We just released version 4.1.0 of NodeBB. Here are the latest features you can now take advantage of!
As an aside, for the first time in a long while, both @baris and I are working on the same codebase again. Up until version 4 was released, I'd been working on the activitypub branch and periodically merging in the latest changes from develop. It's nice to be home! :house_with_garden:
Improved federation of Group actors :left_speech_bubble:
We've improved the activity synchronization for followed group actors. Local updates/likes/etc. are now federated outward by the category in addition to those from remote users. Thanks to @rimu@piefed.social and @freamon who worked with me on debugging this one.
Mentions and Emoji now federating out in source.content :wave:
Emoji and mentions have been sent out to followers since v4, but that wasn't reflected in the raw markdown content that we also send along. That has been remediated now, and this change improves nodebb-to-nodebb federation.
Video object type now parseable :tv:
NodeBB is now able to ingest Peertube Video objects, and render then in a topic just like other pieces of content. Thanks @deadsuperhero@forum.wedistribute.org for prodding me to get this sorted out!
Here is the link https://ekk.app/topic/e670e98f-c13f-4ab5-b174-96974ebca495/jay_shah_%E0%A4%95__%E0%A4%95_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%AE____
and here is the original post link https://www.threads.net/@dhananjay.naidu02/post/DHAlBHgzryu
@bh4-tech Now threads seems to have reduced the time for URL signature expiry and media files expire by 24 hrs @julian For this, the only workaround I think is that my nodebb instance will need to save(cache) the remote media as soon as it is received Posting the link of a recent post below whose media has around 10 hrs more before it expires https://ekk.app/topic/40fda023-3d00-42e1-ad8c-ca3973760012/________
@bh4-tech I realised that a part of the issue was due to the fact that I was using cloudflare proxy. Disabling that improved the situation. Now, my instance does not crash on viewing threads media. Also, for every 3-4 media , 1 media file loads properly(link is not displayed, actual media is displayed). Maybe, admins should have the ability to set a custom timeout for the link preview plugin so that the success rate for viewing remote media becomes 100% as compared to current 25-33 %. @julian
@bh4-tech Also, noticed that in some cases image preview is displayed properly beside the topic headline, but in the actual topic, instead of the image we see the link.