Anmol Sharma

anmol@pod.datamol.org

Anmol Sharma

Tue, 13 Nov 2018 14:51:07 -0800

Madhuri G wrote the following post Tue, 13 Nov 2018 14:28:28 -0800

.. Wah, still going on and getting worse ..

Since 2007, at least 600 people have lost their lives in attacks by wild animals in Uttarakhand, while as many as 3,100 people have reported receiving injuries in such attacks. Official records show 166 leopards and 16 tigers have been declared man-eaters in the past 15 years.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/dehradun/team-of-shooters-sent-to-bageshwar-to-shoot-leopard-declared-man-eater/story-5f7CeslHbVOvF0i63D70TL.html

Anmol Sharma

Mon, 12 Nov 2018 21:40:28 -0800

Y A wrote the following post Mon, 12 Nov 2018 02:52:07 -0800

Sri Krishnan Temple - Waterloo St, Singapore [+] Beautiful hinduism temple in singapur 😍

#SriKrishnan #Temple #Singapore #sculpture #architecture #beauty

Anmol Sharma

Sun, 11 Nov 2018 13:30:21 -0800

Y A wrote the following post Sun, 11 Nov 2018 13:14:49 -0800

A. L. Syed (1904-1991)

#ALSyed #bw #photography #India #donkey #bravery

Anmol Sharma

Fri, 09 Nov 2018 19:30:24 -0800

Madhuri G wrote the following post Fri, 09 Nov 2018 11:56:07 -0800

... F#cking Re-Cycle ...

#plastic

Anmol Sharma

Fri, 09 Nov 2018 15:43:19 -0800

Y A wrote the following post Fri, 09 Nov 2018 02:10:35 -0800

"If you have never heard of the

Blue Footed Booby Mating Dance
by Stephanie Plummer on YouTube
.. here it is. You're welcome..."

#blue #foot #booby #bird #animals #cute

Anmol Sharma

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 12:12:51 -0800

Madhuri G wrote the following post Tue, 06 Nov 2018 07:26:55 -0800

Hundreds of birds dead during 5G experiment in The Hague, The Netherlands

Where i used to walk and play as a kid. Image/photo

https://www.healthnutnews.com/hundreds-of-birds-dead-during-5g-experiment-in-the-hague-the-netherlands/?fbclid=IwAR3s2gkEIX87nzGh-paUQq0I88oTY_cqfvJSErnd4odngilUdkL4kFGGOe0

and..

Panic attacks amongst cows during 5G experiments

where i lived later on

https://www.stopumts.nl/doc.php/Berichten%20Nederland/10423/groningen_wat_mankeert_de_koeien_van_stitswerd?fbclid=IwAR01cQDx9KinGeYqs_ga0O2WzO5dT7h4BoevjY9ijXaXfSaqcOcBT5KQ0zA

M. Dent

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 12:16:49 -0800

Happy Diwali

Anmol Sharma

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 08:46:46 -0800

anmol wrote the following post Wed, 07 Nov 2018 08:39:14 -0800

#Happy #Diwali

Diwali

Connectiong Friendica connection on Osada

Anmol Sharma

Mon, 05 Nov 2018 03:56:45 -0800

!Hubzilla Support Forum
I am tried to connect Friendica network on Osada. But the connection status shows me a rss/atom protocol for Friendica.
Is this default behavior? Or I am entering the Friendica link wrong in add connection?

osada friendica

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hEARt PhoniX

Mon, 05 Nov 2018 04:17:48 -0800

Waitman Gobble

Mon, 05 Nov 2018 04:19:22 -0800

Like this?

https://osada.app/channel/helps

Waitman Gobble

Mon, 05 Nov 2018 06:06:58 -0800

its set as forum, but i dont understand how it works

Osada: Save in folder or star a post and oder the posts

Anmol Sharma

Sun, 04 Nov 2018 23:46:27 -0800

!Hubzilla Support Forum
Hi
Is there a way in Osada to save the posts in folder or star the posts so that post can be organized like Hubzilla? Can the posts be arranged by posted date and commented date?

Osada

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Anmol Sharma

Mon, 05 Nov 2018 02:19:22 -0800

Further is there way in Osada to reply to a particular comment only?

Anmol Sharma

Mon, 05 Nov 2018 02:21:45 -0800

Suddenly your message came from nowhere. Thanks for the information.

