I know that Lemmy is open source and it can only get better from here on out, but I do wonder if any experts can weigh in whether the foundation is well written? Or are we building on top of 4 years worth of tech debt?

  • phoneymouse@lemmy.world
    122·
    1 year ago

    Someone mentioned they had started out using websockets instead of http. I guess they’ve since migrated, but that design choice makes me wonder about the qualifications of the devs to make that kind of choice.

    • rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee
      18·
      1 year ago

      Websocket was deprecated with 0.18.0 which is the latest official release, but a lot of instances are on the release candidate for 0.18.1. because of some major improvements. My login instance is on that one which is great for me because I’m using a desktop browser and it looks way nicer. A lot of fixes too.

      Websocket is easier to implement so that’s probably why they started with it. It has heavy overhead and doesn’t scale well so that’s the down side. It wasn’t trivial for them to move to http. Websocket was probably a better starting point for them at the time, but they did realize its shortcomings and deprecate it in time to support growth. I don’t know if I’d hold that against them.