My main concern is whether people would actually use it, since the backend services need to be self hosted, and if it's worth the effort.
Post it in the selfhosted community! !selhosted@lemmy.world
Always a good idea to open source imo, you never know who will jump in and what potential that will bring to the app and what and how big it will become.
Could be a good idea considering adding usenet support(Easynews), they allready have a search engine on their website and i figure it shouldnt be too complicated to implement. And theres not too many kodi addons that do support easynews(afaik its only fen and umbrella), so that should help with it getting some popularity amongst EN users.
Could you share some screens or short video of the app in action? Would be curious to see that pretty ui you mention.
Yes please. And post some screenshots of that UI here so more of us get interested.
Same here, I’d say open source in my honest opinion, but I am no developer and since I am not a developer I don’t know the implications of making an app open source.
Hello;
I tried to explain why open-sourcing a program is a good idea. I hope my explanation helps you.
Anyone who can will be able to read the code (and that means if someone tries to add malicious code people would notice), and it also makes it easier to contribute to the program, programmer or not. Programmers can fix the program on their own and then ask for their fix to be added. Or, if they don't know why something isn't working (or don't have time, or aren't programmers at all), they can create an issue: it's like a post, and anyone can comment on it. If the main programmer/s didn't find out what was wrong someone else might.
That sounds great. You might want to maintain a repository in gitlab or codeberg if github tries to make you a dcma.
thanks for using Leebra!
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I'd be interested in seeing the code and checking it out. Open Source it only if you're comfortable and there's no sensitive data in the repo though.
It wouldn't hurt and there's no down-voting a repo so I see no downsides besides fellow developer engagement and learning from one another.
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