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!
Does nodebb support following/joining federated communities? And does it support switching to a threaded view?
@onlinepersona@programming.dev Following groups on other sites works well. The current default theme doesn’t do visual threading, but reply relationships are maintained and linked. QuickReply kind of quietly discourages direct replies to comments, though, so I imagine many users - especially those new to the bulletin board experience - may end up replying to OPs, especially without a threaded UI.
I’m sure there’s nothing stopping someone from making a threaded theme, though.
Same thing, no video on restart.
Restart from admin panel or stop and start from cmd on server?
@bh4-tech either
@julian Restarting also did not change anything. Also, noticed that if a post on mastodon, lemmy or threads has an image, it is shown beside the topic headline as a thumbnail but is not rendered below the actual text as an image. I guess that once this problem is fixed, videos(or video links) will also get rendered. The same behavior is observed on both community.nodebb.org as well as my nodebb instance. Attaching screenshots of both- 1)community.nodebb.org with a lemmy post
2)my nodebb instance with a mastodon post
@julian Is Video support limited to just Peertube videos? Asking this because, a video post on threads renders properly on mastodon and kokonnect(misskey fork) but only the text is displayed and not the video on my nodeb instance running 4.1.0. The post is https://www.threads.net/@b4htech/post/DGmUEn7y76q?xmt=AQGz1bBLfaQf_DsxBxScCQa7LxwcwQD3CSh5bf7j8nU0fA
Below attached are the screenshots of the above post on- 1)
mastodon2)
kokonnect3)
My nodebb instance https://ekk.app/@bh4-tech might be a caching issue. Any chance you can restart your NodeBB and see if the link shows up?
Right now the video player won’t embed, but the minimum should be a link.
@julian Consider adding
.mentionclass to mentions in HTML content. Some clients transform such links into internal links.Well, depending on a class from a 3rd-party is not the best way to go about it. Anyway, the server should reconstruct the html and add the appropriate
.mentionclass based on any existingMentionlinks from the ActivityPub object.@rikudou@lemmings.world that was my thinking as well.
@silverpill@mitra.social ironically we do add that class in NodeBB, but we explicitly strip out all custom class names because there’s no guarantee that recipients would know how to handle it.
Since a
.mentionhas no standardized meaning, I opted to remove it for federated content.Also mentions can be detected in content as they’re explicitly defined in the payload.
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