grishka/Smithereen

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Federated, ActivityPub-compatible social network server with friends, walls, and groups.

Stars: 546
Forks: 37
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 41
Avg merge: 19h 39m
Merged PRs (30d): 6

Dominant language: Java
License: Unlicense
Last GitHub push: Jul 25, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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41 open issues indexed

Full-text post search should also include image and audio descriptions Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

grishka/Smithereen#303 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Feature request: create a link when pasting a URL into a text area Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

grishka/Smithereen#295 · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Feature request: ability to view your page as someone else Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

grishka/Smithereen#294 · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Federate the number of likes and reposts for foreign posts Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

grishka/Smithereen#289 · Opened Jul 7, 2026
Allow to set group type at group creation time Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

grishka/Smithereen#288 · Opened Jul 7, 2026
Feature request: save drafts of posts Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

grishka/Smithereen#284 · Opened Jun 16, 2026
systemd unit missing After=mysql.service causes startup failure on reboot Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 70/100

grishka/Smithereen#273 · 1 comment · Opened May 2, 2026
Server description can only be seen if you're logged out Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

grishka/Smithereen#268 · Opened Apr 2, 2026
Feature request: allow WebFinger domain to be different from ActivityPub domain Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

grishka/Smithereen#266 · Opened Mar 18, 2026
Captcha is not scaled for high resolution displays Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

grishka/Smithereen#255 · Opened Feb 18, 2026
Duplicate comments under profile photos and the corresponding update posts Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

grishka/Smithereen#253 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 29, 2026
Support localizable names and descriptions for applications Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

grishka/Smithereen#250 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 23, 2026
Feature request: allow permanent caching of media from remote instances Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

grishka/Smithereen#249 · Opened Jan 23, 2026
Feature request: photo album attachments Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

grishka/Smithereen#244 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 20, 2026
Feature request: VKontakte-like chats between Smithereen users only Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

grishka/Smithereen#223 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 21, 2025
Missing UI for editing the Saved Photos album Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

grishka/Smithereen#215 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 10, 2025
Feature request: ability to subscribe/unsubscribe to comments of a post Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

grishka/Smithereen#214 · Opened Nov 3, 2025
Feature request: display storage usage for users Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

grishka/Smithereen#213 · Opened Oct 30, 2025
Feature request: the ability to hide your year of birth Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

grishka/Smithereen#206 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 14, 2025
Ignore trailing slashes in the router Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

grishka/Smithereen#204 · Opened Oct 11, 2025
Notify by email that the exported data archive is ready Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

grishka/Smithereen#195 · Opened Sep 14, 2025
Feature request: ability to share groups Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

grishka/Smithereen#190 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 9, 2025
Feature request: server-side syntax highlighting for code blocks Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

grishka/Smithereen#183 · Opened Aug 25, 2025
Smithereen shows threaded posts from BridgyFed as separate posts (and they are out of order) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

grishka/Smithereen#182 · Opened Aug 25, 2025
Display self-replies as flat comments Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

grishka/Smithereen#169 · Opened Aug 8, 2025
Feature request: sharing a post in private messages Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

grishka/Smithereen#168 · Opened Aug 8, 2025
Broken audio in embedded post Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

grishka/Smithereen#167 · Opened Aug 8, 2025
A UI button to fetch all replies Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

grishka/Smithereen#163 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 30, 2025
Group handle change has not propagated to my server Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

grishka/Smithereen#162 · Opened Jul 30, 2025
Text input is clipped when leaving a comment Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

grishka/Smithereen#159 · Opened Jul 29, 2025
Photo grid in a post is not optimal Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

grishka/Smithereen#157 · Opened Jul 26, 2025
HTML character entities are displayed as is in on feedback page Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

grishka/Smithereen#146 · Opened Jun 25, 2025
Page footer is running away in profile pages. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

grishka/Smithereen#144 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 17, 2025
Support for PeerTube objects Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

grishka/Smithereen#142 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 16, 2025
Refreshing a user who's been deleted on a federated server should delete it on the current server Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

grishka/Smithereen#130 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 17, 2025
Feature request: language-specific name variants Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

grishka/Smithereen#104 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 13, 2025
Unabe to attach if text input is empty on mobile Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

grishka/Smithereen#93 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 12, 2024
Sending DM to a person causes "Are you sure you want to leave this page" popup Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

grishka/Smithereen#86 · Opened Oct 22, 2024
Adding someone to a relationship status doesn't notify them Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

grishka/Smithereen#84 · Opened Oct 22, 2024
Allow displaying other people's mentions on one's wall Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

grishka/Smithereen#74 · Opened Aug 6, 2024
Read me should list a test instance for people to check it out. Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 35/100

grishka/Smithereen#55 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 8, 2023

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