The new Mutual Following feature was written in less than 100 LoC total for both the backend and mobile app.

Here's how we did it:
1) API invokes a new FollowerService method which is a redis zinterstore set of account ids that are hydrated on the controller and returned as an array of Account objects (max 24)

2) The mobile app uses the simple Fisher-Yates algorithm to shuffle and return 3 accounts which are displayed on profiles

Less than 1 hour of work for an exceptional feature, not bad 😎

We're shipping a new related hashtag feature to our mobile app!

Related hashtags are shown on the hashtag feed screens and are manually curated by admins!

PR: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/4777

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We're back 😎

Check out our blog if you haven't already!

https://pixelfed.blog

PSA - COSTARS has been disabled in the latest commits.

We have found a few bugs in COSTARS that impacted new Pixelfed instances.

We expect a fix to ship in the next few days, sorry about the inconvenience!

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Building an invite feature seemed pretty easy until we got to the small details like

- Unsubscribe for non-users
- Email/Notification Settings
- Limiting potential abuse
- Onboarding invited users with a new registration experience
- Privacy law compliance (we only send password reset/account confirmations atm)
- Invite Auto-Follow

We are pretty excited to ship this feature 😁

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