SPA Mode
Hello !Friendica Support,
Enable SPA mode
I found this setting in the admin panel and have no idea what it means. What is SPA mode?
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Hello !Friendica Support,
I'd like to change the current default logo that appears in the top-left corner next to the instance name.
However, whenever I try to save it, I get an error saying that the resource cannot be accessed.
I can open the logo in my browser using a direct link. The permissions for the instance’s files are correct.
I found a thread on GitHub stating that not all themes support custom logos. Did I understand that correctly, or is this a bug, and should I open a ticket?
Has anyone else tested this by any chance?
I’m using Theme Vier - 1.2
Using bookface
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Is there a way to set bookface as the default theme for all users, instead of each user having to configure that themselves?
Is there a way to set bookface as the default theme for all users, instead of each user having to configure that themselves?
FYI, Bookface has a Wiki: gitlab.com/randompenguin/bookf…
There is also a new release of Bookface today: gitlab.com/randompenguin/bookf…
This is for 2026.05, 2026.01, and 2025.7-rc. It doesn't work with older versions of Friendica. And there is no Bookface for 2026.08-dev yet.
Wow 🙌 🎉! I'll be sure to check that wiki and the new version out 🧐
In my mind its a given that bookface should be the new default theme in Friendica.
!Friendica Support
I've been trying to post to this group and the admin group from my new friendica-sverige.se instance. But for some reason it doesn't show up here.
When I post to @FriendicaTalk it show up there as expected. I wonder what would be different about posting to a group at anonsys and on friendi.ca?
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I have a VPS with Hetzner and the IP for that is 65.109.12.183 which I put in the A record.
I must admit I'm not an export on these things and wasn't aware of AAAA-record.
I now tried to add a new AAAA-record. I'm super grateful for the help. Let me know if you spot anything that's not right about the configuration.
i added one more debugging message now
"New test message 2026-08-01, 10:21"
Maybe it will be easier with a time stamp to limit the search to.
The sender is, as before, @leanderlindahl
The addressee is !Friendica Support forum.friendi.ca/profile/helpe…
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Hallo Forum, seit ich gestern von Stable auf die Develop aktualisiert habe, habe ich das Problem, dass die Timeline sich nicht mehr automatisch aktualisiert, obwohl dies in den Einstellungen so konfiguriert ist. Das Zweite, das mir auffällt, dass oben in der Leiste bei dem Icon kein Zähler mehr angezeigt wird, wenn neue Beiträge existieren. Das könnte vermutlich mit dem ersten Problem zusammenhängen?
System Actor?
!Friendica Support I'm not able find anyone on Mastodon. I see errors in my log like
2026-07-29T14:38:46Z WARNING app System account not found.
2026-07-29T14:38:46Z WARNING app No actor name was found.When I go to my admin settings I see a field named "Name of the system actor" which is blank with description
"Name of the internal system account that is used to perform ActivityPub requests. This must be an unused username. If set, this can't be changed again." I try entering a value in the field; the page reloads, the field is still empty and the error continues.
is this related to me not federating over ActivityPub? Is it related to me only federating over some DRFN (i.e. I'm posting this from a different account because @truly can't find this group)
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I heard of the problem before. This is a message that shouldn't occur since the system has got multiple auto healing mechanisms around this. Which version do you use and is it a fresh installation or some old one?
I had the same problem today with a fresh yunohost install v.2026-5.
I see the same messages on the logs, I can receive accounts from Friendica in my new fresh instance (through the search bar, the account is found) but I cannot communicate with them.
I can't receive profiles from mastodon or pixelfed if I search for them on the search bar, nothing is found.
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Multiple Image Layouts
I'm working on fixing/changing the way #Friendica handles multiple images in a post for the next release. Yes, I'm using AI-slop images for testing purposes on my development server. My apologies to those who don't want to see that garbage.
Masonry Layout
When the backend PHP can get dimensions from the images it uses "masonry" layout. Which work well with even numbers of images but with odd counts of images it currently leaves the last one sort of dangling there by itself:
But I think most people would assume it should display like this:
Yes? No? It's a super easy fix if this is what people want.
I'm not yet sure under what circumstances the PHP cannot get image dimensions, but if that's the case then it doesn't use "masonry" layout, it switches to the "grid" template.
PHP Grid Layout (current)
The PHP tries to figure out how many images to show in each column. These are hard-coded HTML column containers.
Pure CSS Grid Layout
Of course CSS can nicely do columns itself now so there's really no reason to have PHP doing it on the backend. Obviously PHP and CSS don't agree on which images should go in which columns, but this is super easy to implement.
Literal Grid Layout
Though when someone says "grid" isn't this more what you are expecting? It doesn't get much more griddy than squares, right? This one uses a combo of PHP and CSS to display the images in a post in your feed similarly to how the thumbnails look in your photo albums.
