Setting Clone as primary

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 14:56:01 +0100

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Emanuel wrote the following post Wed, 11 Jan 2023 14:55:57 +0100

Setting Clone as primary

I created a clone on im.allmendenetz.de.
I didn't set that new clone as primary. The primary clone should stay on labonneheure.ch
Now on both hubs, in the full profile widget, the webfinger of im.allmendenetz.de is shown. I want it to show my webfinger of labonneheure.ch.
I wanted to check if the clone settings were done right, but I don't find the settings where I can define which clone should be the primary one.

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Wed, 11 Jan 2023 16:43:09 +0100

Ema エマ

ema@utasansh.in

thanks to both. I could repair what was wrong. I learned weird things. Weird behavior of the software and things to be careful about before setting up a new channel. I might describe the learnings later.

Wed, 11 Jan 2023 20:16:00 +0100

Mike Macgirvin

mike@macgirvin.com

The default channel setting doesn't control which of your locations is the primary location for you channel. For that, visit /locs on your site. The default channel indicates which of your channels on this site that you access when you first login to your account.

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 02:22:07 +0100

Ema エマ

ema@utasansh.in

So here's what happened in my case and how I solved the problem:

I registered on im.allmendenetz.de. The purpose was to create there a clone of emanuel@labonneheure.ch
After registration, I was asked to specify the channel name. I did specify "emanuel" which created the channel emanuel@im.allmendenetz.de Which I shouldn't have done. I guess, instead of specifying the channel name, I could have imported directly emanuel@labonneheure.ch. I just didn't see that option, I guess it was at the bottom of the form, maybe even hidden by the scrolling limit. To not lead people into this trap, I think the import option should be at the top of the form.
Not knowing that I did a mistake, I imported now emanuel@labonneheure.ch into im.allmendenetz.de. Of course, it created a new channel (emanuel7362@im.allmendenetz.de), because emanuel@im.allmendenetz.de was already taken.
Import went smoovely. emanuel7362@im.allmendenetz.de was populated with the content of emanuel@labonneheure.ch.
the channel emanuel@im.allmendenetz.de was still there, but empty and thus not needed anymore. So I decided to just delete it. Which lead to a new problem: On im.allmendenetz.de, everything looked as I wished: there was just one channel, emanuel7362@im.allmendenetz.de, which syncs perfectly with the channel on labonneheure.ch. But the channel on labonneheure.ch got renamed to emanuel7362@im.allmendenetz.de !!! (At least that's what the full profile widget was showing). I guess this happened because the part before the @ was the same as in the channel I was deleting. On both hubs, under /locs there was only one channel (emanuel7362@im.allmendenetz.de), and thus no option to specify which channel should be primary
Now comes the step which restