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Hello Tanglers! It's been over 6 months since we launched Tangled, so we
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figured we'd do a quick retrospective on what we shipped and what's
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next.
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But before that, we've got a big announcement!
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## tangled.sh is now tangled.org!
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Yep! We managed to get the tangled.org domain thanks to [Chris
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Maytag](https://bsky.app/profile/cpm5280.bsky.social) who very kindly
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let us have it!
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We're still in the process of migrating and there may be stray
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references to the .sh domain in places so bear with us. Rest assured:
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## new logo and mascot: dolly!
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Tangled finally has a logo! Designed by Akshay himself, Dolly is in reference to the first ever *cloned* mammal.
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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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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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ourselves](/ci)! This turned out great -- we could go all in on Nix and
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make it "atproto native". It also attracted a chunk of the Nix crowd,
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which we're very happy about!
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Spindle is still early but designed to be extensible. The current
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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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Alongside this, we also decoupled the knot from the appview by getting
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rid of the registration secret, which was centralizing. Knots (and
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spindles) simply declare their owner, which any appview can verify. Once
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we stabilize the [lexicon definitions](lexicons) for these XRPC calls,
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building clients for knots (or entire appviews!) should become much simpler.
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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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## the future
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We're working on a *lot* of exciting new things and possibly some big
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announcements to come. For the next 6 months, the primary focus will be
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on these fronts:
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* labels support for issues
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* notifications: both in-app and emails
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* preliminary support for issue and PR search
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* total federation and network playback
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That's all for now; we'll see you on the atmosphere!
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---
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Hello Tanglers! It's been over 6 months since we first announced
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Tangled, so we figured we'd do a quick retrospective on what we built so
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far and what's next.
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But before that, we've got a big announcement!
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## tangled.sh is now tangled.org!
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[Chris Maytag](https://bsky.app/profile/cpm5280.bsky.social) very kindly
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let us have the tangled.org domain!
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We're still in the process of migrating and there may be stray
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references to the .sh domain in places so bear with us. Rest assured:
···
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## new logo and mascot: dolly!
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Tangled finally has a logo! Designed by Akshay himself, Dolly is in
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reference to the first ever *cloned* mammal.
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With that, let's recap the major platform improvements so far!
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### pull requests
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···
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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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ourselves](/ci)! This turned out great -- we could go all in on Nix and
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make it "atproto native".
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Spindle is still early but designed to be extensible. The current
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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 to [hear from you](https://chat.tangled.sh).
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### XRPC APIs
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We introduced a complete migration of the knotserver to an
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[XRPC](https://atproto.com/specs/xrpc) API. Alongside this, we also
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+
decoupled the knot from the appview by getting rid of the registration
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+
secret, which was centralizing. Knots (and spindles) simply declare
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their owner, and any appview can verify ownership. Once we stabilize the
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[lexicon definitions](lexicons) for these XRPC calls, building clients
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for knots, or alternate implementations should become much simpler.
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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 (and facelift) too! They are now threaded:
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top-level comments with replies. This makes Q/A style discussions much
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easier to follow!
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### hosted 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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## the future
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We're working on a *lot* of exciting new things and possibly some big
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announcements to come:
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* labels
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* notifications: both in-app and emails
112
* preliminary support for issue and PR search
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* total federation
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* network playback
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That's all for now; we'll see you in the atmosphere!