social.isurf.ca is now running Friendica 2021.01 stable
!iSurf Support
Hi all,
We've just updated to the latest stable Friendica release, 2021.01. The release information can be found here: https://social.isurf.ca/display/39bbe52a8755bb27a3cae7a110901a64b923dceb
Please do let me know if you encounter issues!
Thanks, and enjoy!
Hi all,
We've just updated to the latest stable Friendica release, 2021.01. The release information can be found here: https://social.isurf.ca/display/39bbe52a8755bb27a3cae7a110901a64b923dceb
Please do let me know if you encounter issues!
Thanks, and enjoy!
Friendica 2021.01 Released
and a happy new year dear reader. Not quiet in time for the holidays, but we are very happy to announce the availability of the latest stable version of the ...social.isurf.ca
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We've updated to the 2012 release candidate code
!iSurf Support
Hi all,
Right at the moment the system's under somewhat heavy load as things start to catch up after being in maintenance mode for the past couple of hours.
However, we're now on the current Release Candidate Friendica software, and hopefully we see the performance and stability improvements with it.
If you notice anything wacky going on, please let me know, and we'll get the investigations going!
Thanks, and enjoy!
Hi all,
Right at the moment the system's under somewhat heavy load as things start to catch up after being in maintenance mode for the past couple of hours.
However, we're now on the current Release Candidate Friendica software, and hopefully we see the performance and stability improvements with it.
If you notice anything wacky going on, please let me know, and we'll get the investigations going!
Thanks, and enjoy!
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What nodes/instances are shown in the "global community"?
!iSurf Support
Hello. is there a list of what nodes/instances are included in the "global community" when I access it here on iSurf? I notice that I see posts from the Diaspora server @pluspora.com. I have an account with @diasp.org, though I haven't seen posts from there reflected here.
I guess I'm just wondering how the interaction with outside Diaspora networks works within iSurf.
Hello. is there a list of what nodes/instances are included in the "global community" when I access it here on iSurf? I notice that I see posts from the Diaspora server @pluspora.com. I have an account with @diasp.org, though I haven't seen posts from there reflected here.
I guess I'm just wondering how the interaction with outside Diaspora networks works within iSurf.
!iSurf Support
iSurf Social Registrations open again!
Hi all!
Well, with some of the bugfixes and improvements that have gone in with system cleanup and performance, I've been able to re-enable some cleanup settings. That, in turn, has led me to re-open registrations for new accounts here.
If you know of anyone who's been looking to give a North American Friendica setup a go, do let them know!
Expect an outage this weekend
!iSurf Support
Hi all!
Going to move the site over to another server this weekend. When the outage/shift will occur, I'm not sure - maybe as soon as tonight. If it doesn't occur this evening (pacific time), then it should tomorrow evening.
We should get some performance gains from the move.
I'll post with another status update soon, and when relevant!
Hi all!
Going to move the site over to another server this weekend. When the outage/shift will occur, I'm not sure - maybe as soon as tonight. If it doesn't occur this evening (pacific time), then it should tomorrow evening.
We should get some performance gains from the move.
I'll post with another status update soon, and when relevant!
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Yup! Basics all switched over and appear to be working... Should be good for the most part, checking on some finer details now.
Alrighty, looks like everything's done. Discovered we'd had nearly zero mail deliverability since the last stable upgrade about a week or so ago, so that appears to be fixed too.
System should be in good shape now and aside from some usual tweaks along the way (such as further tuning of the DB after it's been running for some time), the work is complete!
System should be in good shape now and aside from some usual tweaks along the way (such as further tuning of the DB after it's been running for some time), the work is complete!
Upgraded our instance to 2020.07 this evening!
!iSurf Support
Howdy everyone!
Just a quick note that we're now running Friendica 2020.07, the current stable release, after an upgrade this evening.
Please let me know if you notice any strange behaviour!
Thanks!
Howdy everyone!
Just a quick note that we're now running Friendica 2020.07, the current stable release, after an upgrade this evening.
