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!

  • dev_null@lemmy.ml
    4·
    20 days ago

    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.

    • Nutomic@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      20 days 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.