index.community/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[Unreleased]

Added

• It is now possible to color code the graph by instance type (e.g. Mastodon, Pleroma, etc.)

Changed

Deprecated

Removed

Fixed

Security

[2.1.0 - 2019-07-24]

Added

• It's now shown in the front-end if an instance wasn't crawled because of its robots.txt.
• You can now link directly to instances at e.g. /instance/mastodon.social.
• Instance details now have a link to the corresponding fediverse.network page.
• The main graph is no longer displayed on mobile. Instead, a smaller neighborhood graph is shown.

Changed

• You no longer have to zoom completely in to see labels.
• Label size is now dependent on the instance size.
• The instance lookup field is now front-and-center. Is also uses the backend for faster lookups. This is to improve performance, and it lays the groundwork for full-text search over instance names and descriptions.
• The reset-graph-view button now explains what it's for when you hover over it.

Fixed

• Previously, direct links to /about would return a 404 on Netlify's infrastructure. No longer.

[2.0.0] - 2019-07-20

Added

• The backend has been completely rewritten in Elixir for improved stability and performance.
• An "insularity score" was added to show the percentage of mentions to users on the same instance.
• The crawler now respects robots.txt.

Changed

• Migrated the frontend graph from Sigma.js to Cytoscape.js.
• To improve performance, instances with no neighbors are no longer shown on the graph.

Deprecated

• The /api/v1 endpoint no longer exists; now there's a new /api.

Security

• Spam domains can be blacklisted in the backend crawler's config.
• Add basic automated security scanning (using Sobelow and Gitlab's dependency scanning).

[1.0.0] - 2018-09-01

Added

• Initial release. The date above is inaccurate; this first version was released sometime in the fall of 2018.
• This release had a Django backend and a Sigma.js graph.