gush! 0.0.34 is here!

For users

• Customizable per-user themes (color scheme / fonts)
  • samples: danish dynamite, extinct elephantoid, hotdog stand
• Import exported books from BookWyrm, from the profile view
  • Also imports reviews and ratings
  • Also imports the shelves from the export (as lists)
• Search the content of a specific poster's notes (with from:handle@domain foo bar)
• Add a search field to the add context view https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/issues/112
• Fix fetching replies when the reply collection is ordered
• Fix the creator not getting added to federated hashtags in some cases
• Fix some cases of the sticky header not filling the full width of the view

For admins

• Split the combined timeline index cleanup operation into batches

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gush! 0.0.33 is here!

For users

• Per-user configurable local post deletion
  • Separate setting for posts with and without context
• Add a preview note type (for trailers, demos, etc.) https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/issues/105
• Preindex the home timeline for each user as notes come in
• Improve the loading performance of the catchup timeline
• Make media filters also match on note content
• Add is to the list of stripped tracking parameters (youtube)
• Add poster search with the poster: prefix
• Allow associating gushables by putting the local url into the import field
• Don't lose context when editing events https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/issues/108
• Fix opening a new tab when removing reply context in the post frame
• Fix the styling of the poll result footer https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/issues/109

For admins

• Add upgrade documentation https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/issues/54
• Add diagnostic logging for query operations, cache miss, and cleanup operations
• Add a cache for poster aliases to prevent a database query for cached posters
• Update the sample .env files with new options

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gush! 0.0.32 is here!

For users

• Local custom emoji
  • Can now be used in reactions
  • Can be used in posts (via :shortcode:, no ui assistance is available yet 😐)
  • Management ui (for roles with the ManageEmoji capability)
    • Upload individual emoji or archives (meta.json for renaming/aliasing supported)
    • Import from other instances
• When a post is in the context of a book, federate BookWyrm-compatible outgoing posts
  This means that if a BookWyrm account follows a Gush! account, they will see Gush! comments, quotations, and reviews natively in their feed
  (the reverse was already true)
  • Book quotation posts now have separate fields for the quotation and an optional comment
• Rework search metaalgorithm to make search more useful and result in fewer accidental fulltext searches
• Importable gushable urls/ids (steam, openlibrary, tmdb, …)
• Fediverse objects / handles
• Tags
• Gushable name search
• Full text search (slow) (only iff the search string begins with fulltext:)
• Bound the in-timeline nested reply depth to 8
• Fix the positioning of the context badge in the notification footer
• Fix the display of html summaries for events https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/issues/104
• Deduplicate books when importing from bookwyrm https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/issues/102
• Also take edition id from openlibrary work urls that have it as a query parameter https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/issues/101
• Add "show results" button to unvoted polls https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/issues/97
• Make fewer operations redirect to the combined timeline for no reason
• Don't load the posting frame on the "browse gushables" view
• Don't show remote embeds in reply/share preview https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/issues/107
• Stop collapsing the attachment ui since attachments can now be pasted https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/issues/106
• Fix importing books from strictly-encoded openlibrary and inventaire urls (: escaped to %3A)

For admins

• Upgrade ktor to 3.4.1
• Upgrade exposed to 1.1.1
• Make the timeline page size configurable
• Automatically respond to HEAD requests for configured GET routes

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gush! 0.0.30 is here!

