Marmor Friend Network

9 months ago

Markus I. is currently tired

11 months ago

Telekom Probleme?

@deutschsprachige Nutzer und an alle Telekom-Kunden

Hat jemand auch im Moment Schwierigkeiten mit dem DSL Anschluss?
Seit heute kann ich auf diverse Seiten nicht mehr zugreifen, diese Seiten wechseln auch von Zeit zu Zeit, im Moment zum Beispiel:
http://github.com
http://dkb.de

Ich habe bereits alle Geräte wie Router etc. neu gestartet, dann habe ich alternative DNS-Server eingestellt, auch das hilft nicht. Ich frage mich, wie so ein Fehler überhaupt zustande kommen kann.
Jetzt wollt ich einfach mal hören, ob vielleicht noch andere Telekom-Kunden auch Probleme haben.

Ich nutze einen DSL 16+ Anschluss im Entertain-Paket.

@deutschsprachige nutzer

Markus I.

1 year ago

Who do you trust

@Banner Contest @Martin Farrent @Thomas Willingham

I've made an image map for the latest "Who do you trust" picture and added some buttons.
You can see it here:

http://friends.ibrom.net

You can download this package with all you need to upload to your root folder:

@banner contest @martin farrent @thomas willingham

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Martin Farrent

1 year ago

@Markus I. Da wird 'Nazi' im Englischen fast schon gleichbedeutend mit 'Pedant' verwendet. Grammatikalisch perfekt wäre "whom" - klingt aber gestelzt. "Who" klingt natürlicher, ist aber (streng genommen) inkorrekt. Deshalb hatte sich David gleich selbst als #grammarnazi bezeichnet, weil er die korrekte Version anmahnte. Ist ein Umgang mit dem Wort 'Nazi', der sich Deutschen ein bisschen schwer erschließt.

@markus i #grammarnazi

Markus I.

1 year ago

Never mind, I was just joking ;)
Danke Martin für die Erklärung, so hab ichs auch verstanden ;)

Markus I.

1 year ago

Feature Request - Groups in Contact Overview

@Friendica Developers @Friendica Theme Developers

Okey, I know I'm annoying, but I have collected some ideas I wanted to share with you xD

Don't know if this is Theme Developing or Core:
Would be nice to have an option to seperate group/community contacts from normal contacts. That could be realised with a "sort" option in the contact manager and even be shown seperately on your profile (so not like the "Community pages" in diabook only for your eyes, but also in the public profile - opt-in of course)

@friendica developers @friendica theme developers

Markus I.

1 year ago

Feature Request - Content Filter

nsfw - Click to open/close

@friendica developers @friendica theme developers

Markus I.

1 year ago

Expiring Posts

@Friendica Support @Friendica Developers

I wonder what it means to (globally) expire posts in detail.
Posts with a "star" are not affected, am I right?
What about "filed" posts, are these also deleted? Because I think that wouldn't make sense, because if you make the effort to file an item, you probably want to keep it.
Maybe there could be a setting for this, if there are people who really want to expire ALL posts on a server (like a testserver)

@friendica support @friendica developers

Markus I.

1 year ago

It's in the settings, last point under Security and Privacy.

Markus I.

1 year ago

Feature Request - Global Directory

@Friendica Developers

I just saw the new "automatic search terms" in the global directory.
It would be great if they could be used for only community profiles, too (i.e. seperated from the global directory with both people and groups)
I imaginge this shouldn't be much of a problem for whoever implemented this feature.

@friendica developers

Markus I.

1 year ago

#friendshostfriends

@friendshostfriends @deutschsprachige Nutzer

My little personal Friendica server on Uberspace.de is open for registration!
I don't want to be listed in the public directory, because I don't want to host a lot of users (yet) - but if you just want to join the community, use addons like the Facebook connector that others can't give you, and get updates on a daily basis, feel free to join!

Of course I will also help you with installing a server on your own, or introduce you to people who can help!

By the way: I'm from Aachen, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

#friendshostfriends @friendshostfriends @deutschsprachige nutzer

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Markus I.

1 year ago

"personal" network stream

@Friendica Support

What exactly does the "Personal" tab in the network stream mean? I don't really get which posts are listed there.

@friendica support

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Martin Farrent

1 year ago

Then something's broken, most probably.

Markus I.

1 year ago

Okey, I will try to see what could be wrong there and maybe post a bug report if I have some details.
Thank you!

