@msdropbear @wansti oh wow, i was wrong... this latest test-post HAS escaped the gravitational field of #FriendicaAU & happily made it to the outside world, coz here it is after all, in my #OpensocialSpace account 🎉 🥳💃

@msdropbear42

@msdropbear42 @raroun @MelissaBearTrix @MsDropbear42 @msdropbear42 @MsDropbear42 @wansti

well, it transpired that my erstwhile default daily #Friendica fedi, #OpensocialSpace, from which i write/send this post, remains my default daily Friendica fedi, coz:

• after a day or two, it seems to have come good again, with that latest bout of The Wobblies behind it afaict
• my oldest remaining Friendica instance, #AnonsysNet , sadly remains too frustrating to use as my daily, for reasons that originally sent me forth from it, a coupla years ago, in the endless quest for a better Friendica instance [eg, its most topical failing now, as always, is that the custom Channels i created in it (identical to those i create in all other Friendica instances i use), simply do not fetch ANY posts for the configured hashtags, & despite manual searches for those hashtags returning viable hits... grrrrrrrrrrr, tis so annoying!]. its Admin historically rarely/never replies to my posts.
• Mel's private instance #FarcebookSpace, remains great in all aspects except for the fatal flaw of just not federating well enough for most of my saved hashtag searches, either manual or Channels. every time i try to return to this instance as my possible daily, this unsolved hashtag PITA drives me away again. tis a pity!
• after much indecision, t'other day i did in fact press ahead & create a new account on the new Oz Friendica server, #FriendicaAU, full of hope & thrill. alas, subsequently disappointed, eg:
  
  • the server refuses to accept my attempts to change the initial auto-generated password it sent me at registration
  • its hashtag federation seems to be slightly better than FarcebookSpace, much better than AnonsysNet, but much worse than OpensocialSpace, ipso facto, untenable for daily use atm
  • incomprehensibly, afaict, NONE of my attempted Outbound posts from it, actually transmit! they give an appearance of having Sent, but:
    
    • two test-posts i sent to myself at some of my other instances, never arrived
    • a post i sent to one of my Mutuals, who is active & responsive daily with my other instances, remains Unreplied-to [coz i suspect they never received it]
    • a post i sent to the instance Admin, @wansti, remains Unreplied-to [coz i suspect they never received it]

    
    

  
  

oh well. 🤔🤷‍♀️

cc: @shlee

@msdropbear @MelissaBearTrix @MsDropbear42

well ... sigh!!!

maybe my hand is now being forced on this to go ahead & create an account on this new local server/instance friendica.au, coz... this morning, once again, out of the blue my #opensocialspace instance is running like its electrons are swimming thru cold treacle. every interaction is s l o w, topped off just minutes ago by this outright service failure:

given i ofc already have this mostly*-lovely farcebook.space friendica account on the kind & generous Mel's private instance, logic would suggest i simply once more make it my daily fedi. that seems tempting especially since the relatively recent software upgrade solved almost all the initial problems. it's just that...

* the one remaining problem i've been unable to solve, is this tiny instance simply does not federate well with the large amount of #hashtags i follow, so heapsa posts i get in my Masto, Sharkey, & FriendicaOpensocialSpace accounts, just do not appear in my #farcebookspace timelines; rats.

my concern with trying the new strayan friendica instance is that if it's also only a small instance, maybe it also will federate poorly re tags, in which case... fryingpan/fire. alas, to state the obvious, if i don't try it, i'll never know. sigh [to nick the old NT tourism ad; if i never never go, i'll never never know].

cc: @raroun @MsDropbear42

@raroun @helpers within the past fortnight i discovered a new theme has been added, gnome, which is a much nicer alternative to the existing dark & black themes. despite me being a kde plasma fangirl, heehee. thanks for it.

one minor quibble with it is that unlike all the other themes, this one does not readily highlight the new items in the Notifications menu dropdown, instead subtly using just the theme's accent colour at the extremities. that works, but IMO it would still be desired to assign an obvious contrast background colour to the new items, like the other themes.

given clearly i am wishlist-dreaming atm, one other desirable enhancement would be to let users pick their own custom accent colour, for this & other themes.

#friendica #opensocialspace

@MsDropbear42 @raroun @msdropbear @raroun updated status fwiw: now 3 hours later, & still my posts of this morning have not even begun the transmission process [the icon is still the hollow hourglass]. am using this, my alternative #Friendica account, as a result.

#opensocialspace

@[email protected] @[email protected] @msdropbear

oh dear, now getting Error 1054 (Unknown column 'views' in 'WHERE') while fetching the timeline. 😲

#opensocialspace

@raroun oh golly, how amazing something like that was the cause - wow! well spotted.

tbh, i actually have many words & phrases in my filter [by which i mean my AddOn NSFW filter; is that what you mean?], but it would be measured in some dozens, not thousands!

thanks again.

#opensocialspace

@MsDropbear42 @raroun @raroun aha! now at last, it's all come good again... in fact, it somehow feels even faster to respond to me now than originally ... 😲 🤯 thx for whatever magic you did, @raroun 🎉 🥳💃

#opensocialspace