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@@ -176,6 +176,10 @@ and the URLs are listed here for your convenience.
version may render your Laconica site unable to send or receive XMPP
messages.
- Facebook library. Used for the Facebook application.
+- PEAR Services_oEmbed. Used for some multimedia integration.
+- PEAR HTTP_Request is an oEmbed dependency.
+- PEAR Validat is an oEmbed dependency.e
+- PEAR Net_URL is an oEmbed dependency.2
A design goal of Laconica is that the basic Web functionality should
work on even the most restrictive commercial hosting services.
@@ -1166,6 +1170,63 @@ welcome: nickname of a user account that sends welcome messages to new
If either of these special user accounts are specified, the users should
be created before the configuration is updated.
+snapshot
+--------
+
+The software will, by default, send statistical snapshots about the
+local installation to a stats server on the laconi.ca Web site. This
+data is used by the developers to prioritize development decisions. No
+identifying data about users or organizations is collected. The data
+is available to the public for review. Participating in this survey
+helps Laconica developers take your needs into account when updating
+the software.
+
+run: string indicating when to run the statistics. Values can be 'web'
+ (run occasionally at Web time), 'cron' (run from a cron script),
+ or 'never' (don't ever run). If you set it to 'cron', remember to
+ schedule the script to run on a regular basis.
+frequency: if run value is 'web', how often to report statistics.
+ Measured in Web hits; depends on how active your site is.
+ Default is 10000 -- that is, one report every 10000 Web hits,
+ on average.
+reporturl: URL to post statistics to. Defaults to Laconica developers'
+ report system, but if they go evil or disappear you may
+ need to update this to another value. Note: if you
+ don't want to report stats, it's much better to
+ set 'run' to 'never' than to set this value to something
+ nonsensical.
+
+
+attachments
+-----------
+
+The software lets users upload files with their notices. You can configure
+the types of accepted files by mime types and a trio of quota options:
+per file, per user (total), per user per month.
+
+We suggest the use of the pecl file_info extension to handle mime type
+detection.
+
+supported: an array of mime types you accept to store and distribute,
+ like 'image/gif', 'video/mpeg', 'audio/mpeg', etc. Make sure you
+ setup your server to properly reckognize the types you want to
+ support.
+
+For quotas, be sure you've set the upload_max_filesize and post_max_size
+in php.ini to be large enough to handle your upload. In httpd.conf
+(if you're using apache), check that the LimitRequestBody directive isn't
+set too low (it's optional, so it may not be there at all).
+
+file_quota: maximum size for a single file upload in bytes. A user can send
+ any amount of notices with attachments as long as each attachment
+ is smaller than file_quota.
+user_quota: total size in bytes a user can store on this server. Each user
+ can store any number of files as long as their total size does
+ not exceed the user_quota.
+monthly_quota: total size permitted in the current month. This is the total
+ size in bytes that a user can upload each month.
+
+
Troubleshooting
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