Have a nice #snac experience!

Added support for scheduled posts (for this to work correctly, users will have to set their time zone, see below).

The user can now select a working time zone. This will be used to correctly parse the local date and time of a scheduled post.

Fixed incorrect poll vote format, which was causing problems in platforms like GotoSocial.

Mastodon API: added support for /api/v1/instance/peers.

Added a new snac-admin helper script (contributed by shtrophic).

In the web UI, posts are separated by the <hr hidden> tag; it's invisible in graphical browsers, but it separates post clearly in text-based browsers.

Some Finnish, Spanish, Czech and Russian translation updates and fixes.

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This release has been inspired by the song Pictures on the Wall by #MichelleGurevich.

After reading the questions you ask, I don't think #snac will meet your needs. One by one:

• If A blocks B, B will still see A's posts, unless A's account is private.
• Reporting is not possible (yet).
• There is no way to create a local-only post.
• There is a local instance timeline.
• There is no federated timeline.
• There are no moderation tools. The admin can delete a rogue user, that's all.
• There is no character limit for posts; you can paste Tolstoi's War and Piece in a post, if you like (not that I encourage that).
• Full instances can be blocked (from the command-line, as it's an admin option).

So, I'm sorry.

CC: @alderwick@merveilles.town @oppen@merveilles.town @zoy@merveilles.town

So, please everyone, don't use #snac on an sshfs mount.

CC: @giacomo@snac.tesio.it @khm@hj.9fs.net @Velveteen@labyrinth.zone

CC: @giacomo@snac.tesio.it @khm@hj.9fs.net @Velveteen@labyrinth.zone

You can also increase the logging level to 2, it may tell something more.

CC: @stefano@bsd.cafe

CC: @ploum@mamot.fr

I'll take a look at your patch. Thanks!

Added Spanish (default, Argentina and Uruguay) translation (contributed by gnemmi).

Added Czech translation (contributed by pmjv).

Added Brazilian Portuguese translation (contributed by daltux).

Added Finnish translation (contributed by inz).

Added French translation (contributed by Popolon).

Added Russian translation (contributed by sn4il).

Added Chinese translation (contributed by mistivia).

Added German translation (contributed by zen and Menel).

Added Greek translation (contributed by uhuru).

Added Italian translation (contributed by anzu).

Mastodon API: added support for /api/v1/custom_emojis (contributed by violette).

Improved Undo+Follow logic (contributed by rozenglass).

Reverted (temporarily) the Markdown code that converted text between underscores to italics, because it was causing more problems that what it was worth.

Fixed bug in bookmark CSV import.

Don't indent Twitter-like "threads" (i.e. chains of short posts from the same author that are self-replies).

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You're welcome!

I've performed some tests, and it's great. #snac and #haproxy are working great together - now with caching of media and json responses, to scale up, and up, and up...and up!
#Varnish is the best tool for caching, but the setup I've tested doesn't require it and it's still good enough.
I think this will be a blog post, as soon as I'll have enough time.

#snac2 #Fediverse #IT #SysAdmin

I have it in my name field in #mastodon at nerdculture.de so it can definitely work in mastodon.if it is added at all. https://nerdculture.de/@menel

But it doesn't work with my current main profile with #snac but I love that I can add custom emojis there at all.

You, people, are GREAT. Thank you very much.

#snac #snac2

Thank you so much for this!! #snac

Release Notes
2.73
New user support for blocking hashtags from the web UI.

With this release, Ivory now UNOFFICIALLY supports additional fediverse platforms such as GoToSocial, IceShrimp.NET, Hollo, and SNAC. I've tried it with each of these platforms with mostly success.

The better the Mastodon API support on your platform, the better your experience will be. Obviously, platform specific features like emoji reacts or reply controls aren't going to be available. Still pretty nice!

https://tapbots.social/@ivory/114110436182458268

#FediApps #GoToSocial #IceShrimpNET #Hollo #SNAC

Added support for customizing and translating the web UI language via simple .po files. For more information on how to install language files or create new ones, please see snac(8) (the administrator manual).

New user support for blocking hashtags from the web UI.