Please let me know if you notice any strange behaviour!
Thanks!
!iSurf Support
So I was under the impression that if you had to port your account, none of your old posts went with you because I ported my key over from an instance that I don't think provided that option a year ago. Just downloaded my backup and looked through the code and it looks like all my posts are saved. Is this the case because if so I've been telling people wrong things. It just doesn't download your saved files and videos yes? Also is this process still in experimental or has it moved beyond to just standard now?
So I was under the impression that if you had to port your account, none of your old posts went with you because I ported my key over from an instance that I don't think provided that option a year ago. Just downloaded my backup and looked through the code and it looks like all my posts are saved. Is this the case because if so I've been telling people wrong things. It just doesn't download your saved files and videos yes? Also is this process still in experimental or has it moved beyond to just standard now?
!iSurf Support
Hey Guys,
Is it possible to put the language filter in? I have to use mastodon to find new people to follow because going to global is just full of people posting in languages I can't read. Which is great but useless to me. Thanks!
Hey Guys,
Is it possible to put the language filter in? I have to use mastodon to find new people to follow because going to global is just full of people posting in languages I can't read. Which is great but useless to me. Thanks!
Lol I mispelled your email "Been talking to Hypolite Petovan about nomadic identity something hubzilla has for in case a person's instance collapses(example personal tragedy), you will have a backup running in the background of everything you post through mirroring on another instance. He thinks there is a roundabout way of doing this that I'd like to try out and see if there is a way to ensure one's history is always safe someone.
The only way for friendica account to mirror another friendica account is " Your admin must have enabled remote_self in the site settings." Is it possible you can do that? I'm sure the site software has so many options its hard to know what half of them do. Thanks, and thanks again for the language filter, its got some bugs, but better than not having it!
anubis2814"
The only way for friendica account to mirror another friendica account is " Your admin must have enabled remote_self in the site settings." Is it possible you can do that? I'm sure the site software has so many options its hard to know what half of them do. Thanks, and thanks again for the language filter, its got some bugs, but better than not having it!
anubis2814"
Nm turns out they fixed the problem I was trying to find a solution to two upgrades ago. lol
Contributing to iSurf upkeep?
!iSurf Support iven registration is temporarily closed, and we now prune networked posts to reduce storage need -- is it perhaps time to start accepting financial contributions from users?
I'd be happy to chip in several dollars a month - OpenCollective seems like a good way to accept payment. Of course I just realized I don't know what the entity is behind iSurf, so I don't know how practical this is.
Thanks in advance for providing this service and being amazingly up-to-date and responsive!
I'd be happy to chip in several dollars a month - OpenCollective seems like a good way to accept payment. Of course I just realized I don't know what the entity is behind iSurf, so I don't know how practical this is.
Thanks in advance for providing this service and being amazingly up-to-date and responsive!
Email delivery might be a hair better?
!iSurf Support
Sounds convincing, doesn't it?
Over the past few days I found some evidence that suggested that I had more work to do in DNS in relation to mail being delivered more reliably, and more with DKIM as well. Basically it hadn't been very clear that subdomains were being treated as separate entities from the main domain (though in all documentation I trip across, there seems to be no distinction between hosts/subdomains and domains) on some of the checks that mail services do. While I've had reporting from other systems coming in for months, random sampling of the reports hadn't produced the information that I recently saw.
I am hoping the net result at the moment is that far fewer mails wind up in various services (Gmail / Outlook/Hotmail, etc.) "Junk" folder.
Time will tell, and I look forward to any reports anyone has on mails being delivered from social.isurf.ca
Sounds convincing, doesn't it?
Over the past few days I found some evidence that suggested that I had more work to do in DNS in relation to mail being delivered more reliably, and more with DKIM as well. Basically it hadn't been very clear that subdomains were being treated as separate entities from the main domain (though in all documentation I trip across, there seems to be no distinction between hosts/subdomains and domains) on some of the checks that mail services do. While I've had reporting from other systems coming in for months, random sampling of the reports hadn't produced the information that I recently saw.
I am hoping the net result at the moment is that far fewer mails wind up in various services (Gmail / Outlook/Hotmail, etc.) "Junk" folder.
Time will tell, and I look forward to any reports anyone has on mails being delivered from social.isurf.ca
Updated to 2020.03 stable
!iSurf Support
After numerous bugfixes & improvements, and doing what we could through the release candidate cycle, I'm happy to report we're now running on the latest Friendica stable release, 2020.03!
Enjoy the improvements, and thanks to everyone who pipes up when they notice an issue.
After numerous bugfixes & improvements, and doing what we could through the release candidate cycle, I'm happy to report we're now running on the latest Friendica stable release, 2020.03!
Enjoy the improvements, and thanks to everyone who pipes up when they notice an issue.
Time for an update to the latest Release Candidate!
!iSurf Support
Hi all,
As I'm quite interested in many of the bugfixes involved in the latest set of Friendica updates, I'm about to switch us to the release candidate.
There may be new bugs introduced, so if you notice anything untoward, please let me know!
Hi all,
As I'm quite interested in many of the bugfixes involved in the latest set of Friendica updates, I'm about to switch us to the release candidate.
There may be new bugs introduced, so if you notice anything untoward, please let me know!
Routing issue affecting iSurf Social past 36 hours or so
!iSurf Support
Hi all,
I didn't notice this until this morning, but there's been a partial outage at our hosting provider (them and others) for about a day and a half. Apparently an IRR messed up and some subnets disappeared to some places, and we're sitting on one of those affected subnets.
If you've been unable to reach the site for a day or two, this would be why.
It's also affecting the mail delivery out from here, so if you have received some emails that are very late, this would likely be why as well.
This is one of those fun situations that unfortunately just takes time to resolve once someone has fixed it up, and apparently it was fixed earlier today.
Hi all,
I didn't notice this until this morning, but there's been a partial outage at our hosting provider (them and others) for about a day and a half. Apparently an IRR messed up and some subnets disappeared to some places, and we're sitting on one of those affected subnets.
If you've been unable to reach the site for a day or two, this would be why.
It's also affecting the mail delivery out from here, so if you have received some emails that are very late, this would likely be why as well.
This is one of those fun situations that unfortunately just takes time to resolve once someone has fixed it up, and apparently it was fixed earlier today.
Updated our Friendica software to 2019.12-rc
!iSurf Support
Hi all,
We're updated to the 2019.12-rc release of the Friendica code. If you notice any issues, please let me know!
Hi all,
We're updated to the 2019.12-rc release of the Friendica code. If you notice any issues, please let me know!
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Closing new registrations on iSurf Social for now
!iSurf Support
Hi all,
I've been noticing some interesting performance issues here on iSurf Social, so I'm shutting down new registrations for the time being until I can figure things out a bit.
If you know of someone who you'd like to recommend or allow in as a user here, don't hesitate to let me know, as I'm open to that. Closing the registrations is just to control the accessibility to the general masses for the time being.
Thanks!
Hi all,
I've been noticing some interesting performance issues here on iSurf Social, so I'm shutting down new registrations for the time being until I can figure things out a bit.
If you know of someone who you'd like to recommend or allow in as a user here, don't hesitate to let me know, as I'm open to that. Closing the registrations is just to control the accessibility to the general masses for the time being.
Thanks!
!iSurf Support I'm getting a lot of friend request spam and there is nudity that should be blocked in community section.
@Adam Clark Actually that spam was from "pawoo.net", however I haven't though that you could be interested in those kind of feedback, next time I'll keep you posted!
(@Daniel)
(@Daniel)
We're on the RC code!
!iSurf Support
Hi all,
If you had issues logging on at all tonight, it was due to a further attempt to get on to the new Friendica Release Candidate. Fortunately, due to the abilities of one of the developers, Mr. @Hypolite Petovan , the issue causing us all the problems was found and there will be suggestions & improvements filed.
Thanks very much, @Hypolite Petovan, and to everyone else on the system, enjoy the improvements! If nothing else, a variety of bugs have been fixed and the back-end database structure has had further improvements.
Hi all,
If you had issues logging on at all tonight, it was due to a further attempt to get on to the new Friendica Release Candidate. Fortunately, due to the abilities of one of the developers, Mr. @Hypolite Petovan , the issue causing us all the problems was found and there will be suggestions & improvements filed.
Thanks very much, @Hypolite Petovan, and to everyone else on the system, enjoy the improvements! If nothing else, a variety of bugs have been fixed and the back-end database structure has had further improvements.
Likely more up date attempting on Sunday
!iSurf Support
Hi all,
I'm not sure if you've noticed along the way or not, but the attempts at getting the node up to the latest release candidate (and on track for the next stable release) haven't gone according to plan.
I am looking to take another stab at it on Sunday sometime, so there may be some short outages happening then. I've updated the date on the home/login page to reflect that I'm still planning on causing interruptions.
Here's hoping things move ahead this weekend! I will post again once I have more useful details.
Thanks.
Hi all,
I'm not sure if you've noticed along the way or not, but the attempts at getting the node up to the latest release candidate (and on track for the next stable release) haven't gone according to plan.
I am looking to take another stab at it on Sunday sometime, so there may be some short outages happening then. I've updated the date on the home/login page to reflect that I'm still planning on causing interruptions.
Here's hoping things move ahead this weekend! I will post again once I have more useful details.
Thanks.
Random maintenance/outage(s) starting today
!iSurf Support
Hi all,
As I've posted about on the login screen, I'll be trying to get iSurf Social upgraded to the latest Friendica Release Candidate code. Yesterday had a failed attempt and some downtime while the site was restored, and there will be more outage time as I go through the updating process, and rolling back if necessary.
No need to worry if you can't connect to the site at any point over the next couple of days, just me working away on it.
The notice on the login page looks like this:
NOTICE: Aug 28, 2019 - We will be doing intermittent work on the site over the next few days in order to attempt an update to the latest release candidate code. The site may be offline entirely while some of these processes are ocurring. I will remove this notice once the work has completed successfully. Thanks for your patience!
Hi all,
As I've posted about on the login screen, I'll be trying to get iSurf Social upgraded to the latest Friendica Release Candidate code. Yesterday had a failed attempt and some downtime while the site was restored, and there will be more outage time as I go through the updating process, and rolling back if necessary.
No need to worry if you can't connect to the site at any point over the next couple of days, just me working away on it.
The notice on the login page looks like this:
NOTICE: Aug 28, 2019 - We will be doing intermittent work on the site over the next few days in order to attempt an update to the latest release candidate code. The site may be offline entirely while some of these processes are ocurring. I will remove this notice once the work has completed successfully. Thanks for your patience!
Some unexpected downtime this evening
!iSurf Support
Hi all!
It's been awhile. I went to do the update to the latest Friendica -rc version and had some issues. Unfortunately this -rc update has some significant database changes, so to roll back I had to restore from a snapshot I took just before attempting the upgrade.
Apologies if this affected you. I believe the next attempt at the -rc (after getting some clarifications around the issues I saw) will require some downtime in order to help it succeed, so I'll try and post an announcement about it.
All appears to be running fine again now.
Enjoy.
Hi all!
It's been awhile. I went to do the update to the latest Friendica -rc version and had some issues. Unfortunately this -rc update has some significant database changes, so to roll back I had to restore from a snapshot I took just before attempting the upgrade.
Apologies if this affected you. I believe the next attempt at the -rc (after getting some clarifications around the issues I saw) will require some downtime in order to help it succeed, so I'll try and post an announcement about it.
All appears to be running fine again now.
Enjoy.
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i have a noticed something similar, comparing the number of posts on forum.friendi.ca and the ones actually coming in on my node.
I guess it's not an issue with the forum node itself. Probably related the memory issue where posts get dropped, I suspect.
I'll post over a the forum to discussed this in more detail. I will mention you and ask others to check forum posts coming on their nodes.
I guess it's not an issue with the forum node itself. Probably related the memory issue where posts get dropped, I suspect.
I'll post over a the forum to discussed this in more detail. I will mention you and ask others to check forum posts coming on their nodes.
super useful, but events could use invites
isurf / friendrica is looking really spiffy---but events are only useful without the ability to quickly add people who we are friends with to them.
Totally agree. Events should be expanded to include invite capability as well as embedding images, audio clips, and videos from the event with permissions set by the event host.
iSurf Social Updated to latest Friendica Release Candidate
!iSurf Support
Hi all! It's been a quiet little while around here but things appear to have been just ticking along nicely. Hopefully the current release candidate code doesn't disrupt that much, if at all.
If anyone sees any issues, please reach out!
Thanks!
Hi all! It's been a quiet little while around here but things appear to have been just ticking along nicely. Hopefully the current release candidate code doesn't disrupt that much, if at all.
If anyone sees any issues, please reach out!
Thanks!
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Posts are not published in public community
!iSurf Support
Dear all,
I just realized that my posts are only published to my contacts and my pinboard, but do not go out to local or public community. I am sure that I have changed a switch while "playing" around. When I try to send a post, I select to "public"
Does anyone has a clue where I can change that?
Thanks a lot.
Tom
Dear all,
I just realized that my posts are only published to my contacts and my pinboard, but do not go out to local or public community. I am sure that I have changed a switch while "playing" around. When I try to send a post, I select to "public"
Does anyone has a clue where I can change that?
Thanks a lot.
Tom
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in preferences, and the dropdown that says public if you dont change the preferences (then you have to remember each time)
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Domain blocking
!iSurf Support
I have another tech support question. I wonder when they're going to add the ability to block domains. I've stumbled across whole servers that are devoted to unsavory and illegal content, apparently out of Asia, but see no way to block it.
I considered superblocking with wildcards but have read that this doesn't work, so I haven't tried it.
I have another tech support question. I wonder when they're going to add the ability to block domains. I've stumbled across whole servers that are devoted to unsavory and illegal content, apparently out of Asia, but see no way to block it.
I considered superblocking with wildcards but have read that this doesn't work, so I haven't tried it.
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Minor bug in web interface...I think
!iSurf Support
I think I've found a little bug in the Friendica web interface. I'm not sure where to report it.
Running Firefox on Linux here. It appears that the thumbs up/down indicators are not updating properly. Here's what happens.
If I click thumbs up, the display goes gray for a moment, then the thumbs up turns blue, as it should. If I click the thumbs up again, which should toggle it off, the display grays for a moment but the icon remains blue. You can click again and again and it remains blue. You can click thumbs down and the same thing happens. You can have both thumbs up and down showing blue.
A bit of experimentation manually refreshing the display shows that the click detection and server behavior is correct. The second click actually does toggle it off at the server. It's just the browser display code that's not updating the color.
I think I've found a little bug in the Friendica web interface. I'm not sure where to report it.
Running Firefox on Linux here. It appears that the thumbs up/down indicators are not updating properly. Here's what happens.
If I click thumbs up, the display goes gray for a moment, then the thumbs up turns blue, as it should. If I click the thumbs up again, which should toggle it off, the display grays for a moment but the icon remains blue. You can click again and again and it remains blue. You can click thumbs down and the same thing happens. You can have both thumbs up and down showing blue.
A bit of experimentation manually refreshing the display shows that the click detection and server behavior is correct. The second click actually does toggle it off at the server. It's just the browser display code that's not updating the color.
Also, the problem is deeper than just the browser. The bug involves the server too.
There are two discussion threads about this. In the other thread, one of the commenters also got his browser to display both thumbs up and down at the same time, which should be impossible. The thing is that once he did that, I had the same indication on my browser. It showed him as both liking and disliking the comment. For that to happen, the server must be in an invalid state.