EDIT: I should clarify that the images are only cropped in the grid layout within the post, if you click on the image it opens the full, uncropped image. But, as comments below point out, there are use-case scenarios where opening the image is problematic.
You may have also noticed the "ALT" in the corners. That is there in the current version of Friendica, but it's just an indicator that an image has alt text, it's not a button like on Mastodon to actually show you the alt text. Well, that's how I ended up looking at these layouts, because I'm also implementing functional alt-text buttons for Friendica. Which means updating all these image layout templates.
Not sure if it will get sorted out for this upcoming release or not, but I'm also working on how to show you the "masonry" and "grid" layouts in the post/edit/comment previews too. THAT is quite a bit trickier because the previews do not use the actual image templates.
I'm interested in any feedback both devs and users want to give me on this. There is also a thread over on the Friendica GitHub if you'd rather comment there.
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@Random Penguin
These examples clearly illustrate the effect that cropping the images has on the view.
It becomes unusable:
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Okay everyone I get it. DON'T CROP IMAGES. The "Literal Grid" is out. Not doing it.
This is why I ASKED first. 😉
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!Friendica Support gabs nicht auch mal die Zusatzfelder in der Profilansicht? Gerade den Link zu einer Seite erst gesehen als ich auf das Mastodon Profil gegangen bin, dachte das wurde auch mal in Friendica angezeigt?
!Friendica Support wer ist denn eig. der Admin der Forgejo Instanz, die könnte ein wenig Liebe vertragen oder ein Update ;)
@utzer weiß jetzt nicht was du meinst, die einzigen breaking changes sind die hier: forgejo.org/2026-07-release-v1…
Meinst du das es keine examples mehr gibt? forgejo.org/2026-07-release-v1…
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Saved Folders Feature Request
!Friendica Support
I want to suggest a feature wich allows to manage Saved Folders: Create folders, delete entries or whole folders, sort between folders and export or import one or all Folders. CSV or a simple XML which everybody understands to edit would be nice for import/export.
Devs 😱!
I want to suggest a feature wich allows to manage Saved Folders: Create folders, delete entries or whole folders, sort between folders and export or import one or all Folders. CSV or a simple XML which everybody understands to edit would be nice for import/export.
Devs 😱!
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@Friendica Support Gibt es in Friendica eine Möglichkeit, Kommentare grundsätzlich chronologisch anzeigen zu lassen. So wie es derzeit ist, gehen mir viele Kommentare verloren und ich kann einer Diskussion leider nicht mehr folgen, d.h. ich steige aus. Meines Wissens werden die Kommentare in Diaspora chronologisch angezeigt, was mir die Verfolgung eines Themas sehr erleichtert.
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@Gerhard Hallstein Also eine flache Darstellung der Kommentare meinst du. Das koennte mal interressant sein, es als Option zu haben.
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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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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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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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I think I'd like to see the mobile view to be able to offer an opinion.
Edit: but now after you mentioned it, find it super annoying that it doesn't behave like Mastodon, but the comments are expanded all the time in Friendica. But not all of them?
(Using bookface on mobile)
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!Friendica Support test post please ignore ok
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@helpers i can't find anyone over activity Pub. I can find Diaspora users and some friendica, but not all, including the forum, hawncw I'm tooting, any idea where to start looking?
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Group creation process
One of my netdynamics.eu users wonders why the process for a new grou creation lokks the same as the process for the creation of a new user.
Can someone help him ??
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Actually, I have further notes
- Public-restricted group
The post by default is unlisted and because of that everything works. Friendica, Mastodon both users get the post. It's visible on poster's feed but it makes sense, since the group is public - Private group
- Posting from Mastodon works
Post gets boosted by the group with "assigned to" to the poster, visibility limited to the group and group observers - Posting from Friendica doesn't
The post gets boosted with visibility limited to the group, inserted twice. So it doesn't get shown to the Mastodon account
- Posting from Mastodon works
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!Friendica Support hat hier noch wer den SPA mode an? Ich hab dort immer das Problem wenn ich ein Bild schließe hüpft er mir an den Anfang der Timeline. Kann das wer bestätigen?
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@Michael 🇺🇦 hab noch was gefunden, wenn man einen Like da lässt oder Kommentiert klappt das Load more zu.
Das liegt aber nicht am SPA-Mode, sondern an "Compact conversation view". Da habe ich noch keine Lösung gefunden.
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Fremdes Video wird automatisch abgespielt
Nur was ganz kleinen, wenn ich auf die Seite "Unterhaltungen Deiner Kontakte" komme wird automatisch ein Video abgespielt.
Ich finde es aber nicht zum ausschalten!!
Gibt es eine Möglichkeit das automatische abspielen zu verhindern?
Danke
Tschau
Friedhelm
Wenn ich den Beitrag kennen würde, hätte ich schon auf Stopp gedrückt. Aber scheinbar ist er jetzt weg da keine Musik mehr spoielt.
