A new contributor, “JollyDevelopment” made some improvements:
- Fixed a very annoying bug where enabling the markdown editor emptied the text input field
- Changed the home page so there are now separate sorting and filtering options, making the ‘Popular’ and ‘All’ home pages obsolete. They have been removed from the main menu.
- Added a ‘dev tools’ page so developers can easily create large amounts of dummy content to test with
- Added a suggest a topic form
“wakest” created a very efficient SVG icon for PieFed that is 5x smaller than the old .png icon.
Also I did a few things:
- Made wide tables scroll rather than overlap the sidebar
- Communities can be blocked. Good if you regularly browse posts by ‘All’ which is bit of a firehose.
- Some mastodon integration bugs
- Wrote a guide about how to install the PieFed mobile app
As you can see we don’t have a lot of really big news to share, lately. It nearly feels like a good time to call an end to the beta test phase of PieFed’s development and formally release a version. With that in mind, over the next little while, we will focus on stability and bug fixes so the first release is something people can stick with without immediately getting back on the dev branch treadmill.
Amazing!
There are about 5 PieFed instances that I know of.
The installation instructions don’t mention it but there is a docker config that comes with the source code, which should work if you know your way around docker.
Changed the home page so there are now separate sorting and filtering options, making the ‘Popular’ and ‘All’ home pages obsolete. They have been removed from the main menu.
Can you explain what these new options are? I have ideas for how I’d like sorting to work, but I’m not a programmer.
I’m unclear what the new way is, as I still see popular and all. So I’m guessing these changes haven’t been published yet. I like popular and all…but I also don’t know what the new thing is. So I’m unsure if I should be happy or upset that they’re gone.
Good question and one that has been asked before.
I’ve just written this - https://join.piefed.social/docs/user-guide/, please have a read and let me know if you have any more questions.
I’m reading this user guide after you posted, and I was LITERALLY in the process of asking one of the questions that was covered.
So, I guess the next question is, if you go to any community on Lemmy, it shows the number of subscribers, number of posts, number of subscribers per day/week/month/6months, and a modlog. It’s in the sidebar.
Even when viewing Lemmy communities from on piefed, I don’t see that on the sidebar anymore. Do I need to do something to enable it? Or is it just not available. I’d like to see that. Not only does it link to the modlog, it also shows how many subscribers and posts a community has.
Also, is there a way I can see if any communities/instances have defederated from piefed? On Lemmy I can see !batman@lemmy.world has many posts, and many users. On piefed it claims to have no posts yet. Even though I DO see the community itself. Is that defederation, or have I done something wrong?
No, we don’t have any stats on the sidebar yet. It’s certainly doable but no one asked for it until now.
When a remote community is added for the first time PieFed tries to retrieve some of the old content but it pretty often fails to do so and it looks empty. If a single piefed account joins the community then new content will start to flow from the remote instance as it is posted there. I’ve just joined Batman but it’s not a very busy place so it could take a few days before anything appears.
PieFed.social is not defederated from by any other instances as far as I know. See https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/piefed.social. Account registrations are manually approved so the spamminess is very low.