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Out of curiosity, why can't A/V files be uploaded to Friendica? Seeing how images are handled, it seems like it should be able to do it.

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Michael 🇺🇦
You can upload them. But you have to switch to the file upload and size limits apply.
Kāpitan
@Michael 🇺🇦 How does a user do that, as I can't find a way here for that?
Michael 🇺🇦
Which version and theme do you use?
Kāpitan
@Michael 🇺🇦 Friendica 'Interrupted Fern' 2024.12 - 1576 and the user is using an early Bookface , from back when it was a modifier for Frio

Yes, its an old system, my host seems to have died/is dying, anyone know of anyone other than Elastio offering hosted Friendica instances?
Michael 🇺🇦
I guess it has been added after that version.

Concerning hosted systems, we recently received an email from Hostinger that they added Friendica:

https://www.hostinger.com/applications/friendica

I can't tell you anything about them, other than I heard the name "Hostinger" before, so I can't tell you more.
Kāpitan
@Michael 🇺🇦 Chuckles, "No wonder I didn't know it existed. Thanks. Hmmm, bit heavy on the AI over there for me."
Random Penguin
In the earlier versions of Bookface I purposely hid the "Files" button because there is no file management interface. A regular user can't delete the files, only a server administrator can. It was recommended that videos and other files be hosted elsewhere and linked to or embedded in posts, rather than uploaded to the Friendica server. I removed the hiding of the files button in the most recent Bookface, but I still wouldn't recommend actually using that feature.
Kāpitan
@Random Penguin @Michael 🇺🇦 Gotcha, its not something I'd use much if all, after all I have a Loops ( vextaur@loops.video), and I usually just boost it, but i'd like to have the option. Anything specifically bad about it? I'm assuming it works the same as pictures, just the files are bigger.
Random Penguin
What's specifically bad about it is that there is no way to manage the files. If you accidentally upload the wrong video you can't delete it if you're a regular user. You'd have to ask the server admin to delete it for you. There's no way to set permissions on the files. It also has a tendency to fail on upload with larger files, even when they're under the file limit set by the server admin.

I spent a while digging through the code trying to add a button to the file browser so at least users could delete a file, and while I think the code to do that exists on the backend, I could never figure out how to access it and gave up.
Kāpitan
@Random Penguin @Michael 🇺🇦 Ouch, that definitely sounds like it needs work.
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