A Decentralized Social Network https://wiki.friendi.ca/ 2026-05-22T02:39:28+00:00 https://wiki.friendi.ca/ https://wiki.friendi.ca/_media/wiki/logo.png text/html 2021-05-24T05:54:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/home?rev=1621835671&do=diff Friendica Documentation and Resources User Manual * General functions - first steps * [Account Basics](help/Account-Basics) * [New User Quick Start](help/Quick-Start-guide) * [Creating posts](help/Text_editor) * [BBCode tag reference](help/BBCode) text/html 2022-06-25T10:10:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/addons?rev=1656151801&do=diff Friendica Addon development Please see the sample addon ‘randplace’ for a working example of using some of these features. Addons work by intercepting event hooks - which must be registered. Modules work by intercepting specific page requests (by text/html 2020-11-25T17:49:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/bugs-and-issues?rev=1606326557&do=diff Bugs and Issues If your server has a support page, you should report any bugs/issues you encounter there first. Reporting to your support page before reporting to the developers makes their job easier, as they don't have to deal with bug reports that might not have anything to do with them. Reducing the workload in this way helps us get new features faster. You can also contact the text/html 2024-10-15T10:57:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/install?rev=1728989873&do=diff Friendica Installation We've tried very hard to ensure that Friendica will run on commodity hosting platforms - such as those used to host Wordpress blogs and Drupal websites. We offer a manual and an automatic installation. But be aware that Friendica is more than a simple web application. text/html 2022-06-24T15:41:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/tags-and-mentions?rev=1656085268&do=diff Tags and Mentions Like many other modern social networks, Friendica uses a special notation inside messages to indicate “tags” or contextual links to other entities. Mentions People are tagged by preceding their name with the @ character. You can tag text/html 2020-09-27T17:21:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/translations?rev=1601227284&do=diff Friendica translations Overview The Friendica translation process is based on gettext PO files. Basic worflow: * xgettext is used to collect translation strings across the project in the authoritative PO file located in view/lang/C/messages.po text/html 2022-06-09T08:51:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/bbcode?rev=1654764686&do=diff Friendica BBCode tags reference Friendica is using the BBCode markup language to format postings and comments. Alternatively the admin of a Friendica node can activate an addon to also support Markdown. How a rich text formatted posting or comment will be displayed in other projects of text/html 2022-06-24T14:31:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/connectors?rev=1656081065&do=diff Connectors Connectors allow you to connect with external social networks and services. They are only required for posting to existing accounts on Twitter or GNU Social. There is also a connector for accessing your email INBOX. If the following network connectors are installed on your system, select the following links to visit the appropriate settings page and configure them for your account: text/html 2022-08-24T04:39:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/developers-intro?rev=1661315940&do=diff Where to get started to help improve Friendica Do you want to help us improve Friendica? Here we have compiled some hints on how to get started and some tasks to help you choose. A project like Friendica is the sum of many different contributions. Very different skills are required to make good software, not all of them involve coding! text/html 2022-07-18T09:13:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/improve-performance?rev=1658135620&do=diff How to improve the performance of a Friendica site Feel free to ask in the Friendica support forum if you need some clarification about the following instructions or if you need help in any other way. System configuration Please go to /admin/site/ on your system and change the following values: text/html 2022-06-25T06:28:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/settings?rev=1656138492&do=diff Settings If you are the admin of a Friendica node, you have access to the Admin Panel where you can configure your Friendica node. Overview In the main page of the admin panel you will see an information summary about your node. Queues The three numbers shown are respectively: - The retry queue: These outgoing messages couldn’t be received by the remote host, and will be resent at longer intervals before being dropped entirely after 30 days. - The deferred queue: These internal tasks failed… text/html 2022-06-24T15:05:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.friendi.ca/docs/ssl?rev=1656083128&do=diff Using SSL with Friendica Disclaimer This document has been updated in November 2016. SSL encryption is relevant for security. This means that recommended settings change fast. Keep your setup up to date and do not rely on this document being updated as fast as technologies change!