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Introducing FediDB Software Comparison, Lemmy vs Mbin vs Piefed
We shipped a pretty cool feature to FediDB that allows anyone to edit and answer questions about software projects, like a wiki, and use that data to power a new software comparison feature.
FYI sending a code for login seems not to work for fedia.io. Login via code in my profile works.
I don’t get it, this just looks like you’re trying to shoehorn discussion board type software into a comparison tool for microblogging
This list of features is microblogging-centered. Some things like boosts and mastodon make no sense for the threadiverse. And some things which should be there to compare, aren’t.
You can suggest new questions that are limited to specific segments like Forums and link aggregators
But can you suggest to remove existing questions?
there’s a filter to show “only differences” which I think is a good way to do these comparisons, since some Threadiverse software could have microblogging-centered features like Mbin does
But Mbin can do some microblogging things. It's what distinguishes it from other threadiverse software. I think it makes sense to include if one of the three supports it, no?
Maybe it’s because I’m on mobile right now, but it looks like a lot of the descriptions are cut off without any way to expand it. Assuming that texts ending in ”…” is supposed to continue.
I will improve the mobile layout, sorry about that!
A feature that Piefed has that I wish Lemmy would implement too is URL filters; perhaps it could be added to the chart after ‘word filters’?
Arctic has a great frontend implementation of it with Regex support, but the app hasn’t been updated in a while.
Also, for simplicity perhaps the tables should have the more advanced information implemented with a visibility toggle? All of the information listed may overwhelm new users and leave an impression that the Fediverse is particularly complex.
Yea the features are already grouped, I think they could be collapsed by default and just show the number of features supported for each of the groups, and then you can expand
That is cool. Would it also be possible to search for software that has a desired feature?
Good idea! Yes, I will work on this.
Nice! Curious also about PyLova.
At this point isn’t it just piefed with a “feature” or two stripped or reworked?
It’s got many new features, to the point PieFed is playing catchup with its latest releases to try and match what we’re offering.
Is that so? I suppose if anyone might know it would be you. I’ve given some thought to running a small local instance. May have to take a look later.
No idea, thats why it would be good to see a comparison.
Very nice!
I’ve submitted some updates to the features.
Freaking great! Thank you!
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Very cool. I was looking forward to something like this coming into existence or else I might have done it (probably with worse UI/UX than you did 😁 ).
And I'm glad to see that Mbin is still included in the list of major threadiverse platforms.