I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.53 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
New user feature to search by post content (using regular expressions) or tag.
Added some (partial) support for Event object types.
Minor fixes: Allow unboosting your own posts (contributed by khm), CSS fixes for the Dillo browser (contributed by kvibber).
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.52 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Posts that were liked or boosted can now be unliked and unboosted.
Outgoing message timeouts are no longer hardcoded and can be configured (see snac(8) for more information).
Fixed a bug that caused some incorrect unfollows under special conditions (with shared inboxes enabled and users from the same instance that follow each other, the internal message distributor was confused).
Mastodon API: Added support for lists.
Added a header to avoid over-zealous caching in some browsers (contributed by louis77).
Added support for running and federating inside hidden networks like Tor, I2P or Loki (contributed by iwojima).
Fixed an error processing polls coming from Pleroma instances.
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.51 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Support for custom Emojis has been added; they are no longer hardcoded, but read from the emojis.json file at the server base directory. Also, they are no longer limited to string substitutions, but images as external URLs are also supported (see snac(8) for more information).
Fixed a bug that caused some notifications to be lost when coming from a user in the same instance.
Added an additional check for blocked instances (sometimes, posts from blocked sites that were ancestors of legit posts were 'leaking' into the timeline).
On OpenBSD, if the disable_email_notifications server flag is set to true, unveil() is not called for the execution of the /usr/sbin/sendmail binary and pledge() doesn't set the exec promise.
CI checks are queued. Hopefully they'll go smoothly?
Assuming they do, it will still be up to someone else with commit access to merge it.
Thank you for your continued improvements! On my mental ToDo list I keep on meaning to create a snac Port for OpenBSD, and it looks as if the unveil and pledge support continues to be refined, cool!
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.50 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Incoming posts can now be filtered out by content using regular expressions on a server level (these regexes are written in the filter_reject.txt file at the server base directory; see snac(5) and snac(8)).
Improved page position after hitting the Hide or MUTE buttons (for most cases).
Use a shorter maximum conversation thread level (also, this maximum value is now configurable at compilation level with the MAX_CONVERSATION_LEVELS define).
Fixed a bug where editing a post made the attached media or video to be lost.
The way of refreshing remote actor data has been improved.
Posting from the command-line now allows attachments.
Added defines for time to enable MacOS builds (contributed by andypiper).
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.49 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. This time it includes some fixes to the Mastodon API code, which was in need of some love:
Mastodon API: Fixed a bug in how validated links are reported.
Mastodon API: Fixed a bug in search by account.
Mastodon API: Fixed missing Video type objects in timelines.
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.47 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Added pagination to the notification page.
The New Post... option now includes an optional field to set the URL of an ActivityPub post to be a reply to.
Fixed spurious notifications from the same user.
Fixed repeated mentions in the reply text field.
One-post only pages include the post content instead of the user bio in their metadata (improving post previews from other software).
Mastodon API: Added support for timelines by tag (for sites like e.g. https://fediwall.social to work).
Fun fact: had #ActivityPub object representation been #XML#RDF instead of #JSON, little more than a thin wrapper with #XSLT and #noJavaScript would have been sufficient to serve them on the web —statically.
I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.46 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
Added support for Peertube videos.
Mastodon API: Tweaks to support the Subway Tooter app (contributed by pswilde), added support for editing posts, fixed an error related to the edit date of a post, fixed some crashes.
Added a handshake emoji next to a user name if it's a mutual relation (follower and followed), because friendship is bliss.
Tweaked some retry timeout values for better behaviour in larger instances (thanks to me@mysmallinstance.homelinux.org for their help).
2023 has hammered home how depressing the state of hypertext in 2023 has become
Given a simple web site of a handful of SVG/HTML/CSS pages, each containing a lot of identical content for eg header; nav; footer, there’s still no way that I can ascertain to just have those common parts inserted into each page – I’m having to have multiple copies in place in each page, which isn’t a problem once they settle down, but is a problem while I’m making changes
How have we gotten this far and not allowed HTML to insert common page parts as though they were actually typed in?
@neil really though, I want two things (well don’t we all)
1 – web components (template, slot, etc) should work fully without the help of JavaScript, HTML should offer all the capabilities required to make web components work as is (seriously, any JavaScript is going to be pretty much the same each time, just give HTML the balls to do it itself)
B] in the meantime, make the able to do exactly the job of an include – let me specify a path to a valid well-formed chunk of stuff, let me tell it that it’s to be an include, and then the chunk of stuff appears exactly as if it was actually typed in at that spot in the markup