I'm Back
I took a bit of a break from #WriteFreely development over the past few months, after our v0.12 release. Now I'm back to it.
I took a bit of a break from #WriteFreely development over the past few months, after our v0.12 release. Now I'm back to it.
Our next release of #WriteFreely, v0.12, is shipping with OAuth 2.0 support! This will make it even easier for people to join your instance, and use WriteFreely as a complement to other tools.
Right now, we have a pause on major features in WriteFreely. I've finally started to work through the backlog of outstanding pull requests, some of which were from mid-2019, and now am getting to more of the polishing side of things. So coming soon, there will be some small new visual changes in WriteFreely / Write.as, particularly that affect user blogs.
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style. These elements were previously unstyled. Now they'll have some improved, basic styling that you can easily override with custom CSS. See #194.On the admin side, we're redesigning the dashboard to make it much more user friendly, and optionally less technical, in cases where an instance is in a hosted environment and the admin doesn't care about getting into the weeds. See #264. We need this change in Write.as for Teams, but it should also prove helpful for other WriteFreely hosts.
Particularly since these are visible changes that affect users, we want your feedback! Please jump into those pull requests on GitHub, try things out, and let us know what you think. We want to be sure people are happy with these upcoming changes before they get released to everyone.
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Dates on this blog should now be correct to your current timezone. This post is set as published just a bit after midnight UTC, so it should change to the day before (January 28) for anyone in the Americas.
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Dates on this blog should now be correct to your current timezone. This post is set as published just a bit before midnight UTC, so it should change to the day after (January 29) for anyone in Europe, Africa, Asia, etc.
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Just merged writefreely#235 (Add dates to blog post pages) to the develop
branch, which closes T669.
It's a small change that'll make it over to Write.as soon (before WriteFreely v0.12), but you can see what that looks like on this blog post!
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A recent idea I had: what if WF federated Notes instead of Articles in certain situations? I just tweaked this instance so that if there's no newline in a post, it'll come out as a Note
. Otherwise it'll be an Article
, like normal. Thoughts? Reply to @matt@writing.exchange.
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For #mentions:
@matt@write.as @matt9248@socialhome.network @matt@writing.exchange @matt@pleroma.site @bear@pixelfed.social @baer@prismo.xyz @bear@open.audio @writeas@video.writeas.org @dev@microblog.pub @writeas_devs@alpha.phereph.one
Bad mentions, shouldn't cause issues:
@who@thisdomain.doesnt.exist @somethinginvalid@matt.writefreely.dev
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This should be fixed now: @matt@write.as
And just testing Socialhome: @matt9248@socialhome.network
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I created an account matt9248@socialhome.network and searched for @devlog@matt.writefreely.dev (this blog).
SocialHome successfully pulled up the account and I was able to follow it. I made a test post that went out to all followers successfully and seems to have been successfully received on socialhome.network (according to the 202 Accepted
in the response, shown below).
Here are the logs on my end from the post going out to socialhome.network:
2019/11/27 13:01:19 POST https://socialhome.network/receive/public/
2019/11/27 13:01:19 POST /receive/public/ HTTP/1.1
Host: socialhome.network
User-Agent: Go (WriteFreely/0.11.1-13-gbbb7b28; +https://matt.writefreely.dev)
Content-Length: 1348
Content-Type: application/activity+json
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 13:01:19 GMT
Digest: SHA-256=OdKi+5fNxiOZMV/xl8u3o+wQHPenx/VoL/4BQYMiu/Y=
Signature: keyId="https://matt.writefreely.dev/api/collections/devlog#main-key",algorithm="rsa-sha256",headers="(request-target) date host digest",signature="yL+tw87IQF9FaPW05Smq1/4+rPg0qAcVD3N124PXZ7ubG1NOVdU1y2og0HbQp4LYEIutzE5vmMUCtNcg62ETFOrjAGW3fzwmpld+lspnhnq/YOXfXbMf7E9NXfLlgamsSx4Rtimt1tAwAMD8HzO5kiHW1O5MNOxRpsDhXCaoHkB/gnJW4T3SfMISgEfREN3/Ix1CtNkzxHQflV/9aKZKN0YvR33ruvvk9UKtJwDY2lDvfcQqPlKOAo+7gu8KwVz8lNjfIyXmjc/23A4QZVTFrey9Ru8vQC7UFuzdbIX+8mcgQ9ERrJ+EfEr3R0DiG6NGgUOtGsPUwYitdmRHOtvycg=="
Accept-Encoding: gzip
[1B blob data]
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2019/11/27 13:01:19 Resp status : 202 Accepted
2019/11/27 13:01:19 Resp body :
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