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Out of curiosity, why can't A/V files be uploaded to Friendica? Seeing how images are handled, it seems like it should be able to do it.

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Michael 🇺🇦
Michael 🇺🇦  
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You can upload them. But you have to switch to the file upload and size limits apply.
Kāpitan
Kāpitan  
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@Michael 🇺🇦 How does a user do that, as I can't find a way here for that?
@Michael 🇺🇦
Michael 🇺🇦
Michael 🇺🇦  
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Which version and theme do you use?
Kāpitan
Kāpitan  
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@Michael 🇺🇦 Friendica 'Interrupted Fern' 2024.12 - 1576 and the user is using an early Bookface , from back when it was a modifier for Frio

Yes, its an old system, my host seems to have died/is dying, anyone know of anyone other than Elastio offering hosted Friendica instances?

@Michael 🇺🇦
Michael 🇺🇦
Michael 🇺🇦  
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I guess it has been added after that version.

Concerning hosted systems, we recently received an email from Hostinger that they added Friendica:

https://www.hostinger.com/applications/friendica

I can't tell you anything about them, other than I heard the name "Hostinger" before, so I can't tell you more.

Kāpitan
Kāpitan  
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@Michael 🇺🇦 Chuckles, "No wonder I didn't know it existed. Thanks. Hmmm, bit heavy on the AI over there for me."
@Michael 🇺🇦
Random Penguin
Random Penguin  
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In the earlier versions of Bookface I purposely hid the "Files" button because there is no file management interface. A regular user can't delete the files, only a server administrator can. It was recommended that videos and other files be hosted elsewhere and linked to or embedded in posts, rather than uploaded to the Friendica server. I removed the hiding of the files button in the most recent Bookface, but I still wouldn't recommend actually using that feature.
Kāpitan
Kāpitan  
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@Random Penguin @Michael 🇺🇦 Gotcha, its not something I'd use much if all, after all I have a Loops ( vextaur@loops.video), and I usually just boost it, but i'd like to have the option. Anything specifically bad about it? I'm assuming it works the same as pictures, just the files are bigger.
@Michael 🇺🇦 @Random Penguin
Random Penguin
Random Penguin  
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What's specifically bad about it is that there is no way to manage the files. If you accidentally upload the wrong video you can't delete it if you're a regular user. You'd have to ask the server admin to delete it for you. There's no way to set permissions on the files. It also has a tendency to fail on upload with larger files, even when they're under the file limit set by the server admin.

I spent a while digging through the code trying to add a button to the file browser so at least users could delete a file, and while I think the code to do that exists on the backend, I could never figure out how to access it and gave up.

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