I have been up more or less for the past 24 hours straight trying to update my #Friendica instance, only to have a break several times to the point of even having the database messed up and needing to get my hosting provider to do a database import for me, what keeps happening is every time I do the update even though I have my customized theme completely renamed the update removes my top navbar so I lose all functionality to post or do anything it's very annoying I can't update because it breaks and when I try to import my custom theme over the broken it does not fix it I'm not sure what @Friendica Support has done to the RC to cause this and I wish I knew so I could update but I can't.

Friendica?

Read about it here and there...

I started following @helpers

There's a lot of content there. The Wikipedia article for Friendica was very 'sparse'.

#friendica #Wikipedia

@Friendica Support

Hi there,
some questions about the behavior of friendica with respect of preserving the content of posts from other servers and other #fediVerse platforms.

There are several options in #friendica to mark posts. There is staring a post or an answer, there is interacting with it like giving a thumbs up or done (like\dislike) and answering, saving to a folder and sharing or resharing a post. Answers can't be stared but saved to a folder, shared and reshared.

What happens when a post or an answer is deleted y the owner of that post or answer?
There are posts from other instances that still are preserved over here even tho they don't exist anymore on the originating server.
What happens if answers are deleted by the owner of the answer? Also, somehow answers to answers are related and they do disappear at least when an answer is deleted locally on this server. Is the same true if an answer is deleted by the originating profile?

Also, have there been changes on the behavior on these aspects in friendica or are their discussion about changing some of those aspects?

I'm planning to move my account from #Friendica to #Hubzilla to test if performance is better, but since the latter doesn't support #Bluesky integration natively, does someone know of a tool to at least export my BSky subscriptions to #RSS / #OPML so I can keep track of their posts?

!Friendica !Friendica Tips

[strong]Frage | Friendica: Eigene Inhalte als RSS- oder Atom-Feed?[/strong]

Guten Morgen zusammen. Wenn ich mich recht erinnere kann man doch die Inhalte eines Friendica Profils auch als RSS- oder Atom-feed (ich weiß nicht mehr welches von beidem) abrufen.

[strong]Wie war das noch mal genau?[/strong]

Danke für Eure Hilfe im Voraus und ich wünsche Euch einen schönen Sonntag.

#Frage #Friendica #User #Benutzer #Feed #RSS #Atom #2025-09-21 !Friendica Support

!Friendica Support What might cause picture uploads to be an "invalid request"? I made sure the size limit was ample enough. #Friendica

[strong]Friendica | Wie komme ich an den Kommentar?[/strong]

Ich habe in diesem Beitrag laut feddit.org folgenden Kommentar:



Problem ist einzig und allein, dass er mir unter Friendica nicht angezeigt wird. Gerade herausgefunden habe ich das die Beiträge der Gruppe/Community Verkehrswende offenbar auch nicht korrekt hier her federiert werden. Da gibt es also offenbar mehr Probleme als ich ursprünglich dachte.

Wie komme ich an den Kommentar, um darauf reagieren zu können?

Danke für Eure Tipps und Hilfe im Voraus.

#Friendica #Frage #Beitrag #Kommentar #Federation #Lemmy #Fedditorg #federation #2025-08-31 !Friendica Support

#fediTips

@Mina

a foggy Mina wrote:

I already pay 10€ per month for a quite generous hosting package, I already paid for the domain name, and I don't want another regular cost.

The idea of this proposal, besides giving others the chance to hear\see\brainstorm it also, is to:

• [li] Animate you to check #

friendica out. That might give you an incentive to setup your own instance.

[li] Have the easiest way to check out the back end.
If I remember well, #weingaertner-it gives you the option of a monthly rent. So, suppose a 3 month "trail test"of friendica. That would be 15 euro.
How much is an hour of your time worth?
Setting up your own server means at least 8 hours of time, in over all terms. Clicking a weingaertner setup and redirecting your subdomain to them for a testride should be like an hour. If you follow thru with friendica, your personal server setup, profiles and created content wont be a lost effort as you take all of that with the DB onto your existing hosting package.

