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

My Firefox addon got approved! It ensures i.imgur.com and i.reddit.com actually send you an image when visiting links instead of redirecting to a page with a bunch of proprietary javascript!

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…#firefox #addons #firefoxaddons #reddit #imgur

Fucking JPEG – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Fucking JPEG for Firefox. Only allows image/* content-types to be sent from URLs instead of a shitload of javascript.

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Have you tried the LibRedirect browser add-on?

It automatically redirects you to FOSS, privacy-focused Alternative Front-ends of big-tech sites/non private platforms.

There are alternative front-ends to YouTube, Twitter, Medium, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, etc.

Each of these sites has a list of Alternative Front-ends' servers which you can select for the service to redirect to. You can also add Custom Instances.

So, when you click on a YouTube link, say youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXc… it automatically redirects you to invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=… for example.

Firefox Addon: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…

Chromium/Chrome/Edge: github.com/libredirect/libredi…

LibRedirect git link: github.com/libredirect/libredi…

Do check it out, it's fun and has a lot of interesting sections in it.

#LibRedirect
#Privacy
#AlternativeFrontEnd
#FOSS
#AddOns