NodeBB 4.2.0

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

Hello all

Today we’re releasing NodeBB v4.2.0. Most of the changes pertain to minor updates to our existing ActivityPub integration.

• Categories can now follow regular users
  • v4 launched with the ability for NodeBB to synchronize categories with other “group” type remote accounts. While it was possible to follow regular users, their content did not properly load into the category. This has now been fixed.
• Better integration with Ghost
• Added button to view original profile of remote users
• Better handling of content for remote chat messages (non-public notes)
• Forking and moving posts between topics now announced by the category
• Separate chat message length cutoff for remote messages
• Improved link handling on remote content
• Categories now have a handle in the description; added an additional setting for a remote-only addendum for local categories

The “View Original” button for user profiles is located in the sidebar of any remote user profile:

[mario@hub.somaton.com]

Congratulations!

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

@mario@hub.somaton.com I have yet to test Hubzilla updates with the payload example you sent. I have not forgotten! The topic is sitting unread in my NodeBB inbox for over a week now

[mario@hub.somaton.com]

@julian no worries...

[kichae@community.nodebb.org]

@julian said in NodeBB 4.2.0:
> added an additional setting for a remote-only addendum for local categories

A request I meant to raise several times, that I never seemed to remember to do. Amazing!

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

@Kichae you can thank @panos@catodon.social for that one! ️

[2tonwaffle@community.nodebb.org]

Is “Better integration with Ghost ” using the comments plugin for Ghost? Just wondering more about this.

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

@2TonWaffle ah, nah, it means that prior to this release, posts from Ghost didn’t come in properly and were dropped. Now they work:

e.g. https://community.nodebb.org/post/https%3A%2F%2Factivitypub.ghost.org%2F.ghost%2Factivitypub%2Farticle%2Ffa21e00d-d112-4d79-b6c6-932134d57f30

[eeeee@community.nodebb.org]

Theres improvement, more in my World now on the tags Im following, but these posts all say by ‘Guest’.
When Im looking at the same thing from Lemmy there is more detail?
Are some of the fields not being picked up?

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

@eeeee are you running v4.2.0?

[Gæst]

Wow, wild! It’s been incredible seeing how quickly NodeBB has been getting updates. You’re hard to keep up with!

[eeeee@community.nodebb.org]

@julian I have upgraded to v4.2, but the world posts with no details came in before upgrade. I will keep eye on that as it could be fixed when something new comes in

[cwsmith@community.nodebb.org]

@julian

What is the process to follow a federated account?

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

@CWSmith You can search for a user either via the search bar or in the /users page. Just paste in their handle (e.g. @julian@community.nodebb.org.) The follow button is then in their profile much like following a local user on NodeBB.

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

@eeeee if you have successfully followed the Lemmy community, then any new topics they share will be shown in the “Shares” page of their profile.

It’s less-than-ideal, so I am refactoring that entire system now so that you will be able to “browse” that community like a regular NodeBB category.

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/13255

As for the follow issue, try cancelling the follow, waiting perhaps a minute, and then following again, then wait a minute, and then refresh the page

[Gæst]

@julian said in NodeBB 4.2.0:
> Added button to view original profile of remote users

Could this button be made to open the original profile in a new tab?

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Actually, it occurs to me that the “View Original Post” behaves the same. I’d much rather all “view original …” buttons opened the remote content in a new tab.

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

@AltCode you can middle click it

[Gæst]

@julian Can’t middle-click with MacBook’s trackpad

But I could cmd-click it for the same effect, yes (and I already do that); it’s just I’d rather it opened in a new tab by default.

That how any other external link is treated after all, e.g. example.com <- clicking that opens in a new tab by default.

[julian@community.nodebb.org]

@AltCode ackchyually… it opens in the same tab for me.

… because there’s a user setting for it I’ll update it to respect that user setting.