[li] Support and foster the #fediVerse structure by supporting the weingaertner PYMES

It's a win\speedUp\win strategy ..

https://weingaertner-it.de/

@Friendica Support
Die #Mona App zeigt mir ziemlich bei der Verwendung mit #Friendica oft die Fehler-Meldung an dass der Beitrag nicht gesendet werden konnte, weil die Netzwerkverbindung unterbrochen wurde, ebenso kommt oft eine Fehlermeldung beim faven, dass das „faven“ fehlgeschlagen ist.
Wenn ich mir das jedoch im Web-Browser ansehe wurde die Nachricht versendet und das Faven ist ebenso erfolgt.
Woran könnte das liegen?
@Mona app

@Friendica Support
Mit dem #Frio #Theme und den Erscheinungsbild #Bookface werden Links und Hashtags erst blau wenn ich auf den Beitrag tippe. Ist das normal?

#friendica

#friendica

[strong]Frage | Friendica: Spam vor allen von Diaspora her?[/strong]

Kann es sein das Spam im Fediverse vor allen von Diaspora her kommt? Klar ich hatte das auch schon auf Basis von Mastodon, aber eben nur sehr sehr wenig. Das was Diapora kommt ist wesentlich mehr. Neuestes Beispiel ist der Account globalfinancellz@diaspora.psyco.fr (Link) der mir folgenden schönen Kommentar schickte, den ich natürlich gelöscht habe:



#Frage #Friendica #Diaspora #Spam #2025-08-01 !Friendica Support

I posted asking for help on this a bit ago, and while I didn't get any solutions, it did get my brain thinking outside of the box, and I found the solution, its easy, but proof that the UI, especially the settings layout really needs some work around here.

For whatever reason, the necessary setting isn't under the timeline settings, but Social Networks



The key setting here is Followed Content Scope, default is 'Conversations my follows started or commented on', but if'n you change it to 'Only conversations my follows started' if will only show original posts and boosts.

Hopefully this'll help others, I mentioned in a comment on my original post, but that could easily be missed, so here we go. Oh, and if'n you've any tag suggestions, send them my way, and I'll prolly add them.

#friendica #timeline

@Friendica Support

How would people feel about a future version of Bookface removing the engagement counts from the Action Button? Now that the response info is reduced to an icon and a number the count on the Action Button with the same icon is redundant and makes the UI unnecessarily cluttered.

I know since the beginning of Bookface some people have found the engagement counts on the buttons too "busy" or "distracting" but before I remove them I thought I'd ask how people feel about that?

I don't know if anyone else has noticed it, but sometimes the engagement counts and responses don't agree. I *think* this is because the engagement counts are subtracting your own interactions? So in the screenshot above it's not counting my 2 comments and not counting my "Like" on the buttons, but is counting them in the response totals. Getting rid of the counts on the buttons would eliminate this inconsistency.

Thoughts?

@Friendica Developers @Friendica Support

#Friendica #BookFace #uidesign

This update has a LOT of changes and fixes in it! I think I got in everything everyone who gave me feedback asked for (check the README file "Changelog" section for details). Lots of attention paid to making buttons, tabs, and drop-down appearance consistent, and lots of new CSS variables for customization plus a new option for customizing Bookface (more on that in a moment).

Bookface 1.8 has been tested with both the current stable 2024.12 and 2025.7 Release Candidate versions.

The most obvious change you'll probably notice is that the responses below posts and comments now look completely different:



And below an Event Post:



If multiple people engaged with the post in a certain way you no longer have to click the count to see the list, it's a popover that appears on hover (active on touch devices). This is a lot cleaner and more consistent with how these are displayed on other social media platforms.

