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)

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

Was bedeutet denn eigentlich "nicht gelisteter Beitrag"?

#friendica
!Friendica Support

 
Ich finde schon lange den Abstand zwischen Text und Bildern zu klein. Das klebt geradezu aufeinander. Nicht schön ...

Ein schneller Behelf ist es, dazwischen ein sogenanntes geschütztes Leerzeichen zu platzieren. Funktioniert natürlich auch an anderen Stellen.

Das erzeugt man mit ALT+0160 auf dem Numpad.

Problem gelöst. :))

#friendica #abstand
!Friendica Support

!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

Wie verlinkt man (extern) eigentlich korrekt zu einem Kanal auf #Friendica? Oder zu einem Profil?

#raccon #friendica #fragfedi

Kann mir vielleicht jemanden bitte weiter helfen?

Folgendes Problem:

Ich nutze die App raccon für die Nutzung mit friendica und wenn ich in der App einen neuen Beitrag schreibe scrollt der geschriebene Text nicht mehr beim Schreiben mit. Ich sehe nur die ersten paar Zeilen, die ich schreibe und dann schreibe ich blind und kann nur alles lesen, wenn ich die Tastatur weg klicke. Weiß jemand, ob man das einstellen kann oder ob ich etwas falsch mache?

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

#friendica #groups

you should add it to #fedidb (right now only my app shows up for #friendica)

fedidb.com/apps?projects=frien…

!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

@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.

Zen Postbox (Adds a style button to the post Composer):
gitlab.com/randompenguin/zen_p…

Postbox (Just adds the styles, you need to manually type BBcode):
gitlab.com/randompenguin/postb…

#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:
gitlab.com/randompenguin/bookf…

User Styles:
gitlab.com/randompenguin/users…

@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.
🤔

Friendica: Keine Kontaktinfos bei den Beiträgen?

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?

Die Daten meiner Instanz: Diese Friendica-Instanz verwendet die Version 2024.12, sie ist unter der folgenden Adresse im Web zu finden 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

I could use some #FediHelp .

As my long-running readers are probably aware, I schedule a _lot_ of posts in advance. I use @bufferapp for this, and I am largely satisfied with this, except for one thing:

They have a fixed character limit of 500 for posts, and thus I cannot make use of the full 10,000 characters of my instance.

This is bad, since most of my scheduled posts are German folk tales exceeding this character limit, and thus I am forced to use screenshots instead of plain texts - which is terrible from an #accessibility point of view (yes, there are readers that can identify the text, but I'd rather use plain text in the first place). So I am looking for alternatives. Here are my requirements:

- It must have a web interface I can use on my desktop PC - I grew up with proper screens and keyboards, and while I _can_ use a smart phone or tablet for complex stuff, I do not find the experience enjoyable.
- It must have a calendar view instead of being a simple, scrollable list - I often schedule posts weeks in advance, and I want to be able to keep track of what is scheduled.
- It must make full use of the character limits of each instance.
- It must allow for scheduling threads - quite a few of the tales I am posting exceed the 10,000 character limit.
- It must work with #Mastodon . While I am aware that other #Fediverse systems (such as #Friendica ) have scheduling options of their own, switching to an entirely different system is a drastic step that I only want to explore when all other options have been exhausted.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

@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.

@RaccoonForFriendica This weekend I took some time to investigate how much work would be needed to build an iOS version of the app, and it turned out that at least building and running a basic version of the app is doable with some minor changes (see here).

What do you think about it? Would you like to see a Raccoon on iOS too?

#friendica #friendicadev #androidapp #androiddev #fediverseapp #raccoonforfriendica #kotlin #multiplatform #kmp #compose #cmp #opensource #foss #procyonproject

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

Friendica: Unvollständige Federation mit Lemmy

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. Woran kann das liegen ?

#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 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.

Friendica: Welchen Sinn macht die Option Öffentlichen Beiträge für anonymen Besucher zu sperren?

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.

Wie geht Ihr damit um? Welche Lösungen habt Ihr dafür gefunden?

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

Friendica: Warum sind in den Kommentaren keine Profilbilder von Lemmy Accounts zu sehen?