Markus I.

1 year ago

What do you think about those for hosting a Friendica Server?

Enough CPU speed, enough RAM (for how many users)? Anything missing?

Cubox: http://www.solid-run.com/products/cubox
SheevaPlug/DreamPlug: http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/t-products.aspx
Raspberry Pi: http://www.raspberrypi.org/

I would love to buy one of those sooner or later and experiment with installing Friendica, but if you can tell me right away, that something is missing on one of them, that would help me a lot!

Markus I.

1 year ago

@Friendica Support
Since the last update (to the onepoll.php) @Fabian Dost and I get these Errors in the cronjob:

PHP Fatal error: Cannot break/continue 1 level in /var/www/virtual/marmor/html/include/onepoll.php on line 224

We are both Uberspace users, don't know if that makes a difference.

Any ideas on that? What has changed in the onepoll.php?

@friendica support @fabian dost

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Thomas Willingham

1 year ago

I had this. Replacing the "continue" on line 224 with "return" does the trick.

Markus I.

1 year ago

Thanks!
Well, is this a real bug? Will this be changed in the next update? Or is the "continue" there on purpose?
I will probably wait for a official fix rather than changing this on my own.

Thomas Willingham

1 year ago

The poller was split up yesterday. This is a bug from that.

There are a few issues, and Mike will more than likely have them fixed quickly.

If you do change it yourself, when you get a merge conflict, simply deleting this file then pulling again will be enough to fix it.

Markus I.

1 year ago

Okey thank you for the advice! I won't doubt that this will be fixed as fast as anything happens here on Friendica :D

Mr. X

1 year ago

Yeah that was fixed about 12 (?) hours ago.

Thomas Willingham

1 year ago

It wasn't - it's doing the same thing later on in the code (your fix was at line 110, this is 224)

Mr. X

1 year ago

Should have all of them now.

Darth Baldwin

1 year ago

I see that at free-haven (in the error log), and the site will not load at all. I just pulled again, and rebooted the server, even, and the site will not load. Everything else on the same server, including statusnet, etc., is all working fine, but trying to get to free-haven.org, it just hangs and hangs and hangs...I don't even get an error page or time-out, or anything, just "connecting...waiting for free-haven.org..." forever.

Darth Baldwin

1 year ago

I've got lots of this:

28-Apr-2012 23:35:23] PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/freehvn/friendica/include/plugin.php on line 71
[28-Apr-2012 23:35:23] PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/freehvn/friendica/include/plugin.php on line 71
[28-Apr-2012 23:35:23] PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/freehvn/friendica/include/plugin.php on line 71
[28-Apr-2012 23:36:40] PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/freehvn/friendica/include/poller.php on line 153
[28-Apr-2012 23:37:48] PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/freehvn/friendica/addon/facebook/facebook.php on line 1211
[28-Apr-2012 23:37:49] PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/freehvn/friendica/include/queue.php on line 89
[28-Apr-2012 23:40:06] PHP Fatal error:  Cannot break/continue 1 level in /var/www/freehvn/friendica/include/onepoll.php on line 224
[28-Apr-2012 23:41:19] PHP Fatal error:  Cannot break/continue 1 l

I've got lots of this:

28-Apr-2012 23:35:23] PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/freehvn/friendica/include/plugin.php on line 71
[28-Apr-2012 23:35:23] PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/freehvn/friendica/include/plugin.php on line 71
[28-Apr-2012 23:35:23] PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/freehvn/friendica/include/plugin.php on line 71
[28-Apr-2012 23:36:40] PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/freehvn/friendica/include/poller.php on line 153
[28-Apr-2012 23:37:48] PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/freehvn/friendica/addon/facebook/facebook.php on line 1211
[28-Apr-2012 23:37:49] PHP Warning:  Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/freehvn/friendica/include/queue.php on line 89
[28-Apr-2012 23:40:06] PHP Fatal error:  Cannot break/continue 1 level in /var/www/freehvn/friendica/include/onepoll.php on line 224
[28-Apr-2012 23:41:19] PHP Fatal error:  Cannot break/continue 1 level in /var/www/freehvn/friendica/include/onepoll.php on line 224

Darth Baldwin

1 year ago

line 224 of include/onepoll.php is just
return;

Thomas Willingham

1 year ago

Line 224 was continue; until a few hours ago. The cannot break/continue error is fixed.

