Dev Talk

[deemkeen]

@Demigodrick lets try to sync stegodon's development in this thread, it can be public and other contributors can join in, if they wish

[Demigodrick]

Do we want to add the ability to boost a post, and have it reposted in some way?

There would need to be some UI work to show it is a boosted post, who the original author is etc.

[deemkeen]

thats right, we are still missing boosting, this was not importaint at the time i've made basic social interactions and you are right, it seemed a bit complicated at that time, but i think with the help of ai it's quite doable now

[Demigodrick]

I think so too! Should we consider this as part of 1.6.0?

[Demigodrick]

As I have some spare time to tinker around, i'm looking at adding a "server message" function an admin can set, and this will display in the TUI.

Given there's a lot of free space under the new note box, i'll pop it there for now. I'll create a PR so we can have a play and see if we like the idea or not!

[deemkeen]

should this message also be visible in the web ui?

[Demigodrick]

That's a good question - there are already customisable info boxes now, but we allow toggling on or off the web ui too?

[deemkeen]

there is no possibility to switch the webui on/off at the moment, but actually this has to be possible, the idea was that you can customize the setup. so stegodon could be be run with or without federation, standalone or multiuser or ssh-only without the rest-api or web ui

[Demigodrick]

Ok, I'll look to create an issue for 1.6.0 with a system message that displays on TUI and Web, can be turned on and off for both/either, and also the ability to run in ssh mode only too

[Demigodrick]

I think 1.5.1 could probably be released now? There's no immediate/obvious bugs that have popped up since, and we could always push 1.5.2 if anything does.

[deemkeen]

Yes sure, you can do it, if you wish to try. Basically just settin 1.5.1 in the version.txt and creating and pushing the tag with v1.5.1 - the v here is importaint for consistancy. the rest should be done by goreleaser/github-action automatically

[deemkeen]

Since we have a cli functionality for scripting, a successful release could trigger an automatic post to stegodon with the new version announcement, what do you think, @Demigodrick ?

[Demigodrick]

That is a great idea! Save us typing one up each time :)

[deemkeen]

Added it, we will check this out on the next release

[deemkeen]

@Demigodrick try out to follow our conversation at https://stegodon.social/u/stegodon/788c2468-adcd-4ca8-8a1b-496ab8db7a15

if you click through the comments it jumps from server to server smoothly! Very happy with the federation implementation

[Demigodrick]

I like the highlighting of a remote reply, that's great - i think the problem with following the thread through the different instances though is that if one of the instances is offline for whatever reason, that thread can't be followed. It also opens lots of tabs which isn't the most user friendly.

I personally would suggest replacing that back to keeping the thread on the one instance rather than jumping between them.

[deemkeen]

Ok this is also doable!