PieFed development update August 2024 - prepping for 1.0 release

submitted by Rimu

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.

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Avatar Rimu [OP]

Yeah that 'lists' idea keeps coming up. I've been swatting it away with "topics are enough" but I guess not. I think this feature is going to have to be a higher priority than it has been.

There are lots of other ideas under discussion at https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues if you'd like to discuss any of those, or add new issues. Add the 'idea' label to new issues unless it's something obviously not working as intended then use 'bug'.

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Lost_My_Mind

I like the topics tag, but I think it should be implemented slightly differently as I use it for a different purpose. It's GOOD at finding and discovering content and communities you didn't know existed. THAT'S GREAT, because the fediverse as a whole is an absolute dumpster fire for discovering new things.

But as far as aggrigating your subscribed content, no. That is not a good purpose for those. I'd also like to see "View Account" right up top. Not hidden under the Account tab. It could replace Home, and Home could be accessed by clicking the PieFed logo in the upper left.

I love that this platform has someone who is listening to the userbase. I just fear that I'm going to overwhelm you......but if I DO manage to overwhelm you, I can honestly imagine this place becoming the default people think of when they think of PieFed.

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Avatar Rimu [OP]

Yep, I'm listening but there are a variety of opinions and not everyone can be happy at the same time ;-)

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