The kink in the human brain - this instinct to obey. What we are doing, when we don't confront the structural forces, the corporations, the oligarchs, the plutocracy which is driving us towards disaster, is obey. (George Monbiot)
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Last Notes npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm test post please ignore npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @nprofile…avgx Saw the eye icon and was very confused. Especially since I saw someone elses name when hovering it. I received questions from users to whom I suggested friendica as they were confused by the icon as well. Sadly I was unable to explain to them what the purpose of the icon was. And even after reading this support conversation I am unsure if I understood what the purpose is. I get that views for videos on platforms like youtube and peertube is a thing. I am not sure if moving this concept over to friendica is desirable. And yes, e.g. reddit does show number of users that saw a post for OP. Btw, I did not see this icon today on pirati.ca where I found it in past days. npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @nprofile…8a9w Thanks for your work. npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @nprofile…lz42 @nprofile…9q72 Nowadays with Apple software quality in decline combined with their poor or rather non-existant documentation of internal changes debugging such changes is a serious pita. 🙄 npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @nprofile…lz42 @nprofile…9q72 So anyway... here goes github.com/friendica/friendica… npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @nprofile…9q72 Loving the solution you came up with. This looks fantastic. Been wondering: would it make sense to make the username a link and clicking it opens profile? That could replace the profile entry from the drowdown listing. Wdyt? npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @nprofile…lz42 @nprofile…9q72 There were a few changes in regards to the search box and tool tip. I am not sure, but the idea might have been to add the tool-tip to the search box and remove it. Also back then "Search" did show twice which was odd. This was when instead of showing a spotlight icon there still was a search button, so showing search seemed redundant. We are now in a much better and mature place so it is fair to do another adjustment. npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm on what is the state of #xmpp in friendica? pirati.ca The database version is 1587/1587, the post update version is 1550/1550 does have the add-on. When enabled "toggle chat" is shown in the bottom right. But only sometimes and then it's gone again. Tried to login with [email protected] + pw but that fails. So now I am wondering which password would be expected? The xmpp address was pre-filled. npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @nprofile…9q72 Wouldn't the easiest solution be to change the translatable string to just Search? Would that be possible @nprofile…lz42 ? npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @nprofile…9q72 What facebook does looks like good UX. Logo then search, then the different icons with more spacing. It is not by accident that they only show 5 icons in the middle and move less used options to the right side. That is such a sweet design, I'd love if it Friendica could adopt it. As for the username: wondering if that could default to off and an covered by a setting which allows showing username in 2nd toolbar as suggested? I love the cleaner look which gives a better structured overall feeling. Even wondering if "Search" is sufficient for the search field. Users are likely aware they can also search names and hashtags etc. npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @nprofile…kl4v @nprofile…8a9w Only the first step in the process but key to ensure problems don't fall off the table, so thanks. Also nice to see you more active again in friendica ☺️ Thanks to @nprofile…etva for looking into this. npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @nprofile…kl4v @nprofile…8a9w Kannst du dafür einen Issue anlegen, damit das nicht vergessen wird? npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @nprofile…wwmg github.com/friendica/friendica… is of relevance for this question long / mid term. Edit: would be really great to not cut off links so it is visible at a glace which issue a link is referring to 🙄 npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @nprofile…th4n @nprofile…wwmg Server's back 🎉 npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm the question about API endpoints for updating / setting the profile banner image came up in the issue tracker of #RaccoonForFriendica Can we help @nprofile…fxkl implementing a reliable banner feature? @nprofile…rgpg github.com/LiveFastEatTrashRac… npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @nprofile…fhwu Klingt wie github.com/friendica/friendica… oldie but goldie... npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @nprofile…4ftc Quick recovery - best recovery. Thank you! npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @nprofile…845p Iirc this is a known issue and never got resolved. Open Feature request would probably still be github.com/friendica/friendica… npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm Now that the blurry avatars issue fix is confirmed and pushed to dev github.com/friendica/friendica… are there remaining blockers that prevent a RC for being cut? Polite ping @nprofile…xugr Am aware of ongoing trouble irt RSS feeds no longer showing content in dev branch. But maybe that is something that could be investigated during RC phase? npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm There is positive news irt to a potential Forgejo migration: github.com/friendica/friendica… npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @nprofile…rgpg @nprofile…xy93 Not all icons exist in all variants. e.g. there