Hashtags and mentions will ship after the beta is live, I think follows, likes, comments and notifications are more essential and am finishing those up now.
@dansup if we can store the video we made like inside loops in the device after publish on loops yeah, at least we have a copy of the created video, and it's not vanished forever.
I made a few other federation optimizations like sharing the private keys for every local user, and an experimental new protocol transport for real time federation between loops servers
What's the right way to suggest #pixelfed (web) features? I have two (which also apply to #Loops).
1)Adjust max size of videos or images within a feed to the window size. Now, to view a video/image that's bigger than the window you click (=start video, view image), then for a video immediately "maximize" it (which shrinks it) to make it fit.
2)Filters! There are channels/keywords that I don't care about, e. g. puppies, surrealist art. Please let me block them.
I started working on a Text-to-Speech feature in Loops.
Similar to the TikTok voice feature.
It's complicated to say the least, especially when you allow users to set the start position, nevermind breaking it up into segment layers for precision timing.
Will pause this for now and allow users to import from Camera Roll (so you can use CapCut for this), otherwise this would delay the Loops beta release for weeks.
Good idea, There's going to be a lot of effort during these next few months to produce something akin to Vine or YouTube Shorts, in anticipation of filling a void.
Shipping early to get those root balls well into spreading through the soil is prudent - just provide lots of sunlight and water :)