🚀 2024.9.1

This month we released a minor version of CryptPad, 2024.9.1. This point release contains fixes and improvements addressing issues and needs we encountered on the flagship instance CryptPad.fr

• Improving plugin support for monitoring and the upcoming CryptPad Cloud deployments (see 🔭 Next up below)
• Fixing server issues

Please see the full release notes for more information.

🗯️ Social media update

We aren't fans of social media platforms that track users and have algorithmic timelines. We left Twitter two years ago and haven't looked back. However, we decided to increase our online presence by opening two more accounts:

• 🦋 Bluesky
• 💼 Linkedin

Our goal is to meet potential new users where they are, and encourage more people to improve their privacy by using CryptPad. We also need to find some companies that are willing to pay us to host the service, giving the project financial stability.

🐘 Mastodon remains our main communication channel with 6K followers, and the Fediverse the closest network to our project values. From now on you will also be seeing our posts on Bluesky (@cryptpad.org), and a separate feed on Linkedin aimed at marketing CryptPad to enterprise. If you are on either of these networks we appreciate help in reaching a new audience by following and boosting our content.

🗞️ La Contre-Voie

We were delighted to find this in depth documentation (available in French and English) of how French NGO la Contre-Voie provides "digital support" to other NGOs. They assist others all the way from assessing the needs of a group, to implementing solutions using free software, either through self-hosting or recommending other services. On top of being an interesting read, it features CryptPad in a great meme about alternatives to Big Tech:

👕 We are also big fans of their t-shirts! (design by Brume)

🔭 Next up

• We are working on the Winter release 2024.12.0 that we aim to wrap up before the holiday season.
• ☁️ CryptPad Cloud: We are putting the finishing touches to Cloud Demos, allowing people to test-drive their own hosted instance of CryptPad (like you can for XWiki our parent company's product). We hope to release this for everyone soon!