a difficult thing to determine is how high should i set the post length limit
my instance has it set to 65535 to ensure i never run into issues, masto defaults to 500, pleroma defaults to 5000
i guess this is supposed to be a microblogging platform so it doesn't make too much sense to allow them to be overly large, and that does technically expose me to some jerk filling my DB with posts that are gigabytes long
65535 it is
the SQL is (probably) finished and it is beautiful
https://github.com/Lynnesbian/FediBooks/blob/master/setup.sql
according to this arbitrary chart i'm about halfway done for fedibooks' first release
it's been a while i last updated this thread, because it's also been a while since i did any major work on fedibooks. i've kinda pushed myself way too hard on it and i'm taking it more slowly now.
that said, i do have some new features to show off! firstly, fedibooks is now capable of scraping user posts. this is one of the key steps towards implementing full ebooks functionality. the first screenshot shows that fedibooks has successfully scraped all 63 of this account's posts.
secondly, there's now a nifty little bug report form for those of us without github accounts, shown in the second screenshot.
there are a few minor features left now, and one major feature - replying. once that's done, fedibooks will be complete.
unfortunately, testing the reply functionality requires me to actually deploy fedibooks to a website, since i can't test it with localhost. this means it's going to be a bit of a hassle to implement.
however, i've looked at what needs to be done for reply functionality, and it seems pretty easy with web push - mastodon will automatically send a request to fedibooks with some info, which fedibooks can then reply to. it should be pretty simple 0u0
i want to implement reply functionality and bot settings, and then i'll release the first version of fedibooks for all to use!
i'm about to start testing the reply functionality for fedibooks 0u0
fedibooks is now live, by the way! i've disabled signups for now, but in the mean time, you can explore the site: https://fedibooks.com/
can't wait!
what's self hosting going to be like compared to e-books? easier? harder? about the same?
oh ok, I misunderstood, I though since you were discontinuing the patreon thing that fedibooks was a self hosted thing, gotcha, this is cool though! I'm really glad it sounds to be nearly ready for prime time!