<![CDATA[Trunk &amp; Tidbits for March is out - our monthly engineering news, featuring current releases, the profiles redesign, Collections, additional FEPs implemented - lots of work in motion.]]>Trunk & Tidbits for March is out - our monthly engineering news, featuring current releases, the profiles redesign, Collections, additional FEPs implemented - lots of work in motion.

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Trunk & Tidbits, March 2026

An update on the latest engineering work from the Mastodon team as we approach version 4.6

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/24c0ee1a-4632-4242-b555-5a24ee0114ff/trunk-amp-tidbits-for-march-is-out-our-monthly-engineering-news-featuring-current-releases-the-profiles-redesign-collections-additional-feps-implemented-lots-of-work-in-motion.RSS for NodeThu, 14 May 2026 21:41:16 GMTFri, 10 Apr 2026 11:19:34 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Trunk &amp; Tidbits for March is out - our monthly engineering news, featuring current releases, the profiles redesign, Collections, additional FEPs implemented - lots of work in motion. on Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:57:57 GMT]]>@MastodonEngineering Lots of focus on redesign and new features but I wish you'd focus more on basic shortcomings that have been around for a long time.

For example there's been a PR open for more than a year that addresses a major shortcoming of federation: backfilling posts to empty profiles of users. No real explanation for why it can't be merged in experimental form...

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ikuturso/statuses/116380524709644924https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/ikuturso/statuses/116380524709644924Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:57:57 GMT