PyLova v0.5.0 Shareable Blocklists, Roles, UI Changes
PyLova (Python+Pavlova) is a soft fork of PieFed, aimed at improving the user experience through UI overhauls, empowering users and admins with agency, improved administration and moderation functions, and general bug fixing.
New in V0.5.0
New & Improved
- Shareable Blocklists: Users can create, maintain, and share block lists of users, communities, instances, or domains. Users can be hidden completely or muffled.
- Roles: Permissions have been changed into βRolesβ, these offer expanded functionality. Admins can create multiple roles choosing what permissions they can be given, if any. As well as setting upload and storage limits, ability to post video, etc. Posts can be restricted to certain roles for matters of voting and commenting.
- Temporary Bans: Now users can be banned from an instance for a limited range of time. This also fixes the nasty bug that leads to temp bans from Lemmy never expiring on PieFed instances.
- Instance Chooser: Discovers new instances from Fediseer, as well as polling other instances. This removes any singular point of authority in seeding new instances and helps disperse discovery. Instances in the chooser also show Fediseer endorsements, and Fediseer tags can be searched for to help find instances based on content.
- New User Experience: New users are better presented topics when joining to help discover content, and a user with no subscriptions is shown a list of popular communities and feeds they may want to join.
Bug-Fixes & Misc
- Inline Comment Editing: Edit your comments without leaving your position on the conversation.
- Visual Changes: Small changes to create a more unified modern look.
- Bento Tiles: Masonry Tiles are revamped into Bento boxes, masonry-wide has been removed. Removed security issue in tiles.
- Instance Vote Settings: Admins can select if up/downvotes are accepted from an instance.
- Instance Overview: When browsing instances additional information about them is displayed.
- New Fonts: Ubuntu and Open Dyslexic have been added. Ubuntu is now the default font for new instances.
- New Post: Starting a new post no longer changes targetted community when switching post type, non-allowed post types are hidden if that community does not accept them.
- Themes: PhpBB and Trans theme are currently removed awaiting some much needed fixing, they will return in the future.
If someone subscribes to a blocklist on a remote instance and that remote instance shuts down, would that blocklist still work (and just no longer get updates)?