I regularly give the #Mastodev core team a hard time, but last night I dumped 4 bugs on them in about 15 minutes... and they've already got PRs for 3 of them.
Unbelievable response.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/36897
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/36890
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/36885
#Pachli Current is rolling out with initial support for displaying #QuotePosts.
Details, including screenshots, open questions, and the best way to provide feedback, are all at https://pachli.app/pachli/2025/11/13/quote-posts.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=quote-posts-1.
Probably still early to speculate. Either someone can confirm if @elk is still being maintained, or someone needs to take over maintenance.
There hasn't been much updates, but it still fills the gap where Phanpy falls short.
Is there a good reason why Mastodon’s Docker setup cannot run its database migrations upon upgrade?
My server was down for 4 hours because Elestio autoupdates Mastodon, but didn't run the `rails db:migrate` command.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.0#:~:text=When%20using%20Docker
New release of hell for mastodon is out!
New in the past week
Get the latest release at https://hell.limitedideas.org/
Supports mac, linux, Plan 9, windows, and anything else Go does if you compile it yourself!
#MastoDev #plan9 #9front #unix
For devs implementing Quote Posts, I've compiled my own doc here, probably useful https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/discussions/1294
#PhanpySocial should cover most features, maybe just 95% of them(?)
Unlike the official site, #PhanpySocial
- allows QP with media or poll
- prompt for embedding QP after paste link, instead of just embed
- doesn't have 'cancel quote' button in Composer
- still resolve non-native QP but they look more like a link card now
My progress thread since Sept 19 #MastoDev
Quote post work-in-progress thread.
Boost count + Quote count.
Thank you #Mastodon #devs for turning on SideKiq's "delete all" for the dead morgue jobs in v4.5.0-rc.3. #MastoDev #MastoAdmin
cc: @cadusilva re your reply in the quoted thread. "Delete All" is back in Mastodon.
Thanks @danny for the heads up
The delete all dead jobs from the SideKiq morgue is missing in v4.5-beta.2 Mastodon. Anyone know how to tweak it and get that link back? #MastoAdmin I'm gonna poke around and see if it is a custom webUI change. Curious if there was a reason to remove it, also. #Mastodon
i dont know how things work 
what would be a good way to check if an instance has a certain endpoint or not
for example since the Chuckya mastodon fork has bubble timelines (timelines/public?bubble=true)
# Pachli 3.1.0 is released
## New features
- Re-order attachments when composing
- Show whether a post is a reply
## Fixes
- Support push notifications on GoToSocial
- Allow filters to be cleared on non-cached timelines
- Stop small UI jumps when scrolling on network timelines
- Don't show unavailable accessibility actions
- Fix black theme rendering
- Update attachment preview after changing focal point
- Update counts when acting on a status
This is probably important for #MastoDev folks: supporting full-width hash and at signs https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/36103
These signs: @ ＠ # ＃
After looking at this, got curious to know the limits in most servers.
So I did a little data analysis. Servers list from @fediverseobserver , filtered to only Mastodon & MAU > 3. A reduced dataset should be adequate for a rough approximation.
Which media upload issues do you encounter most often on Mastodon (or similar platforms)? #MastoDev
Which media upload issues do you encounter most often on Mastodon (or similar platforms)? #MastoDev
Those implementing quote posts in scheduled posts, there's a bug that I just reported https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/36536
- `quote_approval_policy` returns an odd integer value, should be a string I think — not a huge issue if the client doesn't need to display this value
- `quoted_status_id` returns integer, should be string too — only affects web clients because… `BigInt`s
Previous: Anyone notice on #Mastodon v4.5.0-beta.1, when browsing a hashtag timeline, when new posts come in it immediately takes you to the top post in the timeline instead of letting you continue browsing? You can be 5 scrolls down or 1 scroll down, it doesn't matter. When a new post comes in you are popped right back up to the top.
This even happens in slow mode. #MastoAdmin #MastoDev
Edit, there was this recent fix: Fix pinned hashtag columns fully refreshing unprompted
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/36497
Shlee moshed around and 
quote handling without implementing Pleroma/Iceshrimp/Firefish quote handling?it's such a drag to SSH into the masto server and SQL search the database to find my old posts
What if I ripped out elasticsearch and replaced it with a custom thing that just runs an SQL query? (One that limits it to your own posts + things you've interacted with, as it should be.)
Would anyone else be interested in such a thing? It'd give you search capability without having to deal with installing Elasticsearch!
We run a customized Masto 3, so it might need some changes to forward-port it to 4, but.
Wondering if this would be useful?
(I messed up while screen recording this & accidentally mentioned everyone — now deleted, sorry )
#PhanpySocialDev (still on my local, not on dev site)
#Design #UX #MastoDev
Our monthly #TrunkAndTidbits engineering update is out!
In September we polished the quote post feature, improved many bits of the UI and worked on some deeper technical changes to unlock future features. Read more on our blog to see what the team has been working on
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/10/trunk-tidbits-september-2025/
@mattblaze I checked this. Both Reuters and Bloomberg put the same caption and credit information (combined as one string) in EXIF fields Description and Caption-Abstract. Bloomberg puts the same information in ImageDescription as well.
It seems like #Mastodon could check these on upload and prepopulate the alt text field if it finds something.
On a fediverse server with a versioned client API, what would you expect to happen if an API call is made with a version number higher than what the server supports? Should it return an error? Should it take it to mean its highest supported version? Something else?
The API isn't RESTful, the version number is global for all methods (endpoints) and has the format "major.minor".