is an open issue to add a colored variant of the iceshrimp icon. npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @nprofile…xy93 Can you share browser and version as well as your instance.org/settings/display > Platform icons style setting. npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @nprofile…d5gn joinfriendica.de ist hauptsächlich deutsch, wird von einem etablierten admin betrieben und verwendet das neue bookface theme als default. npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm the #bookface effort is continuing to evolve nicely. Version 1.3 has been released: gitlab.com/randompenguin/bookf… All work done by @nprofile…pejw so big thanks 🙏 🚀 #Friendica #Theme #Stylesheet npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @nprofile…62aa Leider wird der Grund der Änderung unbekannt bleiben, bis git.friendi.ca/friendica/frien… umgesetzt ist. Die Zahlen werden nicht nach Zufall generiert. Aber wenn der Grund für die Änderung nicht dokumentiert wird, ist das klarerweise suboptimal. npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @nprofile…k9z3 @nprofile…dzkq For reference: github.com/friendica/friendica… npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @nprofile…dzkq Should be poll. If I understood your text correctly I dislike it. I think having support for real polls is much superior than abusing like / dislike for polls. Many polls cannot be answered with like / dislike. Also on the long run ideally like + dislike will be replaced by allowing arbitrary emoji reactions. And like + dislike are optional and many instances opt to disable dislike. And while I am a big fan of allowing any emoji, those instances have good reasons to limit reactions as well. npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm This is about the state of #friendica documentation: I tried maintaining the client list for a bit as that was very outdated, chaotic and incomplete. What I found frustrating when working on friendica documentation was, that there is not a single place to maintain info. There are many places: github.com/friendica/friendica/tree/develop/doc github.com/friendica/friendica/wiki wiki.friendi.ca git.friendi.ca/ could be another one (migration has stalled and that is another important topic that still needs to be resolved) This is confusing and I think part reason why documentation is in the state it is. And I think documentation needs to be consolidated. Had high hopes for the MKdocs PR to help resolve this. There is docs.friendi.ca/develop/ which looks great and seems to be working fine but the PR never made it through (not meaning to complain or point fingers). Is there a way forward to bring this into a cleaner and easier to maintain state? Do we just need a hero to move that PR forward and if that happens, would that be sufficient to close the other wikis? @nprofile…xyf2 npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm Hi @kmh and @nprofile…uyml Took a look at your #friendica bookface theme and I am in love. It eradicates so many issues I had with the current frio default theme that I was wondering, are you planning to create a PR for this to be included in default friendica? @nprofile…xmvk npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @nprofile…vll0 The best way is to use the existing process for handling changes, which is file feature requests on GitHub: github.com/friendica/friendica… There already are quite a few open issues and GitHub is for now the best way to colaborate on improving friendica UX. Once a proposal is outlined there, this group here (or the user support group) are great placed to collect feedback and discuss details. npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @nprofile…rgpg Thanks for sharing - was not aware. What would be needed to change that? Or is storing markdown just out of scope and transforming to BBCode after changing default would always be the way for friendica? At least the markdown add-on seems to work reliably. From the instances that use markdown in editor I am not aware of major issue reports about that functionality. npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm feature request to make Markdown the default in the post editor: github.com/friendica/friendica… Please upvote if you think Markdown should be the default or downvote if you want to keep BBCode the default. If you downvote please share your reasoning in a comment. npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm Took a look at the remaining issues for milestone 2024.09 github.com/friendica/friendica… and there are two remaining issues. One is requesting to move a specific setting and which seems to be done partly. Would anybody be willing to do the remaining work of moving the second part of the setting to a more sensible location as well? github.com/friendica/friendica… npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @nprofile…wpee @nprofile…9k53 Thanks for your efforts. Please keep us posted how this goes and when worker load returns to normal. npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @npub1jrj…chx5 Is there an open issue about AndroidAuto not working in the F-Droid build? Checked the tracker but didn't find an issue yet. Or was I not looking properly? npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm Now that my favorite browser #Firefox and beloved password manager #KeePassXC both support #Passkeys decided to spent some time checking them out. And boy oh boy are passkeys not ready yet in Firefox. I love Firefox and wish them well, but they really need to do some testing. There are major issues. #PassKey creation is straight-up broken and resulting in reproducible crashes on both google.com and webauthn.io Issue is filed. npub1unguc7e04wn4pnshaegfrcgpjrquyp30dzjc7n5dn4fh5akqha8snxw40k Wilhelm @npub1pql…5jxu not finding the beta in F-Droid Fedilab listing. Have https://fdroid.fedilab.app/repo active in F-Droid Basic Repositories. Do you have an idea, what could be going wrong?