Day 34 - With so many servers, releasing lemmy_server and lemmy-ui at the same time is slowing things down. the API needs to be stable and lemmy_server 0.18.1 should be released without needing UI

RoundSparrow to Lemmy Project Priorities Observations@bulletintree.com · 1 year ago

And more and more smartphone and independent front-ends are being built, the API serves more than just lemmy-ui

The idea that they should have the same version number is a mindset that orphans all other clients.

The admin screens are really a pretty small part of lemmy-ui, and the API is being used for that anyway, isn’t it? So split server setup into a way to do it without lemmy-ui being in sync.

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I’ve raised my voice loudly on meta communities, github, and created new !lemmyperformance@lemmy.ml and !lemmycode@lemmy.ml communities.

I feel like the performance problems are being ignored for over 30 days when there are a half-dozen solutions that could be coded in 5 to 10 hours of labor by one person.

I’ve been developing client/server messaging apps professionally since 1984, and I firmly believe that Lemmy is currently suffering from a lack of testing by the developers and lack of concern for data loss. A basic e-mail MTA in 1993 would send a “did not deliver” message back to message sender, but Lemmy just drops delivery and there is no mention of this in the release notes//introduction on GitHub. I also find that the Lemmy developers do not like to “eat their own dog food” and actually use Lemmy’s communities to discuss the ongoing development and priorities of Lemmy coding. They are not testing the code and sampling the data very much, and I am posting here, using Lemmy code, as part of my personal testing! I spent over 100 hours in June 2023 testing Lemmy technical problems, especially with performance and lost data delivery.

I’ll toss it into this echo chamber.

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