It's a pain that search results on lemmy show by default ordered by some useless relevance ranking. I can't think of a single time I didn't want newest first. I couldn't find a preference to request that. It would be great if there was one.

The suggestion on c/support on lemmy.world was to make this kind of request on github, but it seems anti-FOSS to me to require a Microsoft account for a fediverse request, so I'm posting here and hoping for the best.

Thanks for any consideration!

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[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

"anti-FOSS to me to require a Microsoft account for a fediverse request, so I’m posting here and hoping for the best."

It's more about efficiency and prioritization of actions than anything else.

Could the devs spend time and effort migrating the code to another repo, such as Codeberg? Yes. Would the benefits be worth the time and effort? Debatable.

You can just create a throwaway account for GitHub. Not ideal, but devs have said multiple times that they don't have the time to track feature requests elsewhere than on the GitHub (and it makes sense)

Alternatively, if having code on a FOSS repo is very important to you, you can request it on https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/, the repo for https://piefed.social/

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago

You can just create a throwaway account for GitHub

I know I'm getting off-topic, but the last time I tried this it ended up being locked either because it didn't like a simplelogin email or because I didn't give it a phone number. Hopefully that was an edge case but I haven't tried again recently.

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