Notices by Eugen (gargron@mastodon.social), page 10

It is my birthday

Next release of Mastodon will allow admins to post important announcements to their users, and yes, those are reactions

#mastodev

To other Mastodon sysadmins: Check what pg_repack can do for you, especially if your server has been around for a really long time. PostgreSQL indexes get bloated over time and VACUUM does nothing about it. pg_repack can re-build indexes without downtime.

Published a #Patreon update about #Mastodon 3.0

https://www.patreon.com/posts/mastodon-3-0-30877380

I've made the language list on joinmastodon.org update for every category you select and only show languages with servers in them along with a count of how many

#Mastodon v3.0.1 is out:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.0.1

Bugfixes!

I’m aware image uploads are still broken. There is nothing i can do right now, unfortunately, as it is due to our service provider (Wasabi). Sorry for the inconvenience. I intend to change the service provider as soon as possible and have made preparations for it.

Help translate #Mastodon into your language here:

https://crowdin.com/project/mastodon

The 3.0 release is coming really soon now so there isn't much time left but I will definitely import the latest translations right before.

#i18n

We 3.0.0rc2 out here

When you're scrolled down, new items at the top are now hidden behind "x new items" (regardless of "slow mode" setting). The benefit is less scrolling glitches.

#mastodev

For whatever reason Chrome 78 (Canary) decided to make all placeholder text dark, despite `color: #fff` on the inputs

What the fuck, Google

@thegibson No, thanks

As requested, I added Norwegian Nynorsk and Breton to Mastodon's locales:

https://crowdin.com/project/mastodon

#mastodev #i18n

My dream for Mastodon is for it to be a viable choice as a publishing platform for any creator. In other words, for people to not feel like they're locked in to Twitter or Instagram if they want to be professionally successful.

It's missing a play button, but is there something to this approach..? #mastodev

I can never remember the order of the arguments to the `alias` method in Ruby ?

Nginx is pronounced:

mastodon.social is updated to latest master! New user-facing things:

You can load more search results, you can use "phrase match" in search and exclude words or phrases by prepending a minus; new users see a minimal UI and are able to change their e-mail before confirming e-mail/getting approved; autosuggestions for hashtags show up and show how much each tag has been used in the past week; probably other stuff I forgot

Other: mastodon.social is also now no longer compatible with OStatus

The reason Mastodon doesn't keep original uploaded files but rather converts them to more space-efficient formats/dimensions is that storage is not cheap for the average server owner, and we try to reduce the pressure on them as much as possible.

We could think about keeping high-fidelity originals if an upload quota feature was added (configurable max. disk space per user). This is non-binding poll to see if that's a direction worth pursuing.

#mastodev

Yeah I'm not sure about that takeaway, Vice. The biggest node on the Mastodon network is actually my ass