 One annoying aspect of the @pixelfed app is how app settings were not synced between devices or sessions I recently shipped support for first and third party app settings to allow synchronized settings across apps! Imagine setting your theme to dark mode in @PixelDroid and then logging in to the official app with dark mode automatically set, wouldn't that be nice 😎 ⚠️ RIDDIM WARNING 🚨 Unknown Summer - Burial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7cbqxsr4aI #np #fediPlay #burial Gosh at this rate I may be able to get Sup in the eager hands of beta testers, after Groups 👀
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Now Stories are out of the way, on to Groups! They will be shipping disabled and without federation support, while we resolve the final details. We are targeting Lemmy and Smithereen groups support, anything compatible with those should be compatible with our Groups 😎
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@dansup@mastodon.social @dansup@pixelfed.social Truly looking forward to. It will be via Testflight, right? I still have the beta from 31.12.2022 on my phone. So I assume there is a push for the next build? @dansup@mastodon.social @dansup@pixelfed.social Testing it, awesome so far! I wonder if opening a video from the gallery will be possible in the future. Nice job! One last thought before bed, I'm working on a new role/gate system in @pixelfed and am dreaming of the ability for it to suggest trusted users for specific roles/tasks, and to empower trusted users with semi-admin or moderation capabilities like for example, allowing them to temporarily unlist or CW a post while admins are AFK, everything would be logged and admins could easily review/reverse actions Healthy communities strive on trust, and admins should be able to delegate/appreciate that I'm aware of the sus graphs and stats that exaggerate month over month growth on https://fedidb.org, and I didn't have enough time tonight to fix it I'll be able to fix the June and August aberrations and prevent them from occurring again. I could write several blog posts about building and maintaining FediDB but I don't think many people would find it as interesting as I do 😅 Just want to thank everyone who has expressed concern about me and burning out I've been waiting for @pixelfed to reach this level of success for years and thanks to my partner I now have the healthiest work/life balance I've ever had Spent the past two weekends off and am looking forward to a super productive weekend!! Groups and Stories I'm looking at you fam, don't be so shy, come meet the mandem The biggest challenge with https://fediDB.org is collecting, collating, and caching data in a performant way FediDB now has over 40 million server records with dozens of data points each. That's a lot of data! Keeping stats fresh while remaining fast isn't easy, but I have a few ideas I'll be implementing in the next few weeks to further improve performance  You may notice that https://fedidb.org loads faster, especially the home page stats! I migrated to a larger server, and implemented a better cache strategy 😎 I'm aware of some questionable stats/graphs on FediDB (that incorrectly display month to month fluctuations), and am working to resolve them Unfortunately I’ll need another day or two to finish @pixelfed app stories! Everything is ready to go, except I’m not happy with the video quality situation. First impressions are everything, so I’ll try to improve it further. I set a hard deadline, meaning it will ship at the latest on Sunday so it doesn’t delay progress on other features like Groups I had to take fediDB offline temporarily so I could resize the VPS and double the cores, ram and disk Due to the way the @pixelfed app works, it loads available Pixelfed instances from pixelfed.org using a cached list from a secret fedidb API, and now users can’t login because I didn’t handle this situation So I’m working to make the pixelfed.org apis that the app uses more resilient, specifically the cron job cache logic, to ensure this doesn’t happen again! @pixelfed Done! The @pixelfed app will no longer be affected by https://fedidb.org outages as the pixelfed.org APIs are now cached (to disk) using the last valid state in the event fediDB is unreachable, making pixelfed.org + apps resilient to both fediDB outages and cache issues! Transcoding is no joke, for @pixelfed Stories, I decided to offload the transcoding process to your device so servers aren’t overwhelmed and the UX trade off in terms of users having to wait is ok This doesn’t solve the quality issue, either we prioritize quality over disk space which benefits UX or prioritize disk space over quality which benefits instance admins. I’m leaning towards prioritizing disk space for now, and am looking into HLS + delayed backend processing to solve this long term @dansup @pixelfed I understand you are targeting mobile users mostly. How do you intend to offload transcoding to browser users? More generally - most platforms transcode everything server side so that they can re-encode content again in newer profiles or codecs as needed, to validate uploads (everything is transcoded to common profiles) and to improve quality/space tradeoff (mobile encoders tend to be really poor). |
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@dansup @pixelfed @PixelDroid but an extra option please? I often do have different settings on different devices...
@dansup @pixelfed @PixelDroid now add settings federation :blobfoxdevil: