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   Tadano (tadano@mt.watamelon.win)'s status on Monday, 20-May-2024 09:29:45 JST Tadano

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   • silverpill

   Now that I have used Mitra for a bit, I think I can comment on it a bit

   WOT I LIKE:
   >stupidly lightweight, barely uses RAM/CPU resources, see pics related from boot and longer uptime
   >greentext by default
   >restarting is quick
   >default UI is nice, no bullshit and loads quickly, hovering over emojis zooms in on them
   >mitractl is a really nice CLI tool
   >install + maintenance is piss easy, especially on Debian courtesy of the .deb packages
   >dev isn't retarded, is in fact polite and responds very quickly to inquiries (see: doing a quick release to add deleting accounts in the web UI when @splitshockvirus brought it up)

   WOT I DON'T LIKE:
   >no emoji reacts, even husky seems to filter out notifications for them
   >no emoji autocomplete
   >replies in threads kind of janky (I know dev is working on it)
   >federation seems kinda janky, making the relay account for it is a cool solution but I don't know how to follow dedicated relays on it (e.g. https://relay.fedi.agency/actor). Also find that federation is slow but I can't really quantify it in any useful way
   >no quote posts (not terribly salted peanuts about this but mite be cool to see)
   >no markdown options for posts
   >kinda wish there was a web UI for administrative stuff
   >wish default UI was more customizable (e.g. like how you can change the background, logos, front-page, etc. on Pleromer) I could be full of shit assuming you could just muck with the assets directly for results

   Overall I really like it and if emoji reacts + autocomplete were implemented along with the replies I'd definitely make this my main instance software. Looking forward to seeing where this goes

   CC: @silverpill

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2024 02:04:53 JST silverpill

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     Thank you for a detailed report @tadano !

     Yes, docs and missing features will be gradually added over time, I agree that reactions, emoji autocomplete and admin UI are very nice to have.

     I have a couple of questions/comments:

     >no emoji reacts, even husky seems to filter out notifications for them

     The default Mitra frontend should notify about incoming emoji reacts. Are you saying that these notifs are not displayed in Husky?

     >replies in threads kind of janky (I know dev is working on it)

     Could you elaborate? They seem to be working fine on my instance.

     >no quote posts (not terribly salted peanuts about this but mite be cool to see)

     You can make a quote post from a thread. Open the post menu and select "Repost with comment". It is also possible to add a quote to a post using the special wiki-like syntax: [[activitypub_id]] (see the doc).

     >no markdown options for posts

     A subset of markdown is already supported. Do you need some markdown feature that is not currently supported (e.g. headings)?

     >wish default UI was more customizable (e.g. like how you can change the background, logos, front-page, etc. on Pleromer) I could be full of shit assuming you could just muck with the assets directly for results

     Currently it's a bit complicated because you will need to re-build the frontend: https://codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra-web#customization
     I want to improve that though.

     @splitshockvirus @Tadano

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     Tadano (tadano@mt.watamelon.win)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2024 02:04:54 JST Tadano

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     @silverpill @splitshockvirus In addition, documentation is not as extensive as Pleroma but I find this problem is very quickly being solved (see: install guide on buck.al, federation guide just done). And the docs available are bretty gud.

     Also like the frequent releases :watameloncool3d:

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2024 23:43:01 JST silverpill

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     @tadano @splitshockvirus @Tadano

     >Take pic related, the same user favourited and emoji reacted to OP yet I only received a notif for the favourite/like. Am I interpreting it incorrectly or did I misconfigure something?

     Perhaps something is wrong with this particular emoji? Mitra has a size limit for emojis and may also discard certain file types. Could you ask that user to send the same emoji react to one of my comments?

     >I should have specified this as a Husky-specific issue, I notice that replies I see never indicate who's being replied to. This isn't a problem on the default web UI, thankfully.

     I don't know why this might be happening. If you have a GitHub account, consider reporting it to Husky dev https://github.com/captainepoch/husky/issues

     >IMO being able to change the site logo from web and modifying the CSS, frontpage layout and about page would be very nice. If not from web, from the server without having to rebuild.

     Server-side CSS modifications shouldn't be difficult to implement. I'll think about it.

     >Addendum: In your opinion, how complicated would emoji reacts + autocomplete be to implement? I looked in the codeberg and didn't see any issues or anything related to it.
     >t. Layman when it comes to Rust/JS programming

     Autocomplete is easy, it is a 100% frontend job. Mitra UI already supports mention auto-suggestions which are similar.
     Emoji reactions are much more complicated, they require both backend (+federation) work and frontend work (+UI design).

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     Tadano (tadano@mt.watamelon.win)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2024 23:43:04 JST Tadano

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     @silverpill @Tadano @splitshockvirus
     >The default Mitra frontend should notify about incoming emoji reacts. Are you saying that these notifs are not displayed in Husky?
     I don't see them displayed in Husky nor the default web UI. In the former, I just get blank notifs as seen in my screenshot. On the web UI I don't get a notification at all. Take pic related, the same user favourited and emoji reacted to OP yet I only received a notif for the favourite/like. Am I interpreting it incorrectly or did I misconfigure something?

