jgrim of Sublinks

I’d do it just because my son wants me to. That’s more important to me than anything else. I have two boys. I’d do anything to make them happy.

Yeah, we also call them communities

Hey, I’m the founder of Sublinks. It’s a huge collaboration of several major Lemmy instances like lemmy world, beehaw, discuss.online, programming.dev, and quite a few others that wish not to be named until the release.

Some admins are directly working on the project while others are providing other types of support. @Ategon@programming.dev is certainly a major contributor and has helped develop the new front end in many major ways. You can follow some progress updates here: !sublinks@discuss.online

We have several different teams of developers:

1. API / Java
2. Front-end / JS/CSS/HTML
3. Federation / GoLang
4. Libraries / JS
5. Requirements gathering and organization
6. Design & Graphics - UI/UX
7. Lemmy to Sublinks migration tools

There is an active community on Matrix where all of us chat: https://matrix.to/#/#sublinks:discuss.online if anyone is interested in joining. We also have weekly touch bases to discuss progress and next steps. There are tons of people contributing.

We are currently taking donations only through Github: https://github.com/sponsors/sublinks if you’re truly interested. We’re all working on this part-time in our free time and making fantastic progress.

Let me know if you have any questions!

Thanks so much! We’re trying hard!

What is an example of a good reason to start a new project?

That’s an over simplified version. For the record, I couldn’t downgrade without data loss.

https://sublinks.org

You’re watching the spawn now! It’s still in development :)

Thanks a lot!

People were reaching out to me to try to understand these details so I just made a blog post to just point people to.

Thanks, me too!

Yes, almost all team members are contributing code, designs, feature requests, etc. I called out @Rooki@lemmy.world specifically because he’s been a major contributor. One of the admins is actively recruiting people to help contribute to Sublinks, this is how we got so much support so quickly. It’s a very close collaboration. I owe a lot of thanks to the Lemmy.World team.

I am not a communist. I cannot believe I had to write that.

Sorry, broke the build with a recent merge. It’s back up now!

We have 13 contributors with Sublinks so far. I expect more will come after the announcement.

We have our own engineers working on it with him along with the developer of pangora. It’s a full collaborative effort to make the best we can.

The Photon developer is assisting with the development of the new front-end :)

A new front-end is coming too. We need a new front-end to support all the new features we’re adding.

I’ll get it on there on the sidebar. Thanks a lot for the feedback. The demo site has been up for so long that I didn’t think of it when I announced it.

Yes, there is going to be a tool that exports from Lemmy via a direct database connection and adds to Sublinks via the API. Sublinks is heavily event driven by design. We’ll want some events to trigger during import.