Howdy people! 👋

Yet another community update from us! (If you've been reading this every week, you know our secret sauce, and it is - the support we receive from all of you) 👀

TLDR; Presenting before you some freshly baked videos from the Appwrite team, issues solved, work-in-progress and more Appwrite related stuff. Stay tuned till the end! 😉

📢 What’s new

• We announced our first Open Source Fund where we pledged $50,000 to support open-source maintainers! 😮
  We’ve received applications from so many amazing projects and cannot wait to see more goodness coming our way! 🤩 If you’re a maintainer or know some amazing maintainers making an impact in Open Source, the OSS Fund is definitely worth checking out.
  

  

  Appwrite OSS Fund

  Appwrite provides web and mobile developers with a set of easy-to-use and integrate REST APIs to manage their core backend needs.

  appwrite.io

• The Appwrite x Dev hackathon was a huge success, with so many amazing developers coming together to build something! 🚀

• We've put out some content on YouTube to ease your learning with us, check out our first video on “How to Install Appwrite”
  

P.S - The dormant volcano is active now, press the bell icon to know when we drop something! 😉

✅ Issues solved

We hear your feedback and try to implement them every week! Here are the issues we’ve fixed this week:

• Improved Appwrite CLI with bug fixes in the appwrite deploy function
  🔗Link to PR

• Fixed GIF preview
  🔗Link to PR

• Refactored SSL generation
  🔗Link to PR

• Added the ability to view user memberships in the users screen
  🔗Link to PR

Fun fact: We merged 65 PRs this month! 🤯

⚒️ What we’re currently working on

• Introducing hostname string length to make validation more secure by default
• Checking OAuth email verification
• Adding Backblaze support
• Unifying S3 and S3 compatible storage adapter calls and minimizing the number of environment vars needed to configure them.

🗣 Discussions

• Continued discussion about how Appwrite handles user permissions: 🔗Join the discussion here

📘 Resources

• Appwrite overview video by Hitesh Choudhary
• 30 days of Appwrite is now updated, have you checked them out already?
• Built some cool solutions with Appwrite? Be sure to drop them here.