Source Code

Our goal is to provide the best possible Mastodon experience for our members. One way to deliver on that is by delivering the most up-to-date Mastodon code. We "run off main", which means using the latest commits to the main branch of the Mastodon codebase found on the project's official GitHub repository.

We take a clean copy of the latest Mastodon code and then apply a limited set of modifications with a custom script. We then build the modified code inside a Docker container, publish it to GitHub Container Registry, for consumption by our Kubernetes cluster.

Our server-specific customizations include:

• Customizing the Mastodon logo colors (if needed) for events like Pride Month, etc.
• Raising the post character count limit from 500 to 640 (vmstan/mastodon #36)
• Fixing the hide pill on images by hiding it (vmstan/mastodon #45)
• Fixing the alt/gif indicator visibility (vmstan/mastodon #48)
• Adding Docs link to the sidebar (vmstan/mastodon #53)
• Raising image attachment maximums from 8MP to 48MP (vmstan/mastodon #54)
• Raising the poll option limit from 4 to 6 (vmstan/mastodon #55)
• Fixing YouTube link previews by modifying the User-Agent for youtube.com (vmstan/mastodon #57)

Individual container builds may include additional changes which are being tested on vmst.io, and may be sourced from PR's in the official project repository or in the vmst.io development fork.