 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).   @dansup I can't in good conscience endorse a game, based on the movie that introduced the world to Jar Jar Binks. ...and defiled my childhood. @dansup Clearly an opinion as the fact is that Wave Race : Blue Storm is the greatest game of all time. With the @pixelfed url shortener, you could share a post url with less than half the characters in some situations For example lol: would be shortened to px.lfed.co/32/e2o_KBTaVW Groups will also use this to have easily recognizable and short sharable links like px.lfed.co/group/1/fediverse-developers @pixelfed It's a very basic link shortener that will work with every pixelfed instance Basically how it works is each instance is assigned an ID when the admin enables the feature, and then using a clever namespace syntax and base encoding, instances can generate links without having to send them to the px.lfed.co domain - and the px.lfed.co service simply decodes the syntax to the proper pixelfed url using the id of the instance! As @pixelfed becomes more mainstream, companies and brands will join as some have already I need to add a "business profile" setting that limits inclusion into public feeds but still allows them to maintain a presence without being grouped in with spammers Companies that post obvious spam don't deserve this, and they will be subject to Autospam too (maybe with slightly more consideration for links)
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@dansup @pixelfed Does the Organization Actor type work for this? https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#actor-types Discovery is hard to get right, fancy algorithms can work with enough data When you don't have enough data, basic signals such as like or comment counts can do the job Nothing beats human curated discovery though, and I can't do this alone Imagine if I could delegate this to a group of trusted users who can find and add/categorize posts and together could vote on content and categories Imagine a single person could be in charge for the day, and it rotates between them Thoughts? #discovery
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The Apple App Store is a great example of human curated discovery. I'd love to crowd source a basic iteration of this, where there is a "pic of the day" with a short summary of the account/context Another section could be dedicated to "under the radar" accounts The community could vote on monthly themes, like say nature, and have a section dedicated to that I want discovery to be a lot better, but not forget the humanity and emotion that a endless algorithmic feed would @dansup you could crowdsource suggested tags and suggested alt-text, maybe with an upvote system  @dansup remember the Sweden Twitter account that a random person got to take over (every week I think)? You could do that, with an ever expanding selection of users, who effectively do a DJ-set of curated posts. Maybe the nominated user has their likes within a set timespan shared in the Pixelfed Discovery Feed? I ordered an Apple Watch Ultra (Pixelfed on WatchOS anyone?), and will be upgrading my iPhone next month. With the 15 Pro, and my old 13 Pro and 11 Pro, I will be able to test across generations and strive for optimal performance ✨ #pixelfedApp  Get an iPod Touch. It has a weak-ass CPU that would help with performance tuning and it also doesn't have a notch so you could see any possible UI layout problems related to that. Well I feel dumb, the iPhone battery slowdown "feature" is why my iPhone 13 Pro can seem choppy or slow when browsing the @pixelfed app feeds I know there are still a few perf/UX improvements to be done, but this drove me crazy until I realized it was happening in other apps too This isn't as noticeable on the IG app, and is likely due to the way they render FlatList, this give me hope #pixeldev #pixelfedApp I wasn't planning on taking the last 2 weekends off, but life happens I needed that break Balance is the key, and I realize that. I'll still strive to surprise y'all, but not at the same pace I'm a burnout, but I won't burnout. @dansup I have realised this as well. My plan is to try and take off most of the school holidays so I can be present with my kids. I have burnout once quite bad and I don’t want to do it again. |
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@dansup @pixelfed Happy to hear it, Dan.
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@dansup Congrats, after all the time and work put in, you absolutely deserve it.