You'll also notice that the Main Menu missing icons are in place. This is a change that's coming in the next Friendica release anyway, but Bookface lets you have it right now:



Someone specifically asked whether the main navigation buttons could have labels on them:



I didn't turn it on by default, but nav button labels are now coded into Bookface and if you're using CSS variable customization they're easy to turn on:

:root {
--show-navbar-labels: block;
}

The label text is also customizable. Until now the only way to implement such customizations was either for a server admin to manually put them into the header or footer sitewide or for individual users to put them in a user content stylesheet just for your web browser. That's why I'm also releasing a new Friendica addon called "Bookface Custom" that, if your server admin installs it, allows you to customized every one of the Bookface CSS variables to your heart's content.

Get 'em while they're hot:

* Bookface 1.8
* Bookface User Styles 1.8
* Bookface Custom Addon 1.0

@Friendica Admins @Friendica Support @Friendica Developers
#Bookface #Friendica #themes #addons

Out of curiosity, how many people are actually still using the Bookface user styles version? That's where your Friendica server does not have the Bookface scheme installed so you either load it in a userContent.css or using a browser add-on/extension.

While it's how this whole Bookface project got started, the server-side version has been pretty widely adopted so if nobody is using the user styles anymore I'd really like to stop updating them. They're kind of a pain because by necessity they have to be different from the server-side styles to override everything, and it takes quite a while to test and tweak them so they render with the same appearance as the light and dark server-side versions. Or as close as I can get, since they rely on the underlying "frio" scheme setting.

Again, I'm not talking about the server-side stylesheets, I'm talking about the user content stylesheets.

!Friendica Support

#Bookface #Friendica

!Friendica Support @Tuxi ⁂ Hello. Does #Friendica have any existing tools that would embed a language translator into the timelines for each post that is not in the language the user has set in their Friendica Settings [English, in my case]?

Atm i have to select all non-English text in such posts, right click, then use Firefox's local translator tool. This works well, but is quite inefficient for threads with many non-English posts.

@Friendica Support
Meine #Friendica Datenbank hat inzwischen die beträchtliche Größe von ~75 GB. Dabei nimmt die db_gserver Tabelle den meisten Platz ein.
(Wie) kann ich diese im Rahmen halten? Oder muss dass so?

Danke an @Timotheus Pokorra der mir hier schon versuchte zu helfen (OPTIMIZE TABLE macht sie kaum kleiner)

@Friendica Admins @Friendica Developers @Friendica Support What is the consensus on adding relays in #friendica, do they actually help #federation, do they reduce it, speed it up, slow it down, increase it, as a concept I understand it as say #hamradio relays, it allows your reach to go further, but since my instance is federated, how much further do relays actually deliver my posts, and again does it actually help to have them? I have tried a few, with mixed results and I am rather baffled by their existence and usability in relation to my instance, any clear answers would be appreciated.

I'm the dev that created the "Bookface" schemes for the Friendica "Frio" theme. I know I've been taking a long time to answer some people's questions and feedback. That's because for weeks I've only occasionally been able to log into my main account on friendica.world. Today it seems that server has become completely inaccessible. 😭

As that server is down I couldn't just migrate my account, so I've set up a new account here at dillyofapickle.com. If you were friended to me over there you'll need to send me a request here. But I also moved here because @Kevin has embraced my projects for his server and is running newer versions than most other servers I could find. And I kind of need to see it in action for real, not just on my dev server.

I guess for the foreseeable future updates to my Friendica projects will be posted from this account.

#Bookface #Friendica

@Friendica Support @Friendica Developers @Friendica Admins

!Friendica Support Hello, i've not used my #Friendica account for several months, & have forgotten how to do some things. Can you please advise me...

How can i hide / suppress / not see any Boosts / Reshares from people whom i follow? In my timeline i only want to see their own original posts, but not all the posts by other people that they have chosen to Boost / Reshare.

This is easy to do in my Mastodon instance, but i'm struggling with it in my Friendica instance.

