Pair-coding Lobste.rs feat

There is a long standing issue I'm working at that turned out to have some interesting refactoring suggested by the admins. Does anybody want to pair-code this feat with me? (I also mentioned it in irc). I believe discussing the codebase would be incredibly helpful for me and others wiling to contribute to Lobsters. I'm not a super experienced programmer and I'm not sure yet how to organize this kind of pair-work but thought mentioning it here would be worth a shot and super fun thing to do :D

PS: Of course no llm contribution is allowed, just crude old style brain smashing! <3