This is way late as I completely forgot it but we turned 6 years old about two weeks ago! It’s time for the yearly ask and I only do it once a year so read on.
We’ve definitely formed a little group of regulars, all with sparkling personalities. We do seem to have one thing in common and that is unconditional love for this city. (or maybe people are bored at work) I’m happy with how things are going, generally, and thank god for open source as the retort plugin stayed around last year. It certainly adds to the character of the place.
The usual contribution methods are still in place. I accept Venmo (@dtraleigh) and I’ve always had the Paypal page set up.
I appreciate anything you can throw my way and hope to see people at the next meetup.
If any technical folks on here, ie those that know javascript, could maybe take a look at the issue with this plugin, I’ve started a discussion on Discourse’s forum. I’m up for fixing it but need some guidance and advice. ChatGPT can only do so much for me.
That doesn’t look great – seems like they’ve completely changed rendering frameworks, so the plugin will probably need a complete rewrite.
That said, it doesn’t seem like a particularly complicated thing to build, even from scratch. I wish I had a bit more time to take a stab at it.
Edit: this looks a little thornier than I figured. Seems like they’re moving to Glimmer but Glimmer is… already deprecated and merged back into Ember? Discourse is great as a user but their technical side seems a little scary lol.
What would be a guesstimation of the costs?
I am torn, I only just learned to really use them a la Guicci ** so while I don’t miss using to much, I miss seeing others use of them.
I do miss the K-Mart, and really I am shocked to my foundations that lot doesn’t have a serious redevelopment plan considering its location.
While I may never really miss the Kmart, I do miss using multiple emojis in line and of various sorts to make my point without words. It was so satisfying…
I am not privy to, and don’t ask to be, how funding goes here, but a few hundred seems a doable fundraising target. I suspect that you would need a better feel for how many folks really miss them enough to chip in.
It’s kinda hard to say, this is a very niche tech stack it seems. I’ve got over a decade in web development but I have no clue where to start and their documentation seems sparse. I might see if I can get your branch running in a local dev environment and survey the scene.
@dtraleigh
Please go ahead and create/share a Go Fund Me and provide the link if you are able?
Or if you feel you need to do a Vote, do one of those yea or nay requesting feedback?
Either way, thank you so very much!
I have a local development setup running now. Since this plugin seems quite simple, I think I’ll go through their ‘first plugin’ tutorial and decide how hard it would be to adapt their example into something like retort from scratch. Sometimes migrating legacy code is more complicated than starting fresh, especially if that code has been around for a while or wasn’t maintained.
As a member of the forum who liked to use the plugin before, I’m not particularly looking for compensation if I go through with this. Maybe a beer at the next meetup I make it to. But let’s see if I stick with it first lol.
emojis again. But I guess that’s a greater group decision