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Thought I'd do a separate post about the new add-on I made for customizing my Bookface scheme for Friendica's "Frio" theme. Once a server admin has installed and activated it for users it would appear under Main Menu > Settings > Addons > Bookface Customizations:
The original intention of using CSS variables was to allow easy localization of the pseudo-element text labels to other languages, and let you customize more than just the "accent color" for the theme.
Only the entries you change are included in the override stylesheet added to the site. If you leave an entry blank it will not be included.
There is no validation for what you enter in the text fields to check that it is in correct format or is usable. For colors any valid CSS color declaration should work (color names, hex codes, rgb, rgba, color-mix work but gradients and images do not. You should be able to enter any Unicode text in the label variables, just be careful to escape single quotes/apostrophes with a backslash.
There is nothing to prevent you from making color combinations that will render an unusable interface. There is also nothing to prevent you from making a really, really ugly user interface, but you're the only one who will have to look at it.
This add-on's color options do not work well with "Bookface Auto" since it will automatically pick Light Mode or Dark Mode based on the device settings. It's really hard to find color combos that will work equally well in both modes. But, again, there's nothing to stop you from trying. It doesn't detect which of the Bookface schemes you've enabled.
Lastly, make sure you tick the "Enable Customizations" checkbox at the top to apply your custom settings. That checkbox gives you an easy way to turn them off and on.
Also be aware these settings, being stored on the server in your account preferences, will be applied regardless of what browser or device you use to access your account.
Okay, now that I've totally scared you out of using it, here's where server admins can go get it:
My big problem with the movie Idiocracy is the lineage of the future idiots. In the beginning they show redneck families reproducing while intellectual couples are all childless.
All the people in that movie are completely dependent on machines, they accept everything they're told, without question.
Who lives like that? Not rednecks. They know how to survive on their own. They're skeptical when people tell them things as a matter of fact.
What's changed in the world of LLMs since the AIE World's Fair last year? A lot!I'll be taking full advantage of my role as a fiercely independent researcher...
if I can destroy the SAO core I will obliterate humanity's digital consciousness once and for all leaving only a few straggling survivors to take out but the evil aliens are doing all they can to stop me. It won't be enough!
The Zen Postbox add-on has been updated to version 1.3
This fixes an issue where the postbox styling was not shown sitewide or when users were not logged into the server. Now if either of the add-ons is enabled the postboxes should be shown on that server everywhere, even to users who are not logged in.
The add-ons have also been updated to make sure they work with the 2025.7 Release Candidate development version.
Again, the difference between Postbox and Zen Postbox is the first one only includes the stylesheet to show them. You have to manually add the BBcode to your posts. The "Zen" one adds a button to the Compose modal to let you pick from a list and automatically adds the BBcode to your post.
1. make sure when you install the update that the folder name is "zen_postbox" and not "zen_postbox-1.3"
2. check that the permissions for that folder and the sub-folders are correct.
3. Lastly, you will likely have to go into Main Menu > Admin > Addons and disable and re-enable the Zen Postbox addon to get the new "head" hook to register.
4. Open Compose and press the rainbow background button. If you can see the thumbnails for the animated ones you're good. If the last 11 boxes are empty check everything again. If this fix worked you'll see all the thumbnails, and if you add one of the animated ones to your post draft and Preview it you should see the background in the preview.
This does not affect the "Postbox" addon. In Bookface this only affects the animated backgrounds because they are not included in Bookface while the rest of them are.
@Kevin (I noticed it seems to be broken on dillyofapickle).
Yep! My guess is addon stuff gets cached somewhere somehow. Sometimes on my Dev Server the only way to get my edits to addons to work is to disable and re-enable them.
@Alt Pygoscelis Papua @Kevin If you mean editing templates, then your cache at /view/smarty3/compiled/ need to be purged. Just delete all xx directories in it. And please don't forget to run ./bin/composer.phar install on your development system and with --no-dev on your server. Plus you want to truncate the table hooks which contains "cached" addon call-back data: TRUNCATE TABLE `hook`. If your addon has own configuration tables, then you maybe want to delete their entries in config, too.
And which cache driver have you configured? REDIS?
My Dev Server is actually offline running Friendica in XAMPP filled with fake test accounts and dummy content. I hadn't realized all those files in /view/smarty3/compiled/ were cache files, good to know!
@Alt Pygoscelis Papua @Kevin It is a bit strange that the cache isn't automatically cleared when a corresponding template has been changed. Friendica's own Smarty3 class can be found at src/Render/FriendicaSmarty and seem to rely on the default behavior of how Smarty handles updating its cache. I need to investigate this mater further.
@Kevin @Alt Pygoscelis Papua Hmm, Friendica's code handles over single configuration options to it's own FriendicaSmarty::__construct() constructor while it could use there DI::config()->get('foo', 'bar'); directly avoiding longer parameter lists?