The Content-Security-Policy HTTP header is now always sent to disable any JavaScript, instead of just being suggested in the documentation.

Image attachments in SVG format are now disabled by default; you can enable them back by setting the enable_svg value to true in server.json.

Several fixes (contributed by inz).

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I already wrote about caching here
Now I extended what I cache a bit.
This was because after enabling Option to proxy media I've seen access to the file paths /x/ and /y/ in addition to the path were snac stores the media that I include in my own posts ( /s/ ).
There are two locations to proxy media, depending if you requests the media via the mastodonapi or via the web. (/x/ and /y/), oh and I added the nodeinfo2 path too, because I've noticed it was queried all the time by a lot of instances and it gives me pleasure to see something cached handed out in the access logs 🙂 (I guess it is actaully irrelevant for the system resources).
This is the updated setup:
Enable the relevant modules:

a2enmod expires cache cache_disk

Be sure "htcacheclean" is running to clean up old disk cache. (under debian see /etc/default/apache-htcacheclean or else the relevant systemd service or whatever)
Then add to the snac Virtualhost config:

<LocationMatch "^/social/[^/]+/[xys]/|^/social/nodeinfo_2_0">
CacheEnable disk
Header set Cache-Control "max-age=86400, public" "expr=%{REQUEST_STATUS} == 200"
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 86400 seconds"
</LocationMatch>

The Header that I set here, on the condition of Status code 200, is needed for the path /y/, because snac defaults to set no-cache on that location and the modexpires will honor that if we don't override it. I set it to the same Cache-Control value as modexpores woud. (mod_expires will additionally calculate the date and put that in the expiresheader. (hence the name I guess 😀 )

#Fediverse #Hosting #ITNotes #apache2 #httpd #Ownyourdata #Server #Snac #Snac2 #Tipsandtricks #Tutorial #Debian #caching

Basically, all threads work in the same way. There are four states: stopped, waiting, input or output. It's almost impossible to see the first one, as it's only set while initializing or shutting down; input is also seen rarely, unless the instance posting the data is specially slow. So they are usually waiting except while in the «send storm», when they are mostly in output mode. Anyway, even in this case, an incoming message has preference over everything, and the first available thread will serve it.

#snac sets up as many threads as cores are available, but being that the thread work is basically network I/O bound (there is very few CPU work to be done), you can increase the number of threads to twice or more the number of cores and performance will be slightly improved.

Interesting photo!

Just published a guide on setting up Snac on an Ubuntu VM using NGINX Proxy Manager. Snac is an incredibly lightweight #ActivityPub server. A true nom nom among fediverse platforms.

If you're curious about minimal fediverse instances, check it out:

https://box464.com/posts/snac-activitypub-on-ubuntu/

#tutorial #selfhosted #fediverse #activitypub #snac #snac2

It gives a daily report of those asteroids with a reasonable probability of crashing into Earth, in case you are not already afraid enough of the future. Of course, using #snac, what else.

It takes its data from a very cool NASA site, so (again) in these days of uncertanty, I'm not sure how long will it work.

Everyone, take care, and have a great week.

Each post can have more than one attachment from the web UI. The maximum number can be configured in server.json via the max_attachments value (default: 4).

Each notification includes a link labelled Context, that leads to a page with the full conversation tree the post is a part of.

Each followed hashtag has now a directly accesible link.

Fixed a search bug (some matches were missed).

Fixed more crashes (contributed by inz).

Fixed link detection in posts (contributed by inz).

Allow multiple editors for command-line posts (contributed by inz).

Separated maximum and default timeline entry count, allowing larger timelines to be requested without having to increase the default (contributed by lxo).

Turned message date into a link to the local post, so that it can be loaded into a separate tab for interacting with (contributed by lxo).

Special thanks to fellow developer inz for bringing my attention to code places where I should have been more careful.

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This release has been inspired by the song Songe d'un ange by #KyrieKristmanson and #BrendanPerry.

CC: @justine@snac.smithies.me.uk

Fixed memory leak (contributed by inz).

Fixed crash.

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CC: @lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br