Funkwhale @funkwhale@mastodon.eliotberriot.com

Dear Community,

We're migrating our forums to a new place, for reasons outlined here: https://socialhub.network/t/migrating-our-forums-to-https-governance-funkwhale-audio/530/2

If you were using https://socialhub.network/c/funkwhale to get in touch with the Funkwhale community, you should now use https://governance.funkwhale.audio/g/kQgxNq15/funkwhale instead :)

Thank you very much for reading and sharing!

So, two weeks ago, we published the 0.20 release. Curious to see what we've been up to? Our bi-monthly blog post should give you some answers ;)

https://blog.funkwhale.audio/~/Announcements/blog-post-week-2019-42-a-quiet-time

@ananace recently shared a Helm chart to deploy #Funkwhale on a Kubernetes cluster, you may want to give it a try!

https://gitlab.com/ananace/charts/

Another month, another interview on our blog! This month, you can learn more about @sporiff, his involvement in the project, and his cat ;)

https://blog.funkwhale.audio/~/Community/funkwhale-community-spotlight-sporiff/

Interview by @GinnyMcQueen

Now that the 0.20 release is out, we have to start the work on the next one.

After some discussions (https://governance.funkwhale.audio/d/0RJWr5Ts/a-roadmap-for-funkwhale-0-21), we have agreed on a roadmap for the 0.21 and 0.22 releases.

#Funkwhale 0.21 will focus on supporting podcasts, and easier audio publication overall (https://governance.funkwhale.audio/d/s7GTeHwU/podcast-support), in an effort to make the platform more useful to creators.

We'll also redesign the sidebar and navigation, as outlined in https://governance.funkwhale.audio/d/m9LlGf4T/redesign-of-the-sidebar-navigation

As with every release, we'll implement a handful of anti-abuse features: federated reports, screening for signups and enforced email verification

Due date: Q1 2020

We also agreed to make Funkwhale 0.22 a stability release. It means we won't introduce any new feature, but focus on stability, enhancements and bugfixes. Depending on how it goes, Funkwhale 0.22 could turn into Funkwhale 1.0, our first official stable release!

Due date: hard to guess that far in the future, but probably Q2 or Q3 2020 ;)

Acknowledging the work done by our community is important, but it's also critical to give credit to other individuals and communities who are helping us by maintaining projects that make #Funkwhale possible!

We've added a dedicated page at https://funkwhale.audio/credits/ to feature all the projects we're relying on to build Funkwhale.

Even if you cannot support us directly, supporting any of these projects will benefit us!

If you're encountering an error during migrations while upgrading on a non-docker install, please run the following command by hand:

sudo -u postgres psql funkwhale -c 'CREATE EXTENSION "citext";'

Then rerun the first migration command that caused the issue. More details at https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/issues/934

Apologies for the inconvenience

If you like what you see, remember to support our work!
Donations are really appreciated of course, but even sharing info about the project around you already helps a lot

https://funkwhale.audio/support-us
https://contribute.funkwhale.audio/

- Allow-listing for federation (to federate only with trusted nodes)
- A brand new documentation theme (improved readability and navigation)
- Improved performance
- Catalan and Czech translation
- Support for custom CSS that pod admins can set directly from the settings
- Support for AAC/M4A audio files
- Rate limiting (to help fighting abuse/resource exhaustion)

it was available already, but Funkwhale 0.20 also comes with a single command install script!

https://docs.funkwhale.audio/installation/index.html#quick-install

Simply download and run the script, answer a few questions and a few minutes later, you'll have a working, production-ready pod with Nginx, Redis, PostresQL and Let's encrypt!

Upgrades are fully supported with this script!

Users can now delete their account without contacting their pod admins. Upon deletion, account data will be removed as well, and the event will be broadcasted over federation.

That's right, we now have a built-in dark theme!

It's still a bit rough on the edges, but you can give it a try from the application footer.

We want to make the project and the network as sustainable as possible. To help with that, in Funkwhale 0.20, we've included a lightweight notification system to help users understand the needs of their pod and of the Funkwhale project, and give them directions if they want to make a donation or contribute.

Both notifications can be disabled, at the pod AND user level, and we've done our best to ensure it doesn't disturb usage of the service.

When it come to hosting content and offering a service, you need a way for people to contact you if anything goes wrong.

With this release, and as part of our effort to offer the safest possible experience to both admins and users, it's now possible to report artists, albums, tracks, playlists and users.

Such reports are forwarded to the moderation team.

Anonymous reports are also possible (but can be disabled), which is useful if you're hosting a public pod and want to handle takedown requests.

The landing page is often the first contact of visitors with the project, and it was doing a rather bad job ;)

We're redesigned this landing page to include more useful information, and help users when picking a pod.

The landing page will feature a banner (customizable by admins) and excerp of the pod's description, some basic stats, a contact email (if any), links to server rules, user guides, mobile apps, etc.

If anonymous access, the landing page will also feature the latest uploaded public albums.

Our about page was also reworked.