3 mo. ago • 100%

PieFed development update July 2024 - Lightbox, Mod log, Wikis

Over the last 3 weeks there have been significant contributions from h3ndrik and myself.

Many many under the hood improvements. Simplifying code & improving performance.
Better lightbox
Improve post teaser layout

Mod log which shows all moderator actions
The “Rational discourse toolkit” block in the bottom right is now optional - instance admins can turn it off in the settings.
Staff role - some admin tasks can be delegated to a supporting role which can do limited things. Which operations the supporting role can do can be controlled with checkboxes. This is nearly complete and just needs a bit more elbow grease.
A.gup.pe integration - These are a kind of basic community / group function built on Mastodon. About 20% of new posts on piefed.social are coming from Mastodon, mostly via a.gup.pe. These groups include
Community wikis - moderators can create pages that serve as a resource for the community. Each page has revisions that can be reverted to. See a demo at https://join.piefed.social/vlog/piefed_wikis.mp4.

5 comments

Thank you both for continuing to improve piefed, massively appreciate your efforts!

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Impressive, thank you!

One small suggestion: For microblog content, maybe including [microblog] after rather than before the title would make content more digestible? Where something was posted from is, after all, rarely the most important feature of a post. :)

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- Yeah I'm finding it jarring, too. Perhaps an icon, instead...
  
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  An icon would be ideal for sure. The Mastodon logo would be informative but inaccurate.
  
  Part of me wonders if its even necessary at all - is it that different from other types of posts? Maybe an icon indicating whether something is a text post, a link, an image, or a video is more useful, with most microblogs being text posts?
  
  The types of content coming from microblogs vary a lot. People can probably tag WordPress or WriteFreely content into a.gup.pe, as well as images and video. So its not like its all microblogs or a necessarily uniform type of content.
  
  With that in mind, maybe a small Fediverse logo would do?
  
  Just thinking out loud, sorry for the winding post.
  
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