wow, uh, anybody running a #writefreely blog that hasn't updated it in a while (a version before v0.17.0), you need to update. now. and check your users/posts/collections/access tokens/etc.
Hey theATL.social 👋
Thanks to your suggestions, we now have a new service: #WriteFreely , a publishing/blogging platform that runs on #ActivityPub.
This new service is available at https://write.theatl.social - users at any membership level may now create a blog.
Logging in is easy: your existing theATL.social Mastodon account logs you in.
I've (publicly) forked the WriteFreely repo to continue developing on additional features...first of which is easy adding of pictures and other media. I'm open to suggestions as to what should be worked on next.
More thoughts in the thread 🧵
Spam is one of the biggest issues @write_as and other @writefreely instances face -- especially in the age of LLMs.
I've wanted to build a spam classification system for a while, and I'm finally getting to it this week. It'll be made especially for #WriteFreely, and plug into it to help with moderation, both manual and automatic.
Will share more details soon!
Since our Markdown preview has been working well on @write_as, we'll also be bringing it to @writefreely in v0.17!
WriteFreely v0.17 is out now!
⚠️ We recommend *all* admins upgrade as soon as possible, as this release includes some critical security fixes.
Read more in our release notes: https://github.com/writefreely/writefreely/releases/tag/v0.17.0
RE: https://writing.exchange/@writefreely/116937920745292055
Most importantly, this fixes an issue where malicious actors can create accounts on closed-registration #WriteFreely instances running the previous v0.16 or below.
We've heard reports of this ACTIVELY being exploited today across many WriteFreely instances -- multi- and single-user.
We advise ALL WriteFreely admins to upgrade immediately. You may also notice many unwanted accounts on your instance that need to be manually cleaned up. We'll be adding admin tools to make this quicker soon.
In case you missed it, there was a critical #WriteFreely release sent out yesterday -- all admins should upgrade as soon as possible.
I'm working on another release today that patches one regression and makes it easier to clean up spam users on affected instances.
I'd like to have a search box in a pinned blogpost at https://write.underworld.fr/settima.
Does anyone have a good lead as how to add a search box to a #WriteFreely blog? Samples on the forum reference Glitch (now defunct) and #WriteAs (not the same as WF). DDG would be okay but any non-US search engine is preferred.
