It's polling that hurts, and groups don't poll.

Even large groups like New Here don't hurt as much as a single user with Facebook. You're fine in most cases to put a group on a shared host. Exception - when you're hosting video or other rich media locally, or you subscribe it to Facebook for easy access to Facebook page reshares. Don't do that, and you're fine.

Thanks a lot. Will give it a try, and let's see what happens!

Go for it. I'll certainly join the group!

Uhm. I've just created philosophy@social.manolomartinez.net, and when I try to do the very first things (change the profile photo, for example), I get a "permission denied" message. This is both if I manage it as Manolo Martínez, or if I log in as philosophy.

Do you have more than one tab/window open? Don't do that - your browser gets confused referring to invalid cookies.

If you're using Facebook/Iceweasel, you occasionally get this because of cache issues. Clearing your cache isn't enough, you need to close your browser (completely, so it's no longer around in your RAM) then reopen it.

If you make the e-mail and password for the group the same as your own, you can click "manage", select the group, manage the group.

You can also do that without having the same email and password (none of my groups share either email or password), by connecting to you group then visiting mydomain/delegate while logged in as the group.

@Thomas I don't think it's that. I've closed any other browser window and I'm still unable to, e.g., change the theme.

Could it be a permissions problem? Web server not being able to read the required directories...

I don't know, I have a couple of working accounts (admin and this one) and it's never been an issue.

Try a different browser...

Have you closed your browser completely or just the extra tabs?

Permission Denid on the settings page is almost always a cache issue. Only completely restarting your browser will fix it.

To my knowledge, the only other time anybody has reported an issue like this was with the new user somehow failing to be added to the database properly.

@Paul Taylor I've done that, too. Both dwb and firefox behave in the same way. Dunno, I'm hoping that the problem will just vanish on its own. It's happened before.

Thomas, apparently I can manage the account logging in as philosophy. This will suffice.

@Manolo Martínez @Let's Talk is a place to publicize forums.

So! the forum is up and running at @A Philosophy Forum Hope to see you there! Is there any place I should send a note to to let it be known?

@page promoter rotates profiles from it's members on the front page here, and above the view contacts and directory pages of this site. A small number of private servers have also included it on their sites. Since we've got some big-ish groups, lots of people see it.

New Here is really for people and meta-groups. @Let's Talk is the place for groups.

Also, make sure you're listed in the public directory. With certain configurations, this option defaults to no.

The best way to promote a group, though, is to simply post to it with @-mentions instead of wall-to-wall posts occasionally.

At least a philosophy group is not likely to kill your server.

I was thinking of making a "boobs and bacon" group, but then I realized, that's just asking for an unintended DDoS like flood of traffic...

You think boobs and bacon would be popular? You should see the traffic @Cardigans gets.

I mean...who doesn't like cardigans?




( #nsfw )

If only they had beards...

Do you want Java-based alternatives? I also use JabRef and would like to find something more responsive. What about Zotero stand-alone version?

Oh, I didn't know there was a standalone version of Zotero. I will look into that. Really, I'd like a very simple program that simply manages the bibtex database without as may bells and whistles as Zotero. JabRef was great, but, as I say, java is not working very well for me...

Zotero standalone will work for the time being. Thanks for the pointer! Do you work in academia?

Why the best (speaking as #uzbl user)?

Some differences from the top of my head:

* yank/put works much, much better. In uzbl, e.g., yanking the current url is always a bit of hit and miss.
* Every link on a page has a hint. In uzbl many of the links in the java bits of a page are only accessible with the mouse.
* Changing settings, whitelisting scripts in a page, etc, it's all easier. This is a minor issue; all those things can be done in uzbl, it's just that they all demanded spending some time putting together a script.
* Ditto for bookmarking

Our mutual friend @mvdan is pushing me towards #luakit at the moment...

JoinDiaspora plain doesn't work - with Friendica, or other Diaspora pods.

To test a Diaspora contact, you need to use a smaller pod.

Has your diasp0ra.ca contact added you to their contacts? You need to add them, and they need to add you to an aspect before you'll see their posts.

Oh, I didn't know that, thanks for the info!

I have some JD contacts, and their posts come through.

JD works sometimes, but for me their posts take a day or so to reach my site.

Exactly. Sometimes. And with lag of hours to days.

Doesn't work, in other words. Certainly not for debugging purposes.

True.

I'll try with smaller pods and report back. Thanks.

