Upvote RSS Files

This release brings substantial performance, reliability, and accessibility improvements. The front end UI has been moved from Vue to a native web component, cache performance is improved with APCu and serialized storage, and some media handling (Reddit/Imgur) has been made more robust. There are also resilience fixes around Mbin, better URL redirection handling, and a handful of UX/polish and documentation updates. Accessibility for screen readers has been much improved.

Added

• Front end
• Platform preview icons in the Platform dropdown
• Server‑Sent Events for live progress updates on long‑running operations
• Caching
• APCu support in the app and APCu installation in the Docker image for Reddit auth and progress updates

Changed

• Front end
• Converted the UI from Vue to a native web component. It's now faster, more lightweight, and it means one fewer dependency.
• Improved accessibility for screen readers and keyboard navigation
• Added rel="noopener noreferrer" to external links for better security and privacy
• Hacker News
• Use Algolia API for Hacker News for way better efficiency
• Switch from "topstories" to "frontpage" list
• Enable the Threshold filter for HN with the switch to the Algolia API
• Caching
• Switched cache files to a serialized format
• More efficient cleanup of expired cache entries
• Architecture/infra
• Replace manual logger instantiation with a global logger() helper
• Refactor Reddit authentication to a singleton for efficiency
• Enable CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION in curlURL to handle redirects better
• Parsing/normalization
• Improved post title normalization
• Autocomplete
• Refactor subreddit autocomplete for better filter handling
• UI/UX
• Disable “Refresh cache” while posts are loading
• Dev experience
• Versioned style/script URLs for cache‑busting in debug mode
• Docs/housekeeping
• Update README for clarity on supported platforms and features

Fixed

• Reddit
• Better MIME type detection and preview image handling for videos
• Correct thumbnail URL assignment for specific edge cases
• Imgur
• Video controls fixes
• Post model
• Cleaned up image URL handling to avoid incorrect/unstable URLs
• Mbin
• Handle more empty API responses with appropriate logging
• Increase cURL timeouts to accommodate slower instances
• Cache
• Create the cache directory in a race‑safe way and suppress noisy warnings
• Scoring
• Avoid null issues in top_posts array during score calculation

Full Changelog: https://github.com/johnwarne/upvote-rss/compare/v1.6.0...v1.7.0