<p>Subject: More on Nicolium<br>For: <a href="/tags/selfhosting/" rel="tag">#selfhosting</a> and/or <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a> power users</p><p>I've tested and tweaked <a href="/tags/nicolium/" rel="tag">#Nicolium</a>, a front end for Pleroma and other Fediverse back ends. With the tweaks in place, it works well for me. I'll share some of them in patch form at a later date.</p><p>Features include hashtag follow, emoji reactions, borders on focused posts, Markdown, WYSIWYG editor, real-time chat, draft posts, URL cleaning, direct messages, enhanced interaction policies, theme editor with export support, image ALT-text button, profile avatars inline next to mentions, and different ways to handle load or display of new posts.</p><p>There is also a multi-column Deck feature, but that is more of a work in progress.</p><p>The attached screenshot shows what my tweaked Nicolium presently looks like. The panel at the top is one of the tweaks. I added it to hold link buttons for different purposes.</p><p>To see a larger copy, in Chromium or Firefox derivatives, left-click on the image. To see a full-size copy, right-click on the image, select Open in New Window, and resize the new window.</p><p>Trick for advanced users:</p><p>The screenshot shows a /tags/ URL in the location bar. FYI The combination of Pleroma [as back end] and Soapbox or Nicolium [as front end] displays URLs of this type in response to hashtag operations, but the URLs don't work if you reuse them.</p><p>If you encounter this issue, URLs of this type can be made to work by adding the following location block before other location blocks in your "nginx" or "angie" server ".conf" file:</p><p>location ~ ^/tags/(.*)$ { return 301 /tag/$1;}</p>