Thanks.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to start using Friendica.

Crashes across all interfaces, takes forever to load. Maybe, if you collapsed all comments by default, just maybe it wouldn't be crunching so hard. Bluesky integration fails completely. Oh well, seemed perfect for me, in the abstract. I learned quite a lot about the potential. Think I just need to make Mastodon my one stop-shop instead.

@helpers @admins

#Friendica #Fediverse

@Friendica Support How do Friendica groups work with non-Friendica users coming in via ActivityPub? The same?

#friendica #groups

!Friendica Support
I have 2 Friendica accounts and 1 on Mastodon. Both Friendica accounts are following the Mastodon one. If i like or share a posting of the #Mastodon account out of my Friendica timelines, these are acknowledged and counted on the Mastodon account. But only one of the #Friendica accounts triggers a notification on Mastodon, the other doesn't.
How can this be?
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"Optimismus ist nur ein Mangel an Information." (Heiner Müller)

!Friendica Support

I'm considering changing the engagement details below posts and comments now that Bookface shows icons for them. The current appearance is a vertical list, which can leave a lot of unused space to the right of it, plus all the explanatory text feels redundant and visually cluttering to me:



So I'm considering eliminating the explanatory text and going with a horizontal list of just names (for single interactions) and counts (that trigger the pop-over list) like this:



But that got me to an option with just icons and counts, which is similar to how Facebook and Misskey/Sharkey show reactions/engagements:




Which is what I'd prefer as it looks the cleanest and most consistent.

Thoughts on this proposed change? (I really wish Friendica had polls for this sort of thing!)

#Bookface #Friendica #proposal

@Alexander Thank you for that summary, of how #photo upload works or better doesn't work well in #friendica

@Friendica Support

Hi.

I am trying to find out if its a good idea to run my own #friendica server for family, relatives and friends. Motivation: #unplugtrump. Historically, the clan (still) uses iCloud and photo sharing etc.
My friendica server is blusox.de hosted by weingärtner-it (Thank you!).

I am trying to get used to be an admin for friendica. Some things are going well, others are leading to questions which it seems I cant solve by myself or by RTFM.

So if anyone should feel like introducing me to some do's and dont's or supplying some useful knowledge for a more or less closed friendica instance, please get in touch.

German welcome.

Current unsolved problems:
- Apart from an admin account I have two "regular" users who are friends with each other and who see each others posts. They can interact etc. But embedded photos are hidden for some reason. Which settings do I have to check?
- Is a group a reasonable feature to create "sub groups" in our clan? I didn't manage to get groups going.
- Is it a better idea to try a #pixelfed server for this purpose? The photo quality seems to get reduced to a tolerable minimum here on friendica.

Thanks!

The Postbox and Zen Postbox add-ons have been updated with a bunch of new styles!

* Solid Colors renamed to match HTML color names
* 24 new solid colors added
* 5 new gradient backgrounds added
* 17 new pattern backgrounds added
* 11 animated backgrounds added
* Fixed the load order so it overrides Postbox styles in Bookface if present

The previous solid color names have been mapped to the new ones, so any existing Postboxes in your feed using the old names will still look good.



The gradient backgrounds were ones that got missed from the initial release and are similar to the ones Facebook used to offer.




The pattern backgrounds all use pure CSS, no images, so they will render fast and do not incur an additional resource load from the server.



The animated backgrounds are exclusively available on servers that use either of the two add-ons. None of the animated styles are included in the Bookface scheme because some of them use SVG images. They use pure CSS animation as well, no JS code or animated GIF images.


Notice how I said the gradients were similar to the ones Facebook used to offer? Shortly after I introduced Postboxes to Friendica the backgrounds on Facebook were coincidentally(?) completely overhauled. IMO Friendica now has a nicer selection anyway and even Facebook doesn’t offer animated post backgrounds.


