I first became aware of this about 4 months ago.
GitHub issue is 3069:
It would be awesome if we could follow a post to be alerted of new comments added.
As we are at it, why stop with posts? I’d suggest also having such alerts with comment sub-trees would be nice.
I was in a thread in [email protected] earlier today, and it seems like there is still interest in this feature.
Last I heard, it seemed like progress on this feature is dependent on fixing an SQL Paging and filtering issue.
Any progress on this? Anything we can do to expedite the development of this feature?
In terms of contributing directly, while I can hack together some terrible python code, I have never done any development in Rust, or on the scale of Lemmy.
I’ll keep the Matrix chat and [email protected] in mind though. Thanks, @[email protected] and @nutomic@[email protected] for your thoughts and suggestions!
No worries!
If you’re interested in learning rust (I’ve certainly enjoyed) feel free to try to do so in the community. We’ve just about gone through the main course now, but I can very much see another round starting if people are interested.
The whole idea is to treat contributing as a group learning challenge rather than something onerous and hard.
Otherwise, if you’ve got sql/DB experience, that’s often just as relevant AFAICT (as is the case across the fediverse). I’d bet that if anyone sorts out a good query or schema someone else could integrate it into the code base.