Yes fair enough, I'll include a better description as a dropdown in future posts.
Instance Assistant is a browser extension with a handful of tools on Desktop. It started out as a button to redirect to your home instance, but with the help of others we've included a few other functions and are working on more.
RES for Lemmy would probably be an end goal, and at this point I'm not sticking to any particular area. It's more that I'm working on the things that I figured out how to do since I'm learning lots as I go. For example, multi-account switcher is a commonly requested feature from RES and something I'd really like to use myself, but I'd need someone with more experience to check my code to make sure I'm not leaking account details anywhere.
Having default sorts should be possible, and a simple way might be to just check the URL. So if on a lemmy site & on home page, it would check if "dataType"=Post and if "sort"="TopDay", and if not it will swap the URL. I'll see if it works in practice and maybe push it in the next update :)
I'll see if I can roll this into a future update for !instance_assistant@lemmy.ca . I wanted to try and get a "post to Lemmy" button working, and this is a part of that. Looks like the reddit one was done using a Reddit API, and while the Lemmy ones are different it shouldn't be too bad.
UPDATE: I'm able to search for links within the body of posts, but haven't figured out why it doesn't search the links yet. I'll look into it later
The only limitation might be that the search is limited to a particular instance. Since there is an unlimited number of instances, I don't think there's an easy way to search them all without some external service doing some caching of some kind. We could have it search a bunch of different instances, but I want to minimize unnecessary / spammy requests.
@Bucky@816am.ddns.net, is it important for the extension icon to display the number, or did you usually run a manual search?****
Relevant bit from the post, we will now also be prepping for the Firefox Mobile app, now that they are opening mobile up to all extensions!
This may need some reworking to make it easier to use on mobile. If you have any thoughts, or would like to participate in the preview/dev releases, let me know here or elsewhere :)
Could you give an example of what this looks like? I'm sure I'll have friends sending me similar articles / YouTube videos. Would be nice to have a simple and accurate analogy
Would there be any benefit from seeking a similar partnership with the CIRA? The organization's interests seem aligned with what this instance is trying to do (Canadian run, open internet that's free from corporate interests etc.)
This is something that is probably better if implemented in Lemmy itself. It would be tied to a particular community, and it wouldn't need to cross over between instances.
If someone tried to make a browser extension for it, it would only appear for people using the same browser extension. Some third party apps have it like that, and it's not that helpful.
What's better for a browser extension / app to take on is cross-instance functionality, such as jumping between instances, having buttons / content in the UI, etc. I'm working on an extension for that ( !instance_assistant@lemmy.ca ), and while I really want flairs as well, I don't think it would be good for a browser extension.
Once it's implemented in Lemmy itself, then we could probably make it easier to add/remove/view/filter flairs using a browser extension.
I tried Sync for a bit, but I agree with the other posters that the pricing model is a little outrageous.
Have you considered adding a donation option through google play? I'm not sure what the process is like, but it might make it easier for people to donate.
We're integrating lemmyverse.net searches into the browser extension were working on (see more on https://lemmy.ca/c/instance_assistant) so that it pops up right on the Lemmy UI,, but for now I just open it in a new tab
I've been using Nova Launcher for years now, but I explored other options a few months ago because of the ownership change. Lawnchair was the best one I found, but I didn't switch to it because it looked like it was missing features I needed. Folders was an important one.
Which version / source are you using for the app? I got a bit lost trying to find a recent version. The last release on the GitHub is from 2018, and the last prerelease is from a year ago. There's also an issue for the folders which I was following, and it actually just went stale: https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair/issues/2471
I also see Lawnchair2, but that looked like a fork or something
The basic features should work with Lemmy and Kbin, but some of the new ones are unique to Lemmy for now, such as the error page replacement. I've found Kbin a little harder to work with because while it's more flexible, it's harder to make sure I'm avoiding unintended actions.
I don't think there are any limitations with behaw, at least with the current features.
I tested with mobile Firefox on an older version and it did work. However since you have to jump through hoops to install the extension in the first place, I haven't looked into it much more. If you try to install it from the store on mobile, it should say that it isn't compatible. :)
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What's a good place to get/hold domains these days?