I wanted to do that, and I started on an extension for it, but as others have said, lemmy being open source means that improvements should mostly be made on the website itself, rather than on a browser addon.
The downside is that for user settings, they are stored on the instance’s database, which means that you need to know a little bit of rust to implement a new setting (I’m doing that right now to open comments in a new tab instead of having to middle/ctrl click)
That’s true. The only caveat I see is that if the Lemmy devs don’t agree with a change it will never make it into the code, but with Userscripts the sky is the limit.
Although I think it’s wise to make a PR to Lemmy first.
I wanted to do that, and I started on an extension for it, but as others have said, lemmy being open source means that improvements should mostly be made on the website itself, rather than on a browser addon.
The downside is that for user settings, they are stored on the instance’s database, which means that you need to know a little bit of rust to implement a new setting (I’m doing that right now to open comments in a new tab instead of having to middle/ctrl click)
That’s true. The only caveat I see is that if the Lemmy devs don’t agree with a change it will never make it into the code, but with Userscripts the sky is the limit.
Although I think it’s wise to make a PR to Lemmy first.