We shipped a pretty cool feature to FediDB that allows anyone to edit and answer questions about software projects, like a wiki, and use that data to power a new software comparison feature.

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[–] realitista@lemmus.org 10 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Nice! Curious also about PyLova.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

At this point isn't it just piefed with a "feature" or two stripped or reworked?

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 2 points 6 hours ago

No idea, thats why it would be good to see a comparison.

[–] SirHaxalot@nord.pub 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe it’s because I’m on mobile right now, but it looks like a lot of the descriptions are cut off without any way to expand it. Assuming that texts ending in ”…” is supposed to continue.

[–] dansup@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago

I will improve the mobile layout, sorry about that!

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

This list of features is microblogging-centered. Some things like boosts and mastodon make no sense for the threadiverse. And some things which should be there to compare, aren't.

[–] dansup@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

You can suggest new questions that are limited to specific segments like Forums and link aggregators

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

But can you suggest to remove existing questions?

[–] srasmus@fedia.io 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

But Mbin can do some microblogging things. It's what distinguishes it from other threadiverse software. I think it makes sense to include if one of the three supports it, no?

[–] bretton.dev@coves.social 1 points 5 hours ago

I mean I love Mbin but it's kindve the odd child out here. We should really have a section for Threadiverse and for Microblog

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 points 5 hours ago

there's a filter to show "only differences" which I think is a good way to do these comparisons, since some Threadiverse software could have microblogging-centered features like Mbin does

[–] rimu@piefed.social 12 points 19 hours ago

Very nice!

I've submitted some updates to the features.

[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

A feature that Piefed has that I wish Lemmy would implement too is URL filters; perhaps it could be added to the chart after 'word filters'?

Arctic has a great frontend implementation of it with Regex support, but the app hasn't been updated in a while.

Also, for simplicity perhaps the tables should have the more advanced information implemented with a visibility toggle? All of the information listed may overwhelm new users and leave an impression that the Fediverse is particularly complex.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 16 hours ago

Also, for simplicity perhaps the tables should have the more advanced information implemented with a visibility toggle? All of the information listed may overwhelm new users and leave an impression that the Fediverse is particularly complex.

Yea the features are already grouped, I think they could be collapsed by default and just show the number of features supported for each of the groups, and then you can expand

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

That is cool. Would it also be possible to search for software that has a desired feature?

[–] dansup@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Good idea! You can now search by feature!

[–] micgerne@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 14 hours ago

I don't get it, this just looks like you're trying to shoehorn discussion board type software into a comparison tool for microblogging

[–] amunoto@piefed.social 3 points 19 hours ago

Freaking great! Thank you!