pleroma-fe/docs/CONFIGURATION.md

Pleroma-FE configuration and customization for instance administrators

• For user configuration, see Pleroma-FE user guide
• For local development server configuration, see Hacking, tweaking, contributing

Where configuration is stored

PleromaFE gets its configuration from several sources, in order of preference (the one above overrides ones below it)

1. /api/statusnet/config.json - this is generated on Backend and contains multiple things including instance name, char limit etc. It also contains FE/Client-specific data, PleromaFE uses pleromafe field of it. For more info on changing config on BE, look here
2. /static/config.json - this is a static FE-provided file, containing only FE specific configuration. This file is completely optional and could be removed but is useful as a fallback if some configuration JSON property isn't present in BE-provided config. It's also a reference point to check what default configuration are and what JSON properties even exist. In local dev mode it could be used to override BE configuration, more about that in HACKING.md. File is located here.
3. Built-in defaults. Those are hard-coded defaults that are used when /static/config.json is not available and BE-provided configuration JSON is missing some JSON properties. ( Code )

Instance-defaults

Important note that some configurations are treated as "instance default" - it means user is able to change this configuration for themselves. Currently, defaults are only applied for new visitors and people who haven't changed the option in question. If you change some instance default option, there is a chance it won't affect some users.

There's currently no mechanism for user-settings synchronization across several browsers, user essentially means visitor, most user settings are stored in local storage/IndexedDB and not tied to an account in any way.

Options

alwaysShowSubjectInput

true - will always show subject line input, false - only show when it's not empty (i.e. replying). To hide subject line input completely, set it to false and subjectLineBehavior to "noop"

background

Default image background. Be aware of using too big images as they may take longer to load. Currently image is fitted with background-size: cover which means "scaled and cropped", currently left-aligned. De-facto instance default, user can choose their own background, if they remove their own background, instance default will be used instead.

collapseMessageWithSubject

Collapse post content when post has a subject line (content warning). Instance-default.

disableChat

hides the chat (TODO: even if it's enabled on backend)

greentext

Changes lines prefixed with the > character to have a green text color

hideFilteredStatuses

Removes filtered statuses from timelines.

hideMutedPosts

Removes muted statuses from timelines.

hidePostStats

Hide repeats/favorites counters for posts.

hideSitename

Hide instance name in header.

hideUserStats

Hide followers/friends counters for users.

loginMethod

"password" - show simple password field "token" - show button to log in with external method (will redirect to login form, more details in BE documentation)

logo, logoMask, logoMargin

Instance logo, could be any image, including svg. By default it assumes logo used will be monochrome-with-alpha one, this is done to be compatible with both light and dark themes, so that white logo designed with dark theme in mind won't be invisible over light theme, this is done via CSS3 Masking. Basically - it will take alpha channel of the image and fill non-transparent areas of it with solid color. If you really want colorful logo - it can be done by setting logoMask to false.

logoMargin allows you to adjust vertical margins between logo boundary and navbar borders. The idea is that to have logo's image without any extra margins and instead adjust them to your need in layout.

minimalScopesMode

Limit scope selection to Direct, User default and Scope of post replying to. This also makes it impossible to reply to a DM with a non-DM post from PleromaFE.

nsfwCensorImage

Use custom image for NSFW'd images

postContentType

Default post formatting option (markdown/bbcode/plaintext/etc...)

redirectRootNoLogin, redirectRootLogin

These two settings should point to where FE should redirect visitor when they login/open up website root

scopeCopy

Copy post scope (visibility) when replying to a post. Instance-default.

sidebarRight

Change alignment of sidebar and panels to the right. Defaults to false.

showFeaturesPanel

Show panel showcasing instance features/settings to logged-out visitors

showInstanceSpecificPanel

This allows you to include arbitrary HTML content in a panel below navigation menu. PleromaFE looks for an html page instance/panel.html, by default it's not provided in FE, but BE bundles some default one. De-facto instance-defaults, since user can hide instance-specific panel.

subjectLineBehavior

How to handle subject line (CW) when replying to a post.

• "email" - like EMail - prepend re: to subject line if it doesn't already start with it.
• "masto" - like Mastodon - copy it as is.
• "noop" - do not copy Instance-default.

theme

Default theme used for new users. De-facto instance-default, user can change theme.

webPushNotifications

Enables PushAPI - based notifications for users. Instance-default.

Indirect configuration

Some features are configured depending on how backend is configured. In general the approach is "if backend allows it there's no need to hide it, if backend doesn't allow it there's no need to show it.

Chat

TODO somewhat broken, see: disableChat chat can be disabled by disabling it in backend

Private Mode

If the private instance setting is enabled in the backend, features that are not accessible without authentication, such as the timelines and search will be disabled for unauthenticated users.

Rich text formatting in post formatting

Rich text formatting options are displayed depending on how many formatting options are enabled on backend, if you don't want your users to use rich text at all you can only allow "text/plain" one, frontend then will only display post text format as a label instead of dropdown (just so that users know for example if you only allow Markdown, only BBCode or only Plain text)

Who to follow

This is a panel intended for users to find people to follow based on randomness or on post contents. Being potentially privacy unfriendly feature it needs to be enabled and configured in backend to be enabled.