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NodeBB v4.0.0 Beta (community.nodebb.org)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Last friday I quietly tagged a commit on the activitypub branch with v4.0.0-beta.1, which signals that the ActivityPub integration is now ready for beta testing.

For the most complete (yet readable) list of new functionality from the alpha, check out the "Road to Beta" project page.

tl;dr — some new features and a lot of fixes

Editing a category now issues an Update(Actor)
replies is now populated and responds with an OrderedCollection of direct replies (see the post about that)
Proper sharedInbox support
Better indicators for content that comes from non-local (aka "remote") users
Conversational context synchronization mechanic (corresponding post for that)
Moving a topic out of the "uncategorized" category will now federate out an Announce

By and large most incompatibilties have been resolved, although if you do find some issues, please do let me know in the corresponding bug report thread.

I'm looking to wrap up the year with some of the more difficult projects I've put off

Object Integrity Proofs, which will also enable Inbox Forwarding
Better handling of "Open in App" signals from third-party instances
Post visibility support (or at least better handling so non-public messages aren'y unceremoniously dropped!)
Ongoing integration with FEPs 400e and 7888

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Sounds great. Thank you for your work.

Not sure if you have plans on this, but implementation of FEP 61cf (Federated Single Signon) would be a game changer for forums.

With ActivityPub, people can follow remotely and get notifications. With OpenWebAuth, they can log in and participate with their existing Social Identity. It also lets them interact with posts that didn't show up in their inbox.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I totally understand the issue with the number of hours in the day. I have a lot of projects going too.

I am working on creating an ecosystem of websites that all use Magic Signon (OpenWebAuth). Social media websites, forum communities, productivity apps, online courses, etc. You can use the same social identity to log into all of them.

The more projects that support it, the more people will use it.

A forum project like yours would make a great addition. :-)