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

• Add support for logging in via an ActivityPub direct message to the instance admin.
• Added option to hide edges between instances if there are only mentions in one direction (off by default).

Changed

• Edges are no longer shown between instances where one blocks the other (based on the federation list in nodeinfo).

Deprecated

Removed

Fixed

[2.7.1 - 2018-08-23]

Added

• Add caching to graph + instance endpoints to better handle traffic spikes.

Fixed

• Added ON DELETE to most_recent_crawl table, such that it can handle previously-crawled but now-dead instances.
• You can now login to the admin view by clicking, not just by pressing enter.
• Add handling for weirdly-formatted Friendica peers.
• If the details of an instance fail to load, it's now easy to dismiss the error.

[2.7.0 - 2018-08-18]

Added

• Add Friendica crawler (only supports peers; there's no timeline API endpoint.)
• Color more server types on the map -- Hubzilla, Plume, Pixelfed, and Wordpress.

Changed

• Cleaned up ElasticSearch configuration in backend.

Removed

• Remove color-coding by activity per user. The vast majority of instances had the exact same color so this wasn't very useful.

[2.6.1 - 2019-08-10]

Changed

• Added missing indices on crawls and crawl_interactions tables.
• Added table to store most recent crawl. This speeds up the instance view by a lot!

[2.6.0 - 2019-08-10]

Added

• Add nodeinfo and GNU Social crawler.
  • Thanks to nodeinfo, Peertube and Writefreely are now also displayed on the map.
  • Note that the information about connections comes from other instances.

Changed

• You can now zoom slightly further out on the map to see more of the fediverse at once.

Fixed

• Database deletions are now properly handled with ON DELETE CASCADE where necessary.

[2.5.0 - 2019-08-08]

Added

• Added Misskey crawler.

Changed

• Crawl instances that are down or unrecognized less often.

Fixed

• Fixed broken instance view on mobile devices.
• Increased database connection timeout - required as the database grows!

[2.4.1 - 2019-08-04]

Fixed

• Fixed a wonky search UI when there are no results.

[2.4.0 - 2019-08-04]

Added

• You can now click a button in the search bar to search (you can also still just press enter, of course).
• You can now filter searches by instance type.
• Added toggle to show/hide edges on graph.
• Full-text search across instance descriptions now supports the following languages: arabic, armenian, basque, bengali, brazilian, bulgarian, catalan, cjk (i.e. chinese, japanese, korean), czech, danish, dutch, english, finnish, french, galician, german, greek, hindi, hungarian, indonesian, irish, italian, latvian, lithuanian, norwegian, persian, romanian, russian, sorani, spanish, swedish, turkish, thai.

[2.3.1 - 2019-08-03]

Added

• Added a warning on mobile devices suggesting to view the site on a larger computer.

Changed

• Performance improvements when opening the app on something that isn't the graph.
• There are now fewer irrelevant search results.
• Clarify that the admin page only works for Mastodon and Pleroma instances.

Fixed

• Fixed some instances being duplicated (due to un-normalized data).
• Fixed mobile instance view erroring for uncrawled instances.
• Improved error handling in admin login page.
• Instances that opt-out will no longer show up in search results ever, nor are they accessible through the API.

Security

[2.3.0 - 2019-08-02]

Added

• Instance administrators can now log in to opt in or out of crawling.
• Added ElasticSearch full-text search over instance domains and descriptions.
• Search results are now highlighted on the graph.
• When you hover a search result, it is now highlighted on the graph.
• Instance details now show activity rate (average number of statuses posted per day).
• It's now possible to color code by activity rate.

Changed

• Instances are now crawled hourly instead of every 30 minutes.
• There are now 100 concurrent crawl workers by default (increased from 50).
• The colors for color coding have been made brighter (more visible against the dark background).

Fixed

• Fixed a process leak that could cause the server to OOM.
• Domains are no longer added to the queue twice.

Security

• The server administrator can now be notified if there's a new potential spam domain.

[2.2.0 - 2019-07-24]

Added

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

[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.