@freemo
Btw how many versions behind Masto is qoto?
@trinsec

@mur2501

As a fork that question doesnt make much sense. Our version has no relevance to the vanilla version. Features are pulled in piecemeal when we want them and our own features have no plan to be in vanilla.

@trinsec

@freemo
Maybe a more sane question would be:
What was the last vanilla Mastodon version that you pulled from?

@mur2501

@trinsec

We dont pull from whole versions, we pull in features piecemeal. There is code from v4 in QOTO for example, just not very much of it yet.

@mur2501

@freemo
Yes I know you don't pull from whole versions. But what was vanilla Mastodon version at when you pulled for the last time is a question that's still valid!

How can you have pieces of v4 code if you've not updated Qoto in a while and v4 is fairly recent?
And which feature(s) from v4 do we have then?

@mur2501

@trinsec

The version we originally forked from would be the version from 5 years ago.

We have made minor deploys that werent announced, small bug fixes here and there. Not sure how much of what I pulled in in v4 is in the RUNNING server, but I do know I pulled it into my local code base, I'd need to check what actually made it out. The last year has mostly been minor security fixes.

@mur2501

@freemo
Btw qoto is heavilly different from Masto or it's just minor changes like the max character limit?

@trinsec

@mur2501

The differences are fairly significant, something like 2 dozen or more additional features, then we try to pull in piece by piece updates and features from masto if they cover something we didnt already have.

@trinsec