Following collections

It is now possible to follow specific collections. Before, you were only able to follow entire user profiles but in case someone posts junk most of the time but have this one single really good collection of interesting gems - we got you covered.

Just hit Follow button in this one collection page header and you're all set - this collection now lands in your Feed!

Search engine

Pond now has it's own simple search engine! It uses a full-text search capabilities and is database-agnostic (here currently working with sqlite).

There are couple of things you can do apart from simple word search. Here are couple of examples:

• keyword - searches given word(s)
• user:mbajur - shows you all posts and collections by given username
• user:mbajur keyword - same as above but also by keyword
• url:tumblr - search by part of link URL

So far, keyword searches are done on a following columns:

• post title
• post url
• post user username
• post content (text)
• collection name
• collection user username

Happy searching you all!

Slugable collections

Collections are now slugable. Meaning, instead of collection URL being /@mbajur/123, the number is being replaced with a parametrized version of collection name, so it becames /@mbajur/pond-news.

The logic is simple:

1. If the slug candidate is available, Collection Name is being transformed into collection-name
2. If the slug candidate is taken by any other collection on the instance, it gets transformed into collection-name-a1b2c - with random hash appended at the end of the slug.

Same collection slugs will be used as collection handles once Pond supports federation.

Image uploads

It is now possible to create image post on pond. As usual - you can either past it from your clipboard wherever you're currently at on pond or via + Add button.

The underlying image engine is able to handle multiple images per post so it should be possible to do so in the future but for now we're keeping it simple. One image per post :)

Keep in mind: images will be a premium feature on pond.st, available only to supporters and to anyone who self hosts.

MVP scope (unfederated)

Here is a lost of features i personally think needs to be implemented in order to be able to tell pppond is in an MVP state. Not in any particular order.

• Single post view
• Search
• Markdown in collection description and user bio
• Renaming models to bucket/drop
• Github repo cleaned up (readme etc)
• Specs (?)
• Decent mobile device friendliness - on a minimal level, just so it's usable
• Basic SEO
• Modals not closing randomly
• S3 storage + CDN
• Collection slugs
• Following users
• domain - not really a feature but you get it
• URL posts
• Text posts
• Image posts