Hello ! New month new core dev meeting.
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This is more of a broad overview so you can see what topics were discussed but I heavily encourage you to listen to the thing
Technical Updates & Development Progress
Community Management & Notifications
- Merged changes to prevent communities from having more than 100 moderators/owners/admins
- Working on enabling error notifications that currently don't reach users (e.g., when setting too many moderators)
- Will implement error notifications as a new notification type in users' notification lists
- Plans to drop one notification table to save database space
External Partnerships
- Waiting for feedback from Coinbase on mesh-api
API Stack Release Plans
- New API stack version targeted for end of Q3 (September timeframe)
- Currently in first phase testing, near feature-complete
- Extensive collaboration between development teams being encouraged
HiveD Node Optimizations
- Significant memory reduction: shared memory file reduced from 24GB to 6GB
- Improved performance for both memory usage and replay speed
- No longer requires RAM disk - can use NVMe drives directly for replay
- Created script for optimizing virtual memory settings (requires root privileges)
- Working on Swagger-based documentation for HiveD's API
Application Development
HiveMind Improvements
- Enhanced muting functionality - now comprehensive
- Added traditional full-text search using Gin indexes
- Implementing semantic search (AI/vector-based search)
- Plans to deploy to api.syncad.com for public testing
Balance Tracker (with McFarhat's team)
- New features: balances, pending coin conversions, market orders
- Added average transfer statistics and overall analytics
- Monitoring recurrent transfers and trade history APIs
- Working on rich list feature
- Adding ability to track which account actually performed operations (vs. just affected accounts)
Block Explorer Updates
- Sped up witness feed calculations (now real-time vs. every 10 minutes)
- Improved permanent search functionality
- Adding more data for display
Libraries & Tools
Wax Development
- Python version now feature-complete and recommended for use
- Improved transaction creation and broadcasting speed
- API generator now supports both TypeScript and Python
- Built-in health checker with multi-server support
- Supports offline operations
Beekeeper
- Essentially finished, releasing this quarter
- Extensively tested through Denser and Clive applications
Web Components
- Released embeddable web components for posts and comments
- Collaborating with PeakD team on customized business websites
- Working with Denser team on server-side rendering for SEO
- Cross-team cooperation to avoid reinventing solutions
UI & Frontend Work
Block Explorer UI (McFarhat's team)
- Implemented multilingual support for 12 languages
- Added missing account details (last updated dates, etc.)
- Improved witness voting history with pagination and search filtering
- Health checker UI/UX improvements
Future Development & Collaboration
Team Cooperation Initiatives
- Encouraging more interaction between siloed development teams
- Meetings with PeakD team for cooperation opportunities
- Suggesting Three Speak team collaboration
- Successful ongoing collaboration with McFarhat's team on block explorer
Technology Considerations
- Discussion about Java support for Android development
- Current focus on completing Python Wax implementation
- Future plans for Rust support
- Worker Bee still in TypeScript, Python version planned
External Opportunities
Podcasting Integration
- Ongoing efforts to get Apple to adopt Hive for podcast live notifications (PodPing)
- PodPing provides cross-platform live podcast notifications via Hive
- Would require minimal technical resources from Hive team
- Could potentially integrate Hive into core Apple platform functionality