December was a big month for us, it took quite a while to write this up.
aroberts-fox
- mass-subscribe to remote communities
- added a ‘not joined’ filter to communities list to help find new communities
hendrik
- log more events in the modlog
- user profile - show more info to admins
- code refactorings to increase reuse and clarity
- post teaser fixes
- dark/light mode switcher is now a single icon instead of two
- set notes (emoji) on other users, to remember them by
- admin area improvements for managing users and content
freamon
- federation bugfixes
- api work
rimu
- svg and avif image support
- warnings on domains such as “very unreliable news source” on this one. These show on every post that links to those domains.
- documentation of docker-based setup process
- pop up a profile summary when hovering over a user name, based on the method used by hono4kami (see below)
- script to detect vote manipulation using “Jaccard similarity”, derived from code written by danterious for another purpose
- show basic statistics in community sidebar
- automatically defederate from instances when trusted instances do. Like a defederation subscription/follow.
- ‘extra fields’ on profiles which interoperate with mastodon extra fields. My profile has two extra fields for demo purposes.
mtyton / xmatt
- edit image posts - replace image with new file
hono4kami
- community list sorting and filtering improvements
- show time of post when hovering mouse over a relative time like “1 hour ago”
- pop up a menu using ajax instead of having a separate post options page
It’s really heartening to see that we have maintained momentum for a whole year and that we enter 2025 with a healthy developer community that continues to have fun making meaningful improvements to great software. We are currently brainstorming a roadmap for the coming year. Join us!
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Well done everyone!
warnings on domains such as “very unreliable news source” on this one. These show on every post that links to those domains.
Thanks for your work on the update! But I have a question, how is it decided what is reliable and what isn’t? I found the commit and it looks like it just takes domains from the list that the instance admin decides, and it sounds like something that can be abused very easily
https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/commit/d98a5e19d30ff401939b781ead6eb8addcc44a03
Yup, it’s up to the instance admins. If you can’t trust your instance admins, find another instance 🙂
PieFed tries to empower admins with the tools they need to proactively ‘tend their garden’ - https://join.piefed.social/2024/06/22/piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities/ and any of those could be wielded nefariously too.
Great stuff!
added a ‘not joined’ filter to communities list to help find new communities
I think a “not visited” filter will be a lot more useful.
I also noticed there are no open issues for the beta test project on codeberg. maybe we can have a fancy release announcement and submit a news tip to alternativeto hoping they will report it on there front page?.
Yeah I’ve been meaning to do a release for months now but every time we try to pause and stabilise the code we just keep piling on more improvements, fixes and whatnot.
Now might be a good time. New Year, new release…
Feel free to DM me and i can send the news tip for alternativeto , or you can submit it here (contribute to this page -> share a news tip).
