* **[Why do I getting warnings about certificates?](help/FAQ#ssl)**
* **[How can I upload images, files, links, videos and sound files to posts?](help/FAQ#upload)**
* **[Is it possible to have different avatars per profile?](help/FAQ#avatars)**
+* **[How can I view Friendica in a certain language?](help/FAQ#language)**
* **[What is the difference between blocked|ignored|archived|hidden contacts?](help/FAQ#contacts)**
* **[What happens when an account is removed? Is it truly deleted?](help/FAQ#removed)**
* **[Can I subscribe to a hashtag?](help/FAQ#hashtag)**
Friendica uses HTML5 for embedding content.
Therefore, the supported files are dependent on your browser and operating system.
-Some supported filetypes are WebM, MP4, MP3 and OGG.
+Some supported file types are WebM, MP4, MP3 and OGG.
See Wikipedia for more of them ([video](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video), [audio](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_audio)).
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### Is it possible to have different avatars per profile?
-Yes. On your Edit/Manage Profiles page, you will find a "change profile photo" link.
+Yes.
+On your Edit/Manage Profiles page, you will find a "change profile photo" link.
Clicking this will take you to a page where you can upload a photograph and select which profile it will be associated with.
To avoid privacy leakage, we only display the photograph associated with your default profile as the avatar in your posts.
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+### How can I view Friendica in a certain language?
+
+You can do this by adding the `lang` parameter to the url in your url bar.
+The data in the parameter is a [ISO 639-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes) code.
+A question mark is required for the separation between url and parameters.
+
+Example:
+
+ https://social.example.com/profile/example
+
+in German:
+
+ https://social.example.com/profile/example?lang=de.
+
+If the question mark is already in the url you need to do it using a ampersand.
+
+Example:
+
+ https://social.example.com/profile/example?tab=profile
+
+in German:
+
+ https://social.example.com/profile/example?tab=profile&lang=de.
+
+When a certain language is forced, the language remains until session is closed.
+
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### What is the difference between blocked|ignored|archived|hidden contacts?
However a hidden contact will appear normally in conversations and this may expose his/her hidden status to anybody who can see the conversation.
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-### What happens when an account is removed? Is it truly deleted?
+### What happens when an account is removed?
-If you delete your account, we will immediately remove all your content on **your** server.
+If you remove your account, it will be scheduled for permanent deletion in *seven days*.
+As soon as you activate the deletion process you won't be able to login any more.
+Only the administrator of your node can halt this process prior to permanent deletion.
-Then Friendica issues requests to all your contacts to remove you.
-This will also remove you from the global directory.
-Doing this requires your account and profile still to be "partially" available for up to 24 hours in order to establish contact with all your friends.
-We can block it in several ways so that it appears empty and all profile information erased, but will then wait for 24 hours (or after all of your contacts have been notified) before we can physically remove it.
-
-After that, your account is deleted.
+After the elapsed time of seven days, all your posts, messages, photos, and personal information stored on your node will be deleted.
+Your node will also issue removal requests to all your contacts; this will also remove your profile from the global directory if you are listed.
+Your username cannot be reissued for future sign-ups for security reasons.
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### Can I follow a hashtag?
-No. The act of 'following' a hashtags is an interesting technology, but presents a few issues.
-
-1. Posts would have to be copied to all sites on the network that are "listening" to that hashtag. This would increase the storage demands to the detriment of small sites. It would make the use of shared hosting practically impossible.
-
-2. Making spam easy (tag spam is a serious issue on Twitter for instance)
-
-3. It creates a natural bias towards large sites which hold more tagged content - if your network uses tagging instead of other conversation federation mechanisms such as groups/forums.
-
-Instead, we offer other mechanisms for wide-area conversations while retaining a 'level playing ground' for both large and small sites, such as forums and community pages and shared tags.
+Yes. Simply add the hash tag to your saved searches.
+The posts will appear on your network page.
+For technical reasons, your answers to such posts won't appear on the "personal" tab in the network page and the whole thread isn't accessible via the API.
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### How to create a RSS feed of the stream?
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### Are there any clients for friendica I can use?
-Friendica is using a [Twitter/GNU Social compatible API](help/api), which means you can use any Twitter/GNU Social client for your plattform as long as you can change the API path in its settings.
+Friendica is using a [Twitter/GNU Social compatible API](help/api), which means you can use any Twitter/GNU Social client for your platform as long as you can change the API path in its settings.
Here is a list of known working clients:
* Android
- * [Friendiqa](https://github.com/lubuwest/friendiqa) (available in Google Playstore or from a binary repository you can add to [F-Droid](https://freunde.ma-nic.de/display/3e98eba8185a13c5bdbf3d1539646854))
+ * [Friendiqa](https://git.friendi.ca/lubuwest/Friendiqa) (available in Google Playstore or from a binary repository you can add to [F-Droid](https://freunde.ma-nic.de/display/3e98eba8185a13c5bdbf3d1539646854))
+ * [Fedilab](https://gitlab.com/tom79/mastalab) (available in F-Droid and Google stores)
+ * [DiCa](https://dica.mixi.cool/)
* AndStatus
* Twidere
* Mustard and Mustard-Mod
### Where I can find help?
If you have problems with your Friendica page, you can ask the community at the [Friendica Support Group](https://forum.friendi.ca/profile/helpers).
-If you can't use your default profile you can use an account at a public site [list](https://dir.friendica.social/servers) or you can use the Librelist mailing list.
-If you want to use the mailing list, please just send a mail to friendica AT librelist DOT com.
+If you can't use your default profile you can use an account at a public site [list](https://dir.friendica.social/servers).
+
+In case you do not want to set up another account on Friendica, you can also use one of the following channels to reach out for help:
-If you are a theme developer, you will find help at this forum: [Friendica Theme Developers](https://friendica.eu/profile/ftdevs).
+ * [Friendica Support Forum](https://forum.friendi.ca/~helpers)
+ * [Mailing List Archive](http://mailman.friendi.ca/mailman/listinfo/support-friendi.ca) you can subscribe to the list by sending an email to ``support-request(at)friendi.ca?subject=subscribe``
+ * XMPP/Jabber MUC: support(at)forum.friendi.ca
+ * IRC: #friendica at irc.freenode.net
+ * Matrix: #friendi.ca or #friendica at matrix.org
Admin
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### Where can I find the source code of friendica, addons and themes?
-You can find the main respository [here](https://github.com/friendica/friendica).
+You can find the main repository [here](https://github.com/friendica/friendica).
There you will always find the current stable version of friendica.
Addons are listed at [this page](https://github.com/friendica/friendica-addons).
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### I've changed my email address now the admin panel is gone?
-Have a look into your <tt>.htconfig.php</tt> and fix your email address there.
+Have a look into your <tt>config/local.config.php</tt> and fix your email address there.
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### Can there be more then one admin for a node?
Yes.
You just have to list more then one email address in the
-<tt>.htconfig.php</tt> file.
+<tt>config/local.config.php</tt> file.
The listed emails need to be separated by a comma.
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