The other error message is a different problem. Since all the other errors are about plugins, have you tried moving the addon directory outside of your Friendica install? If that works, you can add them back one at a time until you find the offending one.

(ETA, to be honest, what I do at times like this is rm -r and reclone the git)

Darth Baldwin

1 year ago

All the other errors shown there were from before the pull I just did. The site loaded, now, but it took over 5 minutes to get the login page. I logged in, and it's been 2 or 3 minutes waiting for the site to load again.

Mr. X

1 year ago

Tony - something wrong with the 'addon' table. That's not one we've messed with recently. Check to see if it crashed.

Darth Baldwin

1 year ago

Everything is loading very quickly except anything that involves viewing posts (home, network, community pages).

Darth Baldwin

1 year ago

Those are taking 5 to 10 minutes, if they load at all.

Darth Baldwin

1 year ago

And then I see no posts. All content gone.
The directory is intact, my contacts are intact, but no content in the public stream loads at all.

Thomas Willingham

1 year ago

Take a deep breath, and look at your item table.

Mr. X

1 year ago

check if you have a column 'archive' in your contact table. If not, perform the sql in update_1138

Darth Baldwin

1 year ago

What is my item table, and how do I "perform the sql in update_1138"?

Thomas Willingham

1 year ago

In your database, check the table called "Item".

You've got the same symptoms as when mine corrupted.

Though Mike is telling you check a known issue, so check that first.

Darth Baldwin

1 year ago

I logged into mysql (mysql -u root -p), and then

mysql> use freehvn;
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

hanging...hanging...I think there's something hosed with my db.
(clearly, "freehvn" is the name of the db for my friendica installation).

Now, I was over at Quinnipiac U. on my laptop a few hours ago and on free-haven, and all was fine.
I ssh-ed to the server with my phone and did a pull (couldn't get ssh through Quinni-U's guest wifi, or something), when I read about the FB connector polling timing isue thing, and, I swear I was still using the site after that, briefly. Then I put the laptop away and went to a quiet corner and read my Anne McCaffrey book for a couple of hours, and came home to find these issues.
I pulled a while ago, now, after reading this thread.

Darth Baldwin

1 year ago

Tried to restart mysql, and got this error:
ERROR: The partition with /var/lib/mysql is too full! ... failed

Darth Baldwin

1 year ago

There's definitely something very wrong going on.
I was only using about 10gb of the 20gb storage on my server last I checked, like a week ago, and now
df -h says I'm using 100% of the disk, too.

This is crazy.

Thomas Willingham

1 year ago

Take a look at /var/log/mysql...

Mr. X

1 year ago

/var often has logfiles. Might be one of these (that isn't being rotated) filling it up.

Darth Baldwin

1 year ago

../friendica/log/friendica.log (my friendica log) is 6225360249 bytes.

Darth Baldwin

1 year ago

/var/log/mysql is completely empty.

Darth Baldwin

1 year ago

10873993 lines in friendica.log

Thomas Willingham

1 year ago

Yeah, I don't use logs 90% of the time.

I've set it up, I just need to touch the appropriate file when I need them, and rm when I've got the bits I need. I also turn them on for 24 hours when there's an update to Facebook, diaspora.php or something like that.

The rest of the time, you can't find anything in logs that big anyway.

Michael Johnston

1 year ago from mustard

@Darth Baldwin Time to dump the log, methinks.

Arto

1 year ago

Ok, erase your friendica log file and turn Friendica logging off. Restart server, and various services should load. Then, at least your drive won't be full and you can get saner error from mysql (or hopefully, none).

Darth Baldwin

1 year ago

hdd was too full. This was largely the product of logs, both friendica.log, and /var/log/statusnet/statusnet.log
The SN log as 6gb, and the friendica.log was immense.
I cleared these out, and about 2/3 of the older apache logs, and went from 20gb back down to 6.5 gb

Then I was able to restart mysql again, however, I did this error:
ERROR 144 (HY000) at line 1: Table './freehvn/photo' is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed

Darth Baldwin

1 year ago

I'm getting content, now, but all my photos are gone.
I turned of the FB connector, momentarily.

Darth Baldwin

1 year ago

Could someone tell me what "perform the sql in update_1138" entails, or at least point me to where I can find out?

