MintyWyvern

MintyWyvern

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cohost patch notes vol. 79

hey again! we took a week off from patch notes while colin was recovering from covid (third time’s the charm) but we’re back this week!

many of you will be celebrating your 1st full year on the site within the next few weeks! about this time last year, elon closed his deal to buy twitter and immediately started making things worse, leading to the first mass exodus of users from the platform. tens of thousands of you ended up here, and we’re glad to have you around. thanks for sticking with us!

here’s what’s new:

  • the new following view is now available to everyone! you can find it in the menu.
  • we’ve added a dedicated place in the settings to manage pages you have blocked or silenced, instead of requiring you to remember who those pages are and then go to their profile.
    • we also made it slightly easier to get to your per-page settings.
  • we’ve improved the performance of tag search and autocomplete; most of the performance improvement was from internal improvements, but we’ve also changed the behavior of the tag search to count the query “the” as too short to return results for.
    • some significant fraction of all the tags on the site contain this substring, and ranking them all is really slow.
  • we fixed an issue where unactivated accounts were able to send people asks as normal; now, unactivated accounts are treated as logged out for the purposes of sending asks — they can only send asks to users who allow logged-out asks.
  • we’ve fixed a few small bugs discovered in the new following view:
    • posts with headlines are now properly summarized to the headline if it’s present;
    • we fixed an issue where if you had your default view set to the following view, paging through the dashboard view was broken.

on the tipping front, we’ll be sharing our launch plans soon. there’s going to be some limitations at first so that we can start making improvements off of a smaller base, and we want to be fully clear and up front about what those limitations are and why. limiting scope is necessary for us to get this out the door in any capacity (we had to do the same thing with cohost; the cost of having a small team).

that’s all for this week! thanks, as always, for using cohost!

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dsy
@dsy

posts with headlines are now properly summarized to the headline if it’s present;

yayyyyyy!! i wondered if this was originally by design or not, but it's a big improvement for sure, thank you! thanks for making cohost!! :eggbug:

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oddmerit
@oddmerit

FUCK yeah blocked/silenced page options, AND with page notes?? huge W, thanks staff :yeah:

on a different note, i'm glad that there's launch plans for tipping, since a lot of people are probably interested in how the long-term financials for this site will be. that being said, i'm disappointed that it's taken this long for the next financial update to come out, especially because it's been months of "it's coming out this/next week!". i know shit happens and that you're working on a contigency plan in training aiden to write them so it's not just on jae, which is good, but it's frustrating how sporadic they've become. i know you all probably want them out too, it's probably stressful to have that on your to-do list. i'm hoping that tipping is the main bottleneck here and that once that's out, we can get financial updates in a timely manner again. i hope i don't sound too pushy or rude, it's just been on my mind a lot the past few weeks.

once again, thanks for making cohost!

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itsnero
@itsnero

Thanks for making cohost!!

Out of curiosity, is there any vague idea as to when the API is going to be public? I’m chomping at the bit to be able to integrate cohost into my website crossposter (not that I don’t love being on cohost, I just forget shit easily when posting to a lot of sites).

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rax
@rax

I'm sure I am missing something super obvious, but can someone help me with what "the menu" is? I'd really like to try the new following view, but I can't find it. I didn't see it in settings, it's not in the upper right hand pull down, and I don't really see anything else... menu... shaped? Thanks!

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rax
@rax

Immediately after posting this, I found it. For the record, my experience was this:

  1. Spend ten minutes trying to find "the menu" in a bunch of hidden places.
  2. Give up and decide to ask for help.
  3. Try clicking "Following" on the left pane in case I just need to reload or something.
  4. Realize that that left pane is "the menu," which makes a lot of sense in retrospect, and that once again I have solved a problem by asking for help.
    I hope this at least amuses someone. :P
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