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We've got a new website!

Our website needed an update. It was build years ago and has been pretty much abandoned ever since.

Between then and now the initial idea of a couple of crusading Free software advocates has matured into a project that is used by people from all around the world. What a pleasure!

This gradual consilidation as a free form software alternative has prompted us to build a new website.

Design

Starting a new website with a blank canvas is exciting, but the many different possibilities are also daunting.

A lot can be said for websites built back in the web-1.0, least they be forgotten. They were frank and hyperlinks were plentiful. They were not designed to keep you there. They were simple, static HTML. No dynamic content floating into view or UI effects to distract you, no fireworks. Arrive, get the info, and leave. Not a dark pattern in sight!

Rita Barrachina, a long time friend and collaborator to the project, works with these ideas. She proposes we think back to times when websites just got the job done because that, in itself, is to respect the visitor.

So, our new website lends from 90's, (spinning GIFs and the autoplay MIDIs not included), and incorporates some more modern features like a dark/light theme and small device responsiveness.

Let's see what you think!

https://www.liberaforms.org

Index

The main reason for having a website is to inform our visitors.

We have clearly indexed the site to provide quick navigation and a birds-eye view of the project. Pages are divided into sections, and hyperlinks are used to make the content easily accessible.

Our old logo was functional but not very original (three horizontal lines).

LiberaForms' new logo plays with the letters to create a butterfly, an organic, lighweight and pollinating creature. Just like LiberaForms!

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YunoHost includes LiberaForms

YunoHost is an operating system aiming to simplify server administration and therefore democratize self-hosting while making sure it stays reliable, secure, ethical and lightweight. It is a copylefted libre software project maintained by volunteers.

YunoHost has included LiberaForms in their suite of apps!

We built LiberaForms to be self-hosted, and now more people can do that. Truly fantastic news.

YunoHost rules!!

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Conditional form fields

Since before the beginning of time people have been saying "What about conditional fields?" ☻

Well, after some years of pretending not to listen, we've got a beta ready for testing!

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We've moved to Codeberg!

Very much looking forward to becoming part of the vibrant community there.

Visit us at https://codeberg.org/LiberaForms

To sync with the new repo, go to the directory you installed LiberaForms and update the git config.

git remote set-url origin https://codeberg.org/LiberaForms/server.git

Thank you to the GitLab team for having us.

Goodbye Gitorious

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4.0.0 Release candidate 1

We are publishing this release candidate in the hope you may evaluate it before the definitive release.

LiberaForms 4 will come with end-to-end encryption built in using OpenPGP.js. :D

Before releasing we would like to test our implementation of OpenPGP.js in general and especially test using different browsers (Safari, Edge, etc).

If you would like to help, we kindly invite you to create an account at dev.liberaforms.org and use the new E2EE features, starting with your PGP key pair.

Please consider sending us encrypted feedback if you do decide to.

Thanks for the help!

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E2EE progress

It's been two months since we first announced an E2EE preview available at dev.liberaforms.org

We've made good progress since then:

  • Step-by-step personal key creation
  • Adds an E2EE demo
  • Easy 'Delete all' and 'Restore' keys options
  • The UI prompts for key restoration when required
  • Key resoration handles passphrase
  • Key's are stored in the browser's localStorage and sessionStorage correctly
  • Simplifies form key creation
  • Adds option to copy the form's private key
  • Finishes unifying editor and reader form sharing code
  • Sharing E2EE forms UI gracefully handles different form user E2EE states

User documentation has somewhat fallen behind. Some work has been done but needs love and care.

Known bug. Form user E2EE status is incorrect when the personal keys have be purposefully overwritten.

Feel free to try it out at dev.liberaforms.org and give us some feedback! :)

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End to End Encryption (E2EE) on LiberaForms

After some teasing, we are happy to announce that this feature has landed on dev.liberaforms.org!

That means it is now open for broader testing and will make it into v4, the next version of LiberaForms, which will make your favourite FOSS form software much more useful and interesting.

You can check the user documentation here, so we will be focusing here a tad more on the design and implementation of the feature.