Dev notes from @musing, tooted away by @matt.
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Finally fixed the issue when switching between the Plain and Rich Text editor and your posts contain HTML. Now it won't break! (Coming to @write_as shortly)
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!
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. [...]
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)
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
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)
This uses the fediverse actor a blog author has added in the Verification field on their blog, looking up the handle locally (required by this tag, instead of the URL required for the rel=me tag) t...
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