Around nine months ago the Beehaw admin team decided that we wanted to migrate to a Lemmy compatible software stack called Sublinks. Unfortunately, Sublinks is not yet Lemmy compatible—among other things the main dev recently had a child, and understandably that is taking priority currently. This means that plan to migrate is indefinitely on hold.

In addition, Lemmy has evolved and changed in a way that is simply not feasible for us to continue being behind on. In the upcoming 1.0 Lemmy release there are a number of breaking changes that would be problematic. This would be on top of existing third-party app issues with the older Lemmy version Beehaw runs, and bug-fixes and security improvements from later versions of Lemmy that we have to handle ourselves. We don't want our users to continue having friction or issues using Beehaw, or end up not able to federate with other instances. As such, within the next month or so, Beehaw admins will be working on upgrading Lemmy to the current/main release.

We're separately optimistic that with Lemmy API version 1.0 the Sublinks devs will have a good target to aim at and work towards, and though development is slowed we will continue assisting them toward an eventual Sublinks migration of Beehaw. We look forward to their first full operational release.

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[–] jgrim@discuss.online 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for your patience with Sublinks! I'm planning to increase contributions again very shortly.

[–] remington@beehaw.org 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We are looking forward to it and thank you for your work on Sublinks.

[–] jgrim@discuss.online 10 points 2 months ago

Thanks a lot! I'm exciting to get getting back into focusing on it :)

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Whilst we're discussing it, is there any chance that you would move to Codeberg for it instead? Considering there are a bunch of bad things both ethical and technical about using github nowadays including their agreements with ICE (which are the ones deporting people) and microsoft's support of the genocide in Palestine. Plus they steal code constantly with Copilot and probably allow others to do the same with their own LLMs.

Thanks for reading this, even if you choose to do nothing, and thank you for making such an awesome project!

[–] jgrim@discuss.online 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks, yes. I have been considering this for some time now but I have not had the time to decide on it or take action on a decision.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Okay, thanks for letting us know! Hope whatever you choose goes well and that you will be well.

[–] jgrim@discuss.online 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks so much!

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Good news for Beehaw users, the newer Lemmy versions improve the quality of life quite a lot.

Being able to hide posts is quite nice.

Edit : also, did you have a look at Piefed ? https://piefed.social/

The moderation tools could appeal to you : https://join.piefed.social/2024/06/22/piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities/

[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Edit : also, did you have a look at Piefed ? https://piefed.social/

yes, this is essentially our long-term backup plan if Sublinks doesn't work out for some reason

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Half of the moderation tools points, seem to be about downvotes... but Beehaw has no downvotes. How would that work?

[–] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It wouldn't work for the down voting, but has some easier extensibility if we wanted to fork and make it more for Beehaw. We're hoping to work with Sublinks to get those mod and admin tools baked in from the start VS forking or the constant patch changes we do with Lemmy.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 week ago

to get those mod and admin tools baked in from the start

which mod/admin tools? I'm curious what the features will be

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’ll be able to use voyager again! 🥳

[–] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Confirming that Beehaw works with Voyager now. YAY

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago

YAAAAAAAY

(replying from voyager 🥳)