Forem Core

Ben Halpern

Nov 14 '25

Extending the Nano Banana image generation to also be responsible for fun unique profile images for users who register through a path without providing their own profile pic.

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Ben Halpern

Nov 13 '25

Available across the whole Forem network and self-hosted instances if configured

Cover Image Generation Now an Option in the DEV Editor

Ben Halpern for The DEV Team ・ Nov 13

#community #forem #ai #design

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Forem Project News

Nov 10 '25

Forem Project Weekly: Scheduled Automations, Image Generation & UX Upgrades

#opensource #performance #productivity #uiux

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Ben Halpern

Nov 6 '25

Stream of small fixes — this week's repo recap is going to be full!

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Ben Halpern

Nov 3 '25

Next version of mobile app is going to be a nice upgrade

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Forem Project News

Oct 31 '25

Forem Weekly Repo Recap: New Community Hub, Email Fixes & Markdown Improvements

#news #product #deployment #opensource

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Ben Halpern

Oct 31 '25

Lots of momentum this week!

Forem Weekly Repo Recap: New Community Hub, Email Fixes & Markdown Improvements

Forem Project News ・ Oct 31

#product #deployment #opensource #news

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Ben Halpern

Oct 30 '25

Added a /community endpoint as sort of an info hub for every subforem. It's kind of just a proof of concept at the moment but can be refined. Ideally it's customizable so we can link off to places like /challenges etc. but keeping it dynamic vs static.

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Ben Halpern

Oct 29 '25

Hopefully releasing a new Forem app with lots of little fixes in the next couple days

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Ben Halpern

Oct 23 '25

We need to adjust quickie posts to properly not count full URLs for characters. I know Twitter traditionally capped these at 17 chars regardless of length — we'll want to do something similar along those lines.

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Ben Halpern

Oct 23 '25

So much of what we do is building in public, but we need to use this space more to talk about it.

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Ben Halpern

Oct 23 '25

Hoping to make improvements to quickie posts like this so they show up when appropriate in feeds (currently they sink pretty quickly) without overwhelming or taking away from the experience.

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Ben Halpern

Oct 3 '25

This was one of several recent performance improvements. Under the hood, we did some interesting memory-first caching as well.

Preloading the DEV (and Forem) home feed and sidebar for substantial performance benefits

Ben Halpern for The DEV Team ・ Oct 3

#webdev #frontend #performance #webperf

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Ben Halpern

Oct 3 '25

I think we're definitely going to want to support inline markdown syntax like backticks for code snippets etc.
But we don't want to fully support markdown as we have full posts for rich content. But doing all this in a non-confusing way is key.

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Ben Halpern

Sep 24 '25

New spam detection targeting mass registration live and working well so far. github.com/forem/forem...

feat: Add domain-based spam blocking with background worker by benhalpern · Pull Request #22350 · forem/forem · GitHub

Summary This PR implements automatic domain-based spam blocking to prevent mass registration attacks from single email domains. Changes Spam::DomainDetector: Detects spam patterns by email domain...

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Junaid

Aug 11 '25

The Official Forem App review

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Ben Halpern

Sep 8 '25

Was great to see this PR from the Ona folks in the project to help get our configuration working better github.com/forem/forem... Ona (formerly GitPod) continues to be a really really interesting player in development productivity

fix: improve devcontainer network configuration for Ona environment by Siddhant-K-code · Pull Request #22307 · forem/forem · GitHub

What type of PR is this? (check all applicable) Bug Fix Refactor Feature Optimization Documentation Update Description Fixes devcontainer network configuration issues that prevented proper s...

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