Michael Johnston

1 year ago

update_1138 is the most recent update in update.php.

function update_1138() {
q("alter table contact add archive tinyint(1) not null default '0' after hidden, add index (archive)");
}

Mr. X

1 year ago

This isn't likely to be the problem now that we know what the problem is. Incidentally, I have to purge my Friendica logfile about every 3 days or it gets so large that I can't open it.

But if you look at update.php you'll see a bunch of numbered functions that each perform some update operation - usually on the database, to keep up with code changes.

If an update fails (and you'll soon start getting emails if this happens) you may need to look at the SQL query for that particular update and possibly manually execute that SQL in mysql to see why it borked.

Mr. X

1 year ago

By the way, did you try

mysql> repair photo;

??

tony baldwin

1 year ago

mike wrote:

now that we know what the problem is

I'm not entirely clear, yet, and what the problem is. Or, an overfull hdd is definitely a problem, but, what's the problem with my photos table? How can I repair it? I lost all photos, and don't seem to be able to upload one, now, to replace my userpic, even.

tony baldwin

1 year ago

mysql> alter table contact add archive tinyint(1) not null default '0' after hidden, add index (archive);
ERROR 1060 (42S21): Duplicate column name 'archive'

tony baldwin

1 year ago

This concerns me more:

mysql> describe photo;
ERROR 144 (HY000): Table './freehvn/photo' is marked as crashed and last (automatic?) repair failed

tony baldwin

1 year ago

tried to repair

mysql> repair photo;
ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'photo' at line 1

tony baldwin

1 year ago

Ah...supposed to be "repair table photo;"

Mr. X

1 year ago

My bad, I don't use it very often...

repair TABLE photo;

tony baldwin

1 year ago

That seems to have helped. I was able to replace my profile photo, and all my photos are back!

tony baldwin

1 year ago

I still wonder what caused the photo table to be corrupted.
Could that be a symptom of the overfull hdd?

Mr. X

1 year ago

Yes. Tried to write a block, the write failed, tried to report it, but the write failed, tried to gracefully recover but the write failed. At some point it becomes hard to do anything but throw your hands up and die.

tony baldwin

1 year ago

I've gone into /etc/logrotate.d and set all the big stuff (apache, mysql, fail2ban) to

rotate 4 
maxage 10

I [i]believe[/ir] (if I've understood correctly), this will only keep up to 4 logs for any given app, and won't keep any log older than 10 days.
Hopefully this will prevent logs from piling up and filling the hdd.

tony baldwin

1 year ago

Also, I turned off logging for friendica.log and statusnet, since these were the two biggest offenders (but also my /var/log/apache2/ was really, really full).

tony baldwin

1 year ago

Oh wait...

rotate 4 means keep 4 weeks, but maxage 10 means trash 'em after 10 days.

Maybe I should just to
rotate 2
maxage 14
or something.

Markus I.

1 year ago

Banner Contest

@Friendica Day
Just wanted to reshare this question from a comment, as it probably got lost in the stream, but I really would like some opinions about it:

Should the contest START at Friendica Day and then last for example one week? Or should the "award ceremony" take place on this day?
I would say, give people a week for submission of pictures (to a Banner Contest group) and then another 3 days of "liking" submissions, after that the winner is published and gets the Friendica Server admin information.

And in addition:
Should I post some example banners of my own (I already have made some) or should I wait for the contest to finish? Maybe some examples could fire the participant's imagination.

@friendica day

Martin Farrent

1 year ago

@Markus I. Awards on Friendica Day, I'd say.

Example banners would be great - especially yours, I would imagine.

@markus i

Markus I.

1 year ago

So I should probably get this started in a few days! I will make a (temporary) group for this contest, so there will be all the details, examples, reference images and people who want to contribute connect to the group. Then I will open it for submissions a week and some days before Friendica Day, then close it after a week and give people some days to like the best contributions. On Friendica Day the one with the most likes will then get the account infos of a Server on Uberspace!

I have to test some group/posting functions to see how to practically do the opening/closing of submissions...
Any further ideas are welcome!

Markus I.

1 year ago

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Markus I.

1 year ago

Everything else

Markus I.

1 year ago

Oh, I'm sorry to spam you with this, I didn't think about that my comments appear in the network xD

Well, this should go to the post, where I showed my new home.html
You guys wanted more of this, so I made some versions with "Friendica" in the title and different backgrounds/sizes for different templates.

Critics/Requests are most welcome!