Oh, @Manolo Martínez I had difficulty with Diaspora connectivity initially, and the cause was use of the same IP address for free-haven.org as the rest of sites on this server (http://tonybaldwin.me, http://farcebork.com, etc.).
Although I was using Apache with SNI to indicate the proper SSL certificate for free-haven, Diaspora sites were still seeing the self-signed certificate for tonybaldwin.me. I eventually resolved this by buying another IP address from my host ($1/month) for free-haven, and now it works.
Diaspora doesn't like Apache SNI or self-signed certificates.

Y ¿porqué es que el sitio de Astrud no tiene el enlace al youtube?

Al momento estoy disfrutando ese video:

El huevón de http://rockenespanol.wordpress.com ha puesto algo sobre este video en el blog.

http://rockenespanol.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/astrud-paliza-youtube/

add tony@calisp0ra.org or tazman@wk3.org (both are me, the first being on a pistos pod, and the second on a generic D* pod. I hardly post there at all, really, but maintain accts. for testing purposes, mostly, but do occasionally drop in and post stuff.).

Funciona! Pero con joindiaspora va leeeeeeeeeento...

Pero ves mi post en Diaspora? Porque yo no...

bueno.. no sé si te tengo que D* ... pero tarda varias horas en llegar (al menos en joindiaspora)

Sí, aparece el post, pero no la publicación, acabo de hacerte un comentario, a ver cuanto tarda en refrescarnos... a mi, más de 4 horas es lo que me está tardando...

A ver, aparece el post, pero no los comentarios!!! jajajaja

Y hay alguna cosa que se pueda cambiar, en cron jobs o así?

no, es por diaspora...

Si te fijas, con algunos pods de diaspora funcionará muy rápido, con otros (joindiaspora entre ellos), va muy lento. Yo tuve que aumentar los tiempos de respuesta en el php.ini para que comunicase... Qué servidor usas? Apache? Yo estoy ahora mismo con NGINX, pero el problema es el mismo... los Posts llegan, pero los comentarios tardan muuuuuucho...

Pues a mí no me sale en mi stream de diaspora... Qué cosas. Acabo de añadirte en D*, uno de los cinco o seis perfiles que tienes :) No sé si habré acertado.

Tu réplica del usuario de diaspora en friendica: https://joindiaspora.com/people/e5fbd70851674083
Hasta que no te llegue la notificación de diaspora a friendica de que has sido añadido allí, no te llegará al usuario de diaspora la mención, ni aquí (en friendica) te actualizará...

mi usuario de diaspora es zodiac@joindiaspora.com

Pues he acertado por casualidad. Yo tengo el servidor de friendica en bluehost, que usan apache.

En fin, por ahora me sirve con friendica e identi.ca, que sí que están bien integrados.

Por cierto, ¿tú sabes cómo hacer para que un post desde friendica aparezca en la public timeline de identi.ca?

El ostatus está habilitado, pero para que aparezcas allí, como tu servidor es externo, no aparecen directamente. La solución para que aparezcan: que un usuario del servidor StatusNet en cuestión, te añada, en este caso, que alguien de identi.ca añada tu usuario de friendica. Para eso debe hacerlo de "servidores externos" creo... Pero, vamos, te añado con mi user de identi.ca y ya está :)

También puedo añadirme yo mismo :) Ni lo había pensado, ya me vale.

jajajaja pues sí!!! eso es lo que hice yo!! jajajaja

La movida es que a diaspora no ha llegado nunca mi solicitud de conexión. Bueeeno, poco a poco.

ummm te ha llegado la mía?

a Diaspora?

de diaspora a friendica... te he añadido el usuario de friendica en las dos redes y, el de diaspora, en diaspora (aquí no me acuerdo XD)

A ver, la presentación de ~F a ~F sí me ha llegado: si me has enviado petición de Diáspora a Friendica, esa no. Y en Diaspora no me ha llegado nada tuyo, ni mío, desde ~F. Un lío, sí :)

A ver, a tu usuario de diaspora debe haberle llegado una solicitud del mío de diaspora (a mi me llegó la tuya ya). D-D.
A tú usuario de diaspora lo voy a añadir ahora a friendica (debería llegarte a friendica en unas horas). F-D.
Ahora, tú usuario de friendica ya lo añadí a diaspora hace un rato. D-F.

Puede que tú problema esté en el tiempo de respuesta, en el apartado de administración, pon un tiempo superior de espera de red, empieza por 15 min o 20 min. y luego, lo vas ajustando...

Veo aqui, pero estoy visitando tu perfil. No recibí la notificación normal que me has etiquetado, pero ser lento en llegar, solamente.

ai, pero PUEDO ser lento en llegar...