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Bizarre new dancer class

Forget "scholar" class - Rowan has found his true passion in Skycraft - DANCE!

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When the celebrity gets cancelled

Sometimes the celebrity that endorses your game turns out to be...interesting in their private life.

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Shady customers

Rowan is helping some customers with very specific requests in mind...

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Install page not found

@Friendica Support I tried to do a fresh install using the zip file as described on the wiki. My top url redirects to I stall page but I get a message that the page isn't found? Any recommendations on next step?
friend.jimfulner.com/

https://opensocial.at/display/59c238fc-136a-80c1-2c3c-637273934148

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tom s

in reply to Robert Paulson • 6 days ago • •

maybe mod_rewrite is not enabled`?
Sorry, without any more Information about your setup, difficult to say.

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tom s

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a2enmod rewrite für Deinen Apache. Hatte die URL da erst nicht gesehen.

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When the paywall kicks in

Hope you enjoyed that free tutorial, because its time to pay up!

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Random Penguin

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Vier Facelift?

Before I started work on BookLook the plan was to just create a modern UI style for the "Vier" theme along the same lines of what I did with Bookface for the "Frio" theme. I didn't really get all that far with the one for Vier, but it was pretty functional - at least on desktop. I hadn't thought about the mobile UI. Instead of Facebook this "Modern" style takes design cues from both Mastodon and Bluesky.

Anyway, I pulled that stylesheet into Friendica 2026.08-dev and now I'm wondering if I should just go ahead and finish it? I'm not sure how Vier users feel about it. Is there any interest in this?

As for what's left to do, the two sections you see above are the only ones I finished styling. Though the layout seems to work pretty well across most of the Friendica. I'd also need to figure out the responsive design including how this transforms into a mobile UI for phones and tablets, and of course make a "dark mode" variant.

Not sure if it would get into the Friendica core code or not, but if there's interest I can work on finishing it and at least release it on my own repository like I do with Bookface.

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Random Penguin

in reply to Random Penguin • 2 weeks ago (Received 1 week ago) • •

Curious whether people would want this theme style to work like Bluesky/Mastodon where:
* The main feeds only show you the actual posts and none of the comments
* You click the post body to open that post on a new page by itself with all its comments

It would require adding a couple invisible elements to a Vier template to pull it off, but I don't know if people like the way Bluesky and Mastodon make you go to a new page to see the comments or if Friendica users would want that?

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Random Penguin

in reply to Random Penguin • 2 weeks ago (Received 1 week ago) • •

While trying this out I've decided I'm going to submit a PR that offers "Hide Comments in Feeds" as Settings > Display option for ALL themes (turned off by default of course).

People who want a really compact feed will love it. People who don't like extra clicks will hate it. But nobody has to use it if they don't want to.

In every feed all of the comments are hidden. But you click on the post body and it opens the post in its own page, only there it will actually show you any comments under it.

This is exactly how the web UI of both Mastodon and Bluesky work so it is a UX with which many users will already be familiar.

The trick is making sure that all the other stuff in the post still works as expected. Embedded videos and audio. Attachments. Images. Links with thumbnails. The contact links in the post header. The (re)action buttons below. Commenting without having to first open the post in the single display page.

EDIT: I finally figured out where, exactly, to prevent the comments being created in the feeds at all if this option is enabled.

Now, if I can just get all these PRs I've been working on submitted...

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Random Penguin

in reply to Random Penguin • 1 week ago • •

I retracted my PR for this. It won't be in the next release of Friendica. It conflicts with the existing "Compact Conversation View" feature which hides all other comments except your own interactions with a post author (or something like that), where mine literally hides ALL comments under the post and requires you to click the post to read it on a separate page that shows all the comments.

There were questions of whether there is demand for a feature to make Friendica feeds work the same way as Bluesky and Mastodon? And whether being able to write a comment to a post in the feed, but not see it get added under the post in the feed is too confusing, and whether commenting in the feed should be completely disabled, or on submission should it take you to that post's single page where you can see your comment? Which will take a little more work to figure out how to make it do that.

So I'll probably do a post/poll on that question and if there's enough interest I'll resubmit the PR for the _next_ version. We can probably put both options in a dropdown so you can't enable both of them at the same time. But version 2026.08 is really close to a release candidate so it's probably better to hold off on a big feature addition like that until a). we know if people even want it and b.) it can be made to work right and without conflicting with existing options.

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Leander Lindahl

in reply to Random Penguin • 1 week ago • •

I'm curious to see and understand what that compact view does. I liked the sound of what your suggestion did.

Thats a major thing i struggle with in Friendica (mobile first, bookface), that a single post with comments take up several screens of scrolling and then you give up and switch back to mastodon.

Another thing i struggle with is – it seems you dont get notified when someone interacts with your posts (likes, replies). You find out by accident or not at all.

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Leander Lindahl

in reply to Leander Lindahl • 1 week ago • •

I saw some dismissing sweeping opinions about compact view should not be too similar to Mastodon. Why not?

But without having thought it through properly, i'd venture saying you want the original post, potentially abbreviated, and then the most recent reply.

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Random Penguin

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"Compact Conversation View" was explained to me as only displaying comments that are:

a direct reply by the author to their own post
a direct reply by the reader to a post[/i]

My proposal won't even show those. It hides all replies in feeds. Mine also makes the post body into a clickable link to the single post display page (which shows all the replies regardless of either setting).

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Random Penguin

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Another thing i struggle with is – it seems you dont get notified when someone interacts with your posts (likes, replies). You find out by accident or not at all.

Did you ever change this setting?

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What color is a tennis ball?

So what's the real answer?

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Dev Season 2 | Trailer

Another season of Dev is coming soon!

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Addicted to a bad game

Ben and Rowan are stuck in the vicious cycle of their favourite/most hated video game.

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Killing the BBEG in D&D

Can BATD pull off this fight? Well, it would be a miserable rest of the campaign if they didn't! Enjoy the finale of the silly adventure.

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Rowan "helps" a child

Rowan is very strict on 'no free promo' at TechTown - even for a child's missing cat.

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Revive potion logic

Rowan might be too far gone to be revived but it doesn't mean his friends won't try.

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Walking right into a trap in D&D

Everyone walks into Yarris' humble abode, share a drink and have a great time! No nefarious activities afoot.

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Obsession - but you're in love with work

Britt is scarily in love with her job and won't miss a day, no matter what.

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Greg is immortal

Ben is used to eliminating his NPCs after the quest ends, but Greg is built different.

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Failing to stealth in D&D

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Pretending to be bad at something

Rowan has mastered the art of weaponised incompetence.

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