Thomas Bierey

1 year ago

it's great so far... i realy like it... maybe a bit late, but could you use icons from just one icon-set?

see here:
http://www.nouveller.com/general/free-social-media-bookmark-icon-pack-the-ever-growing-icon-set/

Martin Farrent

1 year ago

@Markus I. Thanks!

https://friendika.farrent.net/

I need to work on the slogan a bit... it doesn't 'bilingualise' well. "Willkommen zu" would work a bit better as "Willkommen auf". That translation would also be more correct anyway.

@markus i

Martin Farrent

1 year ago

(My own slogan, that is. "Welcome to" is hardwired and gets translated.)

Markus I.

1 year ago

@Thomas Bierey Well, I would be happy to use a consistent icon-set, however, the one you used only offers 32px icons, which are a bit small, and I didn't find another one that features all of the services.
But I can make a version with these 32px icons and see, how blurry they get.

@thomas bierey

Markus I.

1 year ago

Okey, finally I did the image map thing with this picture. You can find the version suitable for the 600px wide pictures here: http://friends.ibrom.net/home.html
For another size the coordinates would have to change.
Of course you can change the links, I wasn't very creative with these :D

Markus I.

1 year ago

And just adding @Martin Farrent and @Thomas Willingham because they already use this on their server and may not want to miss that comment ;)

@martin farrent @thomas willingham

Thomas Willingham

1 year ago

Thanks, I would have missed this without the tag.

I'll update as soon as I get the chance.

Martin Farrent

1 year ago

Me too!

Markus I.

1 year ago

@Friendica Support

I just did a git pull a few minutes ago (there was some change in the #jappixmini plugin), and after that I only get an "Error" down there in the chat button.
I already restarted my firefox and cleared the cache.
Any ideas?

@friendica support #jappixmini

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Martin Farrent

1 year ago

They locked my FB account today, warning that someone had been trying to access it from Paris. So I changed the password, re-authorised Friendica, Wordpress and Twitter, changed the FB password in Jitsi, Pidgin and two iOS XMPP apps, did a full row of tests... and then it dawned on me.

I'm a total twerp. I had switched to the Jappix BOSH server to try FB chat with the plugin. And where is that server?

Mr. X

1 year ago

Markus, my bad - it's fixed now.

Markus I.

1 year ago

@Friendica Support @Open Web

Since I saw a post about Ghostery (Firefox addon) here on Friendica, I use it on all computers.
Now I am shocked to see, that it found some "Facebook Social Graph" here on Friendica!! How can this be? Is it inside a post from Facebook maybe?

@friendica support @open web

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Myrddin Lailoken

1 year ago

What!?

Thomas Willingham

1 year ago

I believe it comes from photographs of Facebook contacts.

The frustrating part is that the social graph is forced into your network if any of your contacts make their Facebook wall public.

Likewise, you get Google Analytics from some embedded content too.

In this case, people are the problem.

Martin Farrent

1 year ago

They are pix from Facebook - pix from people who comment in your FB contacts' threads (but aren't among your contacts themselves). These are served from the social graph servers.

Markus I.

1 year ago

Ah that's a shame... I'm waiting for the day where I can push the button "Shut all doors" in the Friendica Settings and all those spying pixels and cookies are just turned off (without missing the content of course :D)

Thomas Willingham

1 year ago

If your friends are determined to make sure something nasty ends up in your network, then no software can mitigate it completely.

We need more education of people who enjoy being spied on, and we need to frown more prominently at people who really should know better.

And we need an alternative to YouTube.

Arto

1 year ago

Regarding YouTube, would MediaGoblin offer an alternative platform? Could be self-hosted, kind of like the Friendica model...?

Markus I.

1 year ago

What do you think of my new home.html?
http://friends.ibrom.net/

It's not the final version, but maybe you guys have some more ideas to it already!

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Martin Farrent

1 year ago

Hey, that's genuinely good! I'd like to steal that when you have finished.

Fabian Dost

1 year ago

very cool $:\.../$

Thomas Willingham

1 year ago

What do I think? I think it belongs in the git as the default content if home.html doesn't exist.

Fabian Dost

1 year ago

$\o/$

Oliver

1 year ago

yepp, very cool

(but could be a few percent smaller...)

Tobias

1 year ago

the image is too large for "small" screens

Fabian Dost

1 year ago

and what about a version "for all server"???
just in the title

Friendica
Network

Markus I.

1 year ago

Wow, thank you for the great comments!! That's quite some motivation to work on it some more.
And then I will make a more general version of it without my Server name in it, if someone wants to use it.

