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 V0.3.1

V0.3.1 is a smaller update. The main benefit of this update is the introduction of a new feature, multiple image posts.

A special thanks to @awesomelowlander@quokk.au for their help bug-hunting

Multi-Image Posts

These posts allows users on PyLova instances to share threads with more than one image, a feature I've personally much needed for my communities. You can drag and drop the order of images around on the upload page.

For non-PyLova instances they will unfortunately only see the 'cover' image, that is the one ordered first in the list. With v0.3.2 I will aim at ensuring it is compatible with Mastodon and Sharkey instances which allow for multi-image posts. I will also look at potentially displaying these as images inside the post body for Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed. Ideally in the future we can work to seeing this feature more readily supported across the Threadiverse, and I would love to work with devs on other projects to see this goal realised.

For Admins

• New Users would be subjected to a 7 day waiting period on PieFed, which severely limited their ability to post/comment/msg. There is now a toggle in the users profile that admins can set to 'verify' a user and remove this restriction from them - it can also be re-set on older accounts.

Bug-Fixes

• If you went to the page of an undiscovered user, i.e. quokk.au/u/randomaccount@anarchist.nexus it would return 'not found' on a blank page. Now it actually fetches the user (if they exist) and shows you their profile.
• Visiting a community url ending with a / (i.e. quokk.au/c/news/ instead of quokk.au/c/news) would render a blank 'not found' page, the page is now correctly found.
• If you discovered and joined a new community, all comment replies would be dated from the date of discovery (i.e. seconds ago). They now correctly match the actual date they were posted.
• When choosing to share a new community via !newcommunities@lemmy.world, the post would default to having notifications turned off. This has now been changed and you will be informed when users comment in the thread about your new community.

Nice work Mia! Love seeing how PyLova is growing with each update

I looked at your post from mastodon and it shows all the images so it’s working there as well

Shouldn't pylova appear here? would be interesting to see if it is gaining momentum .

For now PyLova still 'identifies' as PieFed, as PieFed is coded to only accept certain features from other 'PieFed' listed instances. So if I change it over to PyLova, it would lose all compatibility with other PF instances for things like polls or events. In the future as the project grows and diverges more, I'll look into making the fork harder.

Well done!