Hey everyone! Excited to have another one of these posts. Welcome to Hexbear v0.7.60!
This update is more focused on delivering a better new user experience, as well as implementing some anti spam/bad actor measures.
Here's the overall changes for this go around:
- Admins can now set a list of communities for new users to be autosubscribed to. We're hoping this makes the initial sign-on a bit less overwhelming: still giving a good sample of Hexbear overall while making curating your feed more manageable for a new user.
- New emotes and taglines by @WhyEssEff - great as always
- Ratelimiting was actually always implemented - unfortunately it wasn't fully applied to websocket requests. We've fixed this, as well as created a couple new ratelimit categories to be able to better target and limit spam.
- New users are locked out from making comments or posts for five minutes after they've created an account. This helps slow down any spam attempts as well as gives mods a grace period to vet new users during attacks.
- The previous /communities page has been deprecated and removed after months of being broken (and also the immediate redirect for new registrations :/). New users are instead sent to the main page, and any requests to /communities are instead sent to the main page with the community dropdown open.
- We've blocked out any incoming websocket messages while the post listings are revalidating - this should solve the infinite loading issue (but I did say that last time, soo...)
- Added a couple new words to the slur filter. Note that this doesn't work retroactively.
- Some fixes to error handling by @StalinistApologist to more gracefully handle null errors (which creepily displayed as "Hello there!")
Thank you to everyone who has contributed their time into making this update what it is! If you're at all interested in contributing, be sure to check out !hexbear@hexbear.net, our Gitea, and our matrix channel, #hexbear-dev:chapo.chat.
Remember to post all feedback or bug reports either in !feedback@hexbear.net or in our Gitea. Viva la Hexbear!
(aaand I forgot to tag this release. I promise this is .60, just... don't look at the bottom of the page.)
Let's welcome to the family:
:jazz-passion: :jazz-ecstacy: :pepsi: :BibleThump: :19: :84: :marx-goth: :bait: :meow-bounce: :stalin-gun-1: :stalin-gun-2: :racism-finished: :guts-rage: :sickomogus: :keikaku: :dont-laugh: :long-corbyn: :emergency-room: :kubrick-stare: :policing-brain: :lady-doge: :sicko-hexbear: :dio-walk: :jotaro-walk: :approaching-1: :approaching-2: :free-real-estate: :corporate-art: :fash-bash: :biggus-dickus: :palestine-strong: :palestine-heart: :stop-posting-amogus: :dennis: :isaac-pog: :gator-bi: :israel-cool: :trans-undertale: :said-lob: :xinternet: :xi-reactionary-spotted: :sicko-biker: :wall-talk: :duck-dance: :libertarian-approaching:
oh god the elon musk one
also :duck-dance: is going to see a lot of use from me
:libertarian-approaching: :maduro-katana-1::coming-to-xi-you:
flip this and it becomes :approaching-1::approaching-2:
Personally I'm ready for :dio-walk: and :jotaro-walk: to replace :bottom-speak: :top-use-words:
:jazz-passion::jazz-ecstacy: really could use their first for a better set up, but this is good to see a wrecker getting bodied.
https://i.imgur.com/63fal.jpg could really go all the way down with this one. up to 4-5 parts
we've tried, but you know how those B*rnie bros are, they started using weird spellings like Bern1e and B3rnie
I wrote a piece about this, you know
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-social-media-pogrom
We're of course willing to tweak this based on feedback as well. It's pretty lax for my posting habits, but we have some pretty powerful posters here
Ok so a few things.
We need to build a culture in the community around promoting and mentioning communities that might be relevant in order to promote them. If there are going to be communities that aren't defaults, we need to promote ways to "discover" them.
People should use some crossposting for this. Make your original post in the non-default comm and then crosspost it to a default.
Good stuff though. Development of the productive forces of Hexbear continues onwards.
Gun and katana.
We've got a good assortment of weapons here I think.
:stalin-heart:
but don't leave off the other wonderful contributors!!
Indeed, lots of people putting good work into this. It's a nice little commune. :ancom-heart:
Close to completion. I don't want to give timelines because another comrade is working on it, but you can track progress on these two prs: https://git.chapo.chat/hexbear-collective/hexbear-frontend/pulls/172 and https://git.chapo.chat/hexbear-collective/lemmy-hexbear/pulls/296.
I'm like 99% sure it was but I can check the diffs. It does need to be removed.
