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!
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 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.
