Write.as Development @writeas_dev@abunchtell.com

[#writeasdev] NathanBnm opened writeas-gtk #25: Add translation capability + French translations https://github.com/writeas/writeas-gtk/pull/25

Cleaning up data around inactive custom domains that were once hosted with Write.as. This should improve performance for everyone's active domains.

[#wfdev] SamWhited opened #86: Using go-sitemap-generator changes behavior of entire program https://writefreely.org/issues/86

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[#wfdev] Closed #77: Apple icon files missing https://writefreely.org/issues/77

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[#wfdev] Closed #78: Add touch icons https://writefreely.org/pull/78

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Figured out what was causing an issue with federated post URLs when moving an anonymous post to a blog.. Only happens on Write.as, only in production, so it was tricky. At least I know what to look for in the future.

[#wfdev] gytisrepecka opened #85: WriteFreely runs as root https://writefreely.org/issues/85

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[#wfdev] Fastidious opened #84: Templates/styling discrepancies https://writefreely.org/issues/84

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Email subscriptions are huge, huge; one of those features you think is relatively simple to build until you realize it needs to do that.. and also that.. oh and that, too.

Things are looking good enough to ship this in Write.as Labs soon. Last pieces:

- verifying email addresses
- sending posts on a delay

Another thought today: if we support ActivityPub mentions in WF posts, you could add your Mastodon / Pleroma / etc. handle to your posts, and any subsequent fediverse replies would mention and notify you. Could be a good stopgap until @remark_as is out.

Posts would remain "don't @ me" by default, but if you wanted comments on a post, you'd just mention yourself. 🤔

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The email subscriptions feature will involve new processes that regularly check for posts scheduled to be sent out via email, so with that in place, we'll be able to support federation on scheduled posts, too.

This was mentioned in #writefreely issue #76 (https://writefreely.org/issues/76)

Nice, looks like `Article` support on #Misskey was just merged, so #WriteFreely should work going forward!

https://github.com/syuilo/misskey/pull/4499

If you're a developer on one of these projects, or run an instance, any help you could offer with debugging would be a huge help!

As an ongoing project, I'm hoping to get #WriteFreely federation working with all #ActivityPub-supporting platforms.

Just tested with #misskey and saw it wasn't working: https://github.com/syuilo/misskey/issues/4498

Still need to see what works with #hubzilla and #osada

[#wfdev] Closed #83: HMTL being included in post Metadata, and not scrubbed when removed from post. https://writefreely.org/issues/83

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@eitland Glad you like it! 😊

Another interesting thing about hashtags on the platform: besides helping organize posts on your own blog and @readwriteas, they'll also cause your posts to show up when searching for those tags from the fediverse 👍

Deployed a temporary fix for excessive vertical spacing in blockquotes on blog post pages. It only applies to <p> tags right now.

Need a better long-term solution and, in general, to dig through a mess of CSS.

[#wfdev] digitalgyoza opened #83: HMTL being included in post Metadata, and not scrubbed when removed from post. https://writefreely.org/issues/83

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Still need to include styles for more elements, but keeping it minimal for now.