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StreamsIt's a lovely spring day in the land down under. Flowers blooming, kangaroos bounding through the paddocks. Birds laughing. Frogs blooping and blopping.
But that's not important. Here's what's happening...
The streams repository announces a new software release. Version 23-10-04.
That's a big ten-four, mate.
What is the streams repository? It's the fediverse, mate. Done with an Aussie flair.
No, we're not like Mastodon. Don't be silly. Though we do federate with them.
We're not like anything you know really. Not like Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, or any of that stuff. We've got a completely different approach.
Some of the highlights of the last 2-3 weeks:
Documentation of content filters (Bill)
A fresh German translation (Chris)
Cleanup of our location tagging (checkin/checkout) feature to better support all of the different ways that projects can do this. What other projects? Shrug, you got me. I haven't found any. But if there are, we'll federate with them.
Added support for rendering (displaying) Block and Flag activities your friends might send. Yes, you can do that.
Fixed some issues with tags and links inside Markdown code blocks. This worked fine for bbcode and html, but markdown required a bit of additional effort.
Fixed an issue where a private post reply was displaying as if it were public (just a weird display issue in a couple of weird circumstances, the post was still private and there was absolutely no privacy leakage).
Another issue showing the permissions selector when re-editing unpublished comment drafts.
Single sign-on (via OpenWebAuth) underwent a bit of improvement to work better with Mastodon's keyId. (Pascal is doing most of that work).
Cleaned up a couple of addons that were written years ago, bringing them up to scratch for 2023 and 2024.
Changed the description of our "mention format" preference to explain the choices better. Some social networks tag people by real name, some by "username". Real name works better here since your identity can be nomadic and you might have more than one username. But in any case we let you choose.
Added a new group type - "limited". It's a public group but doesn't let members upload files and photos. You could always turn this on or off if you wanted, but now you can just set it and forget it.
The display for "hidden" hashtags and categories was pretty ugly and inconsistent. Cleaned that up a bit.
Rewrote a chunk of the app manager so that a site admin can set the default apps and locations and bypass what the software sets by default.
Cleaned up the site app directory of old apps and icons that we no longer use.
Fixed a federation issue with event RSVPs on some platforms (like our own, oops).
Allow you to hide your site details from everybody which you could already do, but now including other sites based on the streams repository. So you can federate with the fediverse but make your site pretty much invisible to it.
Allowed the #
sensitive hashtag to hide your images by default on all platforms that support Mastodon's 'sensitive' hack, including Mastodon. Without requiring a content warning (yet another Mastodon hack).
Speaking of content warnings, cleaned up the "spoiler" tag (our own hack) which doesn't work elsewhere -- so at least it won't look shitty elsewhere.
Fixed the endless spinner spinning on a few pages after you doomscrolled to the end of the available content.
When searching for posts involving one of your friends, we showed the search results out of context. Now they're displayed inside the conversations they were associated with.
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