This is probably the biggest feature-creep release to date (especially for a point release) lol. Most of the changes are architectural or subtle UI tweaks, so I wanted to include a few new things that would actually be noticeable.

Tesseract now supports Loops video embeds. 🎉

This has been an “ask” for a month or longer (or since Loops went live), and I’m happy to say I finally came up with a way to make this happen (Loops doesn’t provide any video embed metadata so I had to get creative 😔)

As for a release date, I’m still running through tests since there were so many architectural changes this time around. If you want to help with this, please consider testing for me via the hosted instance (https://tesseract.dubvee.org/) and submitting bugs via Github or posting in this community with the bug details.

There are a few areas I wanted to touch up this release (search and modlog), but those are just going to have to wait.

Best estimate is next week assuming I don’t hit any snags with the Loops integration. Again, testing and submitting buts is extremely helpful as I cannot test every possible scenario.

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  • m_fEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Possible bug report: the middle video here doesn’t seem to be embedding:

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgOPMEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      Yep, it was the missing thumbnail like I thought. I added a placeholder image which can be used to trigger the lookup, and that works. I saw another video around the same time also missing a thumbnail and had the same issue.

      Tesseract showing placeholder thumbnails for Loops posts when a thumbnail was not available from the post data.

      • m_fEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        Awesome, thanks for looking into that!

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgOPMEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Hmm. That post didn’t seem to federate to my instance, but I saw it when I browsed midwest as a guest.

      I’m not at a place where I can look at the code right now, but I’ve got a pretty good guess as to why. The embed behavior is tied into the “click to play” subsystem, and that requires a thumbnail to work. Without a thumbnail, there’s no click to play button and thus nothing to trigger the video URL lookup.

      When I’m back at my desk, I’ll add a step to add a placeholder thumbnail like I do with YouTube, DailyMotion, and some others which should fix that (assuming my guess is correct).