This update has a LOT of changes and fixes in it! I think I got in everything everyone who gave me feedback asked for (check the README file "Changelog" section for details). Lots of attention paid to making buttons, tabs, and drop-down appearance consistent, and lots of new CSS variables for customization plus a new option for customizing Bookface (more on that in a moment).
Bookface 1.8 has been tested with both the current stable 2024.12 and 2025.7 Release Candidate versions.
The most obvious change you'll probably notice is that the responses below posts and comments now look completely different:
And below an Event Post:
If multiple people engaged with the post in a certain way you no longer have to click the count to see the list, it's a popover that appears on hover (active on touch devices). This is a lot cleaner and more consistent with how these are displayed on other social media platforms.
You'll also notice that the Main Menu missing icons are in place. This is a change that's coming in the next Friendica release anyway, but Bookface lets you have it right now:
Someone specifically asked whether the main navigation buttons could have labels on them:
I didn't turn it on by default, but nav button labels are now coded into Bookface and if you're using CSS variable customization they're easy to turn on:
:root {
--show-navbar-labels: block;
}
The label text is also customizable. Until now the only way to implement such customizations was either for a server admin to manually put them into the header or footer sitewide or for individual users to put them in a user content stylesheet just for your web browser. That's why I'm also releasing a new Friendica addon called "Bookface Custom" that, if your server admin installs it, allows you to customized every one of the Bookface CSS variables to your heart's content.
Oh, and it's a little thing, but if you did bother to go the trouble of self-verifying your account I restyled the "verified checkmark" in the profile aside 😉:
Good work! I updated Bookface for Friendica.World.
One remark, when trying to write this comment, I tried clicking the 'comment' icon, moving the mouse from below. The new popup for the list of people that liked the post, blocked the comment button. I don't know if there's a solution for this..
Yes, I was concerned about that but couldn't come up with a decent solution to prevent it. I thought about using negative margins and padding to swap the positions of the Action Buttons and Responses, but making that work across all screen sizes and for both regular posts and event posts is tricky. The popup list would still be triggered by a mouseover but at least it wouldn't cover the Action Button. I'll keep playing with it and see if I can get it to work consistently. I can always revert it to the way it was in a future release if this turns out to be too much of a usability issue.
Main branch updated to 1.8.1 to fix "Notices" navbar label not using CSS variable. Not an issue for anyone who isn't using Navbar Labels, which are not enabled by default.
If you don't want to wait for the next release the Main branch should always be the most current as people point out things to me and I fix them on GitLab (which should automatically get mirrored to the GitHub repo).
@Random Penguin This theme's quite cool, really admire it. One thing however:
On my desktops, this double navigation takes way more space than in other themes. Would it be possible, for smaller displays, to somehow merge them into one menu line, or does that require more in-depth changes?
I agree that it does take up a lot of space, because I made the icons larger and added more white space for a cleaner, more modern look. Everything in Frio is too tiny and compact and cluttered. It doesn't help that Friendica just has a LOT of controls. Too many IMO. It's kind of overwhelming to new users.
For smaller displays when you get below 768 pixels wide it engages the mobile interface. There's some overlap between desktop and tablet landscape making it impossible to discern which it is, and for most tablets in portrait I chose to display a compact version of the desktop bars to keep the position of controls consistent if you change tablet orientation.
It is technically possible to merge the two bars into one (actually make them 50% screen width and positioned seamlessly side-by-side) for really wide screens, but there's just too much stuff there to do that for a smaller screen. And the sub-section words in the second toolbar can be really short in some languages or really long in others.
You could try zooming in until the mobile interface kicks in. Though it doesn't really save that much space as there are still two toolbars, they just aren't both at the top.
The CIA, FBI, Mossad, MI6 are ALL connected to this Epstein thing. The question remains, why does Trump not blow this all open if he is not part of the client list rather than allowing himself to be blackmailed by Israel into furthering their genocidal agenda?
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@Theodore John Kaczynski This map does not go far enough back in history to even come close to accuracy. What it fails to recognize is that China's history goes back at least 8000 years and perhaps as much as 30,000 and over this long history their empire has expanded and collapsed repeatedly such that many of these "recent" areas actually have been part of China also in the distant past.
Chelsea have been football's laughing stock. But now they are one win from finally earning respect, writes KIERAN GILL
KIERAN GILL IN NEW YORK: Silly, spendthrift, squandering Chelsea. More money than Scrooge McDuck. Less sense than his nephew, Donald. They sign kids, stockpile them, hand them life sentences.
Chelsea 'interested in PSG goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma' as the Italian enters the final 12 months of his contract
The Italian shot-stopper enjoyed the most successful season of his career in 2024-25, registering 12 clean sheets as PSG marched to an imperious treble-winning campaign.
