Release v2.18.0 · binwiederhier/ntfy
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This is the biggest release I've ever done on the server. It's 14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed, all from one pull request that adds PostgreSQL support. The code was written by ...

According to the release:

Adds experimental PostgreSQL support

The code was written by Cursor and Claude

14,997 added lines of code, and 10,202 lines removed

reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks

This makes me uneasy, especially as ntfy is an internet facing service. I am now looking for alternatives.

Am I overreacting or do you all share the same concern?

          • november@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            5 months ago

            Ugh, seriously? Great…

            (Edit) I don’t think this is true? They use Mozilla’s push services, but nothing about their Codeberg repo (yes, it’s on Codeberg, not Github) indicates they’re part of Mozilla.

            • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
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              5 months ago

              The app itself might be fine, but you are either using the Mozilla services or the backend written by Mozilla. Sadly Mozilla has lost all the good will it had and is just another silicon valley AI company these days, and seems to prefer it that way.

  • d15d@feddit.orgEnglish
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    5 months ago

    They are not even trusting it themselves. This is from the release notes

    I’ll not instantly switch ntfy.sh over. Instead, I’m kindly asking the community to test the Postgres support and report back to me if things are working

    Fuck that.

      • Railcar8095@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Test in production is the best. We spent months warning from data bugs and nobody bat an eye (upstream bug, not our responsibility but we noticed) When it was d launched in prod we just pointed out the bug that nobody fixed was still there and immediately a war room was formed and the bug fixed within an hour.

        It honestly seems more efficient to let shit hit the fan than to fight everybody to do their job.

        • hornedfiend@piefed.socialEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Testing in production is the most idiotic last 10 years or so concept, which is mainly driven by incompetence of project managers.

          Imagine if you get sold a car by a company, for 100k, then it starts having major issues and the car company tells you: “we’ll fix it”.

          While that does not necessarily apply to software or services or webapps, the logic still stands. You are selling bugs to people. Bugs that could have been cought, with some risk management and planning.

          Edit: F-ing ios keyboard.

  • patrick@lemmy.bestiver.seEnglish
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    5 months ago

    It looks like that tool is more or less built by a single developer (you already trust their judgment anyways!), and even though the code came through in a single PR it was a merge from a branch that had 79 separate commits: https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/pull/1619

    Also glancing through it a bit, huge portions of that are straightforward refactors or even just formatting changes caused by adding a new backend option.

    I’m not going to say it’s fine, but they didn’t just throw Claude at a problem and let it rewrite 25k lines of code unnecessarily.