I would like to try making a few minor changes to the CSS in either kbin or lemmy both of which I’ve been trying out. I favor a more dense interface and think styles could help visually separate different kinds of content. Maybe to reorganize some stuff if I got more ambitious.
I have some experience with web stuff, css. I can get around in git. But I am not a sysadmin or a programmer. And I have never worked on such a large comprehensive project.
Here are the repos I found:
codeberg Kbin/kbin-core
- seems to have no contib guidelines
- issues: 50 open, 4 closed
github LemmyNet/lemmy
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contrib - same link for both repos but doesn’t really give much useful info
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Issues: 184 open, 1,594 closed
github LemmyNet/lemmy-ui
- issues: 197 open, 507 closed
Do I need to run the whole server with back end to fiddle with the CSS? Or can I use the developer tools in my browser to produce an alternative stylesheet?
Maybe it is just way above my skill set to make full PRs in something so complex. Should I post mock ups of how I’d like it to look as an issue?
Or just wait for someone who knows better how to get it done to come along?
hmmm all good thoughts. I would like to see about trying to do some stuff locally without discussion to see if it is viable for me at my level of skill and time availability. If I can get a dev environment running and figure out the basic tasks involved then I would probably start discussions about what I might do.
There doesn’t seem to be much prior issues, especially kbin, on this topic, unless it is in a separate repo that I am not seeing.
I am guessing that neither project anticipated it was about to get slammed and may not be ready to deal with that on the server admin side and also be managing bug requests and onboarding new devs with all kinds of ideas.
That is a great approach! I think if you manage to set it up yourself, the project may benefit from a pull request with a dev setup guide 😉
Even in the best case scenario I probably don’t have the breadth to write something PR-ready but an issue with notes would probably be doable. (Unless the existing docs are already docs are already perfect, which they could be.)