In reply to @ibizaman:matrix.org
Is this the correct place to suggest a change to the little video that's in the front page of https://nixos.org/ ?
I love it but I'd suggest to change the comments or just remove the comments saying "Pause the video and take the time to understand the file being displayed".
The video is assuming that 1/ people have the time for that 2/ nix is easy to understand. It's probably also letting down ppl that try to read it but fail to understand.
I'd vote to change the comment to actually explain a little bit what the file is doing.
It's kind of weird to advice doing that for a video that's meant to showcase nix IMO.

In reply to @garbas:matrix.org
Yes this would be the correct place. I can answer all the questions why it is the way it is. But if you have a better example I'd love to see it. It is hard to strike a balance between informative enough and not too long, especially with Nix.

In reply to @sigmanificient:matrix.org
Hello, a discussion is happening within this issue and its seems like you would be the team contact for it

Hello again, any plan to integrate a script to automatically bump package count on both search.nixos.org & nixpkgs? I proposed a simple script on the issue, which can surely be improved.

I don't know anything about elm, and I am unsure on what to exactly do to help, so your help would be appreciated to sort this out!

In reply to @sigmanificient:matrix.org
Hello, a discussion is happening within this issue and its seems like you would be the team contact for it

Hello again, last time we bumped the packages count to a round 100k.any plan to integrate a script to automatically bump package count on both search.nixos.org & nixpkgs? I proposed a simple script on the issue, which can surely be improved.

I don't know anything about elm, and I am unsure on what to exactly do to help, so your help would be appreciated to sort this out!

Hello again, last time we bumped the packages count to a round 100k, but this might happen again in the future and the original issue is about the value being hard-coded.

Any plan to integrate a script to automatically bump package count on both search.nixos.org & nixpkgs? I proposed a simple script on the issue, which can surely be improved.

I don't know anything about elm, and I am unsure on what to exactly do to help, so your help would be appreciated to sort this out!

In reply to @sigmanificient:matrix.org

Hello again, last time we bumped the packages count to a round 100k, but this might happen again in the future and the original issue is about the value being hard-coded.

Any plan to integrate a script to automatically bump package count on both search.nixos.org & nixpkgs? I proposed a simple script on the issue, which can surely be improved.

I don't know anything about elm, and I am unsure on what to exactly do to help, so your help would be appreciated to sort this out!

I managed to simplify my script a lot by using the auto redirect link, now it outputs a json of both package and options count.

#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
#!nix-shell -i bash -p curl jq brotli

function parse_unstable_json() {
    local url="https://channels.nixos.org/nixos-unstable/$1.json.br"
    echo $(                \
      curl -L "$url"       \
      | brotli -d --stdout \
      | jq "$2")
}

pkg_count=$(parse_unstable_json "packages" ".packages | length")
opt_count=$(parse_unstable_json "options" "length")

echo "{ 'packages': $pkg_count, 'options': $opt_count }" | tr "'" '"'

which gives { "packages": 111413, "options": 18524 }

In reply to @sigmanificient:matrix.org

Hello again, last time we bumped the packages count to a round 100k, but this might happen again in the future and the original issue is about the value being hard-coded.

Any plan to integrate a script to automatically bump package count on both search.nixos.org & nixpkgs? I proposed a simple script on the issue, which can surely be improved.

I don't know anything about elm, and I am unsure on what to exactly do to help, so your help would be appreciated to sort this out!

I managed to simplify my script a lot by using the auto redirect link, now it outputs a json of both package and options count.

#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
#!nix-shell -i bash -p curl jq brotli

function parse_unstable_json() {
    local url="https://channels.nixos.org/nixos-unstable/$1.json.br"
    echo $(curl -L "$url" | brotli -d --stdout | jq "$2")
}

pkg_count=$(parse_unstable_json "packages" ".packages | length")
opt_count=$(parse_unstable_json "options" "length")

echo "{ 'packages': $pkg_count, 'options': $opt_count }" | tr "'" '"'

which gives { "packages": 111413, "options": 18524 }

I managed to simplify my script a lot by using the auto redirect link, now it outputs a json of both package and options count.

#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
#!nix-shell -i bash -p curl jq brotli

function parse_unstable_json() {
    local url="https://channels.nixos.org/nixos-unstable/$1.json.br"
    echo $(curl -L "$url" | brotli -d --stdout | jq "$2")
}

pkg_count=$(parse_unstable_json "packages" ".packages | length")
opt_count=$(parse_unstable_json "options" "length")

echo "{ 'packages': $pkg_count, 'options': $opt_count }" | tr "'" '"'

which gives the following stats: { "packages": 111413, "options": 18524 } 👀

In reply to @garbas:matrix.org
thilobillerbeck (avocadoom): Would it be ok to merge https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-homepage/pull/1399 as it is now ... and you open new PR with more cleanups? Just to save you time on rebasing and resolving conflicts.

In reply to @samueldr:matrix.org
I'm too tired by this all, so I don't know if I'll send a PR, but considering perma-banned individuals are conspiring and staking FUD on the subreddit, I think that demoting it wasn't sufficient... it is a bad look to leave this on the official page imo