Woozle Hypertwin - woozle@hub.toot.cat

Woozle Hypertwin

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latest Hubzilla wish-list

Woozle Hypertwin

Durham, NC, Wed, 17 Apr 2019 11:05:00 -0400 last edited: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 11:06:42 -0400

(Do Hubzilla titles show up in Diaspora and other places? This post is titled "latest Hubzila wish-list")

a "mention" option in the user-avatar drop-down menu
a "mention" typeahead dropdown (i.e. I start typing the syntax for a mention, which I can never remember, and it pops up with a list of usernames of anyone participating in the current thread, perhaps augmented by my connections list -- or using that instead if I'm typing a post)
when I reshare a post, does the author see that? what if they're on Diaspora?
(better connection directory, but at the moment I can't remember exactly what I wanted)
paste-image-to-upload, like in Discord
image resizing, like in MediaWiki
upload-image-from-URL, like in MediaWiki
upload-image-while-editing, like in Mastodon

Some of these things may have been fixed in the latest version (how can I set up a stream that only shows version announcements?) to which I will upgrade as soon as I have time.

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Doug Senko

Wed, 17 Apr 2019 11:45:49 -0400 from Diaspora

Is there a Hubzilla Santa?

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Wed, 17 Apr 2019 14:44:41 -0400

@Woozle Hypertwin

1. Not yet.
2. For years - type @ and some letters and wait, select person to @-tag from list.
3. Yes. Diaspora - I have no idea.
4. Directory is pretty good, search hampered by privacy conscious crowd, i.e. people keep their public profiles clean and private profiles extensive. Auto-suggestion is available, but hampered by your public profile, i.e. if you do not share anything about you there is very little to match up with, see previous issue about privacy conscious crowd. Add Directory app to navbar or menu for easy access.
5. We have drag-n-drop and embed from album, but not paste (I think).
6. Images are autoresized into three often used sizes, i.e. really scaled to width × height, decreasing file size. Are you thinking of visually dragging and shrinking the appearing size? Sorry for the wording, I hope you get it.
7. Not yet? However, have you tried our WebDAV?
8. Not yet? Personally, I like to see how images appear, but I think I get your drift. Parallell processes, photo uploads while you keep on typing.

Woozle Hypertwin

Thu, 18 Apr 2019 10:00:10 -0400

Thanks for your detailed response, @Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)!

#2 doesn't seem to be working consistently... it worked for the IDs of everyone in this thread, and pulls up a long list of matching IDs when I type @els or @dou, but nothing happens for some users... oh! it looks like you have to type at least 3 characters? That's important to know.

#4: I think I was actually thinking about the Connections page, and I think my main gripe there was answered by discovery of the drop-down menu on each user's avatar... which itself could use "edit connection" and "mention" options.

#6: I'm thinking of markup syntax to size and position the image, as in MediaWiki. It looks like you actually do have sizing implemented in the [zrl] tag, though this is not mentioned in the documentation:

<pre>
[zmg=<width>x<height>]
[zmg=<width>x]
[zmg=x<height>]
</pre>
This does not, however, seem to generate an actual resized copy of the image as MediaWiki does but just uses HTML resizing. It's also unclear if there is a way to align them. MW-style framing/captions would also be nice, as I use that feature a lot.

#7: yes, I wasn't able to figure out how to work that. A brief search for "hubzilla WebDAV" suggests that the instructions are on project.hubzilla.org, which currently returns an invalid certificate and uses HSTS so browsers won't connect insecurely.

#8: I do as well, but that's what preview is for (one of Hubzilla's major strengths!)

Another wish-list item:
9. A way to find an off-site (especially non-Hubzilla, e.g. Diaspora or ActivityPub) post on my local instance, so I can interact with it if all I have is the link to that source (rather than it showing up in my feed). Would also be nice to be able to get a local URL from a post that is in my feed.

Hubzilla question: G+ "Communities" equivalent?

Woozle Hypertwin

Durham, NC, Tue, 19 Feb 2019 08:38:30 -0500

I gather there's a way in Hubzilla to set up the equivalent of Google+ Communities. Does anyone know of a how-to guide for that? I have some vague idea that it involves setting up another profile for the community, but I'm not at all sure of the details.

Thanks in advance!

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Gregory P. Smith

Tue, 02 Apr 2019 02:07:28 -0400 from Diaspora

Public communities on Diaspora seem centered around #hashtags and following those in order to follow "the" community.

Really not the same, but does work for order to form out of chaos as it did on Flickr and Twitter where tags really seemed to take off last decade.

mathew

Tue, 02 Apr 2019 11:38:34 -0400

Select Channel Manager from the top left menu. Click the button to create a new channel. Pick one of the Forum options to make a forum-type channel, and fill out the info.

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

Tue, 02 Apr 2019 15:25:36 -0400

@Woozle Hypertwin - your profile menu's channel manager lets you create extra channels, and upon creation you can choose between different forum styles, e.g private and public.

Woozle Hypertwin

Durham, NC, Fri, 09 Nov 2018 09:13:01 -0500

TFW...

"Oh hey, another person on Hubzilla rather than Diaspora. Cool!"
(a few seconds go by)
"Oh! They're on my Huzilla instance! COOL!"

I need to do a better job of welcoming new users. >.>

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Federation feels

Woozle Hypertwin

Durham, NC, Fri, 12 Oct 2018 15:40:15 -0400

That feel when you're on Hubzilla reading all these posts from G+ refugees on Diaspora* talking about how Diaspora* doesn't have this or that feature, and you're like "uh, but Hubzilla does..."

Bonus points: Favorite a Diaspora* post about how Diaspora* doesn't support favorites.

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Isaac Kuo

Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:32:15 -0400 from Diaspora

Any experience or thoughts on how Hubzilla compares to Friendica in terms of features/robustness/etc? I'm pretty happy with diaspora, but I do notice friendica has certain features that others would like to have.

Woozle Hypertwin

Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:40:33 -0400

I haven't used Friendica in a couple of years, but Hubzilla seemed more full-featured even then. I should try to revive and update my Friendica instance in order to get a fair comparison.

mathew

Sat, 13 Oct 2018 10:41:44 -0400

The issue with Hubzilla is the UI. It's a lot more complex to get set up. Friendica does less, but that means you can log in and have something that kinda looks like Facebook and be up and running in 5 minutes.

Isaac Kuo

Sat, 13 Oct 2018 10:49:21 -0400 from Diaspora

Thanks, @Woozle Hypertwin and @mathew ! Your descriptions help me get a feel for what they're like.

Woozle Hypertwin

Mon, 15 Oct 2018 14:54:45 -0400

Huh, really? I found Hubzilla a lot easier to navigate than Friendica, both as a user and as a sysop. Caveat: my Friendica instance broke about 3 years ago and I haven't been able to fix it; maybe the UX has improved since then.