autost 1.4.0: akkoma importer, lazy loading, and a windows fix

this update (full changelog) includes several minor improvements that landed after the big cohost shutdown scramble (rip eggbug). most notably:

• all <img> elements are now lazy loaded, massively reducing the size of large threads pages
• you can now reblog posts from akkoma instances, including those on the website league

• autost server now lets you click [+] on any tag to post in it
• autost server is no longer broken on windows (@ar1a, #39)

so… real talk. a handful of you actually use (or are considering using) autost for more than just archiving your chosts, and i think that’s wonderful. but maybe at this point you’re wondering if the project’s days are numbered.

development has been pretty slow the past couple of months, because i fell in love with a fox, and i needed a break after the last crunch. but i don’t consider autost finished, and i intend to keep working on it, just at a healthier pace.

higher priorities include being able to upload images from the post composer and compose posts from another device. but longer term, i wonder if there’s a niche for autost to be an easier kind of blog engine.

most blogging solutions are either saas, complex self-hosted (wordpress), or require you to be a computer-toucher and have frontend knowledge (static site generators). what if you could just run an app on your computer and get an editor for your blog? what if you could compose posts, follow and reblog your friends, and deploy your blog to neocities or some other host, all without touching the command line?

if that interests you, let me know at autost@shuppy.org or on the league :)