Changing the sidebar and other customisations

PeerTube
#1

I’m continuing to setup my instance and was wondering how to change the settings of the sidebar on the left? I’m keen to change the default links (like ‹ Discover ›, ‹ Trending ›, etc) with channel names of user accounts I created, add a few other links like a donation button and the like.

I did find the spot for adding custom javascript and css code, but didn’t find this documented. Is this the place to be? Are there examples I can draw on?

Also, I was wondering how to determine the default landing page? By default it goes to Trending.

#2

Hello,

It’s not possible yet but we plan to work on this in 2021.

No sorry, this is not documented.

You can change this behaviour in the admin settings.

#3

So, apparently the default theme can be set in Administration > Configuration > Basic configuration. But that page is blank for me. So, I guess that isn’t actually the intention, heh. Question now is why that page is blank?

screenshot empty basic configuration
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#4

So, apparently I’m the only one ever with this issue of a blank basic configuration page? I can’t find anything on the subject. Odd, as I had the issue on both the old and the new server. Both are clean installs with the production.yaml copy-pasted. So, it might be something in there? Not sure.

#5

What is your web browser? Can you copy/paste the content of your browser console? (F12 to open it on firefox). Have you check if there are errors in the server logs?

#6

I use both Firefox and Chrome. I haven’t found any issues in the server logs, but could share the browser console. I pasted the output (from Firefox) here: https://pastebin.com/dg47mdaz

#7

Given that the path is off in the error log, I just symlinked the nl_NL directory from /client/dist/nl-NL to /client/nl-NL/ and restarted the peertube service. To no avail though. I removed the symlink again to prevent causing unexpected behaviour.

#8

Ok, it is the NL langage that broke this page. I don’t know why. But you can set your user langage to english to access the config page. And I suggest you to open a ticket here to report the NL bug: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues

#9

That was my guess too. I changed the language setting in the production.yaml from nl to only en and restarted the peertube service. That should be it, right? In any case, that didn’t work either.

#10

I just fixed the nl locale.

#11

Great! I should wait for 3.0.1? :slight_smile:

#12

I meant: change the langage of your user. In the left panel.

#13

Yep, available this week

#14

Thanks both! @JohnLivingston that is a useful workaround. Just had to logout to change the language :sweat_smile:

#15

There is a shortcut on the menu when you click on your nickname:
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