Back in late July, we took a chance and applied for the @NGIZero NGI0 Core August 2023 call for projects. Our application dealt almost entirely with bringing #ActivityPub to #NodeBB, and we're happy to announce that we've been officially greenlit!
Looking forward to working in tandem with some other highly esteemed colleagues @helge and @tchambers with their testing suites too 🙂 (edit: @J12t too!)
The other small part of our application dealt with much-needed accessibility audits and fixes 💪
The Two-Factor Authentication plugin that comes bundled with #NodeBB was just updated to v7.4.0. It now notifies you if your account was accessed, but the second factor challenge was not passed. If you see this notification, and it wasn't you, you just might want to change your now-compromised password!
Oft forgotten, this feature provides much needed positive reinforcement that, yeah, #2FA works!
When using a #forum, and you quote a post, do you expect to be able to edit the post (i.e. to add emphasis, truncate unnecessary parts, etc.)?
It's possible to structure quoted posts like "references", so a reference to a deleted post is also empty. This has advantages when it comes to the #GDPR Right to Erasure, but may be a grey area (is a quoted post still YOUR post?).
Thanks @richardcrawshaw! A lot of that makes sense, although I am not sure from a technical standpoint whether we can have a "best of both worlds" approach where a quoted post is a reference only if not edited.
We used to post them on our forum... sometimes on #GitHub, sometimes via changelog, sometimes not at all. It was pretty haphazard, involved a lot of manual steps, and we needed to do better.
So we decided to throw some #code (and some #nocode) at this problem and centralized it all while keeping a bunch of options open for interested parties 👇
Special shout-out to @binwiederhier for his part in making the push notification and email portions happen via #ntfy! Happy to become a supporter just for the reserved topic (and to support the project of course 😉)
More updates to the chat UX (pinning, public room notifications, real-time typing notifications), improved user moderation tooling, post queue updates, and as usual, lots of bug fixes 😳
Something funny came across our desk this morning... Apparently @cloudron's #MatterMost subcategory is ranking so well it's attracting general questions about the software itself, and even outranks the MatterMost subreddit!
We'll take the win 😀 Baris has been spending some time recently optimizing our metadata, and it seems to be paying off. The real MVP is their community content ✍️
That said #SEO is still witchcraft and wizardry, and nobody will change my mind.
Public group chats (!!), FontAwesome Pro support, better dark mode, among much much more!
We're really happy with the latest changes to the #chats system. Who needs #Discord anymore when you can have a kickass #forum system with chats subsystem that is on-par with Discord? 😊