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This post summarizes the development work completed in May 2025, grouped by contributor.
Overview
- Enhanced Feed System: Comprehensive feed management with remote links, child feeds, and improved navigation
- Scheduled Posts: Create posts that get published when you know they'll be read
- Post & User Flair: Federated flair system for both posts and users
- Advanced Notifications: Notification system with filtering and types
- Image Management: Hash-based image blocking and improved display systems
- Mobile Experience: Significant improvements to mobile layouts and touch interactions
- Authentication: Passkeys and Google OAuth integration
- Community Tools: Enhanced moderation features and community management
- Performance: Database optimizations and memory usage improvements
- Themes: Multiple new and updated themes with improved accessibility
Contributors and Their Work
rimu (142 commits)
Feed System Enhancements
- Feed navigation improvements with remote feed links
- Adding a remote feed automatically includes all child feeds, enabling easy addition of complete feed hierarchies
User Interface & Experience
- Added image preview when uploading images during post creation - helps users verify correct image uploads before posting
- Larger image sizes when displaying posts
- Image post height optimization - prevent long vertical images from taking excessive screen space in lists of posts
- Mobile layout improvements, especially for tablets
- Community navigation improvements on mobile
- Font loading optimizations and descriptions
- Service worker caching for Bootstrap and fonts
User Management & Authentication
- Passkeys implementation
- Google OAuth integration
- Throwaway email detection and warnings
- Enhance ban system with reasons, content purging, and IP address bans
- Temporary ban expiration handling - fixes issue where expired temporary bans from Lemmy communities weren't being lifted
- User flair federation and display in posts/comments
- Staff role permissions throughout admin area so admins can delegate some functions to volunteers
Post & Comment Features
- Scheduled posts system with timezone handling
- Post flair system for intra-community categorization
- User flair, for fun
- Allow moderators to add flairs to posts from platforms without native flair support
- Fixed a sticky posts federation bug
- Cross-posting improvements - the last community posted to is set as the default for the next cross-post
- Cross-post into any community, not just ones you've joined
- Link post auto-fill the title field based on title of linked page
- Quick share functionality using bookmarklets
- Tweak OP flair display
- Join/leave button AJAX improvements - avoid full page reload
- Join button on post teasers to encourage community participation
Community Management
- Fix community icon responsiveness
- Optional low-quality community post hiding to reduce memes & shitposts in the 'All' feed
- Moderator editing permissions - fixed bug where non-top moderators couldn't edit community sidebars
Content Moderation & Safety
- Image hashing system for content blocking - deduplication and comparison against known abusive images using hash algorithms
- Blocked images management UI for admins
- Downvote abuse threshold adjustments
- Private instance mode for scraper protection
Notifications System
- Notification filtering by type
- Unread notification red dot indicator
Performance & Infrastructure
- Database deadlock prevention
- Large memory usage reduction in daily maintenance task
- Community list and user profile optimization
- Increase speed of casting a vote
Themes & Styling
- Irix theme inspired by the OS from the 90's
- You can choose from a few different fonts, independently of theme choice
Bug Fixes & Maintenance
- Default instance inbox for when detection of inbox url fails
- Instance inbox editing in admin area
- Translation updates from Weblate and source code
- Schema.org metadata addition for posts and profiles
- Custom welcome email configuration - enable instance administrators to customize welcome emails instead of hardcoded "piefed.social" text
- Event post type infrastructure - foundation for posting events with date/time/location fields and potential Mobilizon federation
JollyDevelopment (15 commits)
API development and notifications system
API Development
- Notifications API endpoints with pagination
- Notifications now have a type and a target, not just a url.
- Enhanced notification read/unread handling
Notification System Enhancements
- Mark all as read functionality
- Notification counting and pagination improvements
Bug Fixes
- Card shadow theme fixes
- Various API endpoint refinements
freamon (7 commits)
API enhancements and user interface improvements
API Extensions
- Top sort for additional time periods
- User notification state error handling
- Explicit GET methods for notification routes
- API validation improvements
User Interface
- Activity alerts - dropdown conversion from tabs
- Feeds tab addition for activity alerts
h3ndrik (5 commits)
User experience and interaction improvements
Lightbox Enhancements
- Touch gesture support (dragging, pinch zoom)
- Improved scrolling for full-size images
- Mobile-friendly gesture controls
- Attribute reset functionality
Comment Management
- Comment options display for deleted comments
- CLI command fixes for scheduled posts
wjs018 (3 commits)
UI polish and theme improvements
Visual Enhancements
- Increased image blurring in feeds
- Darker community breadcrumb backgrounds
- Dillo theme tweaks
karasugawasu (2 commits)
Localization
- Japanese website title encoding fixes
- HLT Fruits theme
fxomt (2 commits)
Theme development
- Vote button clarity improvements
- Theme updates and enhancements
Tournesol (1 commit)
Documentation
- Caddy server configuration example