Thanks. I took another look at your documentation and decided to re-install everything. You’re right, I’d used the simple “test” compose script from your site. After a little trial and error, I got everything working properly with this:

services:
  redis:
    image: redis:7-alpine
    container_name: journiv-redis
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - /mnt/dietpi_userdata/docker-data/journiv/redis-data:/data
    command: redis-server --appendonly yes

  journiv:
    image: swalabtech/journiv-app:latest
    container_name: journiv
    ports:
      - "8111:8000"
    environment:
      - SECRET_KEY=XXX
      - DOMAIN_NAME=XXX
      - CELERY_BROKER_URL=redis://redis:6379/0
      - CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND=redis://redis:6379/0
      - REDIS_URL=redis://redis:6379/0
    volumes:
      - /mnt/dietpi_userdata/docker-data/journiv/data:/data
    restart: unless-stopped
    depends_on:
      - redis

  celery-worker:
    image: swalabtech/journiv-app:latest
    container_name: journiv-celery-worker
    entrypoint: []
    command: ["celery", "-A", "app.core.celery_app", "worker", "--loglevel=info"]
    environment:
      - SECRET_KEY=XXX
      - DOMAIN_NAME=XXX
      - CELERY_BROKER_URL=redis://redis:6379/0
      - CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND=redis://redis:6379/0
      - REDIS_URL=redis://redis:6379/0
    volumes:
      - /mnt/dietpi_userdata/docker-data/journiv/data:/data
    restart: unless-stopped
    depends_on:
      - redis
      - journiv

Exports are working!

Is Journiv still having issues with export? I couldn’t get it to work (tried following all the stuff I could find about the export issues and folder permissions) - so I gave up. A shame because I like the app.

I’m starting to see this. Over on Mastodon I’m starting to get devisive pro-Reform stuff in my feed. Often it’s someone boosting (though not sure why) a video from a pro-Farage account and making a silly comment about it. The local instance I’m in is nice and friendly - and I don’t want the arrival of people who just want to stir up things. We do politics there and seems left-leaning but it’s courteous. Occasionally a tone deaf elephant will thunder through and then move instances when they realise we don’t like the being nasty stuff.

I actually enjoy Mastodon because the “followers” you get or the ones you follow are few and it’s all manageable. I don’t understand the appeal of following so many that you can’t possibly keep up with what they write about or who they are.

I’m interested to know if anyone is using a Cloudflare tunnel to stream audio? It breaks their terms but I’ve read that they tend to ignore it.

That sounds fantastic. Journiv has kick-started me into journalling before bed again. Thank you for uour work.

I’ve been running Journiv since Monday and really liking it. I’d really like to see a straightfoward means of exporting/restoring journals, though. The export says coming soon.

One of the reasons I stopped using Memos - which I thought was good - was because the devs were telling users on Discord that there was no need for backups because you should have the skill to manually locate and open up the database and export entries yourself. I think that sort of stuff makes or breaks apps like this in which people put aspects of their lives into.

I was a long-time user of One Note and about 8 years ago tried to export some of my notes - which was nigh-on impossible to do regardless of whatever MS says. I realised that I didn’t like feeing I didn’t have full control or ownership and that set me off on a course if self-hosting and linux. I’m not completely there but certainly further on than I was then. I like using linux much more than OSX and certainly Windows (which I stopped using about 2012).

I wanted to do the same so I used an AI to help me write a python script that does that and publishes a static site. It was really useful and introduced me to Jinja2 in the process.

Thanks. I have already looked at this and tried out some of the links. I couldn’t see a solution - but I’ll take another look. Thank you.

Agree with Navidrome. Works great in browser and the Substreamer ios app.

Definitely. Most of the time communities are friendly and supportive - but I’ve noticed too that there are users who seem deliberately scratchy and saying things that are looking to provoke and who become fizzy if they’re challenged in any way about something they’ve said. I wondered if it’s much younger users who are coming from other places having picked up the “fight me” attititude there.

Is this the sort of thing you’re looking for?

https://www.files.gallery/

It’s a php file you drop into a folder that creates a gallery of the files (including pdfs). There are security settings and visual customisations you can change. If you know what you’re doing you can access the file remotely, too. I’ve used it for a while and found it helpful.

It’s great. I’ve been using it for nearly a year and it just works brilliantly.

The downside is that I’ve virtually stopped writing blog posts and rely on the “microposts”. Not sure if that’s why I started a blog.

I’ve tried all sorts of things and have settled on using Wordpress with a rss widget which publishes my rss feed from Mastodon (it picks up certain hashtags to avoid publishing everything - eg. #blog). It publishes pics and everything. It also works with Pixelfed (maybe not Bsky). There’s probably more elegant ways to do this - and ones involving activitypub - but this one works without much effort setting up.

Thank you. You are absolutely right and it was right there in front of me!

Could you set up a Cloudflare tunnel and make sure the security rules are tight enough to keep others out?

Can you export playlists from Navidrome? I’m running it and can’t see a way of doing that. (The workaround I’m using is building playlists in Synology Audio Station and then setting up Navidrome to import them. If you know a better way of doing this I’d be interested.)

Have you been listening to and analysing the lyrics of mid-1970s Pink Floyd? If not then that could be your next move.