When I start a comment and select the emoji button in the Quill editor, I am getting a flickering problem with the popup emoji window (#emoji-palette). There is some kind of window/div/frame issue where I have trouble clicking on the categories or selecting an emoji. The emoji window is clipping when it runs into the following post on the timeline. On mobile, it goes underneath that next post at its start. I tried changing the width of the window in custom styles. But that didn't solve the issue. I notice it doesn't happen on this site. I'm not sure if this was something that was fixed post-UNA 13? I attached a screenshot. But the Windows screenshot tool doesn't capture the flickering.
We have been “quiet” for a few months, piecing together the new NEO universal app, core UNA CMS update and a handful of new modules. All these updates are a bit different from the regular new modules and bug fixes. So different, in fact that we had to re-think how to package, ship, and support UNA.
I’ll share the observations first, then takeaways, then the news...
Observations
- Native Apps give a huge advantage. While UNA is responsive and can be shipped as a PWA, native apps from App Stores with interactive, platform-specific UI consistently attract more engagement. For social platforms, 8 out of 10 returning users typically prefer native apps.
- React Web App has greater potential. While the UNA classic UI holds its ground, the Next.js web app exported from the NEO universal app repo represents a significant upgrade. Features like data-prefetching, WebSocket updates, aggressive caching, and virtualized lists enable high-performance modern web apps. UNA CMS is a fantastic API server and admin interface, but for user-facing applications, server-rendered SPAs are the superior choice.
- AI is powerful, promising, yet temperamental. The AI Agents module is theoretically capable of creating automations and tools to compensate for missing modules or integrated services. Its potential is immense, but it requires further research and tooling to unlock fully. However, AI often behaves unpredictably, being overly confident when it shouldn’t be, and needs careful supervision.
- Docs are hard, for two reasons. First, while writing docs isn’t such a big deal, keeping them up to date is hard. We make hundreds of commits for each update and many affect logic to the point that docs require updates. the second reason is justtaposed to the first one - people just don’t read docs. The amount of times we have to explain the same things that are already covered in docs over and over and staggering.
- 99% of the issues are “Day 1 stumbles”. Nearly every problem UNA operators report stems from initial setup, hosting environment, or basic configuration challenges.
Takeaways
We need to make it easier to deploy react apps.
At the moment we only build apps under custom professional support agreements. It’s a very nuanced and tailored approach, taking us a number of weeks to prepare backend and the apps for production deployment. We need to make it more accessible for UNA CMS users to launch the apps.
Pre-configured opinionated kits work best.
The way to make deployment easier is to provide an initial configuration that serves an actual use-case. UNA CMS is powerful, but the “anything is possible” can also mean that its not suitable for anyuthing in particular out of the box. So, we need to focus more on the starter kits, tied with matching pre-preconfigured API and React apps.
AI should interpret docs and knowledge.
If we maintain and update knowdlege base continuously, we can train AI to interpret it and help UNA users understand the system.
Steps
UNA 14 Release
The upcoming release of UNA 14 is heavily focused on API, compatibility with NEO apps and the Agents module for AI-automations. We’re likely to have one more RC shortly followed by final release.
Spacenook + NEO Bundle Starter Kit
Spacenook starter kit is getting an update to UNA 14, some configuration changes and most importantly settings pre-set to work with NEO. It will also include a pre-configured NEO apps package.
AI assistant in UNA Studio and UNA CMS
Still quite experimental at this stage, but we should soon be able to provide a built-in AI-powered assistant chat within Studio helping with configuration, as well as a documentation assistant here at UNA CMS.
Share more about ongoing dev
We’ve been to quiet recently, even though in recent months we made more really exciting changes than ever. We should tell more now and show what’s happening. I’ll keep you posted!
I am trying to set up a test album using one of my testing accounts. Anything related to processing album requests freezes my site. I end up having to reset NGINX and PHP-FPM 8.1. When I check my front-end error log, I get the following (edited):
*1251 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Primary script unknown" while reading response header from upstream, client: 0000:0000:0000::103, server: EXAMPLE.COM, request: "GET /wordpress/wp-admin/setup-config.php HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/EXAMPLE.COM.sock:", host: "EXAMPLE.COM"
*1257 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Primary script unknown" while reading response header from upstream, client: 0000:0000:0000::103, server: EXAMPLE.COM, request: "GET /wp-admin/setup-config.php HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/EXAMPLE.COM.sock:", host: "EXAMPLE.COM"
*1310 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Primary script unknown" while reading response header from upstream, client: 0000:0000:0000::103, server: EXAMPLE.COM, request: "GET /wordpress/wp-admin/setup-config.php HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/EXAMPLE.COM.sock:", host: "EXAMPLE.COM"
*1345 FastCGI sent in stderr: "Primary script unknown" while reading response header from upstream, client: 0000:0000:0000::103, server: EXAMPLE.COM, request: "GET /wp-admin/setup-config.php HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/EXAMPLE.COM.sock:", host: "EXAMPLE.COM"
*6 recv() failed (104: Connection reset by peer) while reading response header from upstream, client: 000.00.000.00, server: EXAMPLE.COM, request: "GET / HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/EXAMPLE.COM.sock:", host: "EXAMPLE.COM", referrer: "h-t-t-p-s://EXAMPLE.-COM-/create-album"
I think I have some kind of conf file problem. I'm not sure. Also, I'm not using WordPress, but I had originally installed it to test the server before installing UNA.
Is there a way to turn of redirect link in email confirmation so that when you click on email confirmation it does not send you to the website.... conflicting with mobile view vs app view and the link opens up the webpage instead of users going back to the app.
I am currently facing persistent issues during the installation of UNA CMS on my server, and I would appreciate any assistance
Issue Details:
1. During the installation, the system reports that:
• disable_functions must exclude specific PHP functions.
• deflate_module is required for GZIP compression.
2. However, I have already verified the following:
• PHP disable_functions Configuration:
Using a phpinfo() check, the disable_functions directive is currently set to:
mysql_list_dbs, ini_alter, dl, symlink, link, chgrp, leak, popen, apache_child_terminate, virtual
The problematic functions like shell_exec, eval, and others are no longer listed.
• Compression:
My server uses Brotli compression, which is enabled by default and confirmed through external tests. Brotli is a modern alternative to GZIP, providing the same (if not better) compression functionality.
Questions/Requests:
1. Could the installation check be incorrectly flagging Brotli compression instead of GZIP?
2. Is there any workaround or update to the installation process to ensure it recognizes Brotli compression?
Server Type: LiteSpeed with Brotli compression enabled
Thanks
Has anyone figured out how to speed up their website with Cloudflare? I am using their paid Pro account and and have almost everything turned on to boost speed and optimize but I am not really seeing any affect on my page loading times. I know RocketLoader may help a bit but doesn't seem to play well with my site (giving a white flash on every screen load), but are there any tips or tricks within Cloudflare that you have found?
