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Signed-off-by: Anirudh Oppiliappan <anirudh@tangled.sh>
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slug: 6-months
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title: 6 months of tangling
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subtitle: new domain, a quick recap, and notes on the future
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date: 2025-09-17
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date: 2025-09-18
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image: /static/img/logo_with_text.jpeg
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authors:
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- name: Anirudh
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## major platform highlights
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With that, let's recap the major platform highlights so far!
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### pull requests
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One of the first major features we built was our pull requests system,
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which follows a unique round-based submission & review approach. This
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we're excited to keep experimenting with new ideas that make code review
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and contribution easier!
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### spindle
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CI was our most requested feature, and we spent a *lot* of time debating
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how to approach it. We considered integrating with existing platforms,
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but none were good fits. So we gave in to NIH and [built spindle
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Docker-based engine is limiting -- we plan to switch to micro VMs
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eventually. Meanwhile, if you've got ideas for other spindle backends
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(Kubernetes?!), we'd love patches!
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### XRPC APIs
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A rather large change we recently introduced was a complete migration of
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the knotserver to an [XRPC](https://atproto.com/specs/xrpc) API.
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[lexicons]: https://tangled.sh/@tangled.sh/core/tree/master/lexicons
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### issues rework
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Issues got a major rework too! They are now threaded: top-level comments
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with replies. This makes Q/A style discussions much easier to follow!
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### tngl.sh PDS
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A complaint we often recieved was the need for a Bluesky account to use
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Tangled; and besides, we realised that the overlap between Bluesky users
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and possible Tangled users only goes so far -- we aim to be a generic
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code forge after all, atproto just happens to be an implementation
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detail.
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To address this, we spun up the tngl.sh PDS hosted right here in
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Finland. The only way to get an account on this PDS is by [signing
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up](https://tangled.sh/signup). There's a lot we can do to improve this
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experience as a generic PDS host, but we're still working out details
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around that.
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## the future
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