Welcome to the community!
My name is Tyler Thrailkill (@snowe or @snowe2010 on almost every site). I am currently the main mod at r/experiencedDevs on Reddit, and am starting this site up in the hopes that we can make a collective developer community free from VC influence. This is partially because of the recent API changes Reddit has declared, but also because developers are the ones that can most likely make a community like this succeed.
It will probably not go well, I understand that. It will probably be crazy expensive. I understand that. I do hope that the community is able to work together to actually make this a success though.
I’ve started by creating 3 communities:
meta is for discussions about programming.dev itself. I think this is one of Stack Overflows best ideas (was it their idea?), because it allows for incremental improvement as a collective group. Please use this to discuss things you think need to change about the site.
Programming is for general purpose programming discussions. This is an analogue to /r/programming on reddit.
Finally, Experienced Devs is an analogue to the /r/experiencedDevs sub that I currently moderate on Reddit. I hope to pull some of my mods over from there, but we’re still talking about it because we don’t even know if lemmy is built to handle the traffic that this site could generate.
I will be creating several more meta posts in the coming days, so be on the lookout for those. Thank you for reading!
@snowe I think Lemmy is going to have a hard time handling any meaningful traffic if lemmy.ml is struggling with ~2k active users.
Some work probably needs to be done, however the more early adopters there are – particularly in these types of communities – the more likely the work will actually get done.
from what I’ve read, a lot of the problems are caused by inefficient sql queries. Changing my db settings massively helped because people were getting timeouts constantly for some reason, even though my metrics only showed like 10% usage. I want to contribute, but just haven’t had time yet. Thankfully with an entire programming community, we should definitely be able to make lemmy a lot better.