social.isurf.ca upgraded to 2020.09-rc version
!iSurf Support
Hi all,
I've updated social.isurf.ca to the latest Friendica release candidate. If you notice any new issues, please let me know so we can verify & get bugs reported and squashed prior to the stable release.
Thanks!
Hi all,
I've updated social.isurf.ca to the latest Friendica release candidate. If you notice any new issues, please let me know so we can verify & get bugs reported and squashed prior to the stable release.
Thanks!
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Hyperlinks darkened a bit today
!iSurf Support
Hi all,
I've been meaning to adjust the really light blue hyperlinks in the Frio theme for some time - a pretty low priority item, but I've found it really hard to read the Help section every time I've gone to review pieces of it lately.
So, I finally darkened it a bit today, which will probably be noticeable unless you've customized your theme settings.
Please let me know if you like or dislike the change, if it's affected you.
Hi all,
I've been meaning to adjust the really light blue hyperlinks in the Frio theme for some time - a pretty low priority item, but I've found it really hard to read the Help section every time I've gone to review pieces of it lately.
So, I finally darkened it a bit today, which will probably be noticeable unless you've customized your theme settings.
Please let me know if you like or dislike the change, if it's affected you.
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.
Thanks for the answer Adam. Yes, I do see now how I can follow an account from other Diaspora feeds. I wonder if, in the same way that we can post simultaneously to our Twitter account (after setting up a connection via Settings with the Twitter Import/Export/Mirror), if such a set up is possible with a Diaspora account.
That's a pretty good question, actually, and off the top of my head I can't think of the way to do so, if one exists.
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.
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.
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!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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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?
There have been some discussions in @Friendica Support over the past year about this functionality still having issues. I'm pretty sure we can't get a full export from this instance at the moment, but perhaps this has been worked on in the current release cycle.
You may want to ask in the main Friendica support forum, or have a look at the issues that have been resolved at the repository on github.
You may want to ask in the main Friendica support forum, or have a look at the issues that have been resolved at the repository on github.
!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!
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!
... and then it takes me 6 days to respond to this! heh
Thanks very much, @Michel Alexandre Salim I really appreciate it. I am the entity behind iSurf, it's been a very mini ISP for a few clients but I've also put up various other services, like our Friendica instance here, under the same domain. They're most personal projects though.
I haven't looked at OpenCollective yet, and I truly appreciate the offer. I did start looking at ways to collect donations for anyone who was so inclined.. and got so far as to setup Liberapay, but I hadn't gone any further than that, didn't announce it yet, or anything ( that part I actually find kind of awkward ).
I will have a look at OC, and ponder those next steps.
Thanks very much, @Michel Alexandre Salim I really appreciate it. I am the entity behind iSurf, it's been a very mini ISP for a few clients but I've also put up various other services, like our Friendica instance here, under the same domain. They're most personal projects though.
I haven't looked at OpenCollective yet, and I truly appreciate the offer. I did start looking at ways to collect donations for anyone who was so inclined.. and got so far as to setup Liberapay, but I hadn't gone any further than that, didn't announce it yet, or anything ( that part I actually find kind of awkward ).
I will have a look at OC, and ponder those next steps.
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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.
New here, and not sure how this works, but I've noticed the last few days that I can't add any new photos to my albums or create new ones. The process seems to be working but no error messages are raised after the submit button is clicked. The newly selected photo is not showing up anywhere.
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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The version is 2019.04, and it happened on 2019.03 also. I even thought it was a feature not a bug -_- So how can I investigate into it? Maybe check the log?
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.
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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.
Terms of Service 1.0 posted
!iSurf Support
Hi all,
Please have a look at the Terms of Service that I've finally posted. If there's anything that stands out to you as a problem or you think should be revised, please let me know.
Thanks!
Hi all,
Please have a look at the Terms of Service that I've finally posted. If there's anything that stands out to you as a problem or you think should be revised, please let me know.
Thanks!
!iSurf Support
Quick question based on general comments I've seen about Friendica over on G+. Some users are looking for a set of rules, terms of service, etc to decide whether they agree with the way a node might be run before signing up. Have you considered posting some information or a link on the main page?
Quick question based on general comments I've seen about Friendica over on G+. Some users are looking for a set of rules, terms of service, etc to decide whether they agree with the way a node might be run before signing up. Have you considered posting some information or a link on the main page?
This is a copy of the general posting rules I use for communities:
This community was created as a place for progressives to participate in civil discourse about politics so we can learn together. If you would like a category added, please ask. Banned progressives welcome!
Blocking owners and moderators will not be allowed since it prevents them from moderating the community for everyone.
Otherwise rules for Civil Discourse here are quite simple:
Rule 1: Remember there is a person behind the post.
Rule 2: Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow offline. (Yes, your mother or your employer can find your posts.)
Rule 3: Share expert knowledge so we all learn.
Rule 4: Help keep flame wars under control.
Rule 5: Don't abuse your power as a moderator.
Rule 6: Be forgiving of other people's mistakes, typos, etc.
Rule 7: Be prepared to backup your assertions with verifiable sources.
Rule 8: Don't plagiarize.
This community was created as a place for progressives to participate in civil discourse about politics so we can learn together. If you would like a category added, please ask. Banned progressives welcome!
