@noellabo @playground Thank you so much for your contributions to make the group server possible. I’m not sure just how much of each of our contributions to the Group Server made it into the other person’s hosted server but even just beyond the group server your contributions have been significant, so I did try to make a few posts now recognizing that, as I want you to get due credit.
With that said I do want to point out that while fedibird group server and QOTO group server both share very similar approaches there are some significant changes to the QOTO group server that you may want to consider and if you arent already using the QOTO variant you may wish to use it or pull in our fixes/features as you see fit.
Here are a list of fixes/features I had made to the code base that differ from your own contributions.
As you originally said your original contributions were not intended to make for a viable group server that allowed public registration, I dont think that was even a goal, you wanted it mostly to test the group directory and for use by devs. So you really didnt need to make it useful for general users. With that said if you do want to make your server open for general users and open up registration, or even if you just want the bug fixes and added features I mentioned, please feel free to use the QOTO server code instead, its essentially built on top of your own contributions so should be a similar user experience at least.
Just to be clear if anyone asks I’d say we developed the group server together, at least as far as the Group Server is concerned. I will be rewriting the readme to something specific to the group server. I will be sure to give you special mention there as well. You can find the source for the qoto group server here if you wish to use it for your own server or to otherwise pull in my changes: