Jeena

I found a nice and easy lemmy bug to fix, but someone beat me to it by 18 hours.

https://jemmy.jeena.net/post/15524

I found a nice and easy lemmy bug to fix, but someone beat me to it by 18 hours. - Jemmy

I already forked the ui-repo, found the correct file to fix it and even found the place where I should add a query to the search form to search only for communities if you start searching from the communities page. But then I saw that this change is already done in that file. I double checked the HTML on my instance and there it’s broken. I checked the history of the page and see it has been fixed 18 hours before I started looking into it. All my hard work for nothing.

Jun 30, 2023 at 6:04amWeb
Show threadJeenaJun 30, 2023

I have another bug which is bothering me. When the site settings are set to “Registration Mode”: “Close Registration”, the Sign Up link still shows up and the route still sends you to the Sign Up form. You can fill in everything there but then will get a infinite spinner.

I wanted to at least remove the link at the top when sign up is closed. But obviously it’s not as easy as changing a static HTML as in the other bug.

Show threadlmlJun 30, 2023
At least you got yourself into the contributing mindset. Tackle the next issue!
Show threadboopdepopJun 30, 2023
Hey, if not this one then the next one. Onto the next bug!
Show threadwithersailorJun 30, 2023

It wasn’t for nothing.

Think of the skills you gained and the experience.

Show threadlunarulJun 30, 2023
That type of bug is what is called "low hanging fruit". With lots of active contributors, such bugs will get fixed pretty quickly.
Show threadalejandroJun 30, 2023
That’s why you should always search for or file a bug report before trying to create a fix.
Show threadTwo9AJun 30, 2023

I had this exact thing with Mastodon a few days ago. Couldn't find a way to get the local server's post-ID for a federated post if you had the original URL, so I thought "screw it, I'll do it myself".

Downloaded the source, set up a local instance, added extra space to my server so I could run ElasticSearch, went to the file where I wanted to add my "uri:" search prefix, and I find (to paraphrase)...

Send resolve=true to fetch remote instances and return their local ID

Been there for years.