Husky is an android app for Pleroma. Pleroma is federation software, which our fediverse instance runs.
The background
This isn't the first time the developer threw a fit and left. But this might be the funniest one
Original post where the developer ragequits
Husky is alright software, it's a fork of another software called Tusky, which also has it's own set of drama (like hardcoding "nazi" instances and blocking them), but specifically, Tusky was written for Mastodon. Mastodon and Pleroma both have backwards compatible API's, but Pleroma slaps on a lot of it's own things, such as emoji reactions, more user information, custom post limits, and much MUCH more. This means that Tusky works for both Pleroma and Mastodon servers.
Husky was started by someone who wanted to make an app more oriented for Pleroma only, adding things like Emoji reactions and such
The drama
Like all software, it has bugs: but Husky has bugs that have gone unfixed for a few months. Some include notifications which don't work, like in the image, chat notifications. Posts that contain a lot of emojis can literally freeze Husky. webm emojis can glitch out sometimes, and various other bugs.
Unfortunately, this developer is an non-conformant neurodivergent (trust me, I am too) who uses Sourcehut (version control software), which is good software no doubt. Sourcehut requires that you send emails and vice versa to send tickets/issues/patches, and all discussions occur over email. Some people are fairly sensitive about their emails, although it allows people to submit issues without an account.
Two people reported bugs, specifying the bugs, explaining how the bugs are triggers on the Fediverse (Pleroma and Mastodon are part of the Fediverse FYI, it's a catch-all term). The developer saw these and responded that they must be opened through channels, the applicants do not want to do this, and just say "Please fix the bug". This very shortly led to the developer leaving, for good, and deleting his accounts. Excuse being that he receives too many complaints
Also >i dont, freakish developer doesn't even test his fricking software lmao
What's interesting about this very niche drama, is that a Pleroma frontend known as Soapbox (which, yes, has a lot more drama than this actually, the developer is a TERF etc), receives lots of complaints and deals with lots of messages hurled at him, x100 times more than the Husky developer. But oh well...
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wtf is wrong with people?? idek this was possible
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I don't know where you picked this up. I'm writing a frontend in C with FCGI, but this guy is working with Java (it's an android app)
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Did the meaning of frontend change? Or are you just a sexy Indian dude that doesn’t know what they’re talking about?
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No you fricking r-slur. I'm writing my own Fediverse frontend for the web in C. It's a frontend to a backend on a server.
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So you are a sexy Indian dude? Do you live in Brampton by chance?
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What makes you think I'm a sexy Indian dude? What was confusing about what I said?
If you're just an Neurodivergent mixing up the term "frontend" think it means a GUI, then you have it wrong. It's a frontend to the Pleroma API, which is a frontend to Pleroma itself, but we refer to it as a Backend since it's confusing
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Avoiding the question. I must be over the target.
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Keep yourself safe you spastic BIPOC
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Did you study at Seneca, chud? Or some other shitty university like ryerson?
Also, I was zozzed, so I must be right.
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Thanks for agreeing zoz
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I googled C frontend and got unrelated articles and <300 view youtube videos. same thing with the library you were talking about
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C frontend is generic
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Unironically better than python or JavaScript
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really????? wouldnt it only be able to do SSR tho? and wouldnt you still end up needing js for anything interactive?
I feel like that would end up being slower and much harder than svelte
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Nowadays, I would personally have gone with Perl. There is javascript on front too
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