Mon, 05 Nov 2018 02:29:59 -0800

Yes and no. The capability used to exist, but I went looking for a way to enable it the other day and some important chunks have been removed from the code since we nixed the (shitty) UI for this feature in 2012 and left it for "experimental use". The DB structure and most of the backend support is still there, but the conversation templates would need a bit or work. This doesn't require a rocket scientist to bring back, but it will require perseverance.

Post undeliverable to some recipient channels.

Anmol Sharma

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 10:41:49 -0700

!Hubzilla Support Forum
I see undeliverable message on my posts. What could be the reason for this?

hubzilla

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Anmol Sharma

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 10:55:16 -0700

After the Hubzilla 8.1 update I am not able to see the Dispora posts from my connection too. Dispora protocol is enabled.

Giacomino

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 11:00:07 -0700

did you look in the apps page?
now appears in the apps page

Anmol Sharma

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 11:19:52 -0700

@Giacomino
Can you give me the link?

Giacomino

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 11:28:49 -0700

diaspora is found in the "available apps"

Oliver

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 11:37:19 -0700

/apps/available

Anmol Sharma

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 11:46:38 -0700

@Oliver
Thanks for your help. But why are apps and addons have different pages now?

Oliver

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 11:54:55 -0700

@Anmol Sharma
I guess you missed this one:

Mario Vavti wrote the following post Sun, 14 Oct 2018 10:22:05 +0200

Changes in the upcoming Hubzilla 3.8 release
As you have probably already noticed, there were some dramatic changes to the settings and app infrastructure in the 3.7 development cycle.

What changed?

We left behind the central settings page a.k.a Settings > Additional Features in favor of per app settings pages. Basically every app with settings has an easy accessible (cog icon next to the app name in the panel) settings page.

Feature settings for the post editor are accessible via the cog icon in the editor. Feature settings for post/comment interactions (star posts, community tagging, emoji reactions, dislike button) are accessible via the item dropdown menu (bottom right) of each post/comment > Conversation Tools.

Some features have been transformed into stand-alone apps. Privacy Groups, Wiki, Notes come to my mind. There are many others though. If you had one of the transformed features enabled, you will now need to install its app equivalent. E.G. you will need to install the Privacy Groups App to be able to manage your privacy groups.

Addons:

Some addons have already been ported to the new app infrastructure (all the federation protocols, n_s_f_w, startpage, etc). The remaining will be ported in the next release cycle.
Basically here applies the same as explained above for the core apps. If you had an addon enabled in the addon settings, you will need to install its equivalent app (diaspora app, n_s_f_w app, etc).

Summary of needed actions for the channel owner:

If you had features/addons enabled that have been "appified" you will need to install the equivalent apps for the channel.

Click "Add Apps" from the navbar hamburger menu to see an overview of your installed apps
To install a new app, select "Available Apps" from the left-aside Apps Collections menu
Click the green install button for each app you want to install

!Hubzilla Support Forum

https://hub.somaton.com/channel/mario/?f=&mid=7d6f40a866b199bf7918b73989e18d866e56edb3a477ac866f5c30dbda6395e1@hub.somaton.com

M. Dent

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 11:54:59 -0700

Most of what were called, "Features," were just apps/addons that had been integrated into the core. This caused confusion. The decision was made to move to a consistent user experience.

Whether it's a "feature" or an "addon" - doesn't really matter from an end-user perspective. If it's something that users can turn on/off or in some way be configured - the UI is now consistent (or will be). There aren't 2 different places to look for stuff any more, and now hub members don't have to keep track of the difference between "Features" and "Addons". Which is just as well, because they shouldn't have to care that there's a difference.

Giacomino

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 11:55:21 -0700

is just the new HZ version

Anmol Sharma

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 12:12:49 -0700

@Mario Vavti
Yes I missed that. Thanks

@M. Dent
It was just the change that confused me. But it looks better now.

@Giacomino
Thanks for the information
Thanks for

M. Dent

Mon, 05 Nov 2018 10:26:08 -0800

As for the UNDELIVERABLE message itself, I don't know that you ever got an answer (or maybe I just missed it). But a full answer is also on this post:

Jens (public) schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Mon, 05 Nov 2018 16:34:15 +0100

Question regarding permissions
Hi !Hubzilla Support Forum !Hubzilla Users Support

I found an interesting channel where, despite being authenticated via Magicauth, I did not get the option to comment on posts directly.
So I wrote my own post as a kind of reply, adressing the channel that I wanted to interact with. But seems like this does not work (see errormessage in the image), probably until the channel owner accepts my connection request?

