PyLova (Python+Pavlova) is a soft fork of PieFed, aimed at improving the user experience through UI overhauls, empowering users and admins with agency, improved administration and moderation functions, and general bug fixing.

New in V0.3.0

For Users

• New ‘Look & Feel’ tab in settings, for customising your user experience.
• In comment video uploading and posting (counts towards files quota).
• Updated ‘Files’ page, allowing mass deletion of uploaded media.

For Moderators

• Can set default tags for communities, that auto-fill into new posts on community. Enabling greater discover-ability across the Fediverse.

For Admins

• New ‘Look & Feel’ tab in settings, to help with managing the visual style of your instance.
• Ability to view a users deleted posts and downvotes alongside their upvotes.
• New ‘Rules’ sidebar panel to display instance rules.

And More

• Themes can support sub-colour schemes.
• New User setup page is condensed into one, offering options for setting pronouns and bio.
• Alt text (aria label) for video uploads.
• Consistent markdown editor.
• Musk/Trump filter reworked to a ‘low politics’ filter.
• Hard-coded musk/trump filter removed for users who are not signed in.
• Thanks to @Dialectical_Specialist@quokk.au, Lichess boards are supported to display.
• Updated documentation by @quill7513@anarchist.nexus.
• Updated docker example by @tenchiken@anarchist.nexus.
• Visual changes to posts, tags displayed under title and titles now serve as hyperlink.
• Fix with API, images posts no longer upload against image quota and send as image type posts enabling to display correctly on Lemmy.
• Collapse-able sidebar cards.
• Sorting (hot/new/local/all) is managed by drop-downs to maintain consistency.
• Removal of ‘Rational Discourse’ sidebar.
• Minor fixes & changes.