Last friday I quietly tagged a commit on the activitypub branch with v4.0.0-beta.1, which signals that the ActivityPub integration is now ready for beta testing.
For the most complete (yet readable) list of new functionality from the alpha, check out the “Road to Beta” project page.
tl;dr — some new features and a lot of fixes
- Editing a category now issues an
Update(Actor) repliesis now populated and responds with an OrderedCollection of direct replies (see the post about that)- Proper
sharedInboxsupport - Better indicators for content that comes from non-local (aka “remote”) users
- Conversational
contextsynchronization mechanic (corresponding post for that) - Moving a topic out of the “uncategorized” category will now federate out an
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By and large most incompatibilties have been resolved, although if you do find some issues, please do let me know in the corresponding bug report thread.
I’m looking to wrap up the year with some of the more difficult projects I’ve put off
- Object Integrity Proofs, which will also enable Inbox Forwarding
- Better handling of “Open in App” signals from third-party instances
- Post visibility support (or at least better handling so non-public messages aren’y unceremoniously dropped!)
- Ongoing integration with FEPs 400e and 7888
I totally understand the issue with the number of hours in the day. I have a lot of projects going too.
I am working on creating an ecosystem of websites that all use Magic Signon (OpenWebAuth). Social media websites, forum communities, productivity apps, online courses, etc. You can use the same social identity to log into all of them.
The more projects that support it, the more people will use it.
A forum project like yours would make a great addition. :-)