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Transparency Report: Second Edition - Hexbear
www.hexbear.netHi everyone. A while back, we announced our intention to move Hexbear back to
Lemmy. This post will serve as our second transparency report on our progress.
We're happy to share two more features have been successfully ported upstream,
with a third very close to completion: 1. Featuring posts site-wide
[https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/2585] 2. Site-wide taglines
[https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/2548] 3. [WIP] Custom emojis
[https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/2616] Last time, I mentioned we had some
work to do porting Hexbear's database schema back to Lemmy's. I'm very happy to
announce that, as of three hours ago, we successfully ported a recent database
backup from Hexbear to Lemmy's schema for the first time. We have used this to
start up a local Lemmy instance running with the past two and a half years of of
Hexbear data on it. Here's a sneak peak
[https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/h9YcEZ1lss.png]! None of this would have
been possible without the volunteer developers. In particular, I want to again
give a massive shout out to @makotech222 [/u/makotech222] - he has been doing
the bulk of this work and we cannot thank him enough. :stalin-heart: Progress
continues to be made, but we still have a lot of work ahead of us. Whilst we are
at the stage where our core features have been ported over, there are some
features we'd lose. For example, upstream are not interested in explicit pronoun
support. We have a workaround for this which allows for pronouns to be set and
displayed as is shown in the screenshot above, however, with more volunteers we
could work on a better solution that upstream are interested in: user flairs
[https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1456]. So please, if you are a
developer who wants to help port over the last couple features upstream, reach
out to either me [https://matrix.to/#/@ella:chapo.chat], CARCOSA
[https://matrix.to/#/@carc0sa:chapo.chat], or layla
[https://matrix.to/#/@layla:chapo.chat]. That's all for today. We hope this was
useful and answered some of your questions. If you have more, some of the team
will be in the comments for a while so please feel free to ask. Thanks, and viva
la Hexbear! :hexbear-static-logo:
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