v1.3.0 - rimu/pyfedi
codeberg.org
- [Media library](https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1404949/use-the-image-icon-to-insert-images-into-the-post-body) that lets you upload images to comments/post body and paste from the clipboard - Animated gif support for user profile pictures - Specify alt-text for link posts that link ...

What’s new

  • Media library that lets you upload images to comments/post body and paste from the clipboard
  • Animated gif support for user profile pictures
  • Specify alt-text for link posts that link to an image
  • Emoji picker and spoiler button added to markdown toolbar
  • More links to the modlog (footer, community sidebar, user profile) and improved searching/filtering
  • Leave a conversation to remove it from the list of their direct message conversations
  • Post urls are now “friendly” since they include the community name and a snippet of the title instead of just a number
  • Add link to show parent comment when directly viewing a comment reply
  • Image markdown style formatting to allow more advanced control of how images are rendered. e.g. ![image alt text :: width=300px](https://url/ to image)
  • Code syntax highlighting in code blocks and allow for style selection in user settings
  • Tag cloud added to sidebar for feeds and topics
  • Better searching and filtering of the Instances list
  • Add a block (of a user, community, instance or domain) from the blocks and filters management area, without doing it via a post
  • Popup suggestions when mentioning a community or user as you type
  • Onboarding plugin which auto-subscribes, auto-blocks and sends a welcome message for new accounts
  • Improved federation efficiency
  • Old posts can be automatically archived (saved to S3) to free up database space
  • Old posts by bots with no comments are automatically deleted
  • LLDAP support, which does LDAP a bit differently

To upgrade

To upgrade from 1.2.x:

git pull  
git checkout v1.3.x  
./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.sh

In the past we had a separate project for realtime notifications, which is now unsupported as it’s code has been merged with the main PieFed project. To set it up, refer to the Push Notifications section of install.md. As well as enhancing the user experience doing this will decrease load on your server if it hosts local communities with many subscribers as some of the federation work has been offloaded to the push notifications service.

Donations

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  • runsmooth@kopitalk.netEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    Thank you again, for all the work.

    Old posts can be automatically archived (saved to S3) to free up database space

    When I first set up the .env.docker, I saw a mention of this feature. Is there a sample for me to look at to set up S3? When I started on 1.2.5, I don’t believe I saw any settings.

    I suppose my instance is quite small, but this could be interesting to check out anyway.

    • null@piefed.nullspace.lolEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      I wrote up some steps for using Backblaze B2, which is the cheapest S3 compatible option I could find and has worked well for me for years: Using Backblaze B2 with PieFed

      If you end up using these steps, let me know because I’m waiting for someone to test them before commiting them in a PR 🙂

      • runsmooth@kopitalk.netEnglish
        1·
        7 hours ago

        Thank you for that How-To. Now I know this isn’t what you first intended, but I tried to adapt this for DigitalOcean [DO] which is where my VPS is. I was not able to set up the CNAME, and I kind of worked out what was happening without a solution. For now I don’t have the CNAME set up and the links lead directly to my S3 Bucket.

        I’ve got my set up laid out at the bottom of the post here. I’ll ask there if it’s okay to just keep this arrangement or if there are concerns.

        Steps

        First, for DO, I had to install s3cmd as per this How-To

        https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/reference/s3cmd/

        Second, once s3cmd is set up, and configured, DigitalOcean has a default permission of private, and I had to make a policy to switch the default over to public. I configured the bucket policy with this How-To

        https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/how-to/configure-bucket-policies/

        What I noticed for DO, is that the bucket generates a folder of the same name of the bucket, and PieFed populates the folder. So for example:

        s3://your-super-unique-bucket-name/your-super-unique-bucket-name/communities s3://your-super-unique-bucket-name/your-super-unique-bucket-name/posts

        Third, I took your How-To for BackBlaze that you kindly provided and changed my pyfedi environment variables - in my case a docker

        https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/commit/8d8858fe386e32b4d1406251684ab4dc2bac782e/docs/Using Backblaze B2 with PieFed.md

        For DigitalOcean the region is not needed, and for illustrative purposes the region here is tor1 for the Toronto datacentre. Perhaps the only thing that doesn’t work quite right is uploading images.

        I’m currently here for now as the bucket is being used and all the images are displayed correctly.

        S3_BUCKET = 'your-super-unique-bucket-name'
S3_ENDPOINT = 'https://your-super-unique-bucket-name.tor1.digitaloceanspaces.com/'
S3_REGION = ''
S3_PUBLIC_URL = 'https://your-super-unique-bucket-name.tor1.digitaloceanspaces.com/folder-name'
S3_ACCESS_KEY = 'example004819c3ba9b31b0000000003'
S3_ACCESS_SECRET = 'exampleK004Uei/7Vf90FzWuN3zoGl5npK3zZc'

        Why I didn’t finish the CNAME setting.

        For DigitalOcean, if I change the S3_PUBLIC_URL variable to ‘piefed-media.your.domain.here’, what happens is DO generates a new folder in the bucket. So what ends up happening is PieFed populates this new folder.

        s3://your-super-unique-bucket-name/piefed-media.your.domain.here/communities s3://your-super-unique-bucket-name/piefed-media.your.domain.here/posts

        PieFed still follows along with piefed-media.your.domain.here, and I was able to set up the CNAME as instructed. But I just wasn’t able to get things working as expected.

        Am I able to just keep things as is with links pointed directly at my bucket? Or is there some kind of concern with this set up.

    • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Do old posts get refreshed into new posts if they receive a new comment to avoid them being archived?

      That might be a cool feature, since PieFed has the “Active” sort and Lemmy has the “New Comments” sort which are features that Reddit doesn’t have @rimu@piefed.social