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PieFed 1.5 is released - move posts, upload video files, better chat and more (codeberg.org)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by rimu@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

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Big deals, omg

Mods can move a post, with replies and votes, to another community. The change federates to other instances (except Lemmy, for now. I've been in discussion with devs from NodeBB and Lemmy about how this will work, they are on board). Relevant FEP.
Upload video files while creating a video post - no external host needed. Admin setting to limit who can do this (to save space).
Realtime chat - conversation immediately updates on screen when a new PM arrives.

More good stuff

Author-deleted posts are still visible to them and anyone with the url. No more loss of high-value comments with the OP deletes.
Search filters - nsfw and minimum post score
Improve speed of cross-posting form on mobile
Emoji tokens like :blush: can be used in post or comment body. No GUI support yet.
Admin setting to disable local copies of remote images - good for single-user instances
Replying to a comment marks associated inbox item as read
Updated HPT-Fruits theme
196 no longer excluded from default community import
Remove unused community rating feature
Remove unused instance vote weight feature
Remove ineffective þ to 'th' replacement
Improved accessibility - better contrast, fixed many incorrectly-used aria-labels
Updated translations - Basque, Chinese, Japanese

API:

Admins can ban/unban users through the API. piefed.world was maintaining custom code for this, hopefully it'll make their version upgrades faster.

Bugs fixed

PMs
Markdown parsing
Speed up loading of profile pages for admin users
Friendica post parsing
Passkeys login UX tweak

To upgrade

To upgrade from 1.4.x:

git pull  
git checkout v1.5.x  
./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.sh

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[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 11 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

We were just talking about how to consolidate communities and it's really annoying not being able to move posts lol

[–] rimu@piefed.social 15 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

A merge community function.... ooo

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 5 points 4 weeks ago

Oooh

[–] julian@activitypub.space 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes, let's talk about how that would work.

It has much to do with my cross-posting FEP which I have... not written. It is largely in my head at the moment 😢

Can Piefed see my emoji now? 😬

[–] rimu@piefed.social 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I see your emoji!

Can you see THIS emoji? :attention1:

I typed it as : attention1 : in the markdown (no spaces tho) and PieFed converted it to an image. That emoji was originally published by literature.cafe, a Lemmy instance, but I can use it here anyway.

[–] julian@activitypub.space 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

@rimu@piefed.social oh... No I cannot 😔 but we shall figure it out!

Edit: ah you're missing a tag entry with type Emoji. Check out the AP data on my reply to see it.

In the rendered HTML you actually don't render the image, it usually gets stripped for safety

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

oops, yeah, I only added the Emoji tag to top-level posts, not replies.

How about now? :attention1:

[–] julian@activitypub.space 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

No, not yet :frowning: I wonder why. I'm using one in this post so I can compare...

No clue! They look the same! Mine has an id, but I don't think that'd make a difference...

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

On the PieFed side, : frowning : is not being converted because PF ignores the tag entirely and relies on daily polling of lemmy/api/v3/site to get lists of emojis, which is a bit crap for NodeBB. More work needed!

[–] julian@activitypub.space 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Happy to take a look in the AM, it's nearly midnight here. I'm confident I'll be able to figure out why NodeBB can't load your emoji at least.

As for mine, the emoji itself is transmitted with the activity. It's just how Mastodon does it so I mimicked their implementation.

[–] julian@activitypub.space 1 points 3 weeks ago

Got it :smile:

[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I guess, either:

Issue multiple Move activities, until all the posts are gone from one community then delete the empty one.

A special Merge activity that looks basically the same as the Move one (target and origin) except the things being targeted and originated are communities instead of posts.