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This week on #ProFed: first full round trip through the web client.
I followed my Mastodon account from the ProFed web client, published a test post that showed up in Mastodon. Then I wrote a reply back in Mastodon that appeared in the ProFed timeline.
Now the ProFed web client can do these tricks, not only the Desktop Mastodon client, where I did the first round trip a while ago.

This week on #ProFed: visible progress again after weeks of backend work.
The immediate trigger was getting timeline entries to render differently by type - but the restructuring opens up much more. Like e.g. moving away from the traditional microblogging view towards something that better fits professional use.

A quick note: recent posts have been in German by mistake. Back to English from now on - sorry for any confusion.
This week on #ProFed: down the emoji reactions rabbit hole. Reactions federate compatibly with both Misskey and Pleroma, including their derivatives. Misskey allows multiple reactions per user per post - ProFed doesn't, to keep things predictable for everyone else.
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This week on #ProFed: security review.
I found a minor issue and took it as an opportunity to systematically check for more security issues. A few small things have been addressed already, more to follow.
The fixes also clean up the architecture in a few places – so the end result is both more secure and cleaner.

This week on #ProFed: the heatwave is taking its toll, so progress is slow.
I've finally consolidated the data structures for ActivityPub objects and activities. But I haven't managed to push through with these changes to the web client. Again nothing visibly, sorry.
Next week I promise - maybe I shouldn't.

This week on #ProFed: out of the WebFinger rabbit hole, and quite a lot done.
Profile links in post headers now point to the ProFed profile page - for local and remote accounts alike. For remote accounts there is a "view on ..." link to the original profile. And boosts are fully working now too. The latter was a rabbit hole of its own.
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This week on #ProFed: I was away for most of the week, so less progress than usual. But I used the time I had for some backend groundwork in preparation of the next steps on the web client.
https://codeberg.org/ProFed/ProFed

This week on #ProFed: I fixed the bug in the message bus.
Finding the bug was less of a problem. But the solution, that meets all the requirements at this foundational level, was the real challenge.
As a bonus, the message bus is now slightly more efficient and uses fewer resources in most situations. Not a game changer, but still good.

This week on #ProFed: I've documented the outward-facing architecture – ActivityPub extensions, federated search, and how other systems can integrate with ProFed.
This is aimed at developers of other projects who want to build on or cooperate with ProFed.

This week on #ProFed: the web client now has RSS feeds. Not everywhere yet – authenticated feeds are a harder problem. Every approach I've considered so far is either tooc unsafe, too complicated for regular users, or not supported by most RSS readers.
Ideas very welcome. Are you maybe aware, how other applications do that? Are there any other applications at all, that do that?

This week on #ProFed: two new developments in the web client.
ProFed is not a microblogging system. The web client is optimized for professional social networking - which means some things work differently than in Mastodon or similar systems.

This week on #ProFed I just have a few UI improvements.
1. Post timestamps are shown in human-readable form: "now", "5 days ago", with the exact time to the minute on hover.
2. Posts have an action menu with the permalink and delete option for the moment.
3. The reply button now works.
The bigger topic this week: trying to improve the

This week on #ProFed: the web client has its first non-public page: the settings page, complete with login. It's also the first page that doesn't just display data but saves it too. Small step, but it means the full web client stack is now tested end to end.