Friendica

About me & this article Over decades of experience as an IT consultant, I have accompanied many projects. One pattern keeps recurring: good technical decisions are only made when the pressure to act is great and management has been clearly informed. In the digital age, this pressure remains consistently high and is also acute. The ubiquitous dependencies on external service providers in other countries and under other legal systems are particularly difficult. ...

I do run my own Friendica instance and have recently been dealing intensively with the deletion settings. Because nothing is more annoying than a database that keeps growing even though you have actually configured that old posts should be deleted. In this article I will show you how to set and check the deletion settings correctly, and what pitfalls there are. The Right Order Before I go into the details, here is the order in which you should proceed. ...

I had noticed a strange problem in Friendica. For one user, the groups widget was no longer displayed in the sidebar. Even though the user followed several groups, those groups had current posts, and groups was included in the widgetorder setting. Other users on the same instance saw the widget correctly. Only this one user did not. The Cause After some searching, I found the culprit. It was due to a custom widgetorder setting in the pconfig table. In the RC version, this custom order is not correctly merged with the groups widget. The widget remains invisible, even though all the data is present and the configuration is actually correct. ...