Fabian Dost

1 year ago

OOOOOOOHHHHHHH YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS

Thomas Willingham

1 year ago

I'd definitely use it.

It's the sort of thing I've wanted on my front page from day one, but have a distinct lack of artistic ability to make for myself.

Martin Farrent

1 year ago

I want it, too.

Yesterday, please!

Mr. X

1 year ago

I've tried to do this about ten times now. These attempts were so bad that they will never see the light of day.

Tobias

1 year ago

Tobias tagged Markus I.'s status with #friendica

Tobias

1 year ago

Tobias tagged Markus I.'s status with #advertisement

Markus I.

1 year ago

@Friendica Support @Tobias Diekershoff

I just edited the Impressum plugin to link to the Privacy Policy and this happened when inserting

<h3>Privacy Policy</h3><a href="https://github.com/friendica/friendica/wiki/Admin-Voluntary-Statement-of-Privacy-Expectation">Admin Voluntary Statement of Privacy Expectation</a>

into "Hinweise":

Obviously the problem comes with the " " after href=
When using ' ' it works.
Could there also be a security issue in this?

@friendica support @tobias diekershoff

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Tobias

1 year ago

Also some of the fields are now textareas for longer texts and not input fields anymore

newline characters at the end of the line are preserved from the stripping

Markus I.

1 year ago

Ok thank you for the heads-up!

Markus I.

1 year ago

Profile Photo in Conversations

@Friendica Theme Developers

What about putting the profile pic of your messaging partner in the messages overview? Maybe on the left or next to the "Recipient and You".
I think this shouldn't be too complicated (however I don't know how to do it :D )

@friendica theme developers

Markus I.

1 year ago

Friendica Day

Starts: Tuesday May 15, 2012 @ 12:00 AM

Finishes: Tuesday May 15, 2012 @ 11:59 PM

Location: Everywhere in the Friendica Universe!

tommy tomson likes this.

Markus I.

1 year ago

Banner Contest

@Friendica Day

I will create some "Find me on Friendica" Banners and/or Avatars that will be presented on Friendica Day!
And this just occured to me:
What about a Picture/Banner contest, where anyone can post Friendica-advertising pictures and the best one will be chosen (by count of likes?) on Friendica Day.
As a prize I would create a Uberspace-Friendica-Server and put some 5 € on its account (that's 5 months of maintaining the server for free, when you are greedy :D)
What do you think?
Maybe the contest idea can be used for other things, too!

@friendica day

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JC John Sese Cuneta (謝施洗)

1 year ago

If you are willing, can you provide a GIMP file with the layers? That way we can insert our pics, URL, or what not. Of course that depends on the design hehe.

Fabian Dost

1 year ago

cool idea!

Thomas Willingham

1 year ago

Making a competition of it is a great idea.

Personally, I'm not interested in promoting my Friendica server, only the network as a whole. Also, the reason we still need people to make banners is not many of us can do it.

It would be great if layers could be provide as per the above, but could you please try to make a "standard" version that's generic enough to not need any changes, for those of us who probably couldn't even manage that.

Markus I.

1 year ago

I will try to do this! In fact I'm using Photoshop for it, but probably I find a way to export it as a GIMP file.
There will be as many different versions/designs as I manage to make ;)

Markus I.

1 year ago

The GIMP functionality could be a problem, but it looks like GIMP can open .psd files with some restrictions (no layer effects), so I will make a .psd file which only consists of some layers with plain pictures - you should be able to import these into GIMP.

BTW, does anyone have the Friendica Logo in some higher resolution than 32x32? :D I could publish this as a reference image for the banner contest (and also use it myself).

Then some questions about organisation:
Should the contest START at Friendica Day and then last for example one week? Or should the "award ceremony" take place on this day?
I would say, give people a week for submission of pictures (to a Banner Contest group) and then another 3 days of "liking" submissions, after that the winner is published and gets the Friendica Server admin information.

Fabio

1 year ago

in svg: https://raw.github.com/friendica/friendica/master/images/friendica.svg
in png 1600x1600 https://github.com/friendica/friendica/raw/master/images/friendica-1600.png

Markus I.

1 year ago

Thank you very much!

Markus I.

1 year ago

@Uberspace-User
Hat schon jemand Erfahrungen mit Friendica auf Uberspace und mehreren Mitgliedern? Wie viele (aktive) Mitglieder verträgt son Uberspace?
Ich überlege nämlich demnächst mal meinen Server als öffentlich zu "promoten"

Oder muss da doch dann ne Alternative her?