Question: is my understanding correct? And what setting on a channel is responsive for that? Just in case I want the same behavior for myself - or want to disable it.

https://hub.ax9.eu/channel/jens/&mid=a6a8ad70dde48e8d3b96f5f61dfa75098c348e992cda37a7d99db88025c50f6a@hub.ax9.eu

Osada on Yunohost

Anmol Sharma

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 04:23:49 -0700

!Hubzilla Support Forum
!Hubzilla Development

#Osada package for #Yunohost is available now. Yunohost gives ability to install,update,backup and restore the app on a single click, thus easing down the installation and maintenance process. The package is multi-instance,so there can be multiple Osada running on a single machine.

#^Osada Yunohost package
#^Yunohost website
#^Yunohost all apps

yunohost osada

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Anmol Sharma

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 08:09:27 -0700

BTW can OSADA be disabled and ZAP protocol be enabled in Osada? I am getting confused how some instances have Osada and other have Zap.

M. Dent

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 09:22:07 -0700

"kind of" - when you install, you install either Zap (Zot6 only) or Osada (Zot6 + ActivityPub). They are branded as distict "products" because of the different protocol support.

Unfortunately, it really can't be simplified conceptually. They are very different even though they share a codebase.

Anmol Sharma

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 10:34:52 -0700

By default I see Osada. How can I change to Zap (Zot6 protocol)?

M. Dent

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 11:16:59 -0700

It's an option at installation. Once it is set at installation, the only way to "reset" it is to reinstall.

M. Dent

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 11:17:54 -0700

I don't know that all of the UI stuff always reflects Osada/Zap. But as long as you installed it as Zap, it will be Zot6 only.

Anmol Sharma

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 11:38:25 -0700

I have to install the Osada/Zap without the UI for Yunohost. Can the Zap/Osada be configured through htconfig.php?

M. Dent

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 12:10:35 -0700

define('NOMADIC',1);

It should probably be set before the setup actually runs and sets up the database and everything else. I don't have time to look, but my guess based on what I've been able to find so far, it looks like there is at least the possibility that the installation proceeds a little differently if NOMADIC is set. So to make sure everything happens that needs to, I would make sure to set NOMADIC before actually doing the installation.

I'll tag @Mike Macgirvin in case he has a comment, but if you proceed under the assumption that it is needed before setup, things should be fine.

Anmol Sharma

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 12:25:15 -0700

@M. Dent
Thanks
I will if it works.
I am sure Mike will guide proper way to achieve this.

Sat, 03 Nov 2018 13:33:42 -0700

defining NOMADIC implements a (nomadic) Zap server. If you leave it out, you get a non-nomadic Osada server.

Defining it as 0 instead of 1 has no effect because we only check to see if it is defined (at all).

Anmol Sharma

Sun, 04 Nov 2018 01:20:50 -0800

@Mike Macgirvin
It works.
Thanks

Osada not working

Anmol Sharma

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 15:23:32 -0700

!Hubzilla Support Forum
Hi
I tried to install Osada same way as Hubzilla but I can only see the main page with huge interface. What ever link I click it redirects to to this main page. I am using nginx and Ldap plugin. Is the installation step of the Osada differ from the Hubzilla installation?

osada

M. Dent

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:38:21 -0700

I had a similar problem on my initial install. In your NGINX config do you have this location section?:


 location / {
 if ($is_args != "") {
 rewrite ^/(.[i]) /index.php?req=$uri&$args last;
 }
 rewrite ^/(.[/i]) /index.php?req=$uri last;
 }

Notice it's req= not q=.

If that's it, you'll probably actually want to drop all the tables in the database and start over just in case it didn't do everything quite correctly.

If your nginx config has that... I'm not quite sure.

Anmol Sharma

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 17:16:10 -0700

@M. Dent
Thanks this configuration works for me.

Hubzilla version from command-line

Anmol Sharma

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 10:55:23 -0700

!Hubzilla Support Forum
How can I check the version of Hubzilla from the command-line?

