600 more active users in the last few days, from 47225 to 47827 in two days

Blaze (he/him)@sopuli.xyz to Fediverse@lemmy.world – 624 points –

Source: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Context: Reddit made a few controversial annoucements, feel free to have a look at !reddit@lemmy.world

For people wanting to discuss why some people focus on Lemmy's growth, here is a recent thread from !asklemmy@lemmy.world :

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It is lower from where it was in june (48.472) and the data seem to indicate a negative trajectory , also lemmy donations seem to be the lowest i remember them to be.

So i would not get too confident, the project IMO needs to focus on highly requested killer features. My impression they focusing too much on technical issues that don't seem to be really important in a way that reminds me of the infamous The CADT Model rant of Jamie Zawinski. Do we really need to do a UI rewrite?

That's weird! I go on Lemmy daily and it's been feeling a lot busier IMO.

The CADT model...that was a short but fun read. I have definitely encountered that model many times in the various jobs.

Years ago, when I was a developer, I loved fixing bugs in other people's code. I felt like I learned a lot from that, and I got a sense of accomplishment out of it. It made users happy, it made my boss happy, and the puzzle solving aspect of it was fun. I was what they called a "maintenance programmer" which was something of an insult, but I didn't mind.

Unfortunately most developers I know hate everyone else's code, think others' code is "garbage" (every single time) and they definitely have a lot more fun building something from scratch than doing bug fixes. They even hate their own code once it's a few months old. Always chasing for the perfect architecture, etc. Which is unfortunate, there's tremendous value in repairing and upgrading existing things.

TF2 community greatly values efforts of The Janitor - sole full-time developer, fixing old bugs in TF2.

there’s tremendous value in repairing and upgrading existing things.

Value created doesn't translate to value extracted and VCs and managers and marketers and the general public fork over more money in exchange for new shiny than old, reliable, maintained. There are few exceptions.

True, but I've also worked at many places where they hang on to old software systems for years or even decades (think banking, mainframes). Because they "it works, and if it ain't broke don't fix it".

I'm out of the loop, what are the highly requested features?

probably the best (or least worst) indication of that is sorting issues by "thumbs up" on github, see lemmy and lemmy-ui. I think having a survey among donors (like godot had on patreon) is a better indicator.

I was so confused when I heard about lemmy-ui-leptos, it really sounds like a waste of time to me 🤷‍♂️

I'm sure everyone has a different opinion, but I think the most important new feature should be the plugin system. It seems like the only way to scale up the number of contributors and support a variety of languages.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4695

Hopefully Sublinks, PieFed or Mbin will be ready soon so that we can ditch Lemmy entirely.

Are those better than Lemmy? I'm enjoying Lemmy so far.

At this point i think piefed feels better with it's ability to subscribe to posts and comments and incrementally read stuff, and also the wiki system . mbin reportedly has multireddits but i played with it and could not figure out how to enable it. but piefed still didn't have a beta release.