Tbh the 196 drama was more fun to be here for than when I logged in on 12/30 to see Dansup had been having a meltdown for six hours straight over 3rd party apps
He’s deleted everything now, as he should have. But the damage is done.
Where’s the meltdown? I don’t see any. And who is Dansup, anyway?
Pixelfed dev
Dansup had having a meltdown for six hours over third party apps
I’m at least somewhat understand the 196 drama, but who is this why is he melting and what those apps are 3rd party to???
I’m not familiar with the drama itself, but dansup is the creator of both Pixelfed and Loops.video.
Probably people complaining his app PixelFed isn’t working well. I tried it yesterday and it’s not ready for usage yet. Unless it was just the server I was on. But launching a social media app without dark mode is fucking dumb so low-key annoyed dansup wants to suck his own dick while blinding me.
So he made a social site, with a public API for third-party apps, and wrote his own app for it because it needed one. The app he wrote in React Native, a framework that lets you use JavaScript to make an app for both iOS and Android which uses native elements and sort of feels like a native app made specifically for the platform (it’s going to be slower and laggier, but not as much as a web app wrapped in a web view). The app was lacking in fit and finish (one gets the impression that he’s not primarily a mobile developer), with things like dark mode missing and annoyances such as navigation being a bit wonky, as well as the usual React Native jank. It works, but doesn’t feel slick or polished, let alone like the shot over the bow of Instagram it’s touted at. Which is understandable, and hopefully it’ll improve with ongoing development.
Then someone takes advantage of the open API for third-party apps and writes a native client that feels slicker and more polished. Dan takes it as a personal insult and loses his shit.
Haha. I made an open source thing. Hey wait no. Not like that!!!
Lemmy had the same problems, mostly solved with some indexing and caching so far. It’s gonna be fun when Lemmy needs to start partitioning and tiered storage, which it absolutely will when costs start to add up. Hosting an instance isn’t getting cheaper
Yep. Was talking to a friend about setting up a team speak server when their new app drops but I’m not sure what the costs would look like for a stable server. Or if I could just run it on my local server.
And I’m left wondering why the hell my feed is like 40% 196 rule posts all of the sudden. Certainly have no idea what happened either
