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PyLova (Python+Pavlova) is a soft fork of PieFed, aimed at improving the user experience through UI overhauls, empowering users and admins with agency, improved administration and moderation functions, and general bug fixing.

New in V0.3.0

For Users

  • New ‘Look & Feel’ tab in settings, for customising your user experience.
  • In comment video uploading and posting (counts towards files quota).
  • Updated ‘Files’ page, allowing mass deletion of uploaded media.

For Moderators

  • Can set default tags for communities, that auto-fill into new posts on community. Enabling greater discover-ability across the Fediverse.

For Admins

  • New ‘Look & Feel’ tab in settings, to help with managing the visual style of your instance.
  • Ability to view a users deleted posts and downvotes alongside their upvotes.
  • New ‘Rules’ sidebar panel to display instance rules.

And More

  • Themes can support sub-colour schemes.
  • New User setup page is condensed into one, offering options for setting pronouns and bio.
  • Alt text (aria label) for video uploads.
  • Consistent markdown editor.
  • Musk/Trump filter reworked to a ‘low politics’ filter.
  • Hard-coded musk/trump filter removed for users who are not signed in.
  • Thanks to @Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au, Lichess boards are supported to display.
  • Updated documentation by @quill7513@anarchist.nexus.
  • Updated docker example by @tenchiken@anarchist.nexus.
  • Visual changes to posts, tags displayed under title and titles now serve as hyperlink.
  • Fix with API, images posts no longer upload against image quota and send as image type posts enabling to display correctly on Lemmy.
  • Collapse-able sidebar cards.
  • Sorting (hot/new/local/all) is managed by drop-downs to maintain consistency.
  • Removal of ‘Rational Discourse’ sidebar.
  • Minor fixes & changes.
  • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Impressive!

    I did get excited thinking that it might show downvotes, but now I see that’s only for admins.

    Do you plan to expose downvotes received on each post/comment to the user? I’ve been through every single theme and setting on PieFed.social and could never find a way to display those - although I don’t know whether other PieFed instances can already do differently or not (they definitely don’t show by default in places like PieFed.zip).

    Fwiw I think people would be very happy to see their downvotes separately from upvotes, since e.g. +10/-9 is quite a bit different scenario than simply =1 overall (controversial vs. total lack of engagement). Technically this is already possible but the tooltip display is exceedingly janky and does not work at all a good fraction of the time, when when zoomed in like 10x (which helps at least sometimes).

    Anyway it’s always neat to see a “new project”, even if as a fork this is only kind-of half of one, it still counts in terms of offering new opportunities to users, which is always a good thing.