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 configures the URL to update the global directory, and is supplied in the default configuration. The undocumented part is that if this is not set, the global directory is completely unavailable to the application. This allows a private community to be completely isolated from the global network."
This really sounds like it could be it. Then again, I'm new here, so apologies if I seem a know-it-all.
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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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Terms of Service 1.0 posted
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!
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?
Oh, and the Impressum is linked on the home page now too.
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Twitter connector functioning again
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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My posts are still disappearing. I turned off all retire old post settings, and someone turned them back on. What is going on?
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?
Please visit https://social.isurf.ca to view or reply to the conversation.
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Thank you
iSurf Social Administrator
Greetings.
Recently registered in this social network.
Made a few posts in the feed. Now I see that some of them have disappeared without any warning.
Do you know what could be wrong?
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Noticed weak encryption on this Friendica instance probably because of loading insecure http content or something like that. Someone suggested that you could use the information on this website to change that behavior so people would not get anxious about seeing this behavior on what they believe should be a totally encrypted site. My understanding is that this has to be corrected on the Friendica Server here.
CSP: upgrade-insecure-requests
The HTTP Content-Security-Policy (CSP) upgrade-insecure-requests directive instructs user agents to treat all of a site's insecure URLs (those served over HTTP) as though they have been replaced with secure URLs (those served over HTTPS). This directive is intended for web sites with large numbers of insecure legacy URLs that need to be rewritten.developer.mozilla.org
If you're interested in seeing what's being loaded, turn on the developer tools in your browser and you should be able to find out all the pieces that are being loaded on any given page.
XMPP services @ social.isurf.ca
As there was a question posted about this I wanted to create a public post here to mention that we do have an XMPP chat server here @ social.isurf.ca and you are able to use it since you're a social.isurf.ca user!
The clients that I am familiar with that work with XMPP are: Pidgin, Gajim (Linux/Windows desktop clients), Conversations and Xabber for Android. There's clients for MacOS and IOS as well, a list of clients can be found at xmpp.org.
The only tie-in to the Friendica software at this point is authentication, so that means your roster of contacts and whatnot for XMPP contacts is separate from your Friendica contacts.
If you want to try it out at any point, your username for XMPP is username@social.isurf.ca . (if your username on social.isurf.ca was 'bob', then it would be bob@social.isurf.ca )
At some point in the future I would like to see a chat widget show up in Friendica - hopefully that can be fixed in the not too distant future.
I am noticing some changes since the update to RC. Specifically, I used to be able to (on top posts at least) click link, see a dialog box, paste the link, then see the preview showing the link embedded. Now, it defaults to the url tags and does not embed even if I put on my glasses to get the cursor in between the tags. I also do not see an image icon or video icon (this is in Frio) which was user friendly. Am I missing something or did a change take place that reversed some usability?
I've gone to settings, additional features, general, allow calendar export. What I can't find is what to tell others on how to export my calendar. Can anyone help?
Calendar Export
If you want to export your public events to ical or csv, you can activate an additional feature in your user settings (Additional features -> General Features -> Export Public Calendar). Afterwards a link will be shown in the events page of your profile to access the calendar.
If I go to your profile and the Events tab/page, there's export options that show up in the left sidebar menu.
It probably would have been helpful for me to do a screenshot so you can see what I've seen when looking at your profile's events page:
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Some profile fields set to 'e' and not editable?
- on the left box, relationship status shows as 'e'
- on the basic tab it shows as 'e never'
- on the advanced tab, sexual preference shows as 'e'
If I edit my profile, these fields do not show up, even after toggling "show more profile fields". In fact I don't think any extra field actually shows up?
Thanks in advance, and Happy New Year!
So you can try again to see how long it takes.
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Do I know them?
Being new here, I sent out some requests to Connect with like-minded people. In each case, the form asked "Do you know them?" And in every case, the reply 'Yes' was pre-selected and I couldn't change it. Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
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Part of the problem is that, with 4 different browsers on each of two different machines (PC and Android tablet) and with several themes which might be responsible, it's taking time to go through checking everything. Time which I don't have much of these days. I might end up having to live with those things I can't change (as the saying goes).
Hey folks! I am not sure why the community forum account type is not showing in global search after a !
What I did was create a new account with a different email address and set the account type to community. When I bring it up it shows to be a forum but users find it using @ instead of !
How do I change it so it can be found either way?
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I didn't have any issue replying/commenting on your post here.
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Friendica works in FF though... but i also need to update FF with a fresh download... it will ahve to wait until after my dj event coming up
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Please go ahead and try again - I just tested locally and it seems to be working better now.
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