Just a small improvement coming to #WriteFreely v0.17: now you can change the font of posts after they're published from the web UI!

https://writefreely.org/pull/1609

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Support changing published post font on web by thebaer · Pull Request #1609 · writefreely/writefreely

This supports changing the font of an existing post from the Post Metadata page. This includes CSS changes. To see those, run: make ui Ref T937 I have signed the CLA

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This week I’m focusing on some small long-standing, quality-of-life issues that...

This week I’m focusing on some small long-standing, quality-of-life issues that have plagued Write.as / WriteFreely for years. Today, it was adding a Markdown preview to the Plain Text editor (issue T519), which was brought up again on the forum after the feature stalled for years. [...]

https://micro.baer.works/this-week-im-focusing-on-some-small-long-standing-quality-of-life-issues-that

Can anyone with Docker experience help us figure out what's causing our builds to fail? It was working a few months ago, and without any config changes it's now consistently failing.

EDIT: actually, all good! Found the issue, easy fix. (Thanks for boosting!)

Latest: https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/actions/runs/19713736144

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GitHub - writefreely/writefreely: A clean, Markdown-based publishing platform made for writers. Write together and build a community.

A clean, Markdown-based publishing platform made for writers. Write together and build a community. - writefreely/writefreely

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Back on WriteFreely development to prepare for our v0.17 release, planned for November.

Some small fixes opened / merged today:

* ActivityPub title fixes (https://writefreely.org/pull/1491)

* Fix upgrade issues with instances using Unix sockets (https://writefreely.org/pull/1503)

* Fix Customize page header nav on single-user instances (https://writefreely.org/pull/1505)

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Title fixes for ActivityPub by thebaer · Pull Request #1491 · writefreely/writefreely

This fixes some issues minor issues with titles on posts sent to the fediverse. It solves for the following use cases: Posts with a link (or any Markdown) in the title A short note published with ...

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Hoping to get PostgreSQL support in #WriteFreely soon, and we could use your help reviewing and finishing up this pull request! Thanks to all that have helped with this so far.

https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/pull/1411

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implement postgresql/postgres/pgsql support by leo9800 · Pull Request #1411 · writefreely/writefreely

WIP writefreely config start passed without error writefreely serve started without error something on SQL dialect beyond name of datatype needs to be modified, I had encountered (and addressed) s...

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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.

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Title fixes for ActivityPub by thebaer · Pull Request #1491 · writefreely/writefreely

This fixes some issues minor issues with titles on posts sent to the fediverse. It solves for the following use cases: Posts with a link (or any Markdown) in the title A short note published with ...

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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.

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If anyone is able to test and help fix this on iOS, there's an issue with menu items not showing up on Safari: https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/issues/1274

Input and pull requests are more than welcome!

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Publish-to dropdown renders incorrectly on iOS Safari · Issue #1274 · writefreely/writefreely

Describe the bug The publish-to dropdown menu (when writing a new post) does not render correctly on iOS Safari. Specifically, it appears empty and is therefore unusable, i.e., cannot select a blog...

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At long, long last, a bug with hashtags on @writefreely instances running MySQL 8+ is getting fixed in our next release, v0.16.

https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/pull/1461

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Use modern ICU regex syntax on MySQL 8+ by thebaer · Pull Request #1461 · writefreely/writefreely

This fixes the "illegal expression" error with MySQL v8.0.4+ when trying to fetch all posts with a particular hashtag in them, causing all hashtag pages to fail to load with a "page ...

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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)

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Fix ActivityPub following from Ghost by thebaer · Pull Request #1373 · writefreely/writefreely

This makes Follow request parsing more robust. Previously, this only worked if the object was a URI, which is what many platforms send. Now, we can also handle objects here. I have signed the CLA

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