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01. Website League Documentation
Official reference books and documents. Most documents are organized into "handbooks": if you have a practical question you need answered, or are just wondering How Things Work, these serve as the main references. For example, the Users Handbook answers user q...
Information on our GoToSocial fork/patchset
Instance operator legal obligations (US)
Known Issues
Some unique issues, challenges, and technical limitations that have been identified regarding the specific software and the way they work within the League.
Stewards
Information on Website League Stewardship. Note: The Accepted Proposals book include various approved details with respect to stewardship procedures, such as adding new stewards and voting on procedures. If it's not here, you may find what you're looking for ...
Basic Information about the Website League
Important documents and common questions on the capabilities and limitations of the League and the Websites that it is made of.
Accepted Proposals
These are proposals that have been voted on and have been accepted by stewards.
Quick Links
A list of links to other WL resources, as well as other important information or services you may want to use.
Other League Resources
Information on the other resources the League uses and makes available.
Reporting Issues
Have a problem with something? Or someone? Find a bug, but not like a cool one, like a glitch in the League somewhere? Here's what you do.
League Rules
The full text of the documents governing Website League instances and Steward behavior.
Rejected Proposals
Proposals that were brought before the League but were not approved.
Best practices for moderation
A comprehensive write-up of existing peer reviewed research on moderation and communities for node staff. This covers important context for how digital communities form and operate; various styles of moderation; likely sources of user and moderator strife; and...
Developers Handbook
Developers contribute code to the software that makes the weague run! If anything feels out of place or missing, or if you just have a general question, the Developer Chat on Zulip is a good place to start.
Operators Handbook
Operators actually run the servers that make up the website league! If anything feels out of place or missing, or if you just have a general question, the Instance Operator's Helpdesk on Zulip is a good place to start.
Bookstack (Information)
Deploying the thing you're looking at.
GoToSocial (Broadcast)
How we set up our GoToSocial instance to act as a one-to-many point of announcement for the League.
Keycloak (Authentication)
The primary way that League stewards, keyholders and cooperative members access and work with League-central services.
The Website League's Website
Covering how we deploy and post content to websiteleague.org.
Coordination (Zulip)
Deploying and provisioning Zulip. Includes details such as Keycloak role and permission inheritance, and push messaging.
Consensus (Loomio)
How we deployed Loomio and connected it with Keycloak with permissions and roles defined for our purposes.
Akkoma
Akkoma specific things.
League Community Code
Governance Documents
Documents regarding governance procedures, rules, and guidelines.
New Node Setup Guide
Welcome to this guide for putting together a Website League node! Hosting a webserver on the public Internet can be a bit daunting, but hopefully this guide will help guide you through what's necessary to do so. There may be parts of the guide which are hard t...
Akkoma
GoToSocial
Using Akkoma
This is a mirror of the Akkoma-fe user guide. This guide was not written by the Website League, and has some information that is not relevant to League instances. It is a stopgap while we write a new guide for Akkoma users.
Using GoToSocial
Tips on how to get started with and use GoToSocial, one of the servers which powers some of Website League's nodes
Setting up your profile
To access your settings, you'll need to go to the address bar of your web browser and enter: node.domain/settings Examples: (please feel free to add more nodes here for convenience) https://beam.phosphor.buzz/settings The GoToSocial project's docs have...
Introduction
Accounts on Website League have the form "@username@node.domain". username is the name of your account and node.domain is the name of your node (sometimes referred to as an instance). Unlike most websites which you can interact with directly, the GoToSocial ...
Posting with Phanpy
Phanpy is one of the options for a frontend to use with GoToSocial. To get started, open https://phanpy.social. Then, click 'Log in with Mastodon'. Phanpy will ask you for your instance domain (node domain). After you enter that, your browser will redirect b...
GoToSocial frontends
Here are some of your frontend options for using a GoToSocial node. This isn't an exhaustive list- many Mastodon clients are also compatible with GoToSocial. Phanpy https://phanpy.social/ A frontend with a large number of features. See Phanpy's readme for a...
General overview
(original source) Be prepared for breaking changes, unexpected behavior and this user guide becoming obsolete and wrong. If there was no insanity it would be necessary to create it. --Catbag Akkoma-FE is the default user-facing frontend for Plerom...
Posting, reading, basic functions.
(original source) !!! warning Depending on your instance some of the options might not be available or have different defaults After registering and logging in you're presented with your timeline in right column and new post form with timeline list and notif...
Settings
(original source) On the top-right you will see a gear icon. Click it to open the settings. General Interface Interface language is where you can set the interface language. The default language is the one that you set in your browser settings. Hide ins...
Timelines
(original source) You have several timelines to browse trough Timeline aka Home Timeline - this timeline contains all posts by people you follow and your own posts, as well as posts mentioning you directly. Bookmarks all the posts you've bookmarked. You c...
Users: follow, mute, block
(original source) When you see someone, you can click on their user picture to view their profile, and click on the userpic in that to see full profile. You can follow them, mute and block them. Following is self-explanatory, it adds them to your Home Timeli...
Basic League Information
Code of Conduct All sites in the League agree to be governed overall by the League Code of Conduct, however for practical and social, and technical reasons individual sites will have specific requirements and will be governed differently. How does which node...
Our fork Gitlab repo
Fork information Our fork of GoToSocial is available at https://gitlab.com/website-league/gotosocial. Patches are tracked on the league-patches branch, currently based off of the upstream 0.16.0 release. CI & release process The current CI pipeline configur...
Current patches
These are the current patches applied to our patches branch: patch: add fork notice to README patch: disable following / statuses / reblogs / favorites numbers Comments out all Numbers:tm: fields from the public api patch: disable public timeline u...
What is a Steward?
Generally, the League operates as close to a flat structure as it can be. While it's unlikely that every individual who uses a League node will vote or even want to vote, if they choose to participate in the decision-making process, we encourage them to do so ...
Defining the Website League's Stewards
Stewards The Website League's stewards will deliberate on proposals presented, and make the final decision on whether proposals will be accepted or not. Ultimately, stewards will be the ones to make decisions on matters relating to how the League operates and...
[Temporary] Bootstrapping Coming to Agreements
This proposal is explicitly temporary, and will be replaced in the future with a more permanent procedure. Provisional Process of Coming to an Agreement (Drafted by Alyaza, minor edits by Tenna) Proposals can be drafted by any steward. Proposals will seek ...
Steward Procedures
(Drafted by Alyaza, minor edits by Tenna) Steward Expectations Some time available to at least read proposals and provide any input you feel is necessary. Having time to skim chats would also be useful. Efforts will be made to synthesize or copy over an...
How to set up votes on Loomio (Consensus)
Go to Loomio. Click 'Decisions' Click 'New Decision' Choose from the available templates depending on the situation.Each of them have more details about when to use them inside of the template itself. The template descriptions as of 2024...
Code of Conduct (abridged)
This page will hold the abridged version of our Code of Conduct. The full text will be available tktk.
Vision Statement
This page will hold the League's vision statement.
Broadcast
https://broadcast.websiteleague.org/@league Broadcast is a special node of the Website League, intended for official announcements only.