So one tricky aspect I had to solve with Loops is how we use a hashid of the snowflake id for videos, comments and replies in public links, but also deference them to their full ActivityPub permalink.
I built a `matchUrlTemplate` helper that uses regexes to match our url schemas in a way that supports `/v/abcdefg1-` and `/ap/users/1/video/1234567890` links.
It works great, and I will be bringing this to Pixelfed to improve federation support ✨
I'm spending a few hours every other day working on Loops, while I focus on Pixelfed.
One exciting new feature is Admin Invites, allowing admins to close registrations and share powerful invite links that have many interesting side effects (like auto follows, bypassing email verification and email notifications).
Thanks to @shlee for suggesting this feature, and while I do want to support Curated Onboarding eventually, this is a great temporary alternative.
loops-server $ git log --author="Daniel Supernault" --oneline | wc -l
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Loops also uses snowflake ids for ActivityPub actor identifiers!
I noticed that Mastodon has adopted this too, great to see. I will be bringing this to Pixelfed later this year as well 😁
I'm super proud of how I implemented deeply nested comment permalinks in Loops.
It's a bit trickier than say Mastodon, where you just need the parent post context (and maybe children) since we only display comments in the video permalink.
And the UI I designed for this makes it really easy to view the comment and even the parent if applicable.
Parent: https://loops.video/v/d86zgftFT9?cid=d90x2bWT5f
