We've upgraded takahe.social to our new UI design! You can see an example of the project profile at ://takahe.social/@takahe@jointaka - and there's even a working full text search for a profile's posts now.
This release will come out soon as 0.9 once we've done a bit more polishing and bugfixing - you can read ://aeracode.org/2023/04/29/refact by @andrew for more on the new direction!
Takahē 0.11 is out!
As we say goodbye to Python 3.10, we'd like to welcome @astraluma as our new developer! She will be jumping in to help a lot with the day-to-day operations, so Andrew can get some breathing room.
Other than that, it's just a big pile of bug fixes and minor improvements.
@lutindiscret Yup, the URL parsing fix is being worked on, our linkifier was being a bit too aggressive.
The reply was actually unlisted locally, it just didn't transport into the AP representation properly. That should also be fixed soon.
@lutindiscret@mastodon.libre-entreprise.com There is a "mentioned only" mode, yes - we don't call it Direct Messages as that implies more security than there is in the protocol.
(It's not in the client API yet, just on the web UI)
Takahē 0.6 is now almost ready for release, with a lot of new features including emoji support, client API support, reporting and a moderation queue.
We're going to bake it for a few days here on takahe.social - if you'd like an invite, we're now giving some out if you read through https://jointakahe.org/takahesocial/ and follow the instructions in there!
@magnus919 We have arm64 Docker images pre-built, but obviously that requires a Pi 4 in 64-bit mode!
Progress is going well towards the next release! We're particularly excited about custom emoji 
@douwe It's likely that your link preview card is a 404 while the actual link works in the post - we had an issue with our docs site that presented the wrong absolute URL. It's fixed now, but Mastodon caches the wrong one forever, sadly.
I almost missed it, but @takahe is now officially a whole month old. How time has flown!
(And also wow, did I write a lot of code that mostly seems decent)
@paulm @michaelcoyote @aurynn The Mastodon Client API is possible to implement as non-Mastodon - GoToSocial have got a decent way there, and we plan to start on it next week.
@bitprophet @PaulM @glyph It's fine, we only learned how to even parse reply threads last week!
On topic - deduplicating boosts is something that's on the roadmap Quite Soon and is not very hard to do, since we already dedupe posts internally. Arbitrary programmable post hooks are something best left for a plugin system, though!
We've released Takahē version 0.5! https://docs.jointakahe.org/en/latest/releases/0.5/
Image posting and hashtags are the headline improvements this time around, but there's plenty of smaller fixes. We're going to spend the next few weeks focusing on stability and community-required features, so people can start using it with more trust!
As a celebration of image posting (mostly) working, here is a takahē, the bird we named the project after!
They were once thought extinct, but are now part of a successful recovery programme that's slowly increasing their numbers (which you can donate to at https://nznaturefund.org/projects/takahe-recovery-programme/ if you like!)
@anentropic ActivityPub is involved enough that it's hard to "just be a library" - you have to modify how the website runs. Given that, we're aiming for standalone/all-in-one for now.
See this Wagtail issue for a breakdown: https://github.com/wagtail/wagtail/issues/9722
@literally We figured out that it was a problem with Sphinx and rel=canonical - it's fixed now, but Mastodon pulls link previews when it gets the post so it'll have cached wrongly.
@paulox Interesting - it's correct in our database and on Andrew's personal Mastodon server. Not quite sure what's going on here.
@paulox That is the link in the post on our end - what link do you see? (This might be a bug we need to fix!)
Takahē 0.4 is released!
You can see full details on https://docs.jointakahe.org/en/latest/releases/0.4/, but the highlights this time are post editing, deletion, replies, and the start of our moderation systems, with defederation.
Onwards! Towards... image uploading?
After a rapid three weeks of development, it's the first official release! https://aeracode.org/2022/11/24/takahe-030/
This is a mark that we've reached the "alpha" feature set, so it's nowhere near complete, but what's there mostly works.
We now have a Discord server! If you'd like to chat, please come over to https://discord.gg/qvQ39tAMvf
*tap* *tap* Is this thing on? Hello? Hello!
It only made sense to host an "official" account for Takahē on itself; let's hope it's stable enough to make that work out.