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Cake day: January 21st, 2021

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  • I’m talking about RSS auto-discovery via <link> tags. In the head of the page there should be a link take like <link rel=alternate type="application/atom+xml" href="https://lemmy.ml/feeds/c/lemmy.xml?sort=Hot">. This way browsers, extensions, search engines and feed readers can discovery the link automatically without the user needing to identify the feed link on each site.



  • Client-side hashing doesn’t really do much. It just makes your hashed password the effective password. The only advantage it provides is some defense against password reuse because the “source” password is hard to discover. However you shouldn’t be reusing passwords anyways so that shouldn’t matter.

    An actual improvement would be using something a PAKE like SRP or OPAQUE. This way the server never learns enough information to authenticate as you.

    A major downside of these systems is that because they aren’t natively supported by browsers they require javascript. But that probably isn’t a major issue because IIUC all interactivity on the webui requires JS anyways.





  • I think it would make sense to keep cross-posts different threads. Different communities have different styles, norms and rules for the discussion.

    However I think it would be amazing to have the option to:

    • View all comments about a URL on one page.
    • View all comments from my communities on one page.

    Basically I think the underlying implementation should be kept as it currently is, but I think the UI could allow the user to visually merge these together when desired (maybe by default).

    I think the main complication is that if you are viewing the merged view you need to decide which community to leave the comment on (or support cross-posting comments???) so it is a slight overhead for those who prefer to see things merged. But overall I think this would be a better solution.