Wetshaving

Share your Shave of the Day for Saturday!

Talk amongst yourselves.

Share your Shave of the Day for Friday!

Share your Shave of the Day for Thursday!

Share your Shave of the Day for Wednesday!

Some people's unfortune, other people's luck.

I am giving away two smushes of Saponificio Varesino Tundra Artica. In order to claim a smush, you need to:

• live in the EU
• feel comfortable enough to send me your real ID and address
• commit to use it and post about it on this piefed instance (and you will need to do this, because I will know where you live)

Attribution will proceed on a random draw with Python in 48 hours (or when I can be arsed to look this up). Please post anything below to manifest your interest. If you have won, we will figure out a way to contact securely.

Good luck, lemminards and piefolk!

As the winner of the March edition of the BVWSC, I was duty-bound to send soap smushes to my fellow shavers across the pond. Alas, as I am writing this, there is no legal and/or financially viable way of getting soap samples (or any letter, for that matter) from France to the USA.

Therefore, the BVWSC in its current form is dead. There has also been a notable decrease in interest, so maybe this is just the right opportunity to say farewell.

On the other hand, we might find a way of continuing the community event, but in a different form. Our go-to has been the Tabac edition – which seems to be the only type of gear every self-~~hating~~respecting wetshaver has. Or we could do something else.

So, what shall we do?

Share your Shave of the Day for Tuesday!

Share your Shave of the Day for Monday!

If you use PieFed in a web browser, there are various themes to pick from. I just discovered these sample images to help you choose: https://join.piefed.social/screenshots/

Share your Shave of the Day for Sunday!

Share your Shave of the Day for Saturday!

Talk amongst yourselves.

Share your Shave of the Day for Friday!

Just a heads up, and a bit of a "test post" to make sure people are seeing content in !wetshaving@wetshav.ing. If you can see this post, you'll see everything else coming this way.

I got around to getting myself a safety razor, brush, and soap a little while ago, and I'm very happy with no longer having to deal with awful machine shaves. However, I haven't settled with a good bowl for mixing up the soap. Currently I just go for something from the kitchen cabinet, and none of them are very convenient and it's all very breakable making me uncomfortable bringing it on top of the bathroom sink where things easily slide around.

Does anyone have recommendations either specifically for which bowl to get, or more generally what to look for in a good bowl? Shape, material, and stuff like that. Ideally I'd try to find something second hand, but right now I'm not even sure exactly what to look for.

I don't want anything plastic or American.

I've received my smush, so we're good to go for the 24th. Yay!

Friendly reminder: head over to lemmy, and do your civic duty (if you're allowed to).

Go over to Lemmy, and nominate your soap! Nominations close Tuesday 4th, 19:00 CET.

https://sub.wetshaving.social/post/3265363

Vote here, please!

I'm still gaining experience in hosting PieFed, as the upgrading process is slightly different than what I'm used to. That said, we're up and running on the latest stable version, 1.2.2.

Here's the post with the changelog: https://piefed.social/post/1278967

UI  

Bottom sticky menu on mobile  
Instance-chooser during registration, displaying info about all other instances  
3D rotating tag cloud for communities with lots of hashtags  
Explore menu, with feeds and topics, separate from the Community menu  
Translation function for posts written in languages you can’t understand, uses any LibreTranslate server.  
Advanced search filters on /communities table  
Show poll results without voting  
Nicer formatting on quotes  
Consistent image thumbnail size in post teasers in compact mode  
Communities list shows number of active users not subscriber count  
PWA uses instance logo instead of default PieFed one  
Slideshow doesn’t bug out after a few dozen photos like it used to  
Improve search results by weighting post titles more than bodies  
Mods can set nsfw and nsfl the same way they set flair - with a popup menu in the post list  
Import saved posts & comments and user notes when importing settings  
NSFW-specific functionality, like R18 agreement upon first visit, video auto-play.  
Posting  

New type of post - events, with federation  
Remind me about a post or comment in the future  
Markdown parsing improvements - em-dashes, link syntax, subscript  
Preview markdown while writing a top-level comment  
Support CMYK images without mangling their colorspace when resizing  
Admin & backend  

Log in with LDAP creds stored in LDAP server (in addition to earlier LDAP functionality which stores creds in LDAP server). Helpful for Yunohost-based deployments (coming soon).  
Modlog filtering  
Account passwords stored in Lemmy format (bcrypt) can be used to log in (this is in preparation for the day when Lemmy instances are converted to PieFed instances)  
Instance shutdown process - tell all other instances to stop federating immediately.  
Restrict NSFW access in specified countries (e.g. UK)  
See which users share an IP address  
Really Simple Licensing  
When a new community is made a post is automatically created in [!newcommunities@lemmy.world](/c/newcommunities@lemmy.world)  
Automatically add remote communities mentioned in [!newcommunities@lemmy.world](/c/newcommunities@lemmy.world)  
API  

Automatically-updating Swagger docs to ease frontend development  
Include crosspost count in Post json  
Return thumbnail width/height information with post  
post/replies endpoint which returns nested JSON, better than comments/list  
Federation  

Federate flair changes properly  
When blocking an instance, block it in more places e.g. community lists in sidebar  
Context property on comments and posts to make it easier for NodeBB to backfill  
FEP 3b86 - activity intents  
PieFed.social news  

When a.gup.pe shut down, the photography group became https://piefed.social/c/photography which is doing well.  
Snoopy, Skavau and wjs018 are now admins in addition to rimu.  
https://crust.piefed.social/ is our new testing and development instance. 

In case anyone on PieFed hasn't wandered over to Lemmy recently, it's time to vote on the BVWSC soap! https://sub.wetshaving.social/post/3101369

Hello new PieFed users.

The main wetshaving activities happen on Lemmy, but you can interact with Lemmy from here. Here's a feed of wetshaving communities to follow:

https://wetshav.ing/f/shaving