A big thank you to those who contributed to making this release, translating, writing documentation, providing emotional support and promoting PieFed! None of this would happen without you all.
New hotness
- Pronouns - when you put pronouns into Extra Fields on your profile that is used as a flair in all communities where you haven’t set a flair yet
- Private communities - no federation, only certain roles (depends on the community) can invite new people. Posts inside are only visible to members.
- Mastodon can now quote-boost PieFed posts
- Plain http web UI (no SSL required) with SSL used during federation - see http://retro.piefed.com/
- Downvotes can be turned off completely in a community, not just instance-wide
- Admins can sticky a post on the home page, not just mods in their communities
- Auto-delete of replies on remote instances when reply author has been blocked by parent content author (only works in PieFed communities due to a ActivityPub limitation)
- On home page when showing number of replies a post has, calculate the sum of the replies on all cross-posts and display that
- New users can only do 3 posts in their first 24h, to reduce floods of posts by that guy who keeps deleting his accounts and making new ones
More good stuff
- Improve emoji federation compatibility
- Change order of emoji in picker to present most-used ones first
- Daily time limit on usage to help people use PieFed less (released in 1.5.2)
- A way to report posts that need to be tagged as AI generated
- Better accessibility
- Improved handling of bold and italics in markdown parsing
- Don’t accept votes from people the author has blocked
- Admins can resend email address verification email
- Admins can add notes to instances to keep track of defederation reasons, etc
- Search form has been simplified
- Option for admins to disable the em-dash detector
- Multiple minor bugfixes and security enhancements
To upgrade from 1.5.x
git pull
git checkout v1.6.x
At this point you might see an error message about a merge conflict with compose.yaml. To preserve your custom compose.yaml you will need to copy it somewhere else, then git checkout compose.yaml then git pull again. This time the pull will succeed so after that copy your custom compose.yaml it back, overwriting the one from git.
Then,
./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.sh
If you had to do the compose.yaml fix up earlier then you might want to compare what you have with https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/compose.yaml and manually copy and paste some improvements in particular the command: part of the db container which tunes postgresql for performance. Adjust the numbers for your system.
This time the database migrations will not take long.
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Nice!
We’ve been using the announcement field, but that doesn’t show up for people on apps. This should be better :)
Swapped it out now: https://piefed.ca/
Odd, I can only see the pinned posts when signed in @[email protected]
Right now we have two pinned posts, one from lemmy.ca and one from a local only piefed.ca community. Both show up nicely when signed in, neither show up when signed out
The pinned posts still obey some of the visibility rules of any other post. So, in this case, piefed.ca has
Popularas the default sort on the instance. That means that the community that is home to those posts must have thePosts can be popularbox checked in the admin settings for that community:I can’t confirm that this is the issue, but I was able to confirm with a dev instance that local-pinned posts do show up for anonymous users using the popular sort when that box is checked and don’t when it is unchecked.
It could be, where would I find that setting? I didn’t see it in the community settings.
I do see the “popular” column is ticked on
admin/communitiesfor those communities, but I don’t see a page that has something like your screenshotIn
/admin/communities, the far right column has anEditlink. That is where you have some additional settings, including checkboxes that can include/exclude communities from your instance’s Popular and All views. You want to make sure that both of these are checked (they are down below the language settings):Thanks! That fixed it for our
piefed.ca/c/maincommunity. Thelemmy.ca/c/maincommunity’s post still doesn’t show up, but we can plan our announcements to get around that in the meantimeEven logged in and with filters so that the post is visible, I don’t see the post in the piefed community as pinned. Could it have been unpinned when you did your db reload?
If it is pinned on your side, then it must be a bug of some kind.
Oh we actually unpinned the
main@piefed.capost after I confirmed it was working and made that comment. It’s the other one frommain@lemmy.cathat is still pinned, but doesn’t show up for users that aren’t logged inOk, it seems to be working now then. Let us know if you continue to see weirdness with the pinned posts.