A new contributor, “JollyDevelopment” made some improvements:

• Fixed a very annoying bug where enabling the markdown editor emptied the text input field
• Changed the home page so there are now separate sorting and filtering options, making the ‘Popular’ and ‘All’ home pages obsolete. They have been removed from the main menu.
• Added a ‘dev tools’ page so developers can easily create large amounts of dummy content to test with
• Added a suggest a topic form

“wakest” created a very efficient SVG icon for PieFed that is 5x smaller than the old .png icon.

Also I did a few things:

• Made wide tables scroll rather than overlap the sidebar
• Communities can be blocked. Good if you regularly browse posts by ‘All’ which is bit of a firehose.
• Some mastodon integration bugs
• Wrote a guide about how to install the PieFed mobile app

As you can see we don’t have a lot of really big news to share, lately. It nearly feels like a good time to call an end to the beta test phase of PieFed’s development and formally release a version. With that in mind, over the next little while, we will focus on stability and bug fixes so the first release is something people can stick with without immediately getting back on the dev branch treadmill.