Happy New Year Friendica!

On this new year celebration, I'd like to tout our own horn here at #Friendica and reflect on the impressive amount of work that went into improving the software on all fronts.

This year, we:

• Added support for Unicode emojis 🎉.
• Added https://joinmastodon.org to the long list of protocols/networks we support 🐘.
• Moved and improved the main directory at https://dir.friendica.social 📇.
• Improved or added Russian, Italian, British, Portuguese, Spanish, German and Chinese translations 🇺🇳.
• Defined coding standards for the project and made numerous files compliant.
• Added Composer support and moved some third-party libraries to the vendor/ folder and some global includes to the src/ folder where they are now auto-loaded.
• Added several missing API calls to further integration with https://github.com/TwidereProject/.
• Completely overhauled the background processes.
• Started using prepared statements instead of explicit parameter escaping.

And this on top of all the usual bug fixes and various improvements we regularly come up with.

Thanks @Friendica Developers, and here's to a new year of happy coding! 🎉