@freemo Qoto.org is getting a little long in the tooth being apparently based on a mastodon version released in Oct 2020 (3.2.1). Any plans to update to a more recent base version?
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@ambihelical Huh? We arent mastodon we are a fork. Mastodon's version has no relationship to us.
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Then the version thingy should reflect that. Change it into something like (Mastodon fork, latest feature pull from Mastodon 4.0.0) or something like that.
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@trinsec We cant specify specific mastodon versions we pull from since it is pulled from many versions. We can only have our own version, and it must be something less than mastodon's latest version in order to be listed in directories.
@freemo @trinsec A fork is ok I guess if it keeps up with the feature set of the original. Currently I’m seeing reduced functionality in my preferred client (ivory) I am assuming because the servers are diverged. So it’s not keeping up afaict. Nothing critical yet but wondering if this will be an issue in the future.
We actually have more features than the original, by quite a bit margin. What features they finally implemented came years after we had them in most cases.
There are two features we hired people to bring in and should be coming early next year now that we have developers hired. Those are editing posts without reposting, and in-line translation. Everything else we are ahead of the curve on.
As for clients, if you use a generic ActivityPub client it should work fine as we adhere to all AP standards. Just avoid mastodon specific clients and you should have the full clients features working fine.
@freemo @trinsec That’s good to hear. I noticed the lack of edit a while back. But the latest ivory has a new explore tab that doesn’t even show up. Made me wonder about the server version.
I’m not sure what the plethora of features buy tbh. Many do strange things on other clients or don’t work at all. E.g. quote posts are usually stripped out on other clients, long posts can’t be made with other clients, math render doesn’t work at all even on qoto.org. Last time I tried them anyway.
The extra features arent much help on third party clients. Why not just install qoto as an app directly and use that as the client?
@freemo @trinsec it’s an option I had not considered, but will try for a while. Ivory does a nice job overall in the way dedicated well written apps can sometimes do.