Snipesearch.video Joins the Passport, and One Account Is Now Six Sites
Two things landed this week that belong in the same post. SnipeSocial shipped its 5.4.4 release on 6 June, a substantial update covering publishing, blogs, payments, identity infrastructure, security, and a long list of fixes. Alongside it, snipesearch.video joined the SnipeSocial passport, bringing the total to six sites on one account. Both are worth covering properly.
SnipeSocial 5.4.4
The release deployed in eleven minutes, a record for a release of this scope, and a direct consequence of months of module testing before the rollout rather than improvisation during it. Features are being activated progressively in line with the platform’s standard practice; the infrastructure is in place across the board.
Publishing and Content
The Publisher now has a full Rich Text Editor, replacing the basic text input that has been there since the platform launched. Hashtag autocomplete has been added alongside it. Collaborative Posts are live as a new content type, multiple users can now co-author a single post, extending the collaboration model that already existed for blogs and group content into everyday posting.
The Watch module has been revamped. The YouTube player for Movies has been replaced with a Smart YouTube Player with better display and playback handling, and administrators now have the option to disable YouTube embedding for Movies entirely. Fullscreen support has been added for Games.
Identity and Security
The major infrastructure addition is a purpose-built Keycloak identity provider extension. Keycloak brokers the login between external applications and SnipeSocial via standard OpenID Connect, meaning any OIDC-compatible application can now authenticate against SnipeSocial without needing to handle its non-standard OAuth flow directly. This is what makes future passport integrations significantly faster to build, the bespoke development overhead that each previous integration required is now abstracted into the connector.
Fixes
The release resolved Custom Fields Search, a gap that had existed across several versions and meant custom profile fields were not surfaced in search results. Also fixed: a Highcharts loading issue, Compo Post, Chat text non-wrapping, Schedule Post listing display, Posts Reactions update behaviour, the payment link flow for non-logged-in users accessing paid Movies, YouTube Shorts scraping, RTL publisher rendering, and Blog blockquote display.
snipesearch.video Joins the Passport
snipesearch.video is now on the SnipeSocial passport. The Sign in with SnipeSocial button is live on the platform. snipesearch.video does not allow open public registration — it is a curated environment within the SnipeSearch ecosystem rather than a general-purpose hosting platform — so the passport is how ecosystem users get in. SnipeSocial account, click login, authenticated. No separate registration.
That brings the passport total to six sites on one account:
snipesocial.co.uk : the social network where the account and passport originate.
snipesearch.com : webmaster dashboard, index submission, Glass Eye profiles, invoicing.
snipe.pics : federated image sharing on Pixelfed.
ttwrite.4up.eu : microblogging and short-form publishing.
toot.snipesearch.co.uk : the SnipeSearch Mastodon instance.
snipesearch.video : federated video on PeerTube, added this week.
As with every platform in the ecosystem: the passport passes name, username, and email at first authentication. Everything after that is sovereign to the platform. Nothing is pooled, nothing flows back to SnipeSocial.
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