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Harald Eilertsen

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 14:08:07 -0700

If you have checked out the code using git, you can simply do a cd hubzilla_dir && git describe --tags HEAD.

$ git describe --tags HEAD
3.8.2

If you're not exactly on the tagged release, it will also print the number of commits after the previous tag as well as the short hash of the commit. Like below illustrated by describing the commit before HEAD.

$ git describe --tags HEAD^
3.8.1-96-g3eb71fe7b

Philipp

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 14:10:23 -0700

For the master branch the version is in CHANGLOG in the root directory.

Philipp

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 14:12:25 -0700

The git command is more reliable though perhaps. Learned somehting new, thanks @Harald Eilertsen!

Harald Eilertsen

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 14:20:43 -0700

You can also do it remotely:

curl -s [url=https://your.hub/siteinfo.json]https://your.hub/siteinfo.json[/url]|jq .version

You need curl and jq (or another command line json parser, but jq is nice.)

Anmol Sharma

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 14:21:40 -0700

@Harald Eilertsen
The sources are not pulled from git but from zip. So there is another way to get the version?

Anmol Sharma

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 14:24:49 -0700

@Harald Eilertsen
As I was typing you gave perfect solution.
Thanks

Harald Eilertsen

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 14:26:25 -0700

Sorry, didn't figure out how to avoid the bbcode tags inserted by hubzilla in the above. They shouldn't be there.

Harald Eilertsen

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 14:27:16 -0700

@Anmol Sharma Happy I could be of help :)

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 14:45:07 -0700

grep STD_VERSION boot.php

Max Kostikov

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 15:12:20 -0700 last edited: Fri, 02 Nov 2018 15:18:10 -0700

1. Remote position based
curl -s http://example.com/siteinfo.json | awk -F '"' '{print $16}'
or
curl -s http://example.com/siteinfo.json | cut -d "," -f 4 | cut -d ":" -f 2 | tr -d '"'
2. Remote full text search
curl -s http://example.com/siteinfo.json | sed -r 's/.+"version":"([0-9\.]+)".+/\1/'

Anmol Sharma

Fri, 02 Nov 2018 15:29:56 -0700

Thanks to everyone for the solutions.
Specially to @Max Kostikov for perfect solution.

Fail2ban or 2FactorAuthentication

Anmol Sharma

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 01:55:38 -0700

!Hubzilla Support Forum {support@zotadel.net}
Somebody has working Fail2ban or 2FactorAuthentication settings for brute force attacks protection?!

Hubzilla Fail2ban

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Alex

Mygeeto, Mon, 29 Oct 2018 02:42:06 -0700

🖐️

M. Dent

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 05:15:15 -0700

I frequently use NGINX rate limiting as a first line of defense. I've thought about 2FA, but if it is done over SMS, I find that it is technically less securen than most standard passwords (assuming isers choose good passwords)

Anmol Sharma

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 06:53:46 -0700

@M. Dent
It would nice to know about NGINX rate limiting. Can you tell me the configuration for it?

M. Dent

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 07:11:44 -0700

This is a pretty good primer: #^NGINX Rate Limiting

I haven't (yet) implemented it on Hubzilla, but expect I will have a need. From a quick glance, it appears it will require compiling nginx with the #^form input module - which is already included in the #^OpenResty package.

Protect your applications from excessive traffic, including DDoS attacks, by controlling the requests they receive with NGINX rate limiting.

Steffen K9 🐙

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 13:38:52 -0700

I have set up fail2ban for Hubzilla's login. You need to enable debug logging at loglevel 'Normal'. Be careful. The size of the log file can grow to several 100 MBs per day.

/etc/fail2ban/jail.local

[hubzilla]
enabled = true
findtime = 300
bantime = 900
maxretry = 3
filter = hubzilla
port = http,https
logpath = /path/to/hubzilla.log
logencoding = utf-8

/etc/fail2ban/filter.d/hubzilla.conf

[Definition]
failregex= ^.*auth\.php.*failed login attempt.*from IP <HOST>.*$
ignoreregex =

hEARt PhoniX

Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:14:19 -0700

Anmol Sharma

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:53:32 -0700

@Steffen K9 🐰

I tried the configuration but its not working for me. Is there an error message for fail2blog? How to debug?

Steffen K9 🐙

Tue, 30 Oct 2018 02:02:46 -0700

Well, I don't know if there is an error message in your fail2ban log.

