Hey there! I’m involved with the dev team. Development is completed on a volunteer basis as folks have bandwidth and want to pick up issues for new features and bug fixes. We recently rolled out an upgrade to our frontend, for instance.
A number of previously active members of the core dev team have either stepped away from the project and other maintainers have ongoing life commitments they have to prioritize ahead of the project.
We also actively have folks on the DevOps side to keep the site maintained and its dependencies updated. That allows us to continue making improvements to infrastructure.
Our codebase forked entirely from Lemmy about a year ago and shifting back over to vanilla Lemmy isn’t feasible at this stage of the project.
In addition to our custom emoji features, we also have pronoun tags, moderation features, and changes around performance improvements. We continue wanting to implement ActivityPub in the future to enable wider federation.
Walled gardens are not the vision anyone on the team has for the future of the internet and we’re strong believers in the fediverse.
We’ll have another dev team drive in the future to help ramp back up further. Viva la hexbear!
Hey there! I’m involved with the dev team. Development is completed on a volunteer basis as folks have bandwidth and want to pick up issues for new features and bug fixes. We recently rolled out an upgrade to our frontend, for instance.
A number of previously active members of the core dev team have either stepped away from the project and other maintainers have ongoing life commitments they have to prioritize ahead of the project.
We also actively have folks on the DevOps side to keep the site maintained and its dependencies updated. That allows us to continue making improvements to infrastructure.
Our codebase forked entirely from Lemmy about a year ago and shifting back over to vanilla Lemmy isn’t feasible at this stage of the project.
In addition to our custom emoji features, we also have pronoun tags, moderation features, and changes around performance improvements. We continue wanting to implement ActivityPub in the future to enable wider federation.
Walled gardens are not the vision anyone on the team has for the future of the internet and we’re strong believers in the fediverse.
We’ll have another dev team drive in the future to help ramp back up further. Viva la hexbear!