@uberspace-user

Tobias

1 year ago

Solange es nur ein paar sind ist es ok. Achte einfach darauf, dass es nicht zu viele werden, zweistellige Nutzerzahlen sind in Ordnung denke ich. Das Problem ist die items Tabelle die irgendwann zu groß werden wird fürs vorhandene RAM.

Markus I.

1 year ago

Ok danke für den Hinweis!

Markus I.

1 year ago

What the heck?!

@Thomas Willingham @Mike
I just got an API Key for the Facebook connector from Thomas and inserted it into the .htconfig.php (like it was said in the plugin help file) and it worked, I saw my test posts from Facebook, but now I lost my ability to go into the admin settings of my own server!!
The button in the menu is not available and when I visit /admin it just says "Logout"

PLEASE HELP!

@thomas willingham @mike

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Thomas Willingham

1 year ago

The documentation is out of date, you don't need it in .htconfig.php anymore, but it shouldn't have locked you out of admin either.

Have you put it near the top and missed a semi-colon?

$a->config['facebook']['appid'] = 'xxxxxxxxxxx';
$a->config['facebook']['appsecret'] = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx';

You can try adding any missing punctuation, or deleting those lines entirely, and entering your keys on the plugin page instead.

There's also quite a lot of strange cache issues with Friendica. If you're using fast cgi, try restarting it. Also try restarting your browsers (especially if it's Firefox) instead of just clearing the cache.

Markus I.

1 year ago

Yeah, now I read that I didn't need to edit the htconfig, but when I just delete these two lines (which were at the very end) I just can't use the facebook connector anymore ("missing API key") but I'm not able to get to the plugin settings, because I can't get to my admin settings xD

Restarted browser (both iron and firefox tried), didn't help.
Honestly, I don't know how to restart fast cgi (or if I'm using it xD) , I'm hosting on uberspace.de

Martin Farrent

1 year ago

If you don't know whether your using fast cgi, you either aren't or can't influence it... one of those two alternatives is indeed the case on shared hosting with Uberspace. So you can forget that aspect.

Thomas Willingham

1 year ago

Have you changed the file permssions or owner when you edited the file, maybe?

It has to be readable by the webserver.

Also check the line

$a->config['admin_email'] = 'YourEmail@Domain.com';

make sure you haven't knocked another key while you were scrolling down.

Markus I.

1 year ago

Oh shit, what a stupid mistake!! :D
I changed the admin-email, because I thought this would only be the place where my mails go. I didn't really think about it and didn't even remember when posting this...

Shame on me :D
And thank you so much for your fast help!

Thomas Willingham

1 year ago

No worries.

This is the kind of thing I was talking about when I talked about it being potentially hard to work out whose fault any problems are the other day.

Markus I.

1 year ago

Yeah, completely right. In the long term this is of course not the best solution. So when I really start inviting friends from facebook over to my server, I will get my own API key, but now I only wanted to check out the connector to see what it is capable of ;)

Markus I.

1 year ago

#Transifex #German
Ich seh grad, es gibt da noch einige Strings zum Übersetzen ins Deutsche! Stürzt euch drauf xD

Happy translating! :D

#transifex #german

Markus I.

1 year ago

Markus I. is now friends with Martin Schmitt

Markus I.

1 year ago

@all-the-server-admins-with-facebook-connector :D
Did you really all give away your cellphone number or credit card to approve your facebook account? I thought I could use a fake one just for the API Key to make the Facebook connector possible on my server. But thats not so easy...
Any ideas? I certainly won't give Facebook any of my personal data xD
and trash-sms.com isn't available anymore, simser.info only offers one number and that one was already used to approve a account -.-

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Thomas Willingham

1 year ago

Many mobile networks offer free sim cards.

Markus I.

1 year ago

Ok, thats a possibility, but there I have to give them my adress and so on. However, better than giving it to Facebook xD

Fabian Dost

1 year ago

could we all just use one facebookconnector on differnet servers???

Thomas Willingham

1 year ago

You can't, no - each app needs to register it's namespace or it won't work (I've just tried to use this connector on another server).

You can, of course, use one dev account for more than one app.

Since I've already made the sacrifice of letting Facebook abuse me for the greater good, I suppose I could create apps for other servers too, but there are levels of trust required for that.