Zen Postbox (Adds a style button to the post Composer):
https://gitlab.com/randompenguin/zen_postbox/-/releases/1.1

Postbox (Just adds the styles, you need to manually type BBcode):
https://gitlab.com/randompenguin/postbox/-/releases/1.1

#Friendica #Postboxes #add-on @Friendica Support @Friendica Admins

These are the changes and fixes in this release:

* Restyled “New Message” button to make it more obvious.
* Fixed Profile Pics and Cover Photos not working in old iOS browsers
* Moved Postbox styles to the end of the stylesheet
* Minified Postbox CSS.
* Restyled Item Responses
* Action Buttons you’ve interacted with before now adopt accent color.
* Fix for disabled Action Buttons to make it clear they are disabled.
* Fixed issue with slow-loading secondary toolbar in Safari
* Updated with Postbox version 1.1 styles
— names of solid colors now match HTML color names
— 24 new solid colors
— 5 new gradient backgrounds
— 17 new pattern backgrounds

Some of these will be fairly obvious. The big one is that the Action Buttons below posts and comments used to change to the accent color on hover and there was no indicator if you’d previously interacted with any of them. NOW they have a slight shift in darkness/lightness on hover and the accent color indicates you’ve previously clicked the Like, Dislike, Share, or Event buttons (the exceptions being Comment or Quote). If a post's scope is limited (not public) the "Share" and "Quote" buttons are now obviously disabled by being faded out.





Engagement Counts also now show an icon indicating the type of engagement, which should make it easier to see what kind of engagement a post or comment is getting. And if there are 2+ the individuals are revealed in a pop-over box rather than pushing the entire layout down.



The new Postbox pattern backgrounds are done with pure CSS, no images! So they’ll load and display fast and don’t incur additional server calls. Postboxes are just a nice looking way to dress up your text-only posts. Of course only Friendica users will see them, and only if they are using the Bookface scheme or their instance has installed one of the Postbox add-ons. The styling doesn’t transfer to other platforms (Note: there are still issues with Postbox posts shared to Diaspora and Hubzilla).




Thank you to everyone who gave me feedback, reported issues, and tested things for me to help improve Bookface for everyone. :D

#Friendica #Bookface @Friendica Support @Friendica Admins

Server Styles:
https://gitlab.com/randompenguin/bookface/-/releases/1.7

User Styles:
https://gitlab.com/randompenguin/userstyles/-/releases/1.7

@Friendica Support
As for my knowledge this intended newbee speaks fluently german, englisch and spanisch, tho maybe du/you/tu is a little bit to shy to ask for help .. not sure.

What is your setup and what have you tried till now @Mina to install your #friendica server, maybe we can figure out what's your problem with the installation.
🤔

[strong]Friendica: Keine Kontaktinfos bei den Beiträgen?[/strong]

Früher war es doch so das wenn man mit dem Mauszeiger oben über den Namen oder das Profilbild eines Kontakts ging ein kleines Feld kam in dem man verschiedene Optionen zum Kontakt hatte. Doch hier ist das irgendwie nicht mehr der Fall, es ist nur noch ein Link zum Profil. Ist das ein generelles Problem, oder nur bei mir?

[strong]Die Daten meiner Instanz:[/strong] Diese Friendica-Instanz verwendet die Version 2024.12, sie ist unter der folgenden Adresse im Web zu finden https://fedinaut.de. Die Datenbankversion ist 1576/1576 und die Post-Update-Version 1550/1550.

Danke für Tipps und Hilfe im Voraus

#Friendica #Benutzerinfo #Profilinfo #Frage #2025-05-12 !Friendica Support

@Friendica Support
Ich habe bei #Friendica schon länger einen Kanal mit Volltextsuche erstellt und wollte fragen ob das so korrekt ist.
Hier sinngemäß das Muster

wort1* wort2* wort3* tag:wort4* tag:wort5* tag:wort6* -wort7* -wort8* -wort9*

Es sollen Beiträge gefunden werden welche eine bestimmte Zeichenfolge oder Hashtags enthalten. Es sollen jedoch Beiträge nicht ausgegeben werden wenn bestimmte Zeichenfolgen enthalten sind.

