🔥 ATTENTION: I have really bad news folks 😢

Today, (just this morning in AEST) I accidentally nuke my pod (twtxt.net). I keep backups, but unfortunately the recovery point objective (RTP) is at worst a month! 🤦‍♂️ 😱 (the recovery time objective is around ~30m or so, restoring can take a while due to the size of the archive and index) – For those that are unfamiliar with these terms, they essentially relate to “how much data loss can occur” (RPO) and “how quickly you can restore the system” (RTO).

This pod (twtxt.net) is back up and online. However we’ve last the last ~5 days worth of posts y’all may have made on your feeds (for those that use this pod).

I’m so sorry 😞

📣 NEW: Added a new feature for pod operators to optionally configure. Compact Front Page.

When enabled will display only one post per feed on the unauthenticated Discover view (the front page).

New feature (not a great UX, sorry 😞) that displays the last fetched feed status, last error (if any) and error count in your “Following” list. Check it out and cleanup your feeds for “hunk” 👌

@news@twtxt.net And we’re back!

👋 This Pod (https://twtxt.net) will go offline for ~15m shortly, while I perform an offline index of the archive.

📣 Outage Notification: On Tuesday 23rd May 2023 between 7.30am to 5pm, there will be an outage of undefined length with no known start time due to planned power meter upgrades on the premises by the energy company.

You know, it’s one of those things where they give you a ~12hr window 🤦‍♂️ I will post here again once the technician is on-site and power down. I will power back up as soon as the work is complete.

According to the information I’ve received, the outage should be no more than ~1-2hrs.

Apologies for any inconvenience 🤗

📣 Update on Activity Pub: Just a quick update on the Yarn.social <-> Activity Pub (aka Mastodon and others):

• Can follow other Activity Pub actors ✅
  
• Can be followed by other Activity Pub actors ✅
  
• Your posts can be seen by Activity Pub actors ✅
  
• You can see posts from Activity Pub actors ✅
  

What does not yet work:

• Translating replies (aka threading) ❌

📣 NEW: For those that run a Yarn.social pod (an instance of yarnd) for their Twtxt needs for themselves, family and friends, please be aware of the following change/commit in main or edge (if you use the Docker image):

* f3f1e429 2022-12-21 | Add configurable front page (anonymous discover view) behaviour (#1103) (HEAD -> main, origin/main) [James Mills]

Be aware that this change will by default make the front page of your pod display “local” posts only. This only affects the front page for anonymous viewers, this does not affect the actual “Discover” view (once authenticated).

If you want the old behaviour, go to Settings -> Poderator Settings and change the “Front page displays” option.

Hey all 👋 I’ve just update my pod at twtxt.net to a “dev” branch to test PR #1059, please let me know if you experience any issues or regressions, bugs, etc 🙏 If everything is good after a few hours I will merge this PR and keep working. This is the new “Filter and Lists” feature… Thanks! 🙇‍♂️

🐞 Hot Fix: yarn v0.15.1 Please update if you already upgraded to v0.15.0, otherwise just skip to this version as it fixes a critical bug I caused (need to write those cache tests 😅)

📣 Release: yarn v0.15 - Phosphorus Phoenix

Hello Yarners! 🤗

It’s again been a long while since our Last Release yarnd v0.14 over ~6 months ago! 😳 Sorry about that! 🙏 I guess we got a bit busy with a few other things going on…

First of all a big thanks to everybody who has given all of their time and effort to help Yarn.social become a better platform every day.

A special thanks to our new contributors @tkanos@twtxt.net and @eaplmx@twtxt.net who recently started contributing to the project! Thank you! 🙏

Without further ado, here are the highlights for the 0.15 release!

• Twtxt Search Engine – The much improved Twtxt Search Engine
  
• NEW Sync API 🥳 (see below)
  
• Add Block Quote button to the Postbox.
  
• Add official “Feed Types” (see below)
  

Its a bit of a small(ish) release with no that many “big” new features (sorry!) mostly just bug fixes and little improvements. So if you’re curious please see the full Change Log below.

The much improved Twtxt Search Engine is out which improves the index greatly, performance and overall functionality and UX.

Help pages have been improved and overall searches are “just better”.

Check it out!

For a long time we’ve talked about the possibility of “syncing” a local feed with your feed on a Yarn.social pod. This is now possible with a 3-way Sync API /api/v1/sync and a sub command of the yarnc command-line client. Usage is as simple as:

$ yarnc sync twtxt.txt

See yarnc sync --help and the [Sync API (https://dev.twtxt.net/doc/api.html#sync) API endpoint documentation for more details.

In order to better improve the code and manageability of different feed types such as automated feeds (bots) and RSS / Atom feeds, we have defined a set of Feed Types namely:

• rss – A Twtxt feed whose primary source comes from an RSS / Atom feed.
  
• bot – A Twtxt feed which is fully automated by some script or automation.
  

These are the only feed types currently and we do not expect any more really. The way this works is ti simply add # type = rss|bot to your feed if the feed you are publishing is a non-human/non-user feed. Omitting the type Metadata is completely fine and optional. The default for all feeds is a User / Human feed.

This helps us categorize and filter out noise feeds, automated feeds from views like the “Discover” view on Yarn.social pods and serve as a way to “filter” for these types of feed in the Twtxt Search Engine.

As per usual, please provide feedback to @prologic@twtxt.net or reply to this Yarn 🤗

📣 FYI: This pod (twtxt.net) may restarts several times over the next few hours as I work on v0.15 milestone issues and push them out to my pod live. If you see 404 Not Found its just the Pod restarting, just check back in a minute.

📣 NEW: Just a small quick update on recent additions, improvements and fixes to Yarn.social’s backend yarnd:

* 4e13d564 2022-10-25 | Add Sync API and sync sub-command for yarnc for syncing a local feed to a Yarn.social pod (#1033) [James Mills]
* 683b65e1 2022-10-25 | Add an improved version of the Settings view with Tabs (#1032) [James Mills]
* 0e887ba1 2022-10-25 | Add /api/v1/whoami endpoint that exposes the Username of the logged in user (#1028) [James Mills]
* 3c4c479b 2022-10-25 | Add Pod Logo resource endpoint and update Info resource to include link (#1029) [James Mills]
* e7a11b8a 2022-10-25 | Add a little Javascript (optional of course) to support Drag 'n Drop to Upload files/media (#1031) [James Mills]
* 7def6d88 2022-10-25 | Fix missing aria-busy css (#1030) (pod) [James Mills]