Ja ich weiß das auf Lemmy die Sache mit den Benutzeraccounts etwas anders gehandhabt wird. Aber das Profilbild des Accounts der den Beitrag eingestellt hat sieht man ja auch. Hier ein Beispiel:

feddit.org/post/9571538

#Frage #Friendica #Lemmy #Feddit #Profilbilder #Benutzeraccounts #2025-03-22 !Friendica Support

Does anybody know how homepage verification with Friendica works? I'm going with this wiki entry.

freifunkh@friendica.me has a homepage in its profile and the homepage has a link to the profile with rel="me" set. These are the results:

• Opening the profile in a browser without login => homepage URL visible and marked as verified (✔️).
• Opening the profile while being logged into Friendica (different server) => no URL visible.
• Opening the profile while being logged into Mastodon (different server) => no URL visible.

Mastodon App even shows a warning, saying there is no verified link.

#Friendica @Friendica Support

Ich habe gerade den "Leitfaden für den Instanz-Betrieb im dezentralen Netzwerk - Datenschutz bei Mastodon" von gefunden.
Dieser gibt neben grundsätzlichen Informationen auf was Instanzbetreiber achten müssen, vor allem auch eine sehr praktische Sammlung an Musterdokumenten unter CC BY-ND 4.0-Lizenz. Ihr könnt es also für euere Instanzen anpassen und nutzen.

Auch relevant für @Friendica Admins / @Friendica Support

Auf einem abstrakten Niveau sind die Anforderungen, die wir beschreiben, auch auf andere Plattformen des Fediverse übertragbar. Dennoch gibt es einige Aspekte, die von der konkreten Plattform und Software-Implementierung abhängen. So sind zum Beispiel die Möglichkeiten, rechtliche Texte einzubinden und anzuzeigen, unterschiedlich.

Danke@DS_Stiftung@social.bund.de

stiftungdatenschutz.org/praxis…

#impressum #dsgvo #fediverse #friendica #mastodon #tos #deutschland #datenschutz

Datenschutz bei Mastodon

Die Stiftung Datenschutz wurde im Januar 2013 von der Bundesrepublik Deutschland als Stiftung privaten Rechts gegründet. Sie ist gemeinnützig und verfolgt keine gewerblichen Interessen.

^{stiftungdatenschutz.org}

I moved the #Friendica Wiki to another server. I need some people to test it and see if all works. I will then solve the problems pointed out.

The initial setup was not done by me. It was still on a server with php 7.4 because it did not work with 8.x due to some plugins. I removed those plugins, apparently not maintained since 2014.

I also saw that it loads some js from some CDN, I don't like that either, so tips welcome on that. Maybe there is a plugin that stores such stuff locally?

Also can you suggest a free service to analyze your webpage, show problem, broken links and such?

I saw that the Avatar (only a systemwide standard avatar for all users) is not displayed in my Firefox, but looks fine on Chromium. May be a DNS issue, so local issue only, seems tailscale some how messes up my DNS resolution. But please have a look for any embedded stuff that does not load!

Send me screenshots if you like and/or links to the problem page.

Here is the wiki.friendi.ca

@helpers

!Friendica Support

Friendica has a LOT of feeds. Too many really. It's confusing. Overwhelming. Oh, and they're apparently called TIMELINES here. I've been trying to figure out which ones I should be using that are similar to the ones I used on Facebook.

Over on Facebook most people probably never go beyond the very awful "News Feed" which is full of algorithm-driven, AI-generated, and advertising garbage. And the only people, groups, or pages you see there are the ones you regularly interact with. Which is why for years I've been using the other feeds on Facebook, and they're the only thing that actually makes that platform usable IMO. But it's hard to try and figure out what Friendica "Timelines" are the closest corollary to the Facebook ones?

My best guesses are:

What's Hot = News Feed: It's a fire hose of posts from accounts you don't follow that are getting a lot of engagement. However, I have no clue what kinds of interactions or how many get something into this feed. There is also a "Discover" feed that says it's supposed to show "Posts from accounts that you don't follow but might like" and I have no clue how, without an algorithm, it would determine what I might like. Apparently it doesn't or can't because that feed is empty for me.

Latest Activity = All Feed: because it's based on people you're connected to and shows all their latest interactions (Posts, Likes, Shares, and Comments) including on posts by accounts you don't follow.

For You = Friends Feed: which I think is just posts from people listed as "Mutual Friendship" in your Contacts, meaning you are following them, they are following you.

