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Add Donation Dialog (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am one of the Lemmy maintainers and work on the project fulltime together with Dessalines. Our work is funded by donations, but these are gradually going down and don't even cover a single dev salary now (see join-lemmy.org). That's why we added a new donation dialog in 0.19.11 which is shown once a year to every user:

Many people use Lemmy exclusively through apps, so we would greatly appreciate if you could add such a dialog to your app too. The logic is relatively simple:

From the /api/v3/site response, check my_user.local_user_view.local_user.last_donation_notification
If the date is more than one year ago, display a dialog like the one above with buttons Donate, Close
When Donate is clicked:
- Open https://join-lemmy.org/donate
- Close dialog
- Call POST /api/v3/user/donation_dialog_shown to hide dialog until next year
When Close is clicked also call the donation_dialog_shown endpoint

To test this functionality with a 0.19.11 instance, run the SQL query update local_user set last_donation_notification = '2024-04-07 09:05:06'; which shows the dialog for all local users. You can reuse the code and strings used in lemmy-ui.

Thanks for your consideration!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it be more future proof and simple to return a boolean indicating whether the dialog should be shown or not, rather than delegating the calendar logic to every client?

That way different clients don't have to implement the "has a year passed" logic, and you retain the ability to change how often the dialog is shown too without requiring all clients to update.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Hmm that may be true, but now its already implemented like this, and this would require a breaking change. So better to leave it as is. Anyway the logic should not be changed.