Core dev meeting #71

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Core dev meeting #71
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfvLzwnlEms

Hello ! New month new core dev meeting. 

# Generated summary

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
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