Hello all :smile:
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.
- Actual handling (not just pretend ✨) of content from Ghost :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:
Theres improvement, more in my World now on the tags Im following, but posts say by 'Guest'. When Im looking at the same thing from Lemmy there is more detail?
Edit these posts were ones that arrived before the upgrade to v4.2
@eeeee are you running v4.2.0? I wasn't seeing that here, so I assumed it was a regression that was fixed.
@julian Yes the World posts with no details came in before upgrade to v4.2, looks like its fixed :)
However when I click on a Lemmy group Im following, I still see 'no posts' How do I follow a groups posts?
Edit: The problem may be on Lemmy side. I have notifications that dont go well from Lemmy to anywhere else. As mentioned before I have found Lemmy frustrating as it is good for searching and finding things, but so far its been unreliable in federating out to other places. Another annoyance is I followed myself on Lemmy from here but it only says 'cancel follow request' not 'following'. But I never got an option to accept follow request on Lemmy side.
@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 :laughing: