We're on the RC code!
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.
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I say that and something else is going to crop up, isn't it... heh.
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Likely more up date attempting on Sunday
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
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
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 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 Social Updated to latest Friendica Release Candidate
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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Friendica 'POST' URL for Sharing Extension
I need to make a custom url link for this extension, as the extension developer hasn't added Friendica to his list. [[url]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/addtoany-share-anywhere/ffpgijchhhkhnokafdeklpllijgnbche][/url]
I used the following placeholders, but it doesn't work. https://social.isurf.ca/link=${link}&title=${title}
Any suggestions?
I don't want to keep hitting the server using trial/error. Thanks!
Posts are not published in public community
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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Domain blocking
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
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.
If it's consistently weird, probably best to post findings on @Friendica Support
I'll have a look myself, but don't have much time this week to dig in to working up good support posts, unfortunately.
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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.
https://social.isurf.ca/display/c443a55c-215c-bfb2-529a-430799099599
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?
Missing in global directory
When does a new account generally become listed in the global directory? #newhere and thanks! Loving Friendica so far. I did try searching....
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This was an item on my to-do list to follow-up on, as my node reports to my own GD at https://socialdir.isurf.ca and @Brian Millan hadn't shown up last time I checked, which was at least a couple of weeks after I mentioned it should show up eventually. I didn't expect it to take this long, however.
Perhaps we could open up a thread somewhere for a separate discussion about the issues you've had polling some of that information from my system. I'd like to know what kind of errors have been reported and why the hit rate would be so low. It would be something I would like to help see sorted out.
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I run this console command:
bin/console server-poll [url=https://socialdir.isurf.ca]https://socialdir.isurf.ca[/url]and ended up mostly getting "unsuccessful" responses (despite seeing your sever online) .
I was thinking about increasing the timeout settings, but I'm not sure yet if the source code actually permits this. I'd like to run some more tests and see how the poll responses compared to ping values.
One thing that is note worthy is that your GD in California [?] seems to experience a similar issue than my GD in Thailand or the main one in France, when polling from the isurf node in Canada . Definitely something we need to look it.
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However, is that the same mechanism that is used for getting the profiles from the friendica nodes initially? I'm not sure what process is used to get the directory aware of a profile in the first place.
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?
With the introduction of AP, Friendica is migrating away from DFRN and the system tries to figure out which protocol it can use, preferring AP. I suspect Friendica will have to support DFRN for some time, so that nodes running older versions will still be able to federate, but the new releases I believe will continue to have more and more AP support and prefer to use it when possible.
So, right now it's a mix with Friendica nodes, and I couldn't tell you all the ins and outs of what magic it's doing to figure out which protocol it should use.
Also, please forgive me where I've stated things as absolute fact - I believe I know the details only to a degree, I could be off about some of it. The gist of it is there, and there's talk of it on the prior Friendica release announcement.
HTH!
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Google+ connections may stop working as of today
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.
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been a progressive shutdown where calls to affected APIs began
intermittently failing on January 28, 2019."
That may be true, but aside from problems with our own settings locally, the API seems to have been working pretty consistently well.
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We're updated to the current -RC code.
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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Very glad to hear it! I'm not sure what would have changed, but I did update with the latest -RC fixes last night (not expecting that there was anything that would affect you).
I wanted to ask, though - I noticed your account is set as a soapbox account (advanced account/profile type) - is that something you wanted set for sure?
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.
Chat / XMPP support and testing
Hi all,
I'm not sure if you know or not, but Friendica has a built-in chat option that we pretty much have to leave disabled, as it has some bugs that conflict with the two most common & usable themes. It also relies on a javascript chat app that is no longer developed.
That said, we do have an integrated chat system on the iSurf Social platform, which you can use with either a standard XMPP client (such as Pidgin, gajim, or Conversations for Android or Xabber for Android - there's IOS apps too), or if you'd like to test/try out a web-based chat client here, which I'm going to have some discussion with the developers on replacing the old unsupported client with, please give chat.social.isurf.ca a try. It's a rediculously simple setup, nothing fancy. You use your social.isurf.ca username & password to login in to it.
If you would like any further information on how to use any of the other clients I mentioned, please let me know!
#XMPP #friendica #chat #webchat #jsxc
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I have been toying with updating the converse code, and it looks like recent versions of converse have some pretty ugly UI bugs in them - at least with the browsers I'm testing with. I'm going to go back a few releases for testing today, see if I can't get a usable solution in place for the addon.
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Adam Clark 4 weeks ago
Please provide the details so we can look in to it.
Thanks!
Adam Clark 4 weeks ago
The community feed cleanup I'm looking in to. Thanks!
Adam Clark 4 weeks ago
Silencing them is something I am able to do on the back end, and it has no effect on anyone following those accounts. Just removes them from the global community stream.
Edit: And thanks for pointing out these items, too. I'm definitely interested in helping keep the spam noise down or gone, and keeping inappropriate content off the global community stream.
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I don't believe is related with your server. It is just that I am receiving a lot of invitations from the same people to sign-up to a social network related with sex and dating.
But I already started to ignore and block these people...
Adam Clark 4 weeks ago
For example, this past weekend there was a bit of a discussion among Friendica Admins about the "pawoo.net" node being blocked on various people's systems as they appear to not be maintaining their system and allowing all sorts of bot/spam traffic originate from it. Users on various systems have been complaining about them in particular.
So, I'm totally interested in any spam/bot account that tries to connect up - I see them myself, but if I don't hear from users with the details, it makes my decision about whether or not I can or should even begin to consider taking action against another system less informed.
Thanks!
Daniel 4 weeks ago
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