I'm working on one of the remaining missing features in upstream lemmy right now, which is Taglines. backend PR is already up on Lemmy git, frontend PR incoming sometime soon. Afterwards, looking to start working on Featured Posts.
https://hexbear.net/post/159221
There was a transparency post as well about our progress since then, but it seems to be hidden. I'll reach out to the devs to see if they can get it visible again. There has been no progress since our last transparency post.
The main issue I have seen is that the Hexbear database data and schema has diverged from upstream Lemmy. There is no direct migration path and one needs to be developed, to transform the Hexbear database and data back to the same schema as upstream Lemmy. Until that happens we cannot run the upstream Lemmy code with the Hexbear data.
Hexbear has, for this very reason, inadvertently vindicated my outright refusal to use Minecraft mods and only play vanilla.
I only had a fixed amount of time that I was able to give to looking at Hexbear and the majority of it was spent fixing bit rot.
The docker image was not buildable out of the box, the build instructions were incorrect, etc etc.
By time I got it to the point where I could build and run the code locally, I was out of time.
https://git.chapo.chat/hexbear-collective/lemmy-hexbear/commits/branch/main/search?q=author%3Afootfaults
Everything should build properly and run properly, @layla did some additional bits to finish it off, but if you have problems report them in the Element chat
The dockerfile at https://git.chapo.chat/hexbear-collective/lemmy-hexbear/src/branch/main/docker/dev is meant to be for when you compile it and build it locally.
That's nice that someone has pushed the container images to that registry, so that you could pull them down, but that's not the point of that Dockerfile and docker-compose file.
In the same way that thexbear deviated from the official release of lemmy, minecraft mods will deviate you from the official release cycle of minecraft, and if you deviate too far (or one of your mods stops getting active development) then you get stuck in an old version with no way to upgrade due to dependence on custom/legacy code.
I think the plan now (per the transparency post) is to drop merge plans per se, implement the features in Hexbear that Lemmy is still missing, and migrate Hexbear's data to mainline Lemmy once it's possible.
lemmy is missing a lot of stuff we take for granted on this site. tried to use lemmygrad for a bit and then gave up.