There are two discussion threads about this. In the other thread, one of the commenters also got his browser to display both thumbs up and down at the same time, which should be impossible. The thing is that once he did that, I had the same indication on my browser. It showed him as both liking and disliking the comment. For that to happen, the server must be in an invalid state.
I first posted in my stream. Then Shelenn suggest I post here in the community, so two threads resulted. The other is here:
https://social.isurf.ca/display/c443a55c-215c-bfb2-529a-430799099599
https://social.isurf.ca/display/c443a55c-215c-bfb2-529a-430799099599
!iSurf Support
Today I noticed I cannot type in the reply box. I have to click comment on someone else's comment to post to an existing thread. Did something change on the server?
Today I noticed I cannot type in the reply box. I have to click comment on someone else's comment to post to an existing thread. Did something change on the server?
No the issue still persists with the version of Chrome noted above. I am a Win10 Pro user - not sure about the others.
!iSurf Support
Question: I've been experimenting with features. On the protocols box in the left panel, When I choose DFRN I see user posts showing from Friendica. When I choose Activity Pub I see user posts showing from Friendica (AP). I've seen these in mixed form (both) from this node. What does it mean?
Question: I've been experimenting with features. On the protocols box in the left panel, When I choose DFRN I see user posts showing from Friendica. When I choose Activity Pub I see user posts showing from Friendica (AP). I've seen these in mixed form (both) from this node. What does it mean?
Google+ connections may stop working as of today
!iSurf Support
Hi all,
As you probably have already seen, some parts of Google+ are beginning to shut down.
I have received a couple of email notifications from Google about their API being shut down as of today, which means that posts to/from Google+ from here will stop functioning.
Some people are apparently still seeing some functionality so I suppose it's possible that it could take some time for this feature to stop operating completely, but it's probably good to know that it will be stopping very soon.
Hi all,
As you probably have already seen, some parts of Google+ are beginning to shut down.
I have received a couple of email notifications from Google about their API being shut down as of today, which means that posts to/from Google+ from here will stop functioning.
Some people are apparently still seeing some functionality so I suppose it's possible that it could take some time for this feature to stop operating completely, but it's probably good to know that it will be stopping very soon.
Apparently the shutdown is not orderly and all users are not affected by different things stopping at the same time. LOL
We're updated to the current -RC code.
!iSurf Support
Hey everyone,
We're now running the current -rc code. I immediately filed a couple of bugs about admin settings that were acting strange.
If you see any odd behaviour, please report it here or to the Friendica support forum.
Thanks!
Hey everyone,
We're now running the current -rc code. I immediately filed a couple of bugs about admin settings that were acting strange.
If you see any odd behaviour, please report it here or to the Friendica support forum.
Thanks!
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Hi Adam,
Again thank you very much. It was like a week that I had issue with the connection but I can't tell why, then I found your post. Anyway luckily everything has been solved.
I changed my setup maybe I selected it just to try and completely forgot about then.
Again thank you very much. It was like a week that I had issue with the connection but I can't tell why, then I found your post. Anyway luckily everything has been solved.
I changed my setup maybe I selected it just to try and completely forgot about then.
Adam 5 months ago
There are accounts that are hidden from showing up in the public global feed that just aren't appropriate for all ages, but they may not be banned/filtered accounts, just hidden in that feed.
So, there's no 'list', no... the 'list' changes dynamically with the fediverse.
Adam 5 months ago
If you were to spend most of your time on a D* account and then try to amplify things with Friendica, you'd probably just wind up with broken noise as I don't think D* would know what to do with any communication that came back through your Friendica account, again if that were a possibility.
If you used a Friendica account as your main account, you don't need to import/export to D* or Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey, etc., since it can communicate directly with all of them natively.
However, you may want to ask on the general @Friendica Support to see if there's any direction from the rest of the admins or devs that could help.