Blocking owners and moderators will not be allowed since it prevents them from moderating the community for everyone.
Otherwise rules for Civil Discourse here are quite simple:
Rule 1: Remember there is a person behind the post.
Rule 2: Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow offline. (Yes, your mother or your employer can find your posts.)
Rule 3: Share expert knowledge so we all learn.
Rule 4: Help keep flame wars under control.
Rule 5: Don't abuse your power as a moderator.
Rule 6: Be forgiving of other people's mistakes, typos, etc.
Rule 7: Be prepared to backup your assertions with verifiable sources.
Rule 8: Don't plagiarize.
As for moderation rules, I generally used the Google policy on G+ communities shown here https://www.google.com/intl/en-US/+/policy/content.html but I will need to setup some rules of my own for community forums I run (which will be similar - I've used a 3 strike rule for many years as a professional moderator.)
Maybe I should have deleted the Ignored Request before attempting to re-connect with him?
Sometimes I have to go to the notifications via the menus to the right of my profile pic (upper right of screen on browser) then delete notifications there.
@Adam Clark well that might explain why my event calendar is all white. This was something someone else reported with the latest rc... can we get that fixed?
The only theme I have set up in the settings is to use pink as the background color and green as the link color. I do not see any theme labeled Frio. I see the comments posted and my new topic that I posted above (called "New Topic: Page Not Found Message - on Same or Different Nodes"). However, the same thing happened when I first posted the new topic. I hit the SHARE button to post the new topic, the message about the account not being there popped up in the upper right hand corner, but when I went back to my profile & clicked on the icon for the iSurf Support Forum & returned to the Forum, the new post WAS posted. So, it DID work, but I got that strange message about an account not being there. I went back to the Help section also, and read the section on posting to forums, and it seems that I am doing it correctly. There is just the strange message that pops up about an account not being there.
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The message appears right after I hit the submit button for my comment, and knocks me out of the forum. I return to forum by clicking on my profile, clicking on the isurf support forum icon, and returning to the forum - and then I see that the comment is posted. It just seems strange that it knocks me out of the forum and I have to then return to the forum before I can see that the comment is posted.
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Twitter connector functioning again
!iSurf Support
Hi all,
Thanks to @Hank G bringing to my attention that posting to Twitter wasn't functioning, I've gone through fixing that functionality up.
If you were using the Twitter connector, you'll have to go to your settings and disconnect Twitter, then re-connect it (you'll need to use the new PIN).
Enjoy!
Hi all,
Thanks to @Hank G bringing to my attention that posting to Twitter wasn't functioning, I've gone through fixing that functionality up.
If you were using the Twitter connector, you'll have to go to your settings and disconnect Twitter, then re-connect it (you'll need to use the new PIN).
Enjoy!
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That one (the one I posted directly above this one) posted just fine, without throwing me out of the forum.
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My posts are still disappearing. I turned off all retire old post settings, and someone turned them back on. What is going on?
My posts are still disappearing. I turned off all retire old post settings, and someone turned them back on. What is going on?
I do distinctly recall posting that comment. Thanks for reminding me, and yes, that comment appears to have disappeared. Further digging tomorrow...
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Hmm, I see that it's pretty easy to change an advanced setting and move on to something else without saving those settings. Are you saving the settings after adjusting one of the advanced settings?
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Hmm, I see that it's pretty easy to change an advanced setting and move on to something else without saving those settings. Are you saving the settings after adjusting one of the advanced settings?
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Phil Landmeier (ᚠ) 2 weeks ago
No matter what I do, whether it's a thumbs up, or a comment, the server takes one to two minutes to respond. So, when I submit this comment, I'll get no response except the busy indicator for about two minutes. Then the comment will appear. If I try to do anything else during that time, the comment or other action will be lost and I have to do it over again.
Running Firefox on Linux here. No problems with any other web sites. Flushed all cache and cookies. VPN is off. Connection speed 40 Mbps. Location West Virginia, USA. However, when I run the VPN it does the same thing no matter where in the world I "am".
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I've noticed the issue at times as well, and am investigating. Seems like something in the new Friendica release candidate is either stressing MariaDB or ... something else unknown at this point. It's manifesting pretty strangely, but I hope to find out more over the next couple of days.
When I notice it, I'm restarting services which brings performance back to normal, but I haven't yet seen what's triggering this issue.
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Here's hoping it's something stupid like bumping up against a max. connection item and just not recovering well from that. I've adjusted a couple of settings, and am looking in to monitoring some further specifics to try and catch the issue earlier.
Phil Landmeier (ᚠ) 2 weeks ago
Unfortunately, all I can do is make vague guesses, which I'm sure you've already made. Haha.
Phil Landmeier (ᚠ) 2 weeks ago
Maybe it has to do with traffic levels somewhere. I'm guessing that this post here is not getting much traffic, like zero. Other posts I'm on are probably being interacted with by 20 people at any one moment.
I dunno.
Adam 2 weeks ago
I am lowering the amount of work the back-end is allowed to do at any given time to try and reduce these intermittent laggy bits.
Phil Landmeier (ᚠ) 2 weeks ago
Friendica seems to be running very nicely with some 3 or 4 second delays here and there. Sep 13 02:50 EDT.
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I find it interesting that my likes and replies to your posts are very responsive, while others are not. I wonder if that is a clue.
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