This configuration works on Ubuntu/Debian. Paths and file names may be different on other distributions.

Anmol Sharma

Wed, 31 Oct 2018 06:27:08 -0700

I use Yunohost which is Debian 9 based. I have enabled the Ldap plugin which lets all the Ldap user able to login and have there accounts despite of registration closed on my hub.
I will try to use the fail2ban configuration without the Ldap plugin to see if it works.

Anmol Sharma

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 16:19:59 -0800

@Steffen K9 🐙
The fail2ban works for ip4 but do not work for ip6.
Can you confirm?

Waitman Gobble

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 20:39:07 -0800

I wrote a yubikey addin a few years ago. (Non nomadic) It would be good to have a FreeOTP plugin. I'm not sure these would work well with a nomadic identity though. It could be done i suppose. FreeOTP is kind of like a hash based on your secret that is only valid for a limited amount of time. Both endpoints need the secret, but they don't have to talk to each other. It would require running a FreeOTP cli on the server, which would complicate things. Yubikey is like a 12 digit serial number and a hash based on the serial, which also is only valid for a limited time. So the 12 digit serial would be like a username. Its hardcoded on the device. To validate the hash you have to run a validation server or use theirs.

Anmol Sharma

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 11:13:05 -0800

@Waitman Gobble
Yes I have FreeOTP would be great for the Hubzilla.
Meanwhile the Fail2ban works for IPv6 now. I was using old version for Fail2ban which is available on Debain 9. The latest version of Fail2ban deals with IPv6 well.

cb7f604332cf39

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 11:22:23 -0800

@Waitman Gobble As an owner of an Yubikey I would like to ask you nicely for the code.
From my perspective the OTP should be bound to the account for login and not to the channel.
So the account isn't part of the nomdic feature.

Waitman Gobble

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:54:04 -0800

Ok i will track it down

Anmol Sharma

Fri, 26 Oct 2018 10:11:14 -0700

Mike Macgirvin wrote the following post Sun, 21 Oct 2018 15:44:17 -0700

Legacies


Entity	What you remember	What historians will remember
---	---	---
Netscape	Mozilla	SSL
Amazon	Online shopping	Impenetrable server farms
Microsoft	IE, Windows	The EULA
Twitter	140 chars	Donald Trump
Apple	Iphone	vendor lock-in
Facebook	memes	The complete destruction of privacy
Google	Maps, YouTube	An empire built through an eternal auction of dictionary words
SMTP	Unification of email	globalisation of spam
Diaspora	Facebook-killer	hashtag spam
Zot	Redmatrix, Hubzilla, confusion	decentralised privacy, nomadic identity
OStatus	the old identi.ca	the new identi.ca
ActivityPub	Mastodon	TBD

Anmol Sharma

Wed, 17 Oct 2018 17:04:02 -0700

I guess Hubzilla would cost lost more.

Friendica Support wrote the following post Tue, 16 Oct 2018 12:51:49 -0700

Estimated Cost: $ 4,788,156 (87 person-years)

♲ alfred@libranet.de:

Nice! 😀 The Friendica Open Source Project on Open Hub : Estimated Cost Page @Friendica Support

[l]

Wed, 17 Oct 2018 17:21:23 -0700

A bit less than double.

#^https://www.openhub.net/p/hubzilla/estimated_cost

Anmol Sharma

Thu, 18 Oct 2018 23:10:57 -0700

And I suspect the project don't even get 1% of this. This would be the case with all good open source projects. To add salt to injuries the coders are asked whats the use of this when you have free professional service. :broken_heart:

Anmol Sharma

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 16:20:25 -0700

This is scary.

LoYggϞM wrote the following post Sat, 06 Oct 2018 06:57:19 -0700

Diaspora* needs you ! Coders : be welcome !

Diaspora is an honest alternative to facebook, however its development is now slowing down due to a lack of coders.*

#diaspora #dev #code

The graph of number of coding contributions is from here.
Image/photo

Anmol Sharma

Sun, 07 Oct 2018 00:50:34 -0700

Saurav 🇮🇳 wrote the following post Sun, 07 Oct 2018 00:36:47 -0700

A lot of Western magicians stole or appropriated Indian tricks, says John Zubrzycki, author of a book on the history of Indian magic.

