Hello ! New month new core dev meeting.

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This is more of a broad overview so you can see what topics were discussed but I heavily encourage you to listen to the thing

Technical Updates & Development Progress

Community Management & Notifications

• Merged changes to prevent communities from having more than 100 moderators/owners/admins
• Working on enabling error notifications that currently don't reach users (e.g., when setting too many moderators)
• Will implement error notifications as a new notification type in users' notification lists
• Plans to drop one notification table to save database space

External Partnerships

• Waiting for feedback from Coinbase on mesh-api

API Stack Release Plans

• New API stack version targeted for end of Q3 (September timeframe)
• Currently in first phase testing, near feature-complete
• Extensive collaboration between development teams being encouraged

HiveD Node Optimizations

• Significant memory reduction: shared memory file reduced from 24GB to 6GB
• Improved performance for both memory usage and replay speed
• No longer requires RAM disk - can use NVMe drives directly for replay
• Created script for optimizing virtual memory settings (requires root privileges)
• Working on Swagger-based documentation for HiveD's API

Application Development

HiveMind Improvements

• Enhanced muting functionality - now comprehensive
• Added traditional full-text search using Gin indexes
• Implementing semantic search (AI/vector-based search)
• Plans to deploy to api.syncad.com for public testing

Balance Tracker (with McFarhat's team)

• New features: balances, pending coin conversions, market orders
• Added average transfer statistics and overall analytics
• Monitoring recurrent transfers and trade history APIs
• Working on rich list feature
• Adding ability to track which account actually performed operations (vs. just affected accounts)

Block Explorer Updates

• Sped up witness feed calculations (now real-time vs. every 10 minutes)
• Improved permanent search functionality
• Adding more data for display

Libraries & Tools

Wax Development

• Python version now feature-complete and recommended for use
• Improved transaction creation and broadcasting speed
• API generator now supports both TypeScript and Python
• Built-in health checker with multi-server support
• Supports offline operations

Beekeeper

• Essentially finished, releasing this quarter
• Extensively tested through Denser and Clive applications

Web Components

• Released embeddable web components for posts and comments
• Collaborating with PeakD team on customized business websites
• Working with Denser team on server-side rendering for SEO
• Cross-team cooperation to avoid reinventing solutions

UI & Frontend Work

Block Explorer UI (McFarhat's team)

• Implemented multilingual support for 12 languages
• Added missing account details (last updated dates, etc.)
• Improved witness voting history with pagination and search filtering
• Health checker UI/UX improvements

Future Development & Collaboration

Team Cooperation Initiatives

• Encouraging more interaction between siloed development teams
• Meetings with PeakD team for cooperation opportunities
• Suggesting Three Speak team collaboration
• Successful ongoing collaboration with McFarhat's team on block explorer

Technology Considerations

• Discussion about Java support for Android development
• Current focus on completing Python Wax implementation
• Future plans for Rust support
• Worker Bee still in TypeScript, Python version planned

External Opportunities

Podcasting Integration

• Ongoing efforts to get Apple to adopt Hive for podcast live notifications (PodPing)
• PodPing provides cross-platform live podcast notifications via Hive
• Would require minimal technical resources from Hive team
• Could potentially integrate Hive into core Apple platform functionality