- Adds a hover popup that shows the names of everyone who liked a post
when hovering of the heart.
- Add new call to post.get that retrieves the names of all voters and
returns them instead of their ID's.
Problem: A `null` relationship represents when it's your profile, which
isn't very intuitive. It causes an error when we try to check for the
`blocking` and `following` properties, which don't exist on `null`.
Solution: Instead of `null`, set a `me` property to tell whether this
relationship is our own profile.
Problem: We have a way to follow and unfollow, but there's no way to
block or unblock. Also if you go to the profile of a blocked peer, their
posts still show up.
Solution: Add block and unblock and hide messages from blocked peers on
their profile page.
Fixes: https://github.com/fraction/oasis/issues/370
Problem: We still have heaps of implicit 'any' types that our linters
can't make sense of.
Solution: Keep on adding type documentation! Slowly but surely I'm
hoping we can reduce the amount of untyped JavaScript in the repo.
Problem: After some fantastic new pull requests, there are some
inconsistencies between how each author implemented different features.
Solution: Fix regressions and iron out inconsistencies. This fixes the
heart highlight bug, uses the same indentation for Summaries + Threads +
the thread view, tightens up the CSP now that we don't need
unsafe-inline styles, and uses a neutral tone for indents with the same
width as the blockquote border (so far violet has been reserved for
private messages).
Problem: The peer list shows peers that are connected and in the process
of establishing a new connection, which has lots of turbulence. It's
confusing to see dozens of "connections" that only exist for a few
milliseconds when they're actually just connection attempts.
Solution: Only show peers with the state "connected".
Problem: We have TypeScript enabled on the project but have been missing
lots of definition files, so there are like 500 errors when you enable
`--noImplicitAny`.
Solution: Add definitions and fix the bugs that they point out. This
reduces the number of errors with `--noImplicitAny` to 285.
Problem: Our dependencies are falling behind and it'd be nice to have
them up-to-date. The only big update it that Common-Good upgraded to the
latest version of Prettier.
Solution: Update them!
Problem: Since the `errorView()` has a refresh we can probably just call
it `indexingView()` and add the indexing-specific code.
Solution: Rename `errorView()` to `indexingView()` and add a progress
bar for it.
Problem: The indexing message is being thrown as an error, which is
pasted as plaintext, so we can't do a page refresh. This is frustrating
when you're waiting for the indexes to finish because you have to
manually refresh a bunch while you wait.
Solution: Use the prototype from @justinabrahms to add an HTML message
for the indexing error and automatically refresh the page every ten
seconds.
Problem: The SSB-Markdown library has some SSB-flavored quirks, like
messing with newline behavior, and is inappropriate for rendering plain
Markdown like the readme.
Solution: Since SSB-Markdown uses Markdown-It under the hood, we can use
the same library and just render our Markdown *without* the SSB-flavored
quirks. This gives us the ability to wrap text and avoid SSB-Markdown
problems without having to rewrite all of our Markdown.
Problem: We can set our name and profile description but profile images
are expected by most people and supported by most clients and we don't
have them. A profile without an image can sometimes lack the intimacy
you'd get if you let people upload profile images that they can use as a
visual avatar.
Solution: Add profile image upload to the Edit Profile page and add a
bunch of plumbing for `ssb.blobs.add()` to add the blob and publish a
message setting it as a profile image.
Problem: Searching for a hashtag should bring you to the hashtag page,
and the hashtag page should have some useful information about which
page you're on instead of just showing you the messages.
Solution: Add code so that if you search for a hashtag you're brought to
that page, and display some useful help text at the top of the page
explaining the hashtag page. While ensuring that the hashtag page showed
posts from around the network (instead of only people you're following)
I fixed the popular page so that it has the same behavior again (fixing
a regression) and filtered out gatherings (fixing *another* regression)
on the popular page. These probably should've happened in another commit
but I got carried away. :/
Happy to split this commit into two if it hurts to bundle the popular
fixes with the hashtag fix, but I'm low on energy and want to at least
open a PR in case it doesn't bother anyone.
Problem: An SSB client should allow you to declare your own name, but
Oasis didn't support that behavior at all.
Solution: Add a basic 'Edit Profile' page that lets you set your name
and description. This doesn't implement profile images because I had
limited time and didn't want to think about encoding formats, but it's
worth mentioning that I remember something about binary uploads with the
default form encoding actually send 3 times as much data because of
escapes or something? This might not effect us because we're on
localhost, but I want to make a note that this isn't implemented yet.
This also makes a small change regarding the `<label>` element --
previously we were writing them as siblings to the input and using the
`for` attribute to target the input, but while messing with the CSS I
tried putting them directly in the `label()` and it ends up having the
same effect with less code.
Problem: It was impossible to tell which version of Oasis you're
running, which makes it hard to know when you need to update.
Solution: Put the version in the settings so it's easy to reference.
Problem: Until we have a way to change the view of each page, it seems
to me that each of the views that we're experimenting with should be on
their own page rather than modifying the existing pages to add more
functionality. I'm also noticing that I can't process all of the
information that's on the screen when the new horizontal layout is used,
and I think we would benefit from using the previous layout
consistently.
Solution: Move the summary view to its own page so that we can continue
to iterate on it without modifying the popular view, which is already
complex, and revert the style changes to maintain consistency with the
rest of the linear design (threads go downward, indentation denotes
sub-threads, etc).
