• Aumetra Ⓐ :nonbinary:
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    38 months ago

    @Deebster @erlend_sh the biggest blockers regarding the database schema design right now are:

    • Bring-your-own-domain
    • Settings and preferences
    • System account (for authorized fetch mode)

    That requires a lot of consideration though, and I’d also like to subdivide the accounts table more for two reasons:

    • Agnosticism over protocols (maybe ActivityPub won’t be the only protocol we want to support in the future)
    • If we can get under 16 columns, we can disable support for 32 columns in Diesel and save build time

    That’s basically it. Aside from that there’s not too much I’d change in an incompatible way

    • Deebster
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      28 months ago

      Agnosticism over protocols (maybe ActivityPub won’t be the only protocol we want to support in the future)

      If that’s simple to do, it’s worth waiting for, but if it’s trickier then I’ve learnt the importance of remembering YAGNI and KISS (and that database migration scripts aren’t that hard). Of course, third party database queries aren’t as simple to update but perhaps your API will be all implementers need.

      If we can get under 16 columns, we can disable support for 32 columns in Diesel and save build time

      This does seem worthwhile, just to speed up development cycles.