     >Could you elaborate? They seem to be working fine on my instance.
     I should have specified this as a Husky-specific issue, I notice that replies I see never indicate who's being replied to. This isn't a problem on the default web UI, thankfully.

     >You can make a quote post from a thread. Open the post menu and select "Repost with comment". It is also possible to add a quote to a post using the special wiki-like syntax: [[activitypub_id]] (see the doc).
     I should have RTFM'd better kek, thanks for the link :watamelonuoh:

     >A subset of markdown is already supported. Do you need some markdown feature that is not currently supported (e.g. headings)?
     Didn't know! Again, mea culpa for not RTFM-ing. Headings would be very nice to have, however.

     >Currently it's a bit complicated because you will need to re-build the frontend: https://codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra-web#customization
     >I want to improve that though.
     Thanks for linking, and glad to hear. IMO being able to change the site logo from web and modifying the CSS, frontpage layout and about page would be very nice. If not from web, from the server without having to rebuild.

     Thanks again for the response! :mintpray:

     Addendum: In your opinion, how complicated would emoji reacts + autocomplete be to implement? I looked in the codeberg and didn't see any issues or anything related to it.
     t. Layman when it comes to Rust/JS programming

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2024 23:50:29 JST silverpill

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     @tadano @Tadano The limit is 50 emojis per post, which seems to be a sane number (it exists to protect server from being overloaded).

     I'll add a mitractl command for importing emojis from other servers in the next release.

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     Tadano (tadano@mt.watamelon.win)'s status on Tuesday, 21-May-2024 23:50:31 JST Tadano

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     @Tadano @silverpill @splitshockvirus oh and one last thing why are half the emotes I sent in this DM to myself not federating

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 00:52:46 JST silverpill

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     @tadano @Tadano Nope, that limit is hard-coded. But the next release is almost ready, give it a day or two.

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     Tadano (tadano@mt.watamelon.win)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 00:52:49 JST Tadano

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     @silverpill @Tadano Good to hear! In the meantime, is there an option to increase the emoji limit? :murau:

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 04:00:30 JST silverpill

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     @tadano @Tadano

     >In that case how tricky is the federation work on the backend? As for the frontend, IMO just copying Pleroma's UI design for emoji reacts (emoji react button that leads to picker with search + emoji reacts shown just above buttons) but I don't know how painful that is to implement.

     Sure, I'll probably make something similar to Misskey and Pleroma. But it's a non trivial task, can't tell how much time it will take.

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     Tadano (tadano@mt.watamelon.win)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 04:00:32 JST Tadano

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     @silverpill @Tadano @splitshockvirus
     >Perhaps something is wrong with this particular emoji? Mitra has a size limit for emojis and may also discard certain file types. Could you ask that user to send the same emoji react to one of my comments?
     Oi @bleedingphoenix hit this man with your finest Holo emoji react :watamelongun:

     >I don't know why this might be happening. If you have a GitHub account, consider reporting it to Husky dev https://github.com/captainepoch/husky/issues
     Done :eimithumbsup: https://github.com/captainepoch/husky/issues/75

     >Server-side CSS modifications shouldn't be difficult to implement. I'll think about it.
     :mintpray:

     >Autocomplete is easy, it is a 100% frontend job. Mitra UI already supports mention auto-suggestions which are similar.
     >Emoji reactions are much more complicated, they require both backend (+federation) work and frontend work (+UI design).
     In that case how tricky is the federation work on the backend? As for the frontend, IMO just copying Pleroma's UI design for emoji reacts (emoji react button that leads to picker with search + emoji reacts shown just above buttons) but I don't know how painful that is to implement.

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Wednesday, 22-May-2024 07:09:09 JST silverpill

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     @Tadano @tadano

     2.19.0 has been released. Now you can do:

     mitractl add-emoji emojiname https://pleroma.social/path/to/emoji.png
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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 21:39:14 JST silverpill

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     @Tadano @tadano In v2.20.0 I added lists of emoji reactions to post, in Pleroma format. If Husky can display emoji reactions, maybe it will do that with Mitra now.

     Also changed the notification format, although it is still not fully compatible with Pleroma. Give it a try too.

     Do you know any other clients that support emoji reactions?

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 23:28:23 JST silverpill

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     @tadano @Tadano Old notifs should display properly too, but I am not surprised they are still blank, because the API is not 100% Pleroma compatible yet. I'll finish this job in the next release.

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     Tadano (tadano@mt.watamelon.win)'s status on Tuesday, 28-May-2024 23:28:27 JST Tadano

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     @silverpill @Tadano Good news, emoji reacts are visible! Aside from Husky I don't know of any other Android clients that support it unfortunately. Also the old notifs that came in are still blank but I'm sure new ones will display properly. :watameloncool3d:

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jun-2024 01:47:13 JST silverpill

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     @Tadano @tadano 2.21.0 is out, notifications in Husky should work. Outgoing emoji reacts should work as well (only in Husky, not in mitra-web).

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 07:01:24 JST silverpill

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     @tadano @Tadano

     >Done https://github.com/captainepoch/husky/issues/75

     I attempted to fix the problem with replies in v2.25.0