I used to see a lot of magicians when I was in India in the late 1970s, but the encounter I remember most was outside Alipurduar railway station in 1979 when I saw the basket trick being performed. A young boy climbed into a round basket and an old man chanted incantations and plunged a sword through the wicker. The blade came out bloody but the boy later emerged unscathed. It was quite spectacular. Later, I realised that a lot of Western magicians were appropriating Indian costumes and tricks in the early 20th century. Even Harry Houdini started his career posing as a ‘Hindu fakir’.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/all-that-matters/a-lot-of-western-magicians-stole-or-appropriated-indian-tricks-says-john-zubrzycki-author-of-a-book-on-the-history-of-indian-magic/articleshow/66101202.cms

#india #magic

Anmol Sharma

Thu, 04 Oct 2018 04:26:09 -0700

!Hubzilla Support Forum

1. I deleted a connection from my channel few days back but I am still getting the feeds from that connection. :thinking:

2. I am getting this warning in php. :fearful:

[pool hubzilla] child 11611, script '/var/www/hubzilla/index.php' (request: "POST /index.php?q=/receive/public") executing too slow (5.176683 sec), logging

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Anmol Sharma

Thu, 04 Oct 2018 13:14:25 -0700

Don't know if it is related

Its a Hubzilla connection. If the feeds are pending before I deleting the connection,can they be pushed after the connection was deleted? I remember that when I connected to this connection I was was getting 2 week old feeds.

Anmol Sharma

Sat, 06 Oct 2018 17:46:18 -0700

1. I deleted a connection from my channel few days back but I am still getting the feeds from that connection. thinking face 1.

How can I delete the connection from database query?

Anmol Sharma

Wed, 10 Oct 2018 16:22:04 -0700

1. This is solved by itself after a week of removing the connection.

Anmol Sharma

Sat, 29 Sep 2018 08:35:52 -0700

M. Dent wrote the following post Fri, 28 Sep 2018 17:42:18 -0700

Recent DEV Branch Updates
If you think development of Hubzilla is at a standstill just because Mike is churning out some awesome code for Osada and Zap, you haven't been paying close enough attention!

Things certainly aren't sitting still! There has been quite a bit of activity on the /dev branch of core as well as updates to addons.  Here's just a brief recap of some of the things that have been done in preparation for the next release of Hubzilla:

  * "Appification" of various features.  - The Appification effort has been led by @Mario Vavti  and he's been doing a great job!  In addition to keeping up with merge requests from other developers, Mario has converted quite a number of FEATURES into SYSTEM APPS.  This does mean significant UI changes, including a new structure for settings.  As features become apps, it may be necessary to "install" additional apps to your channel in order to access things.  For example, recently the Privacy Groups were "appified" requiring channel owners to install the "Privacy Groups" app in order to access privacy groups filtering.  A BIG THANK YOU to Mario for this important work!
  * Translations, Translations, Translations - @Max Kostikov has been hard at work trying to keep up with changes to make sure Hubzilla is multi-lingual and easy to maintain.  He has been making sure that things that may need translation are coded to make them easy to translate.  You can help in the translation effort!  Ask on the Dev channel how to get started!  We can make sure Hubzilla is a truly international tool.  THANK YOU Max for your continued work on making this possible!
  * Database Updates - A database update was applied to the DEV branch on September 28 to rename the groups tables.  Mysql8 has added reserved words which conflict with Hubzilla's group table name requiring the change.  Thanks @Max Kostikov  for submitting the changes for Hubzilla.
  * More Hooks - Various hooks in order to allow addon developers to do additional processing or filter various default lists have been added by @M. Dent.
  * Removal of "techlevels" - With the appification project well underway and the ability to hook into the core and write apps to filter various UI items, tech-levels became an unnecessary complication and the code logic implementing them has been removed.
  * The brains behind Hubzilla, Osada, Zap, and everything Zot has been working at breakneck speed on ZAP and OSADA - the latest social-media centric ZOT applications which are coming along nicely. But he has still found time to provide ongoing updates and patches to Hubzilla as well as direction and guidance to the other developers.  The biggest THANK YOU goes to @Mike Macgirvin without whom none of this would be possible.

JOIN THE FUN! There are plenty of things that can be done.  Documentation, translation, UI, testing, and many other things.

If someone would like to help by putting together periodic summaries like these, that would be GREAT!  Drop me a note and let me know!