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StatusNet 0.8.1 ("Second Guessing")
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26 Aug 2009
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This is the README file for StatusNet, the Open Source microblogging
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platform. It includes installation instructions, descriptions of
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options you can set, warnings, tips, and general info for
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administrators. Information on using StatusNet can be found in the
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This is the README file for StatusNet (formerly Laconica), the Open
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Source microblogging platform. It includes installation instructions,
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descriptions of options you can set, warnings, tips, and general info
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for administrators. Information on using StatusNet can be found in the
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"doc" subdirectory or in the "help" section on-line.
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About
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=====
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StatusNet (pronounced "luh-KAWN-ih-kuh") is a Free and Open Source
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microblogging platform. It helps people in a community, company or
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group to exchange short (140 character) messages over the Web. Users
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can choose which people to "follow" and receive only their friends' or
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colleagues' status messages. It provides a similar service to sites
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like Twitter, Jaiku and Plurk.
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StatusNet (formerly Laconica) is a Free and Open Source microblogging
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platform. It helps people in a community, company or group to exchange
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short (140 character) messages over the Web. Users can choose which
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people to "follow" and receive only their friends' or colleagues'
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status messages. It provides a similar service to sites like Twitter,
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Jaiku, Yammer, and Plurk.
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With a little work, status messages can be sent to mobile phones,
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instant messenger programs (GTalk/Jabber), and specially-designed
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New this version
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This is a major feature release since version 0.7.4, released May 31
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This is a minor feature and bugfix release since version 0.8.0, released Jul 15
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2009. Notable changes this version:
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- Support for a hosted service (status network). Multiple sites can
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share the same codebase but use different databases.
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- OEmbed. Links to pages that support OEmbed (http://www.oembed.com/)
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become popup links, and the media are shown in a special lightbox.
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- File attachments. Users can attach files of the size and type approved
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by an administrator, and a shortened link will be included in the
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notice.
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- Related notices are organized into conversations, with each reply a
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branch in a tree. Conversations have pages and are linked to from each
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notice in the conversation.
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- User designs. Users can specify colours and backgrounds
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for their profile pages and other "personal" pages.
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- Group designs. Group administrators can specify similar designs for
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group profiles and related pages.
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- Site designs. Site authors can specify a design (background and
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colors) for the site.
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- New themes. Five new themes are added to the base release; these show
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off the flexibility of StatusNet's theming system.
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- Statistics. Public sites will periodically send usage statistics,
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configuration options, and dependency information to StatusNet dev site.
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This will help us understand how the software is used and plan future
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versions of the software.
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- Additional hooks. The hooks and plugins system introduced in 0.7.x was
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expanded with additional points of access.
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- Facebook Connect. A new plugin allows logging in with Facebook Connect
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(http://developers.facebook.com/connect.php).
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- A session handler. A new optional session handler class to manage PHP
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sessions reliably and quickly for large sites.
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- STOMP queuing. Queue management for offline daemons has been
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abstracted with three concrete instances. A new interface that should
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work with STOMP servers like ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ is available, which
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should make things scale better.
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- Group block. Group admins can block users from joining or posting to
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a group.
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- Group aliases. Groups can be referred to with aliases, additional
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names. For example, "!yul" and "!montreal" can be the same group.
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- Bidirectional Twitter bridge. Users can read the tweets their Twitter
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friends post on Twitter.
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- Adaptation of WordPress.com Terms of Service (http://en.wordpress.com/tos/)
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as default TOS for StatusNet sites.
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- Better command-line handling for scripts, including standard options
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and ability to set hostname and path from the command line.
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- An experimental plugin to use Meteor (http://www.meteorserver.org/)
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for "real-time" updates.
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- A new framework for "real-time" updates, making it easier to develop
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plugins for different browser-based update modes.
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- RSS 2.0 and Atom feeds for groups.
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- RSS 2.0 and Atom feeds for tags.
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- Attachments can be sent by email.
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- Attachments are encoded as enclosures in RSS 2.0 and Atom.
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- Notices with attachments display in Facebook as media inline.
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- Many, many bug fixes.
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- Laconica has been renamed StatusNet. With a few minor compatibility
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exceptions, all references to "Laconica" in code, documentation
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and comments were changed to "StatusNet".
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- A new plugin to support "infinite scroll".
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- A new plugin to support reCaptcha <http://recaptcha.net>.
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- Better logging of server errors.
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- Add an Openid-only mode for authentication.
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- 'lite' parameter for some Twitter API methods.
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- A new plugin to auto-complete nicknames for @-replies.
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- Configuration options to disable OpenID, SMS, Twitter, post-by-email, and IM.
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- Support for lighttpd <http://lighttpd.org/> using 404-based
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rewrites.
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- Support for using Twitter's OAuth authentication as a client.
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- First version of the groups API.
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- Can configure a site-wide design, including background image and
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colors.
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- Improved algorithm for replies and conversations, making
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conversation trees more accurate and useful.
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- Add a script to create a simulation database for testing/debugging.
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- Sanitize HTML for OEmbed.
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- Improved queue management for DB-based queuing.
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- More complete URL detection.
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- Hashtags now support full Unicode character set.
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- Notice inboxes are now garbage-collected on a regular basis
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at notice-write time.
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- PiwikAnalyticsPlugin updated for latest Piwik interface.
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- Attachment and notice pages can be embedded with OEmbed
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<http://www.oembed.com>.
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- Failed authentication is logged.
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- PostgreSQL schema and support brought up-to-date with 0.8.x features.
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- The installer works with PostgreSQL as well as MySQL.
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- RSS 1.0 feeds use HTTP Basic authentication in private mode.
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- Many, many bug fixes, particularly with performance.
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- Better (=working) garbage collection for old sessions.
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- Better (=working) search queries.
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- Some cleanup of HTML output.
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- Better error handling when updating Facebook.
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- Considerably better performance when using replication for API
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calls.
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- Initial unit tests.
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Prerequisites
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