The v1.8.1 release of mbin brings a lot of bug fixes, UI and documentaion improvements

For Users

Improve light themes

We improved the contrast our light themes have a lot -> they just look better

We fixed a lot with our new inline previews

• We do not just remove a link when we cannot find an activity for it
• if a link contained a title we do not render the preview, but the title instead
• Community links from lemmy sometimes use this syntax: [!community@instance.tld](https://instance.tld/c/community) which our preview parser couldn't handle -> now it can
• All previews are now inlined, so they can be put in brackets for example (they do not take up a whole line anymore):

Always put thumbnails in a lightbox

When you click a thumbnail in a list view, the default behavior is to open that image in a lightbox now. You can disable that new behavior via the appearance settings. If you have this option disabled then clicking on the link will open up the post like it did before

Fix tooltips not working for the appearance settings

Most of the appearance settings have a helptext, which is now displayed again when hovering over the setting.

Blocked or Deleted Users cannot send you private messages anymore

Deleting User Images

When you deleted your avatar or cover it did not properly federate to remote mbin servers, we fixed that

Modlog avatars

The modlog now properly respects the setting for displaying user avatars. You can also disable the "new user" icon in the modlog.

For Admins

Nginx documentation updates

New command for removing DMs and ban sending users

As we all have witnessed multiple nicoles in our DMs at this point, we added a command that can search through DMs with a query. Afterwards it will delete the found messages and band the sending user. Have a look at the documentation for more details.

We officially support PHP 8.4

Updated bare metal installation docs

We updated the docs to use the correct way of installing php on debian 12. We also mention installing php 8.4 there.

For App Developers

Add Id to push notifications

The push notification payload will now contain the corresponding notification id if there is one

Fix NotificationSettingApi

Previously you would always get a unauthorized response, this is now fixed

Add some endpoints to public access

These endpoints are now publicly accessible:

• /api/info
• /api/instance
• /api/federated
• /api/defederated
• /api/dead