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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 +1170,32 @@ 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.
+
Troubleshooting
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