Until now, development has proceeded pretty loosely - we work on whatever seems cool at the time. This is fine but if we collaborate on a decision about priorities then perhaps we’ll all be pulling in the same direction a bit more often. If the decision is made in public with all stakeholders, perhaps we’ll get some buy-in.

Let’s try this: each of us pick up to 5 issues from the issue queue that are important and up to 5 issues that are urgent. If an issue is both important and urgent, include it in both lists - these are the issues we really want to highlight.

After a few days we’ll collate the results and try to find issues that most people think are both important and urgent.

This process is open to anyone who regularly uses PieFed.

  • Andrew@piefed.social
    2·
    7 months ago

    I’ll come back to this later, but for now:

    • Federating from local communities #4. You have this as #22, but I’ve never seen any problem with signatures. I’m subscribed to /c/playground from a server that just dumps out activity into a file, without even checking the signature, so I’d say it’s a problem of not being sent at all (I see the activity from local users, but not from remote users). I’ve had success in test environments for this, but not piefed.social.
    • Improving error messages #24. More get_requests should be surrounded by ‘try … except’, so it doesn’t crash / say ‘oops, something has gone wrong’ if, for example, you enter an unresolvable domain in that form.
    • Subscribe to anything #20 is something people want.
    • Mitigate impersonation attempts (related to #52). Piefed doesn’t currently check that the domain in the id and the actor’s domain match. See this post, where the ‘original on lemmon.website’ points to a bbc news article. Technically, communities can announce anything - we can check that it is the community actually sending it, but not whether what it announces actually happened. Matching domains helps, so users can verify for themselves.

    I need to investigate setting up piefed in production, partly because I keep blowing through my ngrok quota, but mostly because many of the Issues on codeberg don’t become apparent or relevant in testing.

    I agree with you that getting the fundamentals right for what is currently here is way more important than trying to change it into something else (i.e. do a few things well, rather than lots of things badly)

    • Rimu@piefed.socialOPM
      1·
      7 months ago

      If you need any help getting it all set up, let me know.

      Hetzner has cheap VPS , especially their Shared ARM ones - € 3.79 per month. 1 or 2 cores is fine for a single user instance. Piefed.social was using only 2 Arm cores until very recently.