Latest Activity + Circles/Account Types > Groups = Groups Feed: there doesn't appear to a separate Groups feed in Friendica.

Latest Activity + Circles > Interests = Pages Feed: at least I think "Interests" is referring to "Pages" but I'm not sure, and there doesn't appear to be a separate "Interests" feed.

It would be nice if you could filter the "Network" feeds by more than one thing at a time. There is no way to "stack" filters or save that view. Which is too bad because that would be a killer feature akin to Bluesky's custom algorithms!

As for the other "Timelines" in Friendica:

"Latest posts" and "Latest Creation" are obviously because stuff doesn't necessarily arrive on your server at the same time it was sent from another one. Though I'm not sure anything posted to social media is so time-sensitive you'd need these feeds since I assume the same stuff will show up under "Latest Activity."

"Personal" only shows posts that @ mention you. "Sharers of Sharers" sounds like a feed of what you would call "Friends of Friends" on Facebook. It's unclear what puts someone in "Quiet Sharers" though. It sounds like "Mutual Friendships" that just don't post much, but how often is often?

I'm guessing "Starred" means posts I've LIKED? Or does it only mean posts I've actually gone to the "More..." drop-down and selected "Add Star"? Or BOTH?

"Images," "Audio," and "Video" are pretty self-explanatory, I guess if you're here for the photos, podcasts, and TikTokish content. I've also seen on servers that have a lot of add-ons enabled people might have additional feeds for other platforms they are connected to, which are self-explanatory.

"Local Community" and "Global Community" appear to be the same feeds as under the "Community" button in the main navigation. Which is redundant, but okay.

Then I've also seen instructions for new users to go into Settings > Social Networks > General Social Media Settings and change the drop-down to "Any conversation my follows interact with, including likes" or your feeds will be pretty bare.

It's little wonder this confuses people coming from other platforms. It's...a lot.

#friendica

!Friendica Support

wiki.friendi.ca/docs/move-acco… mentions "Please consider that this is only possible on servers with open registration. On other systems only the administrator can add accounts with an uploaded file."

I run an instance where registrations require admin approval, how do I as administrator import a user's account export from another server into my server?

#friendica

Hi there @islieb? !
This is a post actually directed in part to the @Friendica Support forum page of our free open source software community. I guess you heard the term #friendica already, as you are quite a while in the fedi, beginning with your #diaspora presence a long time ago. Our main coder @Michael Vogel is a fan of yours (if I got that right). I asked him the other day in a FOSDEM element chat, if he considers it possible that you make some drawings for friendica, maybe even for every new version, we have like two o three releases every year.

The idea came up because on this server we decided to use the following comic on the login/welcome page:

Than we came up with this variation for the text as you can see:

It seemed to me that Michael liked the idea to have some drawing by you, so I don't want to let the idea slip away and ask you, as well as the community, what everyone thinks about such an option. There are also the 403, 404, 500 and so on error pages. Well maybe those are more a task for @isfies!, who knows ..

Sumasumarum, any ideas, comments or questions about this proposal @all ?

v.01

!Friendica Support
#friendica Q&A @Tutorial

How does the setting:
'php_path' =>, definable in the /config/local.config.php or by the console via /bin/console config work exactly?

The setting 'php_path' => '/usr/bin/php', that actually also shows up in the crontab -e file doesn't exist as an existing folder structure and/or file, at least on this standard ubuntu server installation, but was the original setting of this instance when we ported it from a friendica beta hosting service over here to a single IP VPS server with a single domain. And till now with that setting this instance ran quite well.

Where does /usr/bin/php actually point to, by whom is ist accessed (www-data?) and is there a way to change the reference it points to (if it is actually a reference inside friendica)?

On this server, in the case of the installed friendica versions 2024.xx we set this to:
'php_path' => '/etc/php/8.1/fpm/' and for now the display in the admin panel looks quite right:
PHP version 8.1.31 php.ini /**/8.1/fpm/php.ini

!Friendica Support Trying to install #Friendica on #Debian, using instructions at github.com/friendica/friendica…

Can't seem to satisfy some of the PHP library requirements, namely IntlChar, IDN, OpenSSL. I read somewhere that installing openssl covers PHP libraries for same. Is this true? What about IntlChar and OpenSSL? Does php-intl cover IntlChar?