Core dev meeting #71

@howo · 2025-07-08 22:46 · core

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfvLzwnlEms

Hello ! New month new core dev meeting.

Generated summary

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

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