Problem: The new custom publish was called 'Manual mode', which I'm
afraid isn't super easy to understand for people who don't already know
SSB. The custom publishing page didn't follow the same conventions as
other pages, either.
Solution: Hide the custom publish mode behind the publish page, with a
warning that it's for 'advanced users', and ensure that it uses the same
conventions and visual styles as other pages and code around the app.
Problem: When replying to a private thread we already know who the
recipients are, and they're already going to get the notification, so
there's really no reason to add a mention.
Solution: Remove the mention when the message is private.
Problem: The regular space in the sidebar emoji was breaking the line at
a specific viewport width and the emoji were being shown as the wrong
font.
Solution: Use a non-breaking space and `font-family: initial` for
full-color emoji instead of using the system font.
Resolves https://github.com/fraction/oasis/issues/150
Resolves https://github.com/fraction/oasis/issues/153
Problem: The Private and Mentions page didn't have view labels yet, and
Publish should be its own page instead of being at the top of every
page.
Solution: Inspired by @cinnamon-bun's work to add friendly view labels,
plus a new Publish page. This also moves the period selection from the
popular page into the view label, which felt better to me with the
previous `<section>` background. I also tried a different text format
for describing the pages, using a common form and using `<strong>` to
draw attention to any change from "Posts from people you follow, sorted
by recency" which feels like the expected default for most people.
@cinnamon-bun: To me this feels like a fun back-and-forth where I'm
riffing on your work and hoping that you do the same, but if it feels
wrong/rude please let me know. Trying to work on designs with a system
like C4 is super new for me and I wouldn't be surprised if there are
pain points to fix!
Resolves https://github.com/fraction/oasis/issues/160
Problem: There was no way to onboard new users since we couldn't redeem
invites.
Solution: Add basic follow-back invites to the settings page. This takes
an invite string, runs it through invite.accept, and either returns the
error in full *or* redeems the invite quietly.
Problem: SSB-Search has a bug where too few characters just hangs the
search indefinitely and never returns. https://github.com/fraction/oasis/issues/107
Solution: Enforce a minimum length of 3 characters in the search. I
bumped into another bug where HyperScript, a dependency of HyperAxe,
doesn't support the `minlength` attribute, so I had to deploy a small
workaround for that too. The fixes aren't very pretty but they're better
than just ignoring the problem.
Problem: The previous commits didn't persist language choices and the
drop-down's initial value wasn't respecting the language you selected.
Solution: Persist the language choice in a cookie, defaulting to
English, and build the drop-down with the selected language. This also
changes the word "Spanish" to "Español", and slightly refactors
`http.js` to accept *middleware* rather than just routes. This lets us
add other middleware, such as the language selection middleware added in
this commit.
Problem: The previous commit added English as a language but didn't add
other languages or ways to switch between them.
Solution: Add the most primitive language selection possible and a few
small translations contributed by @bramdroid during a totally unrelated
conversation. This does not persist the language selection and doesn't
auto-select the current language from the dropdown, but those should be
easy to add in the future.
Problem: It was impossible to do any internationalization because
strings were all embedded throughout Oasis.
Solution: Add an internationalization submodule that provides
language-specific strings for the text elements in views. In future
commits we can add language selection and fallbacks for when the
selected language doesn't support the text we need to have translated.
Problem: The model code was doing our Markdown rendering, which feels to
me like a layer violation because *generally* the model is meant to be a
thin abstraction over the underlying database without any concept of the
presentation layer.
Solution: Move the Markdown renderer to the view module and manage
Markdown rendering in the presentation layer.
Problem: Stopping the networking would sometimes allow peers to remain
connected, which was confusing.
Solution: Upgrade to latest SSB-CONN to pull in a bugfix for this
behavior. Huge thanks to @staltz for the quick fix!
Problem: Using all-lowercase-everything isn't really a standard around
the web and it might be better to use consistent capitalization. This
was brought up in: https://github.com/fraction/oasis/issues/98
Solution: This changes the main navigation to use links with the first
letter capitalized, like how Patchwork + Twitter + Mastodon + etc do it.
This means that we're consistently using sentence case everywhere, which
I think is our best option. Originally I tried experimenting with
all-caps for actions, which I found aesthetically pleasing, but you have
to reduce the font size to make it look good (bad!) and I was reading
that all-caps text is harder for friends with dyslexia or vision
impairments.
Problem: Sometimes you want to disconnect from the network but you don't
want to have to restart Oasis with the `--offline` flag
(https://github.com/fraction/oasis/issues/89). Sometimes networking gets
stuck and you need to run the equivalent of `ssb gossip reconnect`
(https://github.com/fraction/oasis/issues/63).
Solution: Buttons on the 'meta' page that let you start, stop, or
restart SSB-CONN whenever you want. Note that this commit includes an
update to SSB-CONN, but this version and the previous version both have
a bug where hitting 'stop' twice in a row will throw an error. This
commit implements a workaround for the bug, but it's something we'll
want to remove later once the underlying bug is fixed.
Tim Robinson
Christian Bundy
wuhei
Nick Wynja
mario siqueira
Mario Siqueira
Jacob Karlsson
Jonathan Dahan
Nick Wynja
Cinnamon
Henning Schumann
KawaiiPunk
Vincent Ahrend
Daan Wynen
Jonathan Dahan
Joshua Kelly
Cinnamon
martingrondin