Very thrilled to announce #faircamp 0.19.0! \o/Five releases ago notable changes to faircamp's layout were introduced - changes that I felt were crucial in addressing fundamental shortcomings in how faircamp structures and presents information. Until now however there were still loose ends - considerations that existed as a plan, but were not yet visible in the design.With this release this changes, and the extended benefits of the restructuring finally begin to surface: All actions around a release (listen, download, embed, etc.) are now prominently laid out in the top section, never pushed away by other content, and with the new link fields this area can now also feature custom links! The track list was moved up, aligned with this top section and redesigned to accomodate track-level covers and extra content such as lyrics, show notes, or anything else you choose!And there's more: M3U playlists for releases (thank you @lvk for this suggestion!), Ukrainian translations (thank you @nerd!), emphasized payment links (thanks for the report @crocuta!), "More" button label customization, better responsive behavior, and an even lighter js footprint.Finally, thanks to @sknob and @ndr_brt for input on the track lists and to the two institutions making soo much development in 2024 possible: @nlnet and @EC_NGI!

Personally, I didn't need any more convincing that in spite of everything he laid ground for, Stallman has long become unfit for leadership in the free software community.Even so, as there are still people actively defending and enabling him, I'm grateful to the authors of the https://stallman-report.org/ (@report_press) for having dedicated their time to compile a well researched, courageous reminder to us all, that this man, and those who back him, should not be leaders in our movement(s).Of the piles of evidence in the report I found this most telling: "Stallman has emphasized that teenagers are distinct from “children”, on average, once every 9 weeks since 2003. Stallman has made this distinction 42 times following his 2019 retraction, an average of once every 6½ weeks since the retraction."This is not a person who said something controversial once or twice and was misread and slandered for it.This is a person that regularly and systemically tests and pushes the boundaries of how openly he can advocate in defense of abuse. A person that is at best a free speech troll, and at worst seeks to politically and philosophically dismantle our understanding and laws that protect the vulnerable against abuse. A person utterly unfit for leadership.Hence, full support for these recommendations: https://stallman-report.org/#recommendations-for-reconciliation-and-closure

It's my delight to announce #faircamp 0.18.0:If there's one thing to take away from this release, it is that _embeddable players_ for releases and stand-alone tracks are now finally ready and at your disposal! ⸜(*ˊᗜˋ*)⸝There is a number of other things included too! Critical fixes, some subtle stuff, even one little secret experimental feature goodie. Read all about it in the release announcement - https://simonrepp.com/posts/faircamp-0.18.0/ - where I've also included an exciting outlook on the rest of the year!Lastly a shout-out to the people who made this release happen: @nlnet and the @EC_NGI with all their expertise and financial support, making the entire thing possible! And then @cpacaud, @futzle, DURAD, session and @toctoc for bug reports, ideas and improved translations - thank you so much!New to faircamp? Check out the website: https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/That's all! (*^.^*)

This is an invitation to native speakers and experts of arabic, hebrew, persian and all other Right-To-Left languages: The #faircamp static site generator for audio producers will receive updates and corrections regarding layout and interface issues with RTL languages in the coming weeks. The more issues are brought to my attention, the more can be resolved! If you'd like to help out, get in touch! I'm happy to set up a call to try to sketch out an (actual or dummy) faircamp site together and talk about the problems you see (and afterwards I'll look into resolving them for everyone). Likewise you can also just explore on your own if you're interested to do that and send me messages/screenshots outlining issues you found - any way to approach this is very welcome!If you're not familiar with faircamp yet, check out the website: https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/Shout-out to @nlnet for making this kind of work possible through their project grants, and also to https://tinanay.avocadosh.xyz who are featured in the screenshot (and sorry for the RTL glitches for now - this is my declaration to learn and improve :)).I'm also grateful to everyone who shares this call with their RTL peers, thank you! :boost_requested:

Tada, it's #faircamp release day again! ✺◟( ᐛ )◞✺Today's edition - 0.17.0 - introduces configurable support for writing embedded cover images to download files (flac/mp3 [¹]), three first iterative refinements to the new layout that were high in demand - reduced spacing to bring release and track lists back up above the fold, demystification of the "..." navigation link and a simplified breadcrumb implementation right where it is required for navigation, plus a handful of fixes!Special shout-out to @sknob for diligently keeping me up to date with all the latest ways in which Safari breaks my frontend implementations ^^ and everyone who provided great critical insights on the (re-)design process, that's @keefmarshall, @xenogon, @axwax, @ethicalrevolution and @branpos - thank you so much!This release too is part of 2024's Faircamp 1.0 project grant, financed and supported by @nlnet and @EC_NGI. P.S.: Those who update, make sure to check out "synopsis" in the manual (catalog/release pages) and give it a try! https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/[¹] I've done a good bit of research for all formats that faircamp outputs and found these two are the only ones for which this is supported through the format and through ffmpeg's featureset right now, but if you have insights to extend this to further formats, let me know!

This week I'm officially beginning my work on #faircamp in the scope of the Faircamp 1.0 grant through #NGI0 Entrust @NGIZero, financed by @EC_NGI, which will span the next months throughout summer and early fall 2024 at least.Working together with the people at NLnet foundation to set everything up has been a blast so far and I'm very grateful to be given this opportunity. Everyone of you who use, support, contribute to, and spread the news about faircamp have made this possible as well, so thank you all!First developments this week are the introduction of complicance with FSFE's https://reuse.software/ in the codebase, yesterday's release of a stable/version-locked AUR package (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/faircamp), setting up a dedicated "Feature suggestions" thread in the issue tracker (https://codeberg.org/simonrepp/faircamp/issues/90 - please read the fine print ;)), and some bugfixing work with support from @lislegaard which will go right into the next release. Excited to be back in the lab! \o/