PieFed development update July 2024 - Lightbox, Mod log, Wikis

Over the last 3 weeks there have been significant contributions from h3ndrik and myself.

H3ndrik

• Many many under the hood improvements. Simplifying code & improving performance.
• Better lightbox
• Improve post teaser layout

Rimu

• Mod log which shows all moderator actions

• The “Rational discourse toolkit” block in the bottom right is now optional - instance admins can turn it off in the settings.

• Staff role - some admin tasks can be delegated to a supporting role which can do limited things. Which operations the supporting role can do can be controlled with checkboxes. This is nearly complete and just needs a bit more elbow grease.
  

• A.gup.pe integration - These are a kind of basic community / group function built on Mastodon. About 20% of new posts on piefed.social are coming from Mastodon, mostly via a.gup.pe. These groups include

  • https://piefed.social/c/photography@a.gup.pe
  • https://piefed.social/c/actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe
  • https://piefed.social/c/auscovid19@a.gup.pe
  • https://piefed.social/c/fedibikes_de@a.gup.pe (German)
  • https://piefed.social/c/classicalmusic@a.gup.pe
  • https://piefed.social/c/histodons@a.gup.pe
  • https://piefed.social/c/actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe
  • https://piefed.social/c/bookstodon@a.gup.pe

• Community wikis - moderators can create pages that serve as a resource for the community. Each page has revisions that can be reverted to. See a demo at https://join.piefed.social/vlog/piefed_wikis.mp4.