For users

• Special-case mastodon quote interaction policies https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/issues/99
• Support pasting and drag/dropping media attachments (requires javascript) (thanks @picklish !)
• Make emoji filterable in the reaction UI (thanks @picklish !)
• Allow users to unlink replies to and shares of their posts
• Remove shares and unlink replies when blocking posters
• Add moderator capability to (locally) remove others' posts
• Add moderator capability to unlink replies and shares
• Support directly interacting with posts from notifications
• Give more feedback when the UI is waiting on a pseudo-background operation (e.g. posting) (thanks @picklish !)
• When loading timelines, coalesce entire reply ancestries instead of repeating smaller chunks (thanks @picklish !)
• Stop autopropagating content warnings to the post box when sharing (reduces mistaken empty quotes when the intention is to boost a CWed post)
• Make adding scores to reviews optional (thanks @picklish !)
• Add labels to the tick marks on the review score slider (thanks @picklish !)
• Fix streaming of backfilled notifications
• Put the reactor's avatar in the desktop notification icon when the reaction is a unicode emoji (thanks @picklish !)
• Add more tracking parameters to the stripping list https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/issues/94
• Fix importing actors from peertube https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/issues/92
• Make timeline post collapse indicators more consistent https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/issues/95
• Expose gushable lists via activitypub as ordered collections
• Don't offer anonymous users the possibility to add context to notes
• Fix importing album ratings from NeoDB https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/issues/96
• Implement vertical rendering of mongolian script https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/issues/98
• Fix rendering notifications for events with locations
• Rename (music) "artist" to "musician" in the UI
• CSS cleanup

For admins

• Disable the "remove orphaned attachments" cleanup job
• Clean up follower url queries
• Rework follow caching

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on #gush, timeline goes sideways (and wraps)

gush! v0.0.29 is here!

For users

• Move poster header closer to content in replies and quotes (thanks @picklish !)
• Fix federation of boosts of unlisted posts (thanks @picklish !)
• Stream notifications to the notifications view (requires javascript)
• Tune timeline queries for faster page loads
• Don't show stale notification count in the notifications view
• Update unread notification badge on other views when viewing the notifications view (requires javascript)
• Fix rendering of polls with no deadline https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/issues/90
• Fix marking up hashtags in local notes when some hashtags are substrings of others https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/issues/88
• Don't fail actor import when the avatar url is malformed
• Fix tooltip on report button in note footer
• Fix reply badges sometimes being absent in timelines
• The Ultimate Feature*

For admins

• Move expired remote note cleanup to intermittent small batches when federated import service is idle, to reduce load spikes
• Don't strip exif data from remote attachments
• Update kotlin to 2.3.0
• Update ktor to 3.4.0
• Update logback to 1.5.25
• Update bouncycastle to 1.83

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gush! 0.0.28 is here!

Another big/long one, because I was testing/tweaking some of the more involved features (interaction policies, quote/reply nesting) and investigating some memory usage spikes that were tanking the performance on this instance

For users

Changes

• Embed up to two levels of shares in timelines (i.e. when someone shares a quote, also show the original post)
• Embed reply parents in timelines (up to two levels)
• Primitive backfill and reconnect for views that support live post streaming
• Respect interaction policies on remote posts
• Strip some common tracking parameters from external urls
• Autopopulate tags from parent in reply compose field
• Show all gushable types in the trending list in the compose view

Fixes

• Fix parsing out ids for openlibrary, inventaire, and imdb in the add context view ( https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/issues/87 )
• Fix strikethrough rendering in local posts
• Link to the "friendly" url where available in remote profile pages, since some mastodon versions have stopped returning html for the ActivityPub id
• Fix urls with fragments getting marked up as hashtags in local posts ( https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/issues/81 )
• Fix clickability of links in notification content
• Fix replying to a locally-scoped post
• Don't lose the context while making other updates to a post draft ( https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/issues/84 )
• Fix context propagation when popping out the post view ( https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/issues/86 )
• Fix peertube/funkwhale imports with context not getting content (re)marked up correctly ( https://codeberg.org/gush/gush/issues/82 )
• Don't show the first page twice when browsing all gushables
• Fix desktop notification redirect path for pending registrations

For admins

• Reduce volatility / spikes in memory usage
  • Rework how remote poll votes are stored to better handle remote polls with large numbers of votes
  • Add missing database indices
  • Run cleanup operations in smaller batches
  • Reduce creation of temporary collections when loading timelines
• In synchronous federation mode, run http request and database write concurrently

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