Alternate lobsters

[bersace]

Hi,

Congratulation for 0.5.0 and thank you very much for Glance.

The new lobsters plugin is awesome and helps participating to discussions right from glance.

lobsters is open source software and is used e.g. by https://www.journalduhacker.net/ . Is it possible to use an alternative server for lobster plugin ?

cc @jonasknobloch

Regards, Étienne

[jonasknobloch]

As of right now the Lobsters URL is hardcoded. AFAIK there are no fixed API specs, but as long as every instance is running a compatible version, allowing to override the baseURL should be enough.

[svilenmarkov]

Hey,

This was an oversight on my part as I assumed that there's just a single instance of the site. @jonasknobloch did originally implement the widget in a way that would allow specifying the full URL but I changed it to what it is now since I didn't want the user to have to figure out the endpoints for sorting and the tags. I'll add a property that would allow changing the base URL in the next release.

Thanks for bringing this up.

[jonasknobloch]

Another reason for why this might be helpful is custom filters. Registered lobsters users can view their custom filtered feed by appendig a special token via a query parameter.

[Angelmmiguel]

Hey @svilenmarkov @jonasknobloch,

I loved this project and would like to start contributing some code. Are you open for contributions on this issue? I'm happy to work on this. I see there are different topics on this discussion, like custom filters and different base URLs. I can start with the base URL and create later on a separate PR for other features.

Thanks!

[svilenmarkov]

Hey @Angelmmiguel, thanks for offering help!

This should be an easy implementation and you're free to contribute if you like, though admittedly I am slow with going through PRs.