@Friendica Support
Ich habe festgestellt dass #uBlock den Teilen Button unter den Beiträgen auf #Friendica ausblendet. Schuld ist diese Liste
Dandelion Sprout's Annoyances List
Dort ist folgender Eintrag hinterlegt
Filter##div[class*="share-link"]
Ich habe nun unter Meine Filter eine Ausnahme festgelegt.
Dort habe ich das eingetragen:
www.anonsys.net#@#div[class*="share-link"]

The same thing happens here with the client and the website of the instance. The 500 error occurs with almost every other action. #Friendica is no longer usable.

@support @helpers

[strong]Friendica: Unvollständige Federation mit Lemmy[/strong]

Wenn ich die Lemmy Community https://feddit.org/c/heidelberg der ich seil längerer Zeit folge direkt öffne, sehen die ersten sechs Beiträge so aus:



Wenn ich sie mir jedoch über Friendica anschaue sehen ich jedoch nur die drei Beiträge davon, die ich selbst erstellt habe:



Sprich die Hälfte der Beiträge fehlt. [strong]Woran kann das liegen ?[/strong]

#Friendica #Frage #Lemmy #Federation #Beiträge #2025-04-28 !Friendica Support @Matthias

@Friend Icare #Friendica is using external media (like youtube) directly and does not "proxify" them. For YT videos there is or was an addon for redirecting it to an #Invidious instance. Since Google started blocking such instances, there are only a few working left. My favorite is https://inv.nadeko.net . So your administrator needs configure it unless not yet done.

For the other external references, I have no idea, just block 3rd-party cookies, I guess.

[strong]Frage: Gibt es die Möglichkeit Beiträge von Accounts denen ich folge automatisch weiterzusagen?[/strong]

Ich hatte in Erinnerung das es so was gibt oder gab, bin mir aber alles andere als sicher. Das wäre sehr gut um die Beiträge von Menschen, Gruppen und Institutionen z. B. aus einer Stadt zu bündeln.

#Frage #Friendica #Accounts #Weitersagen #AutomatischesWeitersagen #2025-04-10 !Friendica Support

@oldkid
Auf meinen #Akkoma, #Sharekey, #Iceshrimp, #Friendica und Mastodon Instanzen sind sie sichtbar. @noidea

[strong]Friendica: Welchen Sinn macht die Option Öffentlichen Beiträge für anonymen Besucher zu sperren?[/strong]

Es gibt bei den Einstellungen folgende Option die es ermöglicht anonymen Besuchern der Webseite den Zugriff auf die öffentlich eingestellten Beiträge zu verweigern.



Für mich persönlich ist das durchaus sinnvoll, da ich meine Beiträge ja fürs Fediverse und nicht für Google und Co. schreibe. Nun stellt sich aber dennoch die Sinnfrage, wenn ca. 80 Prozent der eigenen Kontakte eine Plattform (Mastodon) nutzen die die Beiträge nicht korrekt darstellen und den ursprünglichen Beitrag auch nicht inline laden kann. Deren Nutzer also darauf angewiesen sind anonym über den Server auf der der Beitrag erstellt wurde darauf zuzugreifen.

[strong]Wie geht Ihr damit um? Welche Lösungen habt Ihr dafür gefunden?[/strong]

#Friendica #Beiträge #ÖffentlicheBeiträge #AnonymeZugriffe #Mastodon #Frage #2024-03-24 !Friendica Support

@Friendica Support Welche #Farbcodes verwendet #Friendica und wo kann ich eine vollständige Liste einsehen? Die grafische #Farbtabelle, die mir bei der Farbvorschau angezeigt wird, ist für mich nicht ausreichend.