!Friendica Support Hello! Just wondering if there is a way to see only Friendica posts in global feed, not Mastodon and Pixelfed etc. but only Friendica. 🙂 And how about seeing only Friendica posts in specific language, for example in Finnish? Are these somehow possible? Thanks!
kurkı - Martha is the shared winner of Åbo Akademi University Foundation’s 'Vox Quercus' composition competition 2022.
Man managed to eradicate the world's most common bird, the passenger pigeon, by hunting it to extinction. The last known passenger pigeon was called Martha, who lived in the Cincinnati Zoo in the United States. Martha died in 1914.
"Martha" is a story of faith in the ability to influence and change the world for better. Flourishing soil feeds our children and birds. Children are the future. Finnish botanist Pehr Kalm's (1716-1779) effort to promote the coexistence of man and nature through scientific means is also heard in the work. Pehr Kalm has conducted a study on the breeding biology of passenger pigeons that is still considered significant.
The soundscape and rhythm of the piece is based on the sounds of melting ice recorded in an old abandoned railway tunnel in Halikko, Finland. The sounds have been carefully programmed and appear in many different forms, as ambient sound effects and as a supporting rhythm. The soundscape dives under the bark of an old oak tree as it waits for spring, warmth, the awakening of nature and Martha's arrival on its branch.
Snow heavy on my bough In this winter sound Many days I've waited for the wings to land On his caring hand Over soil and sand Feathers hover anywhere the wind blows to
Ooh Await the fields to bloom Ooh Our time will be here soon It's growing from this soil he seeds The children and the birds to feed
He traveled overseas With his plants and seeds Soon the sun brought creepers climbing up my spine "Lord bless this wine" I could here him sigh When the birds came flying high above the room
Ooh Await the fields to bloom Ooh Our time will be here soon
It's growing from this soil he seeds The children and the birds to feed It's rising from this soil he seeds Water and the sun we need
Snow heavy on my bough In this winter sound Still I wait for feathers Hover over me Find this lonely tree And I still believe That the wind blows from the right direction
This update has TWO DOZEN changes and fixes in it! Check out the README file Changelog for the full run-down. Thanks again to everyone who gave feedback!
The biggest change is to Profile pages on mobile devices. Previously if you visited your own or someone else’s profile on a tablet or phone you would not see their profile photo, display name, handle, etc., because they are in the hidden sidebar panel. If they are using the Bookface “Cover Photo” feature you’d see that, but nothing from their “vcard.”
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This update has TWO DOZEN changes and fixes in it! Check out the README file Changelog for the full run-down. Thanks again to everyone who gave feedback!
The biggest change is to Profile pages on mobile devices. Previously if you visited your own or someone else’s profile on a tablet or phone you would not see their profile photo, display name, handle, etc., because they are in the hidden sidebar panel. If they are using the Bookface “Cover Photo” feature you’d see that, but nothing from their “vcard.”
Version 1.5 reworks all of that. So now when you go to a Profile page you will actually see their photo, display name, and handle. If you open the sidebar it triggers a cute animation that, in hybrid and landscape mobile views, pushes the vcard data over, and it elastically “bounces” off the side. When you close the sidebar is pulls with and then snaps back to its original position. In portrait orientation the vcard info and cover photo drop away when the sidebar is opened (which now opens full screen width) and pops up again when you close the sidebar.
The other change was to how Photo albums appear on phones. Previously the thumbnail images were the same size as on desktop resulting in one long column that’s annoying on a phone screen. Now it resizes the thumbnails so you can see a bunch of them at once and directly select the one you want. I wasn’t sure how big/small to make them so I made them the same size they are on my phone’s photo gallery app.
Here's a look at the new Profile page in "Hybrid" mobile view on a tablet:
And with the sidebar showing:
As noted there are a bunch of other small changes and tweaks. Things like fixing how "category" and "folder" tag-buttons look, fixing the rollover effect on Compose window formatting buttons, removing drop-shadow from tags, making nav tab appearance consistent with the toolbar tabs, even the Calculator add-on got a modern makeover. All this and more not sold in any store! Get it now:
FYI there is ONE Profile Page that does not show your profile information in the sidebar — but it only doesn’t show it for you — and that is your “Recent Photos” page. Rather than just have a big blank space at the top of the page on mobile devices I put a large camera icon in the space where your profile photos would normally go. Again only you ever see this. If someone else visits your profile “Photos” sub-page, or you visit someone else’s the profile photo, display name, and handle are shown. I have no idea why that stuff is missing when you view your own “Photos” page. But I can only style what’s alread
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FYI there is ONE Profile Page that does not show your profile information in the sidebar — but it only doesn’t show it for you — and that is your “Recent Photos” page. Rather than just have a big blank space at the top of the page on mobile devices I put a large camera icon in the space where your profile photos would normally go. Again only you ever see this. If someone else visits your profile “Photos” sub-page, or you visit someone else’s the profile photo, display name, and handle are shown. I have no idea why that stuff is missing when you view your own “Photos” page. But I can only style what’s already there in the “Frio” theme.
