New code has new looks very clean, way more mobile friendly. Public posting working! Url shortening using /// in url works in posts and comments. You can have your post go to many aspects at once. My pod news link is not popping up right will fix tomorrow.
I just tested HTTP://dlvr.it and was able to have it post to identi.ca ok. It can do buzz and linkedin and much more. Your public rss feed can be found by viewing your profile and your browser should show that page has a rss feed.
Any public post with a photo will automaticly shorten your https://diasp.org/p/fjsajfoidsjfosdijf to a short URL. You can now also shorten ANY url in a post by adding an extra / to the link so http:///www.fooooooooo.bar.com would be shortened due to the /// after the http: works with http:/// and https:/// and ftp:/// David
Well new server on new host up over a week with Zero issues from the tons of crashing/issues before. Registrations for Diaspora Pod are now officially back open to all, come try the alpha out. You also get 25 invites when you sign-up and can always ask for more if you run out. I also… Read More »
Your choice on a diaspora handle since its an application seperate from server core, but if you have selected one reserved by linux as an admin account, when email rolls out you will be left without the ability to receive email via that address 🙁 E.g. Root Admin Postmaster Abuse And so on.
Giving up on old host i/o issues and trying a new one, the box is way faster. Moving thing over at 5. Yes all current accounts and photos and stuff are migrating over. Should be less than a hour to move all the data. DNS updates may take a hair more to the new IP.
Well my decision to purge all user accounts and start over today is not wildly popular as I thought it would not be, but I think in the long term we can reset that Diaspora is a distributed thing. My decision was mostly based on the server I/O wait times being crap, and crashing the… Read More »
Just confirmed the older accounts are bugging out and no migration exists yet. Its ALPHA which means you need to drop the account (delete) and make it again. If you can not delete you will have to make a new account for now. Down the road we will have to do a clean up on… Read More »
Here is the trick to add others from another pod. On top of page search user@otherpod.com wait about 1 minute if they are not found. Now use the top search box again and search that user@otherpod.com there. If nada then wait a few min and search again. Just needs time to get the data moved… Read More »