Good evening!
This has been a tough day. Found myself in a rage spiral because of today's events. I went for a long walk to try to burn off some of the anger.
The daffodils are a step closer to flowering so it's not all bad news ☀️:
Help with search
I'm not sure if this is a settings problem, an node problem, or a Friendica problem, but I get very different search results from using the web-ui (Frio theme w/ BookFace style) and an app (Raccoon for Friendica) on the same account.
From the web-ui, unless I search for a specific account ('user@server.name'), I can only search for other Friendica users. Here's me searching for me ('@breakfastmtn'):
However, if I search using Raccoon, I can see my many other accounts across the Fediverse:
So from the web-ui, I can only discover Friendica accounts which is less than ideal. Is there a setting I'm not seeing to change this? Should I talk to my admin? Thanks in advance! 😀
Similar bonus problem: I never receive notifications for new follows in the web-ui. If not for the Raccoon app, I'd never know when I had a new follower. All desktop notification settings are enabled -- although it looks like the 'introduction' settings all apply to email.
Well well well the painful day turned out to be just fine.
We've had almost no downtime at all and when it's dropped it's just been for a few minutes.
Thanks @Ruud for all the work you've put into this instance! Here's hoping the stability holds.
For your enjoyment, here's a dramatization of the admin taming the rogue process that was bringing us down:
The #crows have started nesting! You can see them all over the place finding the perfect sticks, clumps of soil, and bits of moss and foliage. It's hard work so toss them some peanuts or cheesies.
For most of the year they have a shared roost (in Burnaby) but in the spring they nest in their territories to lay eggs and raise the baby crows. They usually lay eggs in April, which is when they'll start dive bombing people who get too close. If you're ever getting "attacked", just give them some food - crows won't dive bomb their friends.
Once the fledglings have learned to fly and mastered crow basics, they'll all abandon the nest and return to the shared roost at night.
For #squash, I'm leaning toward growing some Tromboncino. They're super nutty and delicious and look cool. You can grow them on the ground and they'll turn into a fun, twisted mess:
Or you can trellis them and they'll grow straight and up to 6 feet long:
FUN!
Okay okay okay it's a real soaker out there. Went for a walk with an umbrella for about 45 mins and I was drenched.
Now hiding under a blanket and getting caught up on comedy podcasts. Working my way through the Comedy Bang! Bang! bonus bangs.
Fediheist alert!
According to #FediDB someone made off with 11 million posts! I'll start calling around to local pawn shops to see if anyone's been unloading our kitty cats and shitposts.
@Ruud
Just want to bring a performance issue to your attention. There's a large delay in distributing posts off the local server. You can see it in this screenshot:
That comment was made 30 mins ago but it still says 'notifier task is pending' if you hover over the hourglass icon. It's actually still only visible locally more than 45 mins later now.
Brought a #crow for a first post. Sup?
Someone gave this crow some fruit. They weren't super into it but seemed to find the grape interesting nonetheless. Rather than devour it or fly off with it they were content to inspect it and stab it with their beak. They were a-ok with me walking right up to inspect it alongside them. Grapes are curious little orbs.
