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  • janAkali@lemmy.onetoProgrammer Humor@programming.devFLOSS communities right now
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    9 months ago

    only a small number will sign up for a specific forum

    Most people don’t have to sign-up, 90% of cases should resolve on just searching the problem. Good chances it was already asked and answered.
    Most of the time, forums with few users aren’t dead, they’re just really slow, whenever you post a question - expect at least 12-hour delay. I’ve never seen a message on Discord answered 12 hours later - you either get somewhat instant response or it’s ghosted forever. Also good luck asking questions if there’s heated/rapid discussion in the room, or you have a little time and other responsibilities other than checking discord every couple minutes.













  • Actually, Librewolf team set up recently a poll “should we move to Codeberg?”. And this was one of the reasons for migrating.

    P.S. other privacy/convenience issues with gitlab:

    • gitlab.com seems to require credit card information for new users signing up, which is not really great if people just want to report bugs.
    • gitlab.com uses Cloudflare, which for a few weeks locked out LibreWolf users from accessing gitlab.com in the past.
    • GitLab requires Javascript even to just look at issues, which is not the case for Codeberg

    P.P.S. They did move their codebase to Codeberg as a result.




  • I’ve been exclusively using DuckDuckGo until recent controversies, then switched to Metager. It is a privacy-oriented, opensource metasearch engine and they aren’t relying on bing/google search results like almost every other search engine.

    Results are really good and consistently relevant. But it has some minor annoyances, and recently metager started locking more and more features behind a paywall. I’ll keep using it if I won’t find better alternative.


  • It’s nice to have everything ready for you in Lunar, Lazy, Chad Vim, but it is honestly too much for any newbie to take at once. For anyone starting with vim/neovim best advice is to start with vanilla experience: no configs, no plugins and just learn basics. Then search for fixes to major annoyances, and when you’re comfortable with keybindings look for plugins to extend features. You’ll quickly realize how small is number of customizations required to be fast and productive in [Neo]Vim.