Write.as Development @writeas_dev@abunchtell.com

@Valium@mastodon.at Yeah, Mastodon is really heavy.

Once you compile WriteFreely though, it takes up little resources. I was actually running it on a Raspberry Pi 1 with 256MB of RAM.

@Valium@mastodon.at Yeah, unfortunately the ActivityPub code needs a ton of RAM to compile right now -- the library is huge. Someone else couldn't get it to compile on a 2GB VPS.

Will hopefully fix that in the future, but for now this would be the way to go.

@Valium@mastodon.at On my regular machine, I compiled with:

env GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm GOARM=5 go build

And then transferred the binary and the directories: static, templates, pages, and keys. Then on the Pi, ran the setup process like normal.

What parts didn't work for you?

Another idea it made me think of: what if instead of comments right now, mentions just forwarded to a connected Mastodon / Pleroma / whatever account? Not sure how that'd technically work, but might have to look into it.

Recent @matt blog post getting sent around the fediverse reminded me this is pretty critical for #WriteFreely v1.0: blog data caching.

https://phabricator.write.as/T540

Got both of these finished -- really pleased about the admin page editing functionality, in particular. Will be much better for people starting up their own instances, and customizing it how they like.

Tomorrow I'll release #writefreely v0.3.

That's two Mondays in a row, so maybe I'll keep up the weekly release schedule until we reach v1.0

All important reported issues are out of the way for v0.3 🎊

So now it's time to get some *new* features into #writefreely before this next release:

- Setting a `created` date when publishing a new post (good for importing and scheduling posts) - https://phabricator.write.as/T532
- Maybe the ability to edit some standard pages on multi-user instances, e.g. the About and Privacy pages - https://phabricator.write.as/T533

Yeah, this probably has to do with how Masto handles the `Delete` activity. Going to leave it out for now.

https://phabricator.write.as/T535

Today, bouncing between this and a new @matt blog post about ActivityPub identities.

Testing federation while moving posts from draft / anonymous to a blog, or vice versa, or from one blog to another.

Moving between draft and published is good so far, though re-publishing doesn't seem to have an effect on Mastodon's end.

Added an admin option to reset user passwords by running:

writefreely --reset-pass <username>

On the develop branch now, to be released in v0.3.

https://github.com/writeas/writefreely/issues/25

#writefreely

While it won't be required for installation, we will support Docker: https://phabricator.write.as/T531

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@wakest No problemo 👍

@wakest Sure, I just opened up registrations on https://pencil.writefree.ly -- feel free to kick the tires there!

(Of course, Write.as is our permanent instance -- this is just for demoing a full WF install.)

@lightone Hah not yet! That's interesting though.. what site was on there?

Moved encryption key generation (for cookies and email addresses) out of a Bash script and into the app. So that's one less file to deal with, and now you should be able to install #writefreely on Windows!

@v0idifier There is, but there are many pieces to fit together and get right. It all depends on how you implement everything, and how to do that isn't always clear, hah :)