Notices by Gregory (grishka@mastodon.social), page 3

#Smithereen 0.6 is out! 🎉

And with it, the complete federation feature parity with Mastodon. New features include:
- Direct messages
- Privacy settings
- Followers-only posts (from other servers)

#mastodev #activitypub

After all these years, #Smithereen finally has this remote interaction thingy when you click a like or share button while logged out.

#ActivityPub

@Aaron_Davis my ActivityPub server project: https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen

In case you ever wanted to embed #Smithereen posts on your website, you can now do this.

#activitypub #mastodev

And another #Smithereen thing: added (very basic) hover cards for mentions on desktop

Only recently did I realize that https://vk.com/live, a page that existed since 2011 and painstakingly documented all VK updates in extreme detail, is invaluable for me as a reference for #Smithereen UIs. Much better than hunting for screenshots of obscure things on Google or Yandex.

Here's one version of the reposts UI I'm currently working on:

Reposts are now done in #Smithereen. You can only make "quote-posts", not Announce reposts because Announce is too confusing and doesn't fit my vision. However, Announce reposts are no longer this half-assed thing like they were before. They now show up in people's profiles and use a different icon from my native reposts.

Also: new UI for likes.

#ActivityPub #mastodev

The most important feature of old VK profiles, now in #Smithereen 😅

Since reposts/boosts are now stored as actual posts, albeit with a bunch of special-case handling in many places, they now appear in profiles too.

Smithereen's native type of repost will be the "quote-post", the one that creates its own separate comment thread. All this is specifically for compatibility with the rest of the fediverse predominantly using the Announce activity for reposting.

Quote-reposts now also work. Though I feel like with the number of things I changed to make it happen, I inevitably broke something else 🙈

Proper support for reposts in #Smithereen, finally!

@rosaroja10 if you mean donations, I don't take any

@rosaroja10 yes

@rosaroja10 yes, it's an ActivityPub server

Facebook may be down, but #Smithereen is not 👀

#Smithereen 0.7 is out, finally making it practical to run a server with open signups.

This release brings too many changes to list here, both internal and external.
- All-new moderation tools: role-based permissions, revamped reports, new ways of limiting user accounts, and so much more!
- All-new media storage: Smithereen now keeps track of references to files, simplifying the code, and adds support for S3 object storage.
- Tens of minor bug fixes and UX improvements.

#ActivityPub #mastodev

While I'm currently working on many (and I mean many) New And Improved™ moderation tools in #Smithereen, I also added a tiny user-facing thing because clicking CWs one by one was tedious to say the least.

#activitypub #mastodev