Cloudillo v0.8.16 — Reposts You Can Actually Verify
Signed reposts and quotes across servers, a redesigned profile, reversible passkey onboarding, and guest-browsable folders
0.8.16 is out. Reposts landed — and the part we’re quietly proud of isn’t the button, it’s what’s underneath it.
Reposts and quotes
You can boost a post straight to your feed now, or quote it and add your own take. Media comes along for the ride either way.
Here’s the part underneath. Every action in Cloudillo is cryptographically signed, and a repost carries that signature with it. So when a post travels from one server to another, the receiving side can check it’s genuine instead of taking it on faith. No “trust me, they really posted this.” The signature says so, or it doesn’t. Repost counts are federated too, which means the number means the same thing everywhere — not a count that’s inflated on one server and missing on another.
Most networks treat a repost as a claim. We treat it as something you can verify. On a network where no single company owns the data, that’s the only default that makes sense.
Profiles, redesigned
Editing happens inline now. Change your name, bio, and picture right where you’re standing, with a proper loading state instead of being thrown to a separate settings page and back. Copying your idTag — your you.domain handle — is one tap.
And the relationship chips are clearer. At a glance you can tell whether you follow someone, they follow you, or you’re actually connected. Those are three different things, and the old design blurred them.
Onboarding that doesn’t fight you
New sign-up is a wizard you can walk backward through. Step back without losing your place — no more starting over because you mistyped something two screens ago. Passkey registration is built in, so there’s no password to invent and forget.
And if you arrived through an invite, we connect you automatically and drop you into the right community, instead of leaving you standing in an empty app wondering where the people are. An invite should land you somewhere, with someone. Now it does.
Shared folders for people without accounts
Send someone a folder link and they can browse it as a guest. No account, no sign-up wall.
Folder links can grant write access too. So you can share a folder and let someone upload into it — handy for collecting photos after an event, or documents from someone who’ll never make a Cloudillo account and shouldn’t have to. And share scopes cover whole subtrees now, so sharing a parent folder shares what’s inside it, the way you’d expect.
Firmer guardrails for communities
Role-hierarchy checks, so people can only act within their level — no reaching above your role to do something you shouldn’t. And community leaders can manage identities for their members, which is the kind of thing you need the moment a community is more than three friends.
Under the hood
The notification socket reconnects with proper exponential backoff now, instead of hammering the server the instant a connection drops. DNS matching got smarter about domains that share a CNAME or an IP. And the task scheduler stopped retrying things that can never succeed — a retry loop on a permanent failure is just a way to waste cycles and fill logs.
Still early, still building in the open. If you’re running your own server, thank you. If you’ve been meaning to try, now’s a good time.