features

              Never heard that. Rust is an imperative programming language. It has a few features from functional languages just like C++, Java, etc. have a few functional aspects.

              • flibbertigibbet@feddit.de
                8·
                2 years ago

                Rust is an imperative programming language with strong functional programming influences. It started out implemented in ocaml.

                The main functional programming influences are a strong functional programming-esk type system and heavy use of pattern matching.

                The syntax is a bit odd though, neither fully matching C style syntaxes or functional syntaxes like ML or Haskell.

                • aksdb@feddit.de
                  5·
                  2 years ago

                  Sure, but I still wouldn’t choose Rust if I wanted a functional programming language. Because it’s not one. I would pick Haskell or Scala or whatever.

            • aksdb@feddit.de
              6·
              2 years ago

              No matter the language, Rust is just a different beast. You don’t do OOP the way you do in C#, so you will have to change your expectation how code is designed. And you will have a very very hard initial (!) learning curve to get used to the borrow checker, which is Rust’s biggest strength. It’s absolutely worth learning and you will learn something to take “back” to other languages as well. But it’s not easy. No matter your background.

        • s900mhz@beehaw.org
          2·
          2 years ago

          Yeah I dabbled in rust very very lightly lol But the front end is written in inferno which is very similar to react which I’m very comfortable with. All I can say is don’t fear another language! Or don’t let it be a blocker, it may take some time to figure out but if you keep at it day after day you will be amazed how it will eventually makes sense.