Yesterday, muad’dibber had to quickly restore lemmygrad from a backup due to disk space issues on Lemmygrad’s host.

We didn’t have the info earlier because he’s super busy juggling between and fixing stuff on Lemmy, lemmy.ml and lemmygrad due to the Reddit migration. So please don’t take it too hard on him 🙏 he did what was necessary, there was no other option than to restore a backup, we just didn’t have the info.

That’s why I suggest that if you can code, you should help Lemmy! On our end we are starting to need better moderation tools (like being able to message the whole admin team would be great) to name just one. They have lots of issues open and probably even more now that lemmy has had a surge of activity, so any contribution to the code would help greatly!

Here’s the repo: https://github.com/LemmyNet

  • v12riceburner@lemmygrad.ml
    5·
    1 year ago

    I mean, if we open an issue for that admin team messaging feature then we can start discussion and get feedback from the main devs and start working on it.

    Maybe we could participate in the discussion for issue 2414 as well to get more attention from the main devs since it looks like the discussion stalled.

    Although I’m worried that the main devs are dealing with performance issues right now to focus on other things. But we still need their go ahead to start working on these features. I would join discussion myself but I’m not a mod so I don’t have much insight on how these features should be designed.

    • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.mlOP
      4·
      1 year ago

      I don’t have a github account 😔 but in the simplest way I can think of, it would essentially be DMs with multiple parties. Maybe in a different page than the inbox (bell icon). There could be a button or link in the sidebars to message the mods of a community or the admins of the instance, and the DM would be sent out to the whole team. Then when someone replies to the DM it sends the reply to everyone in the group.

      Being able to mark them as resolved would also be useful, and would mark the DMs as read to everyone in the convo and maybe even add a [resolved] mention somewhere on the DMs.

      That way it could be asynchronous and essentially send the DM X times in one click, once to each participant.

      • nephs@lemmygrad.ml
        4·
        1 year ago

        I don’t have the mental space to work on lemmy code right now, but you obviously know what you are talking about.

        Would you like me to give you a tour in a tool like figma and github basics so that you could communicate those ideas and steer development more efficiently, comrade? :B

          • v12riceburner@lemmygrad.ml
            6·
            1 year ago

            It’s not just for coders. Users also should participate in discussion if they have an interest in how the project develops. I’ll summarize what you said and create an issue for this admin chat feature but if there’s any back and forth it would be a lot easier for you to talk to them directly than for me to act as intermediary.

          • Red Wizard 🪄@lemmygrad.ml
            1·
            1 year ago

            I encourage you to get a GitHub account so you can communicate with the devs about your needs. Lots of people have GitHub accounts for just that reason. Open an issue (search first) in the repo with the tag “feature request”. Someone will want to take that task on at some point.