Also, unlike the rest of the photo pages, which all show your profile info in the sidebar, this first landing page has a style of body.mod-profile instead of body.mod-photos — even though it is a photo page? The only way I could find to discern this photo page from anyone else’s was to use the "next sibling combinator" to check if .vcard and #sidebar-photos-albums are both present in the sidebar. If they are then the camera icon is not shown. Which means if the “Frio” theme is ever updated to show your own profile info on this page “Bookface” will automatically roll with the change.
@Pygoscelis Papua Very nice work! I'd like to use the cover photo feature but am unable to find where/how to do so. Could you point me in the right direction?
Oh, and one other change that came at the last minute so it didn't even make it into any of the screenshots I've posted was a redesign of the "Nav Tabs" for phones and small tablets in portrait orientation:
They looked unbalanced before and I wanted them to look centered so I extended the underline to the drop-down button, since they are related to each other. But I left a small gap in the underline to make it clear they are separate clickable controls. Otherwise users would assume clicking the section title would activate the drop-down but it doesn't.
Version 1.5 has a lot of little tweaks like this in it. 😉
There are a couple of pretty noticeable errors that snuck into version 1.5:
* Post container background color is missing in Bookface Auto Light Mode * Compose modal active tab has double underlines of different lengths and thicknesses
I've also fixed some other things I, of course, only noticed after the release. I'm not pushing out another release right now just for this, I'm going to wait until I have a few more issues before that happens. But if you don't want to wait for version 1.6 you can go right now and grab the "Main" branch (currently version 1.5.5), which is always the current development one, and use that until the next major point release.
Both the server-side and client-side stylesheets have been updated.
@Anomaly Yes, that was a UX design decision on my part. It is mentioned in the General Notes of the Bookface README file that I purposely hide that button.
The file feature in Friendica is only partially implemented. My understanding is it was originally intended for uploading and attaching video files but the dev who was working on it left the project before it was completed. Which is why there is no interface for actually managing your uploaded files. Only a server admin can apparently manually delete them?
I believe the preferred method for sharing videos is to post them somewhere else (like Peertube), and for other types of files to put them on some cloud storage, and share the link in a post rather than uploading them to Friendica and making them file attachments.
I also experienced an issue with it where if I was both uploading and attaching images and files to a post it would look like it was in "Photo" upload mode but would actually upload the imag
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@Anomaly Yes, that was a UX design decision on my part. It is mentioned in the General Notes of the Bookface README file that I purposely hide that button.
The file feature in Friendica is only partially implemented. My understanding is it was originally intended for uploading and attaching video files but the dev who was working on it left the project before it was completed. Which is why there is no interface for actually managing your uploaded files. Only a server admin can apparently manually delete them?
I believe the preferred method for sharing videos is to post them somewhere else (like Peertube), and for other types of files to put them on some cloud storage, and share the link in a post rather than uploading them to Friendica and making them file attachments.
I also experienced an issue with it where if I was both uploading and attaching images and files to a post it would look like it was in "Photo" upload mode but would actually upload the image as a "File" and I can never, ever delete that image file. I initially hid the button to prevent myself ever doing that again.
Since Bookface is supposed to make Friendica friendlier to new users, who would expect there to be some way to manage uploaded files, I decided to just hide that button so they wouldn't make the same mistake I did by using that partly-broken feature.
That said, it is set with the CSS variable --attach-file-button at the top of the server-side and client-side stylesheets. Change that value from "none" to "block" and the button will appear. A user content stylesheet/Stylus can also be used to override it if Bookface is set on the server. If you know how to use the browser development tools you can also temporarily show the button to upload files.
IMO though, it's terrible UX and the Friendica devs either need to finish implementing it with a way to manage the files or remove the feature entirely.
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