From dfa775faefca1744707db655bb66b793a952f2b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: MartinFarrent Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 02:52:02 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?Updated=20How=20to:=20Friendica=E2=80=99s=20Fac?= =?UTF-8?q?ebook=20connector=20(markdown)?= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- How-to:-Friendica’s-Facebook-connector.md | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/How-to:-Friendica’s-Facebook-connector.md b/How-to:-Friendica’s-Facebook-connector.md index ed0b6f0..afb0aca 100644 --- a/How-to:-Friendica’s-Facebook-connector.md +++ b/How-to:-Friendica’s-Facebook-connector.md @@ -112,7 +112,14 @@ Now, all members of your site can use the Facebook connector as described in the _This applies to you, too! While you have now activated the plugin for your site, you haven’t yet activated it for yourself as a user. Follow the steps at the beginning of this document to do that._ --------------------------- -**For public servers only** +**Restricting use** + +A plugin called Facebook Restrict can drastically help save resources on public and community sites with modest server specs. From the moment it is installed, new users will be unable to use the Facebook connector - but members already using it can continue to do so. + +There's an easy workaround if you wish to give a new user Facebook connection privileges at a later date: Arrange to meet via chat (or on the phone) and disable Facebook Restrict for a moment while the user gets his or her connector configured. Then reactivate the plugin. + +--------------------------- +**For public/community servers only** If you are running a public server with many users, you should consider using the lockfile mechanism for your poller before switching the comment synchronization feature on. A lockfile protects you against the problem of having multiple copies of poller.php running. Since that phenomenon could corrupt your database, and can be caused by a large number of Facebook contacts being polled, a lockfile constitutes a very sensible measure. To implement it, decide which directory it should reside in. It should be a directory that is writeable by the web server (e.g. _/var/www/friendica_ ). Then add a line like this to .htconfig.php: