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API Documentation is important. We're preparing a new developer API website that will replace https://beta-preview.pixelfed.io with updated API endpoints, resources and more! Launching later this month, stay tuned! #pixelfed #pixeldev #pixelfedAPI #developers #developerDocs

Phishing emails are getting better. So are we. The new Pixelfed mobile app lets you verify that an email really came from us. It may seem simple. That's the point. Settings -> Manage Account -> Security -> Emails from Pixelfed Shipping soon! #pixelfed #pixeldev #pixelfedApp #shippingSoon

Blocks on the fediverse have a consistency problem. When a Block or Undo Block gets lost between servers, the two sides quietly disagree about who blocked whom. Sometimes that means a blocked account can still reach you. Our fix, FEP-070c: Block synchronization across servers, is now accepted as a draft. Pixelfed is the first implementation, merged and shipping in our next release. https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/070c/fep-070c.md #pixelfed #pixeldev #activityPub #fediverse

We're putting the finishing touches on our new mobile app. For the Compose screens, we made Alt Text more prominent, and added a rich text autocomplete for mentions and hashtags. We're really proud of how it came together, giving users the visual cue that a username mentioned is valid based on a server side check, similar to banned hashtags really improves the experience. #pixelfed #pixeldev

Super pumped that Expo Sharing now supports intents, you will be able share photos or videos, or multiple to the new app, and compose a new post, or share them to your Story! https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/sharing/ #pixelfed #pixeldev

Just successfully migrated DMs out of the statuses table, into their own. Comments and reblogs are up next, lets slim down that 220M+ row table even more 😅 #pixelfed #pixeldev

Another performance issue fixed, when an admin deletes an account, it would flush the whole public timeline feed, which is expensive to generate again (30s easily), now it uses a more performant cache invalidation method! https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/commit/40fedfca4f35337eec55ceae36d738d0ed1ad787 #pixelfed #pixeldev

Speaking of garbage collection, the statuses table on pixelfed.social is almost 300GB. Soft deletes, plaintext + html caption storage (fixed last year) and inefficient indexes are the main culprit. I'm looking forward to fixing this with minimal downtime 😎 #pixelfed #pixeldev

Garbage Collection is important. The recent Pixelfed performance fix had to do with notifications and a missing index, but also identified another issue, we never deleted old notifications. Pixelfed.social had over 161 million notification records, going back to 2023. So every 6 hours, the task scheduler deletes 100k notifications older than 18 months. #pixelfed #pixeldev

The current Pixelfed webUI is very inefficient, and does not track state, so when you tap on a profile or status, it fetches them again. On top of that, we have expensive middleware to check if your account has a confirmed email, and if you have 2FA enabled and you verified it. For every request. The new webUI caches this data, and only refetches on interactions, significantly reducing load on the server, and I'm working to remove that expensive middleware. Progress! #pixelfed #pixeldev

Current vs New sidebar nav. As I redesign Pixelfed, I will share behind the scenes info, and explain my reasoning. Thanks to https://piaille.fr/@__Styx__/116878108273801317 for suggesting this. The current sidebar puts too much emphasis on the wrong things, instead of having 3 separate feed buttons, we now have one, and you can switch between feeds there. We also didn't prioritize the bookmark and collections features, which we think will play a much bigger role in the future. #pixelfed #pixeldev #ui

I can't explain how much fun I'm having redesigning the Pixelfed webUI from scratch. The last time I updated it was in 2020, using bootstrap 4 and vue 2. Now it's tailwind 4 and vue 3, and I must say, the composition API is wonderful. I've gone through several designs, and finally sat down and built a proper design system the new webUI uses for consistent and beautiful layouts. I want to post a screenshot so bad, but I will focus on shipping this ASAP ✨ #pixelfed #pixeldev

I'm about to ship a @PixelFed update that fixes the broken Personal Access Token feature! Laravel Passport removed this in v13, and I was busy with Loops so I never got around to it, but now I fixed it 🤘 #pixelfed #pixeldev

Back to working on the new Pixelfed mobile app. I know performance is important, and am aggressively caching some endpoints client side, reducing server load and making screens load much faster! #pixelfed #pixeldev

Alright, now back to Pixelfed dev. Currently building a new laravel app to onboard beta testers for the new Pixelfed app! Login with your Pixelfed account and link your Patreon account or verify your kickstarter backer email to get invited to the TestFlight (and later Google Play beta). This ensures we will have room for all supporters, rather than sharing a public testflight url. #pixelfed #pixeldev

When you scroll down, the navbar minimizes to free up space for what matters. One tap and it opens, and expands when you are at the top of the feed! #pixelfed #pixeldev

NativeBase -> Tamagui -> twrnc Tailwind has the best DX, bringing this to react-native has made UI dev so much better. Pixelfed is now on its 3rd major UI rewrite, and I'm borrowing a lot of experience from my twrnc usage on the new Loops app 😎 #reactNative #nativeBase #tamagui #twrnc #pixelfed #pixeldev

When I built the Pixelfed frontend, I thought bootstrap was the only way and wasn't very skilled with javascript. Fast forward to 2026 and I've shipped half a dozen SPA's across the fediverse, including https://joinloops.org https://fedidb.com https://fediverse.info and https://loops.video And 3 react-native mobile apps. Now I am building a whole new Pixelfed frontend from scratch, and I couldn't be happier. It's about time for to shine ✨ #Pixelfed #PixelDev

vite + unplugin-auto-import + vueuse are 🔥 Amazing dev productivity without having to run node in production. Admins can compile the frontend, or use the precompiled assets. After the new frontend is shipped, I'll work on the backend to reduce complexity and make Pixelfed much easier to install 🚀 #PixelDev

I spent the last few hours removing the existing frontend, adding the new scaffolding (partially based on Loops) and creating reusable components based on our new design system to keep everything consistent. Performance has improved noticeably by removing middleware that checked 2FA and valid email on every request, as we now handle that during authentication. Can't wait to ship this ASAP, and for the Loops fam, I'll be back 😎 #Pixelfed #PixelDev