We're running the stable branch, so it's nice to get some updates!

Highlights of 1.1

Most instances have been on the dev branch anyway so they will already have these:

You can set a default comment sort, for when viewing a post.

LDAP support, so people can use their piefed.social login for chat.piefed.social and translate.piefed.social

More Ajax throughout, creating a more fluid UI.

Better notifications, with types and which are removed if the post they're notifying about is deleted.

Private votes are just non-federated votes.

Popup tooltips all over the place.

New login methods:

• Mastodon
• Discord

Hashtags in community side pane, e.g. this community

Daily maintenance tasks execute in parallel, which is a lot faster.

Batched ActivityPub federation that will significantly improve federation performance between PieFed instances

Filter out posts based on a keyword search of community name.

Reduce deadlocks and improve DB performance

• use redis for locking.
• extensive refactors to stop connection leakage.

Load comments using ajax when there are > 100 on a post, making the initial loading of a post quicker.

Automatic post archiving of old posts, to slow DB growth and reduce operating costs. Post body and comments are saved in S3 as JSON instead of in the DB.

Show/hide text inside password fields, making confusion during login less common.

Mods can lock comments and their children.

A lot of improvements to scheduled posts.

Several improvements in the markdown to html parsing.

Upgrade to Flask 3.

Swagger for API developers (in progress).

API: new json serialization lib that is 10x faster.

API: Get topics & feeds endpoints. Replacement for comments/list endpoint.

Things planned for 1.2

An instance chooser during registration - no separate instance choosing website needed

Optional post approval process for mods

Communities populated by a RSS feed.

Remind me

AI content filter

Event post type which federates with Friendica and Mobilizon