Just opened a PR for this: https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/pull/1491
It ends up putting us in compliance with the ActivityStreams spec, too, by making sure no markup is included in the `name` property.
Realized that the way we do notes on #WriteFreely doesn't work with #Mastodon, if you include a title. They don't show up!
So I'll see how it looks if we include it in the body of the Note.
Everything is pretty much ready to go, code-wise on #WriteFreely v0.16! Now just updating the docs and this should be out this week.
https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/milestone/27?closed=1
The fediverse:creator tag doesn't work perfectly -- you'll need to use your fediverse @-handle in the Verification field to get it to show up right. But we'll fix that in the next version (https://todo.musing.studio/T932).
Moved two new additions into our upcoming #WriteFreely v0.16 release:
- fediverse:creator tag (https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/pull/1253)
- Export email subscribers (https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/pull/1258)
At long, long last, a bug with hashtags on @writefreely instances running MySQL 8+ is getting fixed in our next release, v0.16.
Making some small housekeeping updates to our #Writeas / #WriteFreely command-line client. I'd like to add a lot of basic missing functionality to it, so it's much more useful for everyone.
Finally figured out what was going on with the heavy load on our Gitea instance, https://code.as -- a ton of spammers coming in, when I thought we'd closed registrations.
I've cleaned them up and put in some new protections, so should be able to keep the site up now for the repos we host there!
You would really think when you have 5 years to implement a feature, you'd squeeze it in there somewhere. But here we are!
Either way, implementing the 5-year renewal stuff now will also come with some new experiments I'm excited to try, as far as benefits for our most loyal writers.
A few priorities on the @write_as list, but this week it's two areas that I really need to address:
- Giving users who were silenced more insight into the reason, and a smoother way to appeal. This is taking up a ton of my time right now, especially as we're seeing more spammers complain, but I still need to sort them out.
- Letting 5-year subscribers renew their subscription. For many reasons, I'm way overdue on this 🙃
Just rolled out some fediverse-related improvements:
- Now you can follow Write.as blogs from Ghost! There was a tiny bug with this that we just fixed. (WriteFreely PR: https://writefreely.org/pull/1373)
- We now support the `preview` property as a fallback for Articles. This will make your posts look much nicer as more platforms support it! (WriteFreely PR: https://writefreely.org/pull/1374)
#WriteAs #WriteFreely #WriteFreelyDev #Ghost #fediverse #ActivityPub
as always, deploying on Write.as and then opening PRs for @writefreely.
will probably get these changes in v0.16, our next release that's been delayed for a while
Working on some #fediverse things in @write_as today.
- New `preview` property on our Articles, so future supporting platforms can fall-back to a short-form representation of blog posts
- Interop issues with #Ghost
Hello again 👋 I'm back, getting caught up and back to work on @write_as & @writefreely. More updates soon!
Dev notes from @musing, tooted away by @matt.
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