The beauty of Lemmy being open source is that an RES-equivalent shouldn't be necessary. RES existed because there were so many qol improvements that the admins were unwilling to implement. But here, you could always just make a PR and contribute the improvement into the codebase
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2023
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Lemmy Plugins and Userscripts
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A general repository for user scripts and plugins used to enhance the Lemmy browsing experience.
Post (or cross-post) your favorite Lemmy enhancements here!
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- Preface the submission with the type of enhancement - ex: [UserScript].
- Include a screenshot of the enhancement in use (where possible)
- Indicate the requirements for use (eg, greasemonkey, stylus, etc.)
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That’s very true. The only caveat is if the PR isn’t merged and/or declined.
Developing some sort of a settings UI would probably be a good starting point. Kbin already has the sidebar settings so that is a logical place to put any enhancements, but Lemmy settings are not quite as accessible.
I’ve never really made userscripts and I’m a Python developer. I’m currently looking into making a toggle-able modal to put some settings in.
This is a bit of an old post, but that's something we're trying to do with an extension :)
It started out as an extension for a specific purpose, but I'm now trying to restructure it so it's easier to bring in new features!
I wanted to do that, and I started on an extension for it, but as others have said, lemmy being open source means that improvements should mostly be made on the website itself, rather than on a browser addon.
The downside is that for user settings, they are stored on the instance's database, which means that you need to know a little bit of rust to implement a new setting (I'm doing that right now to open comments in a new tab instead of having to middle/ctrl click)