Notices by Rimu (rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 6

Umm. Ok?

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Added full-text search to #PieFed today.

After reading a massive tome about #ElasticSearch earlier this week I realised it was complete overkill and just used the full-text capabilities of #PostgreSQL instead.

Currently PieFed has 46,000 posts and results are fast. It'll be interesting to see how well it copes when there are more posts. Anyone want to make a guess when it'll bog down?

https://piefed.social/post/48889

The way this works is by embedding the post url into the RSS feed entry. The example I gave in the earlier toot uses images but it could be anything, including video or audio.

Podcasts are just RSS feeds with audio files. This means #PieFed is also a federated #PodCast platform - every community is also a podcast, if the things you post in the community are just links to mp3 files.

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#PieFed now has images in RSS feeds. e.g. https://piefed.social/topic/arts-craft.rss

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@youronlyone Give https://piefed.social a try. It federates with Lemmy and Mbin.

@storm @sektor Great!

Yesterday I played around with NVDA and Orca for a few hours and made many tweaks and got the comment tree working.

There is a new heading - "Comments" delineating the end of a post and the start of the comments, which you can jump to.

Also I removed the markdown editor which was disrupting the tab order.

Maybe screen reader support for tree view is not very consistent and headings will turn out better. It seemed ok in NVDA.

@storm Hopefully I can do better than heading levels - comments would benefit from https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Roles/tree_role or possibly https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Attributes/aria-level

@cardhouse https://news.feedseer.com/ does that, for news.

@storm Thanks for that, I'll try NVDA later.

I've made some improvements to https://piefed.social/communities now, I hope they help :)

@storm Ooo, cloudflare was treating community names (e.g. community@instance.com) as email addresses and 'helpfully' obfuscating them. Maybe that threw a spanner in the works.

@storm The table contains links to every community, with the text of the link being the community name. Those links have an aria-label of "View community". Perhaps when there is an aria-label, the text of the link does not get read out? I could be using aria-label wrong.

What's the most commonly used screen reader software? I should try it myself.

#PieFed adds audio posts:

https://piefed.social/post/44964

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@Polynomial_C There were lots of consequences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers#Allegations,_reactions,_and_investigations

@nazgul Yes the float flag is what we used to have. Where the pole goes through the lid, surround the pole with a 12 inch length of pipe slightly wider than the pole.

https://www.tanks-direct.co.uk/visiball-water-level-indicator/p7169

@Baxter I know the location of that photograph, because I've slept in that carpark.

It's here https://www.google.com/maps/place/39%C2%B030'49.1%22S+176%C2%B055'05.4%22E/@-39.5070667,176.9262038,13.96z/data=!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d-39.513626!4d176.918166!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu

It is on the edge of town, about 3km away from where Art Deco tourists go (a 40 minute walk). It's not like they're camping on the beach next to the CBD. 99% of tourists would never see this campground.

@tomiahonen yaaass

@gilduran It is a great book. I made this mind-map after reading it.

#PieFed can now send messages to other people on the same instance as well as people on #Lemmy instances.

The UI layout should be familiar to anyone who has used messenger.com or similar apps.

If your account is less than a week old or if you've been downvoted a lot you won't be able to message anyone.

The usual delete, block & report functions are available.

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@ademir_lemmy_br I don't understand. Is there something I should know?

@oskoo Please try https://piefed.social too :)