Hey all,

I’m evaluating PieFed as a replacement for Lemmy, with a view to importing my two Lemmy communities to move them out of the failing Lemmy instance they’re currently hosted on (a PieFed exclusive I understand). I’ve created an account and imported my Lemmy settings yesterday, and so far it’s been more or less smooth sailing.

But there’s one showstopper for me: when I create a post, there’s no field to specify the thumbnail image URL. When PieFed guesses the image URL correctly, no problem. But here, I just posted this YouTube video, and just like on Lemmy half of the time, the thumbnail image didn’t get picked up. On Lemmy, I always manually insert the thumbnail URL when I post YouTube links for that reason.

Similarly, some sites make it extra-hard for software to correctly guess the og:image - Reuters for instance - and so in those cases when it doesn’t work, I manually set the correct thumbnail URL too.

Here on PieFed, there doesn’t seem to be a provision to set the thumbnail URL.

Am I doing something wrong? Am I missing something obvious? I really doubt this basic functionality is missing from PieFed.

  • Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.zip
    2·
    3 days ago

    Hello,

    Nice to see you experimenting with Piefed.

    Regarding the thumbnail URL, you might be right, it might not be there at this moment. On the other hand, that feature on Lemmy itself wasn’t available for quite a while IIRC.

    There is an issue existing on https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/887 , feel free to comment/vote on it so that it gets picked up for the next release (probably 1.3 by this point, 1.2 is almost done)

    You can see the planned features for the 1.2 release: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/projects/19472

    Here are the ones for 1.3: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/projects/20953

    • ExtremeDullard@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      In case it wasn’t clear, I’m not complaining 🙂 Just trying to make PieFed work for me.

      There is an issue existing on https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/887 , feel free to comment/vote on it so that it gets picked up for the next release (probably 1.3 by this point, 1.2 is almost done)

      I guess that’s a good excuse to create a Codeberg account. I need to move my repos out of GitHub and I was planning to evaluate Codeberg at some point.

      Thanks!

      • Blaze (he/him)@lemmy.zip
        2·
        3 days ago

        In case it wasn’t clear, I’m not complaining 🙂 Just trying to make PieFed work for me.

        It was clear, no worries! You will see, there are still a few features that are missing, but most of them are being worked on (see the 1.2 dashboard above), so things improve a bit every day.