Revealed: What the Lions must be wary of, the verdict on Owen Farrell and the English rugby league star who could be the Lions' answer to Joseph Suaalii... as NIK SIMON watches the final warm-up match with former England coach
NIK SIMON IN MANLY: Seibold was part of Eddie Jones' England coaching team until 2022 but these days he is back home in rugby league, heading up business with the Manly Sea Eagles.
This is it. The Sword Art Online core. Within those little red walls is humanity's consciousness (Remember they all got trapped in SAO causing the rest of the world to fall to Dark Souls shit). If I destroy all this I can finally obliterate all that remains of humanity once and for all!
The Eyes of SAOron there actually do attack me if they see me
Why players need to stop worrying about the state of the ball and my advice for players when it comes to stump-mic: BUMBLE ON THE TEST
BUMBLE ON THE TEST: Surely it is abundantly clear now that the pace of the game is a major problem. There's so many interruptions to the flow of the game.
The Preview: Shankland can help McInnes win Gorgie popularity contest
It's fair to say that Hearts supporters tend to be a tough bunch to please. Indeed, even when things are ticking along nicely, grumbles of discontent always find a way to cut through the cheers
"Au nom de l'environnement, l'État libéral et bourgeois a mis en place le dispositif Zones à faibles émissions (ZFE) : une façon de limiter l'utilisation de véhicules chez les plus précaires tout en poussant à la consommation de nouvelles voitures, puisqu'aucune réelle alternative à celle-ci n'est jamais proposée.
Au nom de l’environnement, l’État libéral et bourgeois a mis en place le dispositif Zones à faibles émissions (ZFE) : une façon de limiter l’utilisation de véhicules chez les plus précaires tout en poussant à la consommation de nouvelles voitures, pu…
Was Q showing us that Australia was in submission, in real time, YEARS ago? What does "full control" look like? Where are we headed? Join us as we deconstruct another week of 5th Generation Psychologi
I'm feeling depressed, and was trying to cheer myself up by playing No Man's Sky, where I disassembled my freighter base and can't come up with a new layout, and I've been stuck on it for hours, and it's not helping with the depression.
President Donald Trump cast his support behind Attorney General Pam Bondi amid reports of feuding between her and other members of the Trump administration over Bondi’s handling of files relating to convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.
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Dumbledore Starting To Wonder If Having A House Filled With Racist Murderers Named After Snakes Such A Good Idea
At publishing time, Slytherins had once again devised a lengthy and convoluted plot to release Lord Voldemort and bring about the destruction of the wizarding world, a problem many say could have perhaps been predicted, knowing their history.
HOGWARTS — Headmaster Albus Dumbledore admitted he was beginning to question the sensibility of having an entire house of students named after an evil snake that's dedicated to perpetuating racist ideas and destroying Hogwarts.
MTG Press Conference On Cloud Seeding Interrupted By Tornado
"This public deserves to know what has been — WOAH!" Greene said as she was swept into the air by the twister. "There's a freakin' tornado now? Where'd that come from? AAAAAAAHHHH!"
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chaos ensued outside the U.S. Capitol yesterday, as Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene's press conference on cloud seeding was suddenly interrupted by a massive tornado.
duh,Pay attention Zoomer. The last article of the UC charter pretty much said peepee poopoo if there are people with space powers you have to be able to quantify it scientifically or this doesn't count, and we are going to use this as justification to manufacture people with space powers. Constitutions are fake and gay.
What’s going on with my “boys” and, in some cases, “gals?” They’re all going after Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is doing a FANTASTIC JOB! We’re on one Team, MAGA, and I don’t like what’s happening.
I don't know. But I do believe strongly in "first things first." The current activist judicial swamp would not bring a conviction of the Epstein guilty.
People have lost critical thought, and they've lost track of all that's going on, and how we got here.
Fake MAGAs are working social media hard to split us up for 2026.
I trust Trump. Do I like how clumsy it was handled? Not really. But I realize that all I know is what we've been told. Much more going on than any of us can see.
Reminds me of a friend w/ 2 daughters. The elder was a troublemaker and a liar; the younger one a model student and obedient.
The troublemaker threatened suicide and was taken from my friend. In therapy, it turned out that the "liar" was a good girl, traumatized from her sister's lies about her.
Good girl was bad after all. And bad girl was depressed but good.
Blew me away, how I'd been fooled for so many years!
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The #UK Labour government is an embarrassment, just as disgusting as the Conservatives were. Apparently standing against #genocide and war crimes is now a crime in my homeland. I’m appalled!
@Sean The sad thing is Brittan un-joined the EU so it could carve it's own destiny instead of being lead by a bunch of Brussle Sprout dictators, instead it becomes Israel's bitch just like the US. Politicians need to keep their dicks in their pants and stop allowing Mossad to blackmail them.
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shit i just realized a redneck is me, i've lived in the south for most of my adult life as of this year, i think