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JayViiTodd Sundsted

Ktistec will get proper alt text editing in the next release.

Figure 1: Image of the alt text modal superimposed on an image in a post.

This is in addition to existing figure/figcaption support. Captions and alt text serve two different but complimentary purposes.

#ktistec #alttext

JayVii
JayViiTodd Sundsted

Polls are rendering!

screenshot of the latest emoji poll rendered on the ktistec server

I'm working to get all of the little visual elements available across the Fediverse to render in a usable way on Ktistec. When released, users will also be able to vote on polls.

#ktistec #activitypub #fediverse

JayVii

Since all my websites and web-tools use the phenomenal #SimpleCSS framework, I thought it would also make sense to create a theme for #ktistec using those exact colours. Of course, this is also available from my ktistec-tweaks, next to the old purpleish-theme, which I had before.

Also new is the separation of the card-style post theming, which is also shown in the screenshot below, in its own CSS file.

Image description: Screenshot of my Fediverse profile, which is cut straight in the middle. The left side shows the dark mode with orange-yellow highlights, the right side shows bright mode with blue highlights.
JayVii

Yesterday, I implemented #CSS rules in my "purpleish theme" within my #ktistec tweaks that change the display of posts in card style, similar to other social media. Also adds some very subtle shadow, which gives it a very slight 3D effect. This looks a lot more modern now, I think: https://src.jayvii.de/pub/ktistec-tweaks/commit/136cc0629bd23df71cc4969e23e6c252f847a9c6.html

Image description: Screenshot of a heavily styled ktistec instance, displaying a thread with three replies to some post. All posts appear within a dark grey card object with round corners. The reply cars are slightly indented and have a light gray border on the left side.
JayVii

Trying to mass-delete older posts and shares on my #ktistec instance without prior backup turned out to be a bad idea

The docker container running on my tiny 1 vCPU, 1GB RAM VPS suddently started crashing and restarting every few seconds.

Turns out, ktistec is doing some(?) tasks in the background now, hogging the CPU and loads of RAM, which eventually leads to crashing the container. Creating a swapfile stabilized the situation until the cleanup(?) tasks are done. We will see whenever it finishes.

Remember: never start fiddling without doing prior backups...

JayVii

I am actually really happy about how my mobile-tweaks for #ktistec turned out. There was a lot of #CSS hacking involved, but I am pretty happy with the results :)

Here's a little video of how it looks:

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JayVii

And I am back online! Looks like the move went fine. All posts and data is still here, federations appears to work as well. Neat! #ktistec

JayVii

Alright, I booked a new #VPS at another host. Waiting for the initial setup, then I start transferring the first few sites, starting with #ktistec (let's see how easy a server migration is for an activitypub server :D). I'll be gone from here for a while (at least until DNS updates...)

JayVii

My #ktistec tweaks repository (https://src.jayvii.de/pub/ktistec-tweaks/index.html) now also includes adjustments for small screens (for example, if you use ktistec on your smart-phone), such as pagination buttons that are easier to hit with your thumbs or an iconified navigation bar at the top, so it actually fits the screen. It's using the very nice feather icons!

Image description: Screenshot of the settings-page of my ktistec-instance viewed from a smartphone. The top navigation bar has icons rather than labels, such that it fits the small screen.