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Can Friendica do any of these now, or will it have future capability for them?
@Friendica Support Hello. Pls can you tell me if there is currently a way, or otherwise might be a way with a future software version update, to:

  • Set all threads to be collapsed into the parent post by default, unless & until i click to expand?
  • Allow individual users to add common #FOSS #emojis to their own posts' composer-windowlet's emoji-picker, or is only the #Instance #Admin able to do that? Eg, emojis for Linux, Arch, KDEPlasma, Firefox [Nightly, Beta, Release], Thunderbird, Fedora, openSUSE, Vivaldi, Debian, Xfce, et al.
  • Hide/collapse pictures in posts, maybe just showing a small preview [like #Mastodon #GlitchSoc], so i can judge by the preview if i want to bother opening it or not?
  • Install some plugin like Masto's #LibreTranslate or #DeepLTranslate for on-demand translation of individual posts, at user's whim?


Thanks.

#FriendicaHelp
#emojis #admin #foss #instance #libretranslate #DeepLTranslate #FriendicaHelp
Cătă
@MsDropbear42 πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ίβ€‹ πŸ¦˜β™€πŸŒˆπŸ§β€‹ you can filter words using the nsfw&more plugin. Go to Settings > Addons > click on "Content Filter (NSFW and more)". Make sure it's enabled and enter the words you want to filter using commas for every word/expression/hashtag (not sure if this is what you're looking for but I tried) :D

Also, in regards to translations, you can use Fedilab in order to translate posts (in the web UI it's currently not possible).
Droppie [venera] πŸ¨β™€πŸŒˆπŸ§β€‹πŸ¦˜
@Cătă Thanks for responding. Unfortunately:
you can filter words using the nsfw&more plugin

Yes i already make extensive use of that function... but it was not any of my four questions above.
in the web UI it's currently not possible

I use, & am only interested in using, browser access, which i suppose is what you mean by "web UI", so that's seems to be a "nope", then, afaict.
Hypolite Petovan
@MsDropbear42 Hi and thank you for your interest. To answer your questions:
  • The current number of top-level replies before we collapse the rest is hard-coded to 3, which means there's no configuration option for it yet and no current plans on adding one.
  • There's no custom emoji feature like in Mastodon, we have a couple addons that add a fixed list of additional emojis but no ability to add more and no current plans to add this feature.
  • Images in posts already are resized to fit the post, 4 pictures will take as much space as 1. I'm not sure what you are requesting here.
  • There's no translation hook, and there is a plan to add it, although it probably won't be ready for this upcoming release: https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/12948
Hypolite Petovan
@MsDropbear42 Yeah, I got to admit it didn't feel great replying to you. That's one of the weaknesses of this project, too few people are working on it, and as a result progress is slow and patchy. We have something to show for our work, just not everything people might want. I suppose it's the same in every project, but the comparison with other existing Fediverse software puts us behind in a way we can't easily catch up to.
Droppie [venera] πŸ¨β™€πŸŒˆπŸ§β€‹πŸ¦˜
@Hypolite Petovan Heehee, oh it's fine. I'm just a greedy girl, who wants her cake with icing, & a cherry, & then i wanna gobble it all down. Since i belatedly joined the #Fediverse last November, i've tried multiple #Mastodon #Instances, two #Firefish ones, & most recently my two new #Friendica accounts. Each web-client ofc has its Pros & Cons, & my search has been prolly silly, in my Quixotic quest for the Goldilocks solution.
#friendica #fediverse #mastodon #firefish #instances
Nanook
@MsDropbear42 πŸ¦˜β™€πŸŒˆπŸ§β€‹ @Hypolite Petovan Of all of these, the one I'd like to see most is translations, I made this suggestion on the Github site many moons ago. Mainstream media has this capability so it would be nice for the Fediverse to have it also.
Sarah Brown
@Hypolite Petovan @MsDropbear42 πŸ¦˜β™€πŸŒˆπŸ§β€‹ Just want you to know, the work you guys do is hugely appreciated and if I hadn’t burned out years ago, I’d be wanting to join you.
Hypolite Petovan
@Sarah Brown @MsDropbear42 πŸ¦˜β™€πŸŒˆπŸ§β€‹ Thanks, I remember you said the same not too long ago, but I never tire of hearing it!
Alexandra Lanes
@Sarah Brown @Hypolite Petovan @MsDropbear42 πŸ¦˜β™€πŸŒˆπŸ§β€‹ Same, but if I find I reacquire the ability to stare at PHP without panicking you never know!
Sarah Brown
@Roland HΓ€der @Hypolite Petovan @MsDropbear42 πŸ¦˜β™€πŸŒˆπŸ§β€‹ Worked for ARM in the 90s and early 2000s, then did a stint on compilers, and then I just couldn’t do it any more.
Nanook
@Hypolite Petovan @MsDropbear42 πŸ¦˜β™€πŸŒˆπŸ§β€‹ I run a Hubzilla, Friendica, and Mastodon, and of the three I prefer Freindica's relatively noise free user interface to the others, I prefer the long message and comment format as well. But the lack of translation and the bugs like occasionally not displaying all the way back to the beginning of history, looping, or sometimes just displaying a single message, are a serious shortcoming.
Droppie [venera] πŸ¨β™€πŸŒˆπŸ§β€‹πŸ¦˜
@Rick Thanks. Do you mean https://github.com/friendica/friendica-addons/tree/develop/showmore_dyn ? If so, then i don't see how i can use this. According to https://github.com/friendica/friendica-addons;

This repository is a collection of addons for the Friendica Social Communications Server. You can add these addons to the /addon directory of your Friendica installation do extend the functionality of your node.

After uploading the addons to your server, you need to activate the desired addons in the Admin panel. Addons not activated have no effect on your node.


I can't do any of that. I don't run a server. I'm not an Admin. I'm just a clueless user trying to make sense of all this.

Thanks all the same.
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