Alex Gleason

This update to the user interface for Pleroma+Soapbox brings cryptocurrency features to the Fediverse.

The Erlang 24 cataclysm event. I hate to start off with something negative, but it needs to be addressed. For a long time we pointed to Pleroma's source install guide, and even used it as the starting point for our own install docs. In that guide, we recommended installing a repo from "erlang-solutions.com" on your server. This was a mistake, as that repo pushes out bleeding edge versions of Erlang literally on the day of a new release.

Soapbox BE is a production ready Pleroma branch. It's being maintained alongside Pleroma, with additional bugfixes and features. Our goal is to move faster, while taking deliberate care to ensure clean code merges between projects. Soapbox BE contains code that has not yet been merged (or may never be merged) by Pleroma.

With a slew of administration new features, this release builds on the stability of the v1.1 release. It brings us up to speed with Pleroma 2.3, released last month. Managing a Fediverse server can be challenging. That's why we brought the most important admin features into a convenient dashboard.

This release is so solid it makes v1.0 feel unfinished. Truly, Soapbox FE was put to the ultimate test — a real social network with 14,000 users. 185 issues were closed. Major new features were added. This update brings us up to speed with the latest Pleroma, released last month.

After 12 weeks of strenuous labor, we're excited to announce that the Soapbox Frontend is finally stable. Countless hours and late nights were spent pouring love and energy into this release, so that the familiar interface can finally run on Pleroma with minimal gotchas.