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@😺 Cat Man Friedhelm 😺 ok der einzige Grund woran das wenn liegen könnte ist, das es sich um eingebettet Videos von Perrtube, Youtube usw. handelt wo bei der Einstellung in der Einbettung autoplay aktiviert wurden. Da gabe es dann nur die Möglichkeit statt dem eingebetten Player den Friendica eigenen Player zu nehmen.
Dafür musst du in die Einstellungen gehen unter "Anzeige". "Einstellungen zum Inhalt" findest du die beiden Punkte "Einbettete Remote-Medien" und "Unterstützte einbettete Medien", die beiden Punkte dürfen nicht ausgewählt sein dann benutzt Friendica den Lokalen Player.
@😺 Cat Man Friedhelm 😺 dann wirst du wohl damit leben müssen das auch mal jemand ein Video mit Autoplay einbettet
wie lösen das andere services? Es gibt doch viele plattformen, die video-einbettung erlauben ohne automatisch abzuspielen, wenn das video nicht im sichtbereich ist.
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@wilhelm @😺 Cat Man Friedhelm 😺 ich würde mal tippen die holen erstmal nur ein Vorschaubild und erst wenn man auf Play klickt werden die daten geholt. So wie es der lokale Player in Friendica auch macht. Wenn ich das richtig verstanden habe.
würde es Sinn machen, "Autoplay" in der Beschreibung der Optionen zu erwähnen, wenn sich das nicht verhindern läßt? 🤔
Bzw wenn es sich nicht verhindern läßt, bin ich fast unsicher, ob es die Option geben sollte.
Bzw wenn es sich nicht verhindern läßt, bin ich fast unsicher, ob es die Option geben sollte.
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Since I had been plagued by this in the past your report finally nudged me to create an issue about this: github.com/friendica/friendica…
Could you add a comment with the friendica version details of the instance you are on please.
In my case after doing lots of scrolling I arrived at a post with an embedded video which somehow automatically started playing whenever I loaded the timeline.
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@Friendica Support @Friendica Developers
If you weren't aware there are two sets of Action Buttons, one for Desktop and one for Mobile. This is likely legacy code from before we could rely on CSS media queries for responsive layouts. Anyway, I'm working on a PR that would eliminate one of those sets of Action Buttons and just use a single set for both desktop and mobile devices.
Similarly there are two User Menus, a drop-down one for desktop and a slide-in one for mobile. I'm planning to get rid of one of those and only have a single menu regardless of what device you are using. That dropdown menu works just fine on mobile as a dropdown menu. It's already coded to auto-scroll any overflow. But I can also add styling to make it work as a slide-in menu panel on mobile.
So my question for everyone is: Do you want the mobile menu to slide-in like it currently does or do you want it to be a drop-down like on desktop?
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not familiar with too many websites using slide menus on mobil which slide in from the side. Maybe this is an opportunity to be more conform to what users are familiar with?
Thanks for your work.
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@wilhelm It would be much more common for a mobile UI on a phone to have a full-width menu like this:
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Hi.
Since last update of #PHP8.4, I'm struggling with poor #performance of my instance on a #RasPi5 .
PHP/nginx workers already adjusted (PHP5, NGINX4).
504 errors where gone since that, but performance, very well after reboot, builds up and is very bad after some time.
So I guess, i've to adjust my #mariadb config.
Any hints for a RasPi5 with 8GB RAM?
Thanks in advance.
@Lasse Gismo (Friendica Antifa) with "unclaimed items" (stuff that is arriving via relay servers) I am deleting those after 1 day, but rest should be fine.
Do you have the rendertime addon on? How long is the time for the "Database" section?
The "mysql tuner" perl script / tool can give some hinds of what to enhance with the mysql settings. With mytop you can see if there are long running tasks on the DB (that should also be logged but at the moment I don't remember how to do that 😅). Which might help to identify the bottleneck.
Gibt es aktuell eig. einen weg custom Emojis in Friendica einzupflegen? Ich hab ein paar von #Pino und würd die auch gern nutzen.
@Michael 🇺🇦 gut die könnte man ja gut benennen dann? Hab mich da immer an die Unicode Namen mit rm_ präfix davor
Screenreader sind sehr sprechend, was Emois angeht. Die werden dann z.B. als "Lächelndes Gesicht mit dunkler Hautfarbe mit einem geschlossenen Auge" beschrieben. Das bekommst Du mit dem Dateinamen nicht hin.
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in reply to Montag • • •I'm taking a guess at Single Page Application (SPA)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-p…
(Haven't seen it myself, since I'm still on release 2026.01, but it sounds super exciting – looking forward to trying it)
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in reply to Montag • • •@Montag was also part of the last meeting:
Doris
2026-07-31 13:53:35
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