Hey everyone! I just wanted to share a quick update on Thunder’s development for those who might not be following our progress on Matrix or GitHub.

The next nightly build of Thunder should be out soon (give or take about a week, depending on when I wrap up internal testing) and will include initial support for PieFed. This has been quite a large undertaking and has resulted in a ton of under-the-hood changes to Thunder’s internal logic. Because of that, the upcoming nightly build will be highly experimental and may introduce more bugs than usual.

If you’re currently running the nightly builds (including TestFlight), I highly recommend backing up your Thunder settings and local database just in case something unexpected happens.

While the upcoming nightly will support PieFed, general availability won’t be coming for some time. This is to give us plenty of time to fix any remaining issues, improve PieFed support, and make sure Thunder is stable before releasing the next update (v0.8.0).

Here’s a quick overview of what will be supported for PieFed in the upcoming nightly:

• Browsing feeds (all, local, subscribed), posts, and comments
• Logging into existing PieFed accounts
• Interacting with posts, comments, and users (vote, save, block, etc.), including some moderator actions
• Searching for content (posts and comments)
• Basic notification support (replies and mentions)

And here’s what won’t be supported just yet (requires some additional work):

• Updating your PieFed account settings
• Reporting posts or comments
• Viewing private messages
• Viewing the modlog or post/comment reports

If you’d like to stay up to date with nightly releases, check out !thunder_nightly@lemmy.world or join our Matrix space!

Finally, if you have any questions about Thunder at all, feel free to leave a comment and I’ll do my best to answer them.