Cynber @ cynber @lemmy.ca

I'm working on open source projects :)

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Thank you!

Oh ok thank you I'll look into it!

Thank you, I've just fixed it!

To clarify on the self promotion rule, this is a tool that I'm working on with others. Would it still be ok to post about it if it's free and open source?

I recently tried to get some self hosted music going, using old CDs I had for example. It's such a hassle moving things over, even when the automated software tags the files correctly (which only happened half the time)

TV and movies are easy enough to manage your own files for, because it's a lot more organized and categorizable. With music it's a mess, and not something worth doing for me.

Also I listen to so much music that it's nice being able to let it fetch similar music for hours and hours.

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!

Unfortunately I can't seem to message on the other instance, maybe because it hasn't been fetched to Lemmy.ca yet. The message:

Hey, I'm working on a somewhat similar extension with some overlap. I see you posted about migrating to an extension, would you be open to collaborating?

I need to clean-up my code a little bit but I don't think it should be difficult consolidating the features. A lot of the groundwork is done already:)

It's https://lemmy.ca/instance_assistant if you wanted to see

Yep boost had this too and I used it fairly often.

An indicator for what user I'm commenting with would be most important. After that having the ability to drop a comment as a different signed in user would be really nice.

Thank you, done!

Still figuring out which communities to post future updates in.

Alternate link to community since some apps can't handle the ! format https://lemmy.ca/c/instance_assistant

Link to Edge version, since it got approved after the original post: https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/instance-assistant-for-le/hnlndgeokcaocdklkbfjbfjplfnedehb

Cool ok I'll experiment a little bit with a few other popular instances

Huh that's odd, I'll give it a try later. It might have been something to do with the 'https://' possibly?

Yes pretty much 😄 you need to set it manually.

Eventually I want to allow a user to set multiple, so if you're signed in on multiple instances you can redirect accordingly.

That would be helpful, and with a quick look I think there's an API for that which I can use. Thanks for the idea!

thank you!

I will fix the generated code so that the copy and paste works as well. I was mostly focussing on the button and... clearly didn't test the codes enough.

The "type unknown" refers to the type of instance (lemmy vs. kbin), and you can use the "Toggle home instance type" to change it. It exists because lemmy uses "/c/" for community links, while kbin uses "/m/", and the extension needs to know what kind of link to generate. By default, it generates Lemmy style links.

I am planning to add a little (?) help icon to each button, which might help with confusing bits like this in the future.

Hope that helps, and thank you for the feedback!

Hope it works well, feedback is welcome :))

fixed!

That’s something my extension actually helps with as well :)

fixed!

That's something my extension actually helps with as well :)

I'm the dev of the "Instance Assistant" browser extension. If you could please add the following links:

• Firefox: link (addons.mozilla.org)
• Chrome: link (chrome.google.com)
• Community: !instance_assistant@lemmy.ca
• GitHub: https://github.com/cynber/lemmy-instance-assistant

One that is more specific to Lemmy, which I am working on

!instance_assistant@lemmy.ca

While this is extension is mine and I have an obvious bias, I am using the extension constantly for my personal use as well. Might be nice for others too :)