Notices by Eugen (gargron@mastodon.social), page 23

New @pixelfed logo looks great

Discourse

New thing on mastodon.social: You can make invite links personal so the person who signs up using the invite automatically follows you

I learned HTML so I could put up an A:TLA fansite on tripod. Then I learned PHP so I could add a forum to it... That's how it started...

I updated the Mastodon Bridge tool, let me know what you think of it: https://bridge.joinmastodon.org/friends

It should work even for people who follow a lot of folks on Twitter now.

Excited but also anxious about my redesign of the Purism website going live relatively soon 👀

This is @DearMsDear's kitty in a less flattering shot

Got approved for a GitLab Ultimate license so that's sorted (although I haven't received it yet)

Just realized the weight of moving the primary location of our source code given the number of links to it out there

And the whole forks ecosystem

And the way commit messages refer to GitHub issue numbers

Oof

you: installing mastodon is hard
gitlab: hold my beer

I wonder how importing issues from GitHub to GitLab works? Like it can't create people's accounts on their behalf, can it?

Upcoming version of Mastodon (2.4.1) will have a delete & redraft function.

RIP

I see some kinda discourse is still going and people are eager to misinterpret anything i say, but the feature got taken out before it got into any production release and could actually harm anyone.

And I'm frustrated because i think it could have done a lot of good too and there were ways to make it work that were not heard.

Trending hashtags legit had risks of abuse. But they're only a lens over toots that are already in the FTL, over which plenty of mod tools are available, and you could even make pre-screening necessary for trending. Instead the discussion became about how nobody really wants this feature and I'm just "pulling off wings from insects for fun".

Look y'all here because I built Mastodon the way I wanted and you happened to like it. If you no longer like it that's your own business, don't give me shit about your failed expectations. There's the door, there's the code, there's the alternatives. The shit I've received today just because I was open to something that a part of the community wanted is completely inacceptable.

I have things I want to say but cannot because I have to be d̯̙i̯͕̜̫̖ͅp̢͔̻̩̰̥l̤̝ͅo͕͙̗m͈a̸̩̰t̖͞i̺̺̯ͅc͈̫͈

It's odd, to say the least, to see people claim I'm refusing to put emotional labour into community management when I just spent a night awake up to 6am answering & discussing user concerns about the trending hashtags feature.

It's odd, to say the least, to hear that the feature is a testament to how I ignore community feedback when the only reason I've implemented it is because it's been continuously requested by community members since November 2016.

That just seems manipulative.

#pixelfed is trending and it's deserved cc @dansup

#bark