Socialhome v0.13.0 released

Hello 👋 Yes, it's been a while! Eight months since the last release in fact. The project is still alive, but not as active as previously. Progress still happening once in a while, thus a new release!

Highlights

• Start adding Matrix support 🎉 Very, very early days, and totally experimental. Currently, if enabled and hooked up with a compatible Matrix server, local user accounts are mirrored to the Matrix side and additionally their public posts get mirrored in profile rooms and hashtag rooms. More later as things develop!
• Translations process! Socialhome can now be translated and is now fully translated to #French! Thanks to Alain St-Denis for the awesome work to both push through the translations process and also do the French translations <3 Other languages partially translated are German and Norwegian. Also thanks to Weblate for hosting the translations for us.
• More changes and fixes to ensure ActivityPub and Diaspora identities don't get duplicated, for remote platforms that have both versions (like Socialhome instances!).
• A bunch of bug fixes to the streams UI and to the federation library.

Full changelogs:

• Socialhome - https://socialhome.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html
• Federation - https://github.com/jaywink/federation/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

What is Socialhome?

Socialhome is best described as a #federated personal profile with social networking functionality. Users can create rich content using #Markdown. All content can be pinned to the user profile and all content will federate to contacts in the federated social web. Federation happens using the #ActivityPub and #Diaspora protocols, with #Matrix coming up!

Please check the official site for more information about features. Naturally, the official site is a #Socialhome profile itself.

• Official site
• Documentation (for admins)
• Code repository (GitHub mirror)
• Chat room

Contribute

Want to work on a #Django and VueJS powered social network server? Join in the fun! We have easy to follow development environment setup documentation and a friendly chat room for questions.

#socialhome #federation #changelog #news #socialnetwork #fediverse #selfhosting

We've pushed some layout changes towards some UI redesign suggestions. The main changes are:

• the "stamped element" that contains the stream name and profile information has been made full width. The profile image is also larger.
• the content author element and content timestamp have been moved to the top of the content, with the author profile picture also made 2x larger.

Feedback most welcome on these changes. If the feedback is mostly positive, we'll continue towards the suggestions made in the above linked issue.

#socialhome #ux