Here is our regular update that explains what we have been working on for the past two weeks. This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.

@sunaurus fixed our rate-limiter and is working on federation of local site bans.

@SleeplessOne1917 added banned_from_community to post and comment views. Added a matrix account link to the create private message form. User emails are now shown for registration applications, to stop spam emails. Worked on notifying users when they’re banned from a community.

@matc-pub reworked and cleaned up lemmy-ui’s query parsing.

@rodrigo-fm added a loading skeleton for posts / comments to lemmy-ui.

@phiresky and @dullbananas have been doing a lot of work reviewing PRs, and finishing up current ones.

@nutomic worked on generating post thumbnail/metadata in background, deleting old avatar/banner/icon’s when uploading a new one. On registration, automatically set content languages from accept-language headers. Migrated apub block activity to standard endTime property and deprecate expires. Added delete user field removeData to apub assets. Fixed handling of apub downvotes.

@dessalines has worked on fixing some issues with Woodpecker, our CI, deleting a person’s local images on account deletion., adding a listMedia endpoint for users and admins to view local image uploads. Also added a creator_banned_from_community to vote views, and fixed an issue with comment replies being wrongly marked as read.. Also made jerboa use a new preference library.

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  • sunaurus@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Awesome work!

    Do you have an idea yet for the timeline of the 0.19.4 release?

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      8 months ago

      Hopefully within the next few weeks. I’m forcing myself to stop making API changes / additions so sleepless and I can get caught up on adding them to lemmy-ui, then we should be ready.

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        8 months ago

        but every API change brings it closer to perfection! cant stop, wont stop!

        the API change high is such a rough addiction to break.

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          8 months ago

          Haha for sure. Kinda miss the days when we didn’t have to worry about that as much.