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friendi.ca/features/ seriously, this is all the stuff that we wish we had that's already in here. i guess the main thing missing that would be nice is the public feed flying by, but from what i hear it isn't really too great anymore

@KitRedgrave "Server-to-server military grade message encryption (on supported networks)" :O

@shel @kitredgrave Frendica is nice - but it lacks proper federation with the rest of us..
@stitchxd @kitredgrave @shel They federate just fine, they're just a very small network.  The UI never really appealed to people in the same way qvitter did, or mastodon's tweetdeck-alike UI.

@maiyannah @stitchxd @KitRedgrave yeah the front-end is really offputting on friendica, at least the last time i looked

but we could always fork it or hubzilla and give it a better back-end

@KitRedgrave @stitchxd @maiyannah i mean qvitter is PHP.... friendica is PHP... we could probably make a version of friendica that uses qvitter.... or pleroma idk

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@maiyannah @stitchxd @KitRedgrave idk if the mastodon-fe could be reworked onto friendica or hubzilla but.... maybe :V

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@shel @kitredgrave @stitchxd postActiv's going to have Smarty templating in the next release after 1.0.3
@maiyannah @kitredgrave @shel Well actually I am curious, why smarty? Is it just something you used it the past? Cause that hasn't been updated in 3+ years.
@stitchxd Wasn't Smarty more or less the official PHP templating engine at one point? Has that changed?
@maiyannah @kitredgrave @shel Twig seems to be properly updated and such (Just a suggestion of thought - either way having a template engine would be VERY nice to have so I'll just follow your lead on it :)  )
@kitredgrave @shel @maiyannah I just logged into https://squeet.me/ and it is using friendica with a pretty decent interface IMHO.

@stitchxd @maiyannah @KitRedgrave my friendica account doesn't seem able to mention us or have conversations with us

@shel @kitredgrave @maiyannah I saw the mention. However on friendica (Like Mastodon, but Masto does this for you in the UI now) you might have to do: \@username@instance.tld
@stitchxd @kitredgrave @shel Smarty is what other federating software uses so wecan steal their themes, I mean what
@maiyannah @kitredgrave @shel IDK if you would care, but if you want to test - I set up a test friendica server: https://friendica.gnusocial.me

@maiyannah @shel @santa @KitRedgrave i heard twig (?) was good. smarty is kinda old now. if there is something haml-like for php, strongly suggest exploring that

@vinzv It's gonna be a LOT of work.  its basically why I'm giving it its own release.  But IMO very worth it.

@shel @maiyannah @stitchxd @KitRedgrave

#Hubzilla actually has a fairly flexible system for templating, though it requires some familiarity with the system's conventions to write your own unique widgets from scratch.

Still, in theory you could write a Tweetdeck-like UI for it; the question is whether you would actually want to, given that the platform lends itself to long-form content.