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Re:Medium Bans User, Deletes Content over Chrome Extension by bluGill on Thursday December 15, 2022 @08:53AM (#33999467)
Please avoid building another platform. Odds are there is something that is close that needs a lot of help.

I know sometimes there is a project that looks good but the maintainers are impossible to get along with. Thus there is sometimes a need to start over. Most of the time though what platforms need is more people to help out: fix bugs, write documentation, translate the UI, run UX tests. That is all the thankless unseen when it works work that makes good commercial projects more polished than most open source projects.

Re:Medium Bans User, Deletes Content over Chrome Extension by mcv on Thursday December 15, 2022 @09:13AM (#33999760)
Sounds like a vote to stick with my promise to help Friendica. I've got to admit my main issue with it is that it's in PHP. A lot of these platforms seem to be, and I'd rather work on something in, for example, Svelte+Node.js or something.
Re:Medium Bans User, Deletes Content over Chrome Extension by bluGill on Friday December 16, 2022 @08:27AM (#34014269)
I don't know much about that space, but there is probably something written in language better than php. Good luck finding it