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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!
Moderation is important, we've overhauled a few admin dashboard pages.
This will be shipping later this week!
We decided to build our own documentation platform.
It offers many benefits like:
- Single account across Instance Picker, Documentation and Translation Platforms
- Easy to contribute
- Easy to translate
- No 3rd party APIs or Analytics
- Git versioned, each page is based on markdown files
- Markdown based WYSIWYG doc editing, git not required
- Integrations with our brand assets, CDN and other services
We are deprecating ComposeUI v3, it will be unavailable after June 1, 2020.
Stories will be displayed in a 9:16 aspect ratio, optimized for mobile screens.
We are also working with app developers on API support so you can use Stories on your favourite fediverse app!
The Compose button is being moved from the nav bar to the Timelines.
This will help streamline the new ComposeUI and experience!
New moderation tools, user notifications, and safety improvements will be shipping soon.
We have reserved 198 usernames that conflict with features and pages.
You can run the "php artisan fix:usernames" command to fix accounts created before that username was reserved.