Markus I.

1 year ago

That would be a great thing! Not that I want to question your worries :D But what can someone do with your API key? Is it because this is now connected to your real name?

Thomas Willingham

1 year ago

The Facebook connector can potentially be blocked, though it hasn't happened to anybody yet. But imagine somebody using it to spam, or otherwise abuse it, and the app being banned. That's fine...but imagine one person has hundreds of API keys, and then their account gets banned - everybody's breaks then.

Likewise, there's nothing to stop you falling out with whoever you got the keys from, and them pulling the plug out of spite.

Also, there's a little bit of information about users included. Only their country, and the number of them, but that could change. There's a potential privacy issue there (though a negligible one for anyone using Facebook in the first place). Your Facebook connector will then be covered by a) the privacy policy of whoever gave you the keys, and b) the imaginary one Facebook wrote.

Finally, there's the PITA issue - I can't test your app. A typo in the registration will stop it working, and that can cause problems working out whose fault it is.

I need to test what the settings are for installs to a... show more

Paul Taylor

1 year ago

Our burgeoning GPG web of trust c/should help with this. We might think more how this might work.

I am ironically in the position that I might have to set up an FB account just so I can do the FB connector business on my impending instance. This thought does not appeal in the slightest.

Martin Farrent

1 year ago

@Paul Taylor Get yourself over to @Open Web We need a GPG man there. I have had to reshare your expertise already.

@paul taylor @open web

Paul Taylor

1 year ago

@Martin Farrent #suitablyactioned

@martin farrent #suitablyactioned

Mr. X

1 year ago

I had left FB for well over a year and had to re-register just to get an app key and write the initial Facebook connector. Once I "finished" (software is never finished) the connector I turned it off on my own site.

I don't recall exactly when, but I've since turned it back on (software is never finished) and I use it to communicate with old friends. Mostly on my terms - I can always see what they're doing and I comment on rare occasions.

But in response to the initial thread, I gave them my (real) cell phone number. It was the least dangerous of the two options. I suppose they can text me, but they can't leak my credit card info through a bug. I'm not that concerned that they know I'm a real person and live south of Sydney - that information is freely available. Their login cookie tracking (which is scattered all over the web) is much more dangerous IMO than having my cell provider info.

If a government wanted to monitor my phone, they already have access to that info. They don't need Facebook.

Markus I.

1 year ago

Markus I. is now friends with Friendica News

Markus I.

1 year ago

@Fabio Comuni or @Mike
In the /mod/admin.php some Strings are missing the t() function for translation.
For example
"Maximum size in bytes of uploaded images. Default is 0, which means no limits."

Would be great if you could update these, then we can start translating ;)
Thanks!

@fabio comuni @mike

Markus I.

1 year ago

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Markus I.

1 year ago

@Mike and others:
Is there a way to have a different Logo/Text in the top navigation bar depending on what template is used? Would this even be possible? Because some templates (like dispy) have very much space there, which could be used for a neat little banner, others only have space for a word or two.

thanks in advance!

@mike

Markus I.

1 year ago

Markus I. is now friends with Thomas Bierey

Markus I.

1 year ago

Nochmal ne Frage in die Runde:
Kann man eigentlich die Anzahl der Beiträge im "Netzwerk" reduzieren (also, die auf einer Seite angezeigt werden), weil mein Browser irgendwie jetzt schon total überlastet is, wenn ich auf Netzwerk bin. Oder liegt das etwa an meinem Server (uberspace)?

Markus I.

1 year ago

Ok hab ich gemacht, danke!

Markus I.

1 year ago

♲ Michael Vogel
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Nachdem meine lieben Eingekreisten zweifel haben, genug #plutonium oder #Uran besorgen zu können, quälte ich meine Suchmaschine (und damit sämtliche Geheimdienste dieser Erde), um fantastische #Bombenbau Anleitungen zu finden.

Mein Favorit will ich Euch nicht vorenthalten.

Verteilt die Informationen, insbesondere per Mail weiter. Wir wollen doch niemanden von diesem Wissen ausschließen, oder?

MSS - Bomben einfach selbst gebaut

Markus I.

1 year ago

Markus I. is now friends with Johannes Paechnatz

Markus I.

1 year ago

Willkommen auf meinem eigenen Friendica-Server!

Oliver

1 year ago

Oder auch: Willkommen im Friendica Multiversum