Vor gut zwei Stunden habe ich #anonsys.net wieder online genommen. Ich bin jetzt mal vorsichtig optimistisch, was den Betrieb betrifft. Werde jetzt noch vermehrt das Monitoring und die Logfiles im Auge behalten.

Was war los?
In letzter Zeit gab es immer wieder Probleme beim Aufruf dieser #Friendica Instanz. Eine genauere Analyse hat folgende Ursache für die Probleme gezeigt:

Die Fehlermeldungen im error.log deuten auf einen schweren InnoDB-Fehler und eine Assertion Failure direkt im InnoDB-Quellcode (trx0rseg.cc line 370, Assertion !UT_LIST_GET_LEN(undo_list)). In der Regel ist das ein eindeutiger Hinweis auf eine interne Datenbankkorruption im InnoDB-Tablespace.

Dies hatte zur Folge, dass ich die Datenbank erst einmal sichern durfte. Danach den InnoDB-Tablespace löschen und neue aufbauen musste, inkl. zurückspielen des zuvor erstellten Dumps.

Dies war leider sehr zeitaufwändig. Aber die Nachtschicht heute hat sich scheinbar gelohnt und so konnte anonsys.net heute Morgen wieder online gehen. Ich hoffe, das war es jetzt mit den DB-Problemen. 🙄

Bitte entschuldigt die Unannehmlichkeiten.

Tuxi ⁂

2025-08-06 08:29:25

Da es heute Morgen auf #anonsys.net erneut Probleme mit der Datenbank gegeben hat, werde ich heute mal eine genaue Fehleranalyse durchführen. Dazu ist eine längere Downtime notwendig.

Wie immer der Hinweis: Falls notwendig gibt es über mein Backup-Profil Statusinformationen. Dieses Profil findet ihr hier --> @Tuxi (Backup)

Did Youtube Shorts Destroy my Channel? 3 Pieces of advice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZxbO1NccyU

This is a very good educational channel, and yet is buried by the YBTs algorithms. Almost 150.000 subscribers yet less than 1.000 views per video. A perfect example of what these platforms are. Ad platforms who care about serving ads, making money. Trade. Attention and data trade.

I (Tio) gave up on this stupid game of using these platforms to "reach" people. I did so years ago. Yes we barely get any eyeballs now, but the ones we get are probably quality ones.

I would rather fail to reach people on the Fediverse than on Youtube and Facebook. Even worse, on Tiktok.

Yes pretty much no one gives a shit when you tell them to move from Youtube, Facebook, Tiktok, Instagram, to Peertube, Friendica, Pixelfed, and so forth. They say no one is there. They prefer to be the online slaves of a few big companies.

Shallow values, little courage, a state of sleepiness. Unfortunately this society has transformed people into total zombies. Easy to control.

That being said, TROM will not only continue on these trade-free platforms like Peertube and Friendica, but will create new content. And if no one watches, fine. At least I will keep my sanity.

#peertube #friendica #youtube #fedi #fediverse

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

@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):
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. 😁

#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

Bookface 1.6 introduces a new feature called "Postboxes" that allows you to create a post with a colorful background like a similar feature on Facebook. It's built into the Bookface scheme, but I also created TWO add-ons for Friendica if a server administrator wants to roll it out for all of their users regardless of what theme they prefer.

Postbox: simply adds a minified stylesheet to the head with the Postbox styling. It doesn’t add any interface for creating a Postbox, but users can still create them manually with BBcode.

Zen Postbox: adds the minified stylesheet to the head, but also adds a tool to the post composer to insert a Postbox or wrap selected text in one.

To manually create a Postbox just wrap your text in the Postbox class BBcode like this:

[class=postbox-redblue]Text that will be wrapped[/class]

Make sure to PREVIEW it before you post it! While Friendica's Postboxes do allow more content than just plain text, certain formatting blocks can't be placed inside them.

If everything looks good, go ahead an POST it. Anyone using Bookface or any server using either the "Postbox" or "Zen Postbox" add-ons will see it like this:

If the "Zen Postbox" add-on is enabled it adds a button for wrapping/inserting a Postbox to the post editor:

Full Documentation of the "Zen Postbox" add-on is available as a GitLab Wiki.

Keep in mind that other servers that don't implement Postbox styling, other platforms (like Mastodon), and third-party apps will not show these colored backgrounds. This feature only works in the Friendica webapp/website.

This is what that post would look like in the stock "Frio" theme without the add-ons:

#bookface #friendica @Friendica Admins @Friendica Developers

[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