From 1e0d7dca81e8d203d20ba841cbd20170c0c97fee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Random Penguin <25882519-randompenguin@users.noreply.gitlab.com> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2025 13:37:50 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Update Home --- Home.md | 18 ++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Home.md b/Home.md index 12070f6..2e6642d 100644 --- a/Home.md +++ b/Home.md @@ -412,27 +412,27 @@ End users can add the block as a user content stylesheet using either _userConte ![File_Button_Hidden.png](uploads/59b691b2f55040069686d744005be4de/File_Button_Hidden.png) -Some users may notice that when they switch to _Bookface_ the "File Attachment" button in the post Compose browser is **missing**. This is _not_ a bug! It was a UX design decision to **purposely** hide that button. Why? +Some users may notice that when they switch to _Bookface_ the "File Attachment" button in the post Compose browser is **missing**. This is _not_ a bug! It was a UX design decision to **purposely** hide that button. Why? -There is no interface for actually managing the files you upload and attach. You cannot rename the files and you can't delete them. If you accidentally upload a private file you can't remove it. It will accept several different file types, but uploaded videos have to be quite short due to file upload size limits, and even that limit is set rather high, file uploads will often fail. If you are attaching both photos and files the interface can appear to be in photo mode but upload the image as a file instead. Again, you can never delete files uploaded in error. You would have to contact the server administrator and have them manually delete the file for you. +There is no interface for actually managing the files you upload and attach. You cannot rename the files, you cannot delete them, and you cannot change the access permissions for them. If you accidentally upload a private file you can't remove it. It will accept several different file types, but uploaded videos have to be quite short due to file upload size limits, and even that limit is set rather high, file uploads will often fail. If you are attaching both photos and files the interface can appear to be in photo mode but upload the image as a file instead. Again, you can never delete files uploaded in error. You would have to contact the server administrator and have them manually delete the file for you. -Users apparently aren't even _supposed_ to be using this feature, especially to upload videos. According to the Friendica GitHub account the [lead developer said](https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/9910#issuecomment-774543151): +Users apparently aren't even _supposed_ to be using this feature, especially to upload videos. According to the Friendica GitHub account the [lead developer said](https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/9910#issuecomment-774543151): -> _"I'd suggest you use PeerTube to post video and reshare from your Friendica account since both support ActivityPub."_ +> _"I'd suggest you use PeerTube to post video and reshare from your Friendica account since both support ActivityPub."_ Presumably people should also be sharing other types of files by uploading them to a cloud drive somewhere and sharing a link to the file rather than uploading them to their Friendica account. -Years ago there was a video upload button and section in Friendica. Those were removed because none of the current core developers have experience handling video files \[[source](https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/9910#issuecomment-774713091)\]. They were replaced with the "Media" section but there is still no interface for _managing_ uploaded files. Arguably if such an interface is not going to be added to Friendica, the File upload and attachment feature _should be removed_ as well. +Years ago there was a video upload button and section in Friendica. Those were removed because none of the current core developers have experience handling video files \[[source](https://github.com/friendica/friendica/issues/9910#issuecomment-774713091)\]. They were replaced with the "Media" section but there is still no interface for _managing_ uploaded files. Arguably if such an interface is not going to be added to Friendica, the File upload and attachment feature _should be removed_ as well. -Bookface is intended to make Friendica friendlier to users coming from other platforms. Rather than expose new users to this incomplete, partially-broken feature a design decision was made to _hide_ the button. +Bookface is intended to make Friendica friendlier to users coming from other platforms. Rather than expose new users to this incomplete, partially-broken feature a design decision was made to _hide_ the button. ## Showing the File Button ![File_Button_visible.png](uploads/6fec0e4cda8d39d53a52f436e739e483/File_Button_visible.png) -That said, _Bookface_ makes it easy for both Friendica Administrators or end-users to un-hide the button. _Bookface_ hides the button with a CSS variable at the top of each stylesheet. The block discussed above in the "[Customization](#customization)" section. Simply change `--attach-file-button: none`; to `--attach-file-button: block;` and the button will reappear. +That said, _Bookface_ makes it easy for both Friendica Administrators or end-users to un-hide the button. _Bookface_ hides the button with a CSS variable at the top of each stylesheet. The block discussed above in the "[Customization](#customization)" section. Simply change `--attach-file-button: none`; to `--attach-file-button: block;` and the button will reappear. -Friendica Admins can either change this at the top of each of the server-side scheme stylesheets or they can add a customization `