Caint.ie Changelog

[padraig]

Moderation is key to keeping a community website such as Caint running smoothly and effectively.
There are rules in place, of course. (See https://caint.ie/post/23) but that alone is sometimes not enough.

So, for now, I have decided to restrict the @politics section for all new members.
But if you wish to have access and post in the @politics section, you must now join a group.

To join the group, click the icon on the left. Click the “Politics” group, and click the green “Join Group” button.

Existing members are already part of this group, no action is required, but you can leave if you want.

If you are having issues trying to join, please check out this handy GIF explainer from the new @Caint.ie-Mule [Not a real mule]

We know that discussions can be heated, so hopefully by allowing you to join/leave the @politics section, it will help keep things calm.

We’re always looking for ways to improve things here at Caint, so please let us know in @Comments-Feedback

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2025-09-18
Added a new @external section. This will be for external discussion boards (ie. Lemmy, Piefed, nodeBB, Discourse, etc) - These will only be for topical discussions. External memes and politics discussion boards will still be placed as sub-forums of @caint

• Added “Technology” sub-forum linking to technology@lemmy.world in @external
• Added “Games” sub-forum linking to games@lemmy.world in @external
• Added “Selfhosted” sub-forum linking to selfhosted@lemmy.world in @external
• Moved “Fediverse” (fediverse@piefed.social) from @technology to @external [This ensures that Fediverse discussions that are coming in via hashtag and the Piefed feed are separated]

Added tracking #iepol in @politics
Increased image upload permission size from 100kb to 5MB.

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2025-09-18
Added @news-feeds, RSS of Irish publications

EDIT:
Removing @news-feeds - May come back at some point.

• I am not happy that they are simply just ‘links’ and not even an excerpt of the article.

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2025-10-01
Removed ‘Uncategorized’ from home page. You can still access it by clicking on the
icon on the left side. This has been reverted as access to certain ‘Remote’ categories were missing.
Categories within @caint and @external have been updated to include the source location name.

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2025-11-05
Registration has changed from ‘Open’ to ‘Admin Approval’ - This means that when you register, you will see this message. You will need to wait for me to approve registration. I will try to catch it within a couple of hours, but if I don’t, ping me on @padraig@mastodon.ie or email caint@caint.ie from the email account that you have signed up from.

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2025-01-28
Cross posting is now available to everyone (as part of the newest NodeBB update). Go into any thread, and click “Cross post Topic” and select where it should be cross posted to. Example below.
Fixed emoji on posts. And the ability to create emoji’s by typing :star: has also been fixed.
The ability to ‘Spoiler’ text has been removed as it was broken. It may return in the future.

Cross post Example:

In @music, you will see the Video Game Music thread.

In the thread, click Crosspost Topic on the right

Here, you would select the category that you wish to cross post to.
Select the topic and click Cross-post

And the post is now crossed over to the Gaming section.

At the moment, there is no ‘permissions’ for this, so this will be monitored until permissions become available.

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2026-02-01
@caint is now only accessible by joining the ‘The Lock-In’ Group. Details on how to access the group is the same method on how to join @politics - See here for more details. - All existing members have access to this, you are free to leave the group if you desire.

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2026-02-03
Removed the warning when accessing external links. If it becomes an issue in the future, we will re-enable it.

2026-02-28
‘Uncategorized’ category has finally been removed after 5 months of pain… It is still available on the sidebar by clicking the icon on the sidebar or by going to https://caint.ie/world
[Temporary] - The ‘Recent Posts’ that were at the top of the forum were broken after the latest update. I am awaiting an update. Once it has been released, it will be reinstated!

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2026-03-03
Added @only-in-ireland - For Ireland/Irish-based jokes, memes, videos and more.
Added @gaa , @rugby and @soccer-football categories within @sport
Added @introductions - So now you can introduce yourself to Caint.
All categories (excluding @caint) now has the Irish name beside it.
@caint is now accessible to all. No groups.
@external now contains all @caint remote categories.
Updated descriptions of all categories.
The ‘Recent Posts’ at the top of the forum have been re-introduced. The issue was due to another plugin (that is no longer being maintained and wasn’t actively used) causing issues. It has been removed.

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2026-03-12
Added ‘Mastodon’ share button.

• Hover over any post to reveal the post options, click the ⋮ icon.
• Click the Mastodon logo under ‘Share this post’

• It will take you to share.joinmastodon.org where you can enter your own instance so that it will load the post on your own server, where you can interact (Favourite, Boost, Reply) with it