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@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ User
SSL (Secure Socket Layer) is a technology to encrypt data transfer between computers.
Sometimes your browser warns you about a missing or invalid certificate.
-These warnings can have three reasons:
+These warnings can have three reasons:
1. The server you are connected to doesn't offer SSL encryption.
2. The server has a self-signed certificate (not recommended).
@@ -49,8 +49,8 @@ Generally, you can attach any kind of file to a post.
This is possible by using the "paper-clip"-symbol in the editor.
These files will be linked to your post and can be downloaded by your contacts.
But it's not possible to get a preview for these items.
-Because of this, this upload method is only recommended for office or zipped files.
-If you want to share content from Dropbox, Owncloud or any other [filehoster](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_hosting_services), use the "link"-button (chain-symbol).
+Because of this, this upload method is only recommended for office or zipped files.
+If you want to share content from Dropbox, Owncloud or any other [filehoster](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_hosting_services), use the "link"-button (chain-symbol).
When you're adding URLs of other webpages with the "link"-button, Friendica tries to create a small preview.
If this doesn't work, try to add the link by typing: [url=http://example.com]*self-chosen name*[/url].
@@ -58,9 +58,9 @@ If this doesn't work, try to add the link by typing: [url=http://example.com]*se
You can also add video and audio files to posts.
However, instead of a direct upload you have to use one of the following methods:
-1. Add the video or audio link of a hoster (Youtube, Vimeo, Soundcloud and anyone else with oembed/opengraph-support). Videos will be shown with a preview image you can click on to start. SoundCloud directly inserts a player to your post.
+1. Add the video or audio link of a hoster (Youtube, Vimeo, Soundcloud and anyone else with oembed/opengraph-support). Videos will be shown with a preview image you can click on to start. SoundCloud directly inserts a player to your post.
-2. If you have your own server, you can upload multimedia files via FTP and insert the URL.
+2. If you have your own server, you can upload multimedia files via FTP and insert the URL.
Friendica uses HTML5 for embedding content.
Therefore, the supported files are dependent on your browser and operating system.
@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ See Wikipedia for more of them ([video](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video
### 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.
@@ -111,15 +112,9 @@ After that, your account is deleted.
### 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.
### How to create a RSS feed of the stream?
@@ -130,16 +125,16 @@ If you want to share your public page via rss you can use one of the following l
basic-url.com//feed/[nickname]/posts
-Example: Friendica Support
-
+Example: Friendica Support
+
https://forum.friendi.ca/feed/helpers/posts
#### RSS feed of the conversations at your site
basic-url.com/feed/profilename/comments
-
-Example: Friendica Support
-
+
+Example: Friendica Support
+
https://forum.friendi.ca/feed/helpers/comments
@@ -171,10 +166,15 @@ Depending on the features of the client you might encounter some glitches in usa
### 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
--------
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ There you will always find the current stable version of friendica.
Addons are listed at [this page](https://github.com/friendica/friendica-addons).
-If you are searching for new themes, you can find them at [Friendica-Themes.com](http://friendica-themes.com/)
+If you are searching for new themes, you can find them at [Friendica-Themes.com](http://friendica-themes.com/)
### I've changed my email address now the admin panel is gone?
@@ -213,8 +213,8 @@ The listed emails need to be separated by a comma.
Please have a look at the Admin panel under [DB updates](/admin/dbsync/) and follow the link to *check database structure*.
This will start a background process to check if the structure is up to the current definition.
-You can manually execute the structure update from the CLI in the base directory of your Friendica installation by running the following script:
+You can manually execute the structure update from the CLI in the base directory of your Friendica installation by running the following command:
- scripts/dbstructure.php update
+ bin/console dbstructure update
if there occur any errors, please contact the [support forum](https://forum.friendi.ca/profile/helpers).