linus

Big devlog incoming:

• Added bookmarks
• Following/Followers
• Notification system, notifies you if post likes, user following, moderation actions.
• Reposting reworked
• Post views
• Add extra user fields: Socials, website, country, gender
• Add profile banners & themes
• Add post quoting
• Add trending page w/ #hashtag support!
• Add rendering support for mentioning users in posts like @linus
• Significantly revamped the way posts are designed. I use to use a Post and Reply table, separated. Now, I’m following the design principles of twitter and i’ve transformed all replies to posts. You can now chain replies onto replies, and so on.
• Changed authentication to GitHub OAuth & Google instead of straight emails.
• Bunch of minor UI updates to sidebar, and posts to improve UX and flow.

Ok so its been a while.

• Added Shorts: You can now post videos as content on Quacky! Go to /shorts to start doomscrolling 😎
• AI pre-moderation: Whenever a user reports a post, an AI model (currently gpt-oss:20b) will take a look at the post content. If it discovers that there is obvious inappropriate content, it will automatically unlist and make the post read-only until an administrator takes action. For privacy, the AI will only ever look at posts when someone reports. Check the attachments in my devlog to see it in action!
• Added another codebase (quacky-ai) for all algorithms and Ai stuff that I have planned. Didn’t want to bundle in that stuff in the main codebase because yeah.
• Added a administration panel for moderators: You can now directly edit posts, users, and replies at /admin if you have the administrator role on your account. It’s not the prettiest panel in the world but its just for me to moderate the server.
• Added a couple extra APIs for interfacing with admin stuff. Needs a admin session token in order to use. Endpoints are at /api/v1/admin

This is the last cleanup i promise… ive learned how damn annoying types are..

• Cleaned up UI components, they are fully modular, which means its actually possible for people to mod quacky and create your own custom pages!
• Changed to GIthub OAuth (temp as i migrate to google, the app is being approved.)
• Added a markdown renderer to display a couple help pages, terms, privacy, and community guidelines.

I’m working on DMs and a Instagram Reels/YT shorts clone next. Stay tuned.

Revamped settings ui.

Added administration panel for admins to manage settings.

Added a config table to replace some env variables and json file that was previously packaged into docker image.

MOST IMPORTANTLY: Cleaned up those nasty types omg merging v1 code with my new code is a disaster with ts it takes too long

Updated email appearances. Looks nice now

Added moderation actions, finished V2 of Post component.

Not much else.

Nothing really to show:
Just did a bunch of backend work with the APIs, started creating extra DB tables like DMs & Admin stuff for features not yet complete.

• Deprecated legacy APIs with /api/v1
• Redo homepage UI. Big UX improvements & shorter loading times.

Making the UI for new features is next.

Been cleaning up a lot of code, getting it all nicely packaged up.

• Added OpenAPI and Swagger documentation for all API routes.
• Following / Followers and notifications now fully work.
• In the process of adding a “Shorts” feature like yt shorts.
• Fixed a bug where banning users wouldn’t revoke their access to existing signed in sessions.
• Terms and Privacy Policy have been added.

Finished welcome email, following/followers, search and post pages.

Quick update
You can now upload attachments on posts!

All assets are stored using S3, and in my app’s case, I’m using my custom S3 storage server because minio has become deprecated :|

Been cleaning up the codebase to get ready to ship. Made a new onboarding form.

Gotta love cleaning code for 4 hours straight…

Oh yea, and ive made new iterations of the mascot. looks pretty cute dont you think

Revamped all of the Post and User routes, improved UI, designed app mascot called quacky.

my next steps will be to finish all of the platform features and launch into beta. the only things remaining are:

• Reposting
• DMs
• Following
• Admin panel stuff
• Attachment uploading to posts.

I’m getting very close!

Cleaned up all the code, and added 2 new views: private and banned.

Additionally, added proxy middleware to make content on the site viewable to only signed in users

Added notification services.

See the image for how it looks.

Added replies to posts. APIs and module functions have been added.

Additionally, theres now a new page for viewing and replying to posts at /post/[postId].

Added profile page along with recent post activity.

Additionally, I implemented the like/unlike functions for posts. There is an API and import module you can use eventually when I ship.

Added ability for users to post. There are 3 types:

• Normal post (users will mostly be using this)
• Read-only (Useful for posting announcements where you want to disable comments or reactions)
• Pinned posts (Pin a post to the top of everyone’s feed)
  There will be a feature to upload pictures and files at a later stage.

Additionally, I’ve started work on drafting UI for the profile page.

Implemented authentication with better auth, started on UI design.

Added swagger UI implementation with the following new API routes:

/api/docs
/api/openapi

The repository template documents existing endpoints.

I’ve also sweetened up the login UI. Will be adding more components soon.

v5.0.2 has been shipped out the door!

This update brings new cleaned up UI, entire codebase rewrite, normalised API routes, reviews, moderator panel, and bounding boxes.

I’m currently focused on implementing a mobile app for Bubbly Maps that will first be available for android soon.