epicyon development april 2022

This blog has been quiet recently, but of course development on Epicyon [1] is continuing. Some things recently added are:

Support for iCard on the profile page. So you can download a file and import it into an email client. Hence it becomes easier for other people to use you as a contact within their systems.

Support for iCal and CalDav. The calendar is now also a CalDav server. More remains to be done on this to integrate the desktop client with the calendar. Since these are also open standards it makes it easier for other systems to integrate with a fediverse server.

Improved support for languages. Korean and Polish languages have been added, and when creating a new post it's now possible to specify the language that you're writing within. That then allows language preferences to work correctly for anyone who is following you. This should help in situations where you are posting in more than one language on the same account.

Support for Jami has been deprecated. This is because it's usernames require the use of Etherium. When Etherium no longer uses proof-of-work then this change could be reversed, but until that time I don't consider it to be a good idea to promote systems which deliberately waste electricity.

Improved support for onion addresses and I2P. If onion or I2P addresses are specified as options when running the daemon then separate sessions are created for those. This means that you can have the responsiveness of the clearnet and yet also be compatible with onion addresses. On the onion side, onion-only Epicyon instances only ever need to interact within the onionspace because to them your ordinarily clearnet instance looks like just another onion one.

Support for more commonly used emoji.

Opt-in content warning lists for satire sites and Russian state media sites.

Improved user experience when replying to unlisted posts. The scope will default to unlisted, rather than followers.

Improved support for Cyrillic alphabet hashtags.

Added screens to show who liked or boosted/announced a post.

[1] Epicyon