Pulsar

Pulsar is an open source, decentralized social media platform that's free forever! 🚀

We aim to provide a community-oriented experience for our social media platform, Nexirift.

Notice

GitHub is NOT the official place to contribute correctly. Please visit our own instance at git.codeguilds.org/Nexirift/pulsar. Issues and pull requests are still accepted on GitHub but we highly advise you to not do that as this may change in the future.

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✨ Changes

• 🎨 Bottom navigation bar customisation
  • Post button now floats (hides in a chat)
• 🐛 Fixed random "test" notification
• 🔒 Requires adminstrator to view emails
• 📊 New "Combined" profile view
  • Has pinned posts, posts (no replies), and boosts
• 💬 Chat shown in navbar by default
  • On both the desktop and mobile ones
• ⚙️ Allow timeline tabs to be customised
  • Show or hide labels for all tabs
• 📝 Post form textarea resizes automatically
• 🎛️ Added a toggle for the widgets sidebar
• 🐛 Fixed revoked shared tokens causing an error
• 🐛 Fixed users not showing up in some searches
• 📱 Added a thumb-friendly account switcher (turtkey)
• 👮 Added new role policies for:
  • Maximum number of poll choices
  • Maximum number of attachments per note
  • Maximum note length
  • Maximum content warning length
• 🔞 Added an adults only toggle with age gating (no ID verification!!)
  • Toggle for moderators to force it upon users
  • Toggle in timeline for showing and hiding that content
  • Toggle in preferences to show and hide profiles
• 🚨 Add a toggle for moderation inactivity detection
• 🤖 Support for ALTCHA captcha services
  • Sentinel (untested) and custom supported
  • Requires { verified: true/false } on custom verify endpoints
• 🐛 Fixed preferences profile when nothing is backed up
  • Also fixed the locale string missing
• ⭐ Applied better defaults for users coming from other sites
  • Post form is shown on timeline by default
  • Widgets are hidden with the toggle visible on the sidebar
  • Replies are hidden in the timeline by default
• 🌐 Misskey locale fallback is now en-US and then ja-JP
• 👤 Allow users to create new preference profiles
• 🎮 Added a shake mechanic to the bubble game for fun :)
• 🎬 Added a GIF picker powered by the Tenor API
• 🎨 Customise (show/hide) posting form buttons
• 🔗 Option to merge quote and boost buttons
• 🐛 Fixed the queues not working and added an endpoint to update stuck counts
• 🔗 Added an option to show link previews in posting form
• 📜 Scrollbars added on sign up and sign in dialogs
• 🔗 Added ability to host link verification files for mobile apps
• 🔑 OAuth applications improvements
  • 🛠️ New OAuth applications management page for developers
  • 🐛 Fixed the Mastodon app sign-in flow errors
  • 🔔 Notification when an application is authorized
• 📱 Improved PWA manifest.json capabilities

Documentation

Sharkey (not Pulsar) Documentation can be found at Sharkey Documentation. 99% of the instructions, guides, information, etc. is the same or similar. Subsitute Sharkey for Pulsar in references like the Docker Compose file.

Acknowledgements

Pulsar would never exist without the amazing contributors working on both Sharkey and Misskey.

Please consider donating to them by visting their respective donation pages -> Sharkey and Misskey.

If you donate to Nexirift, we plan to donate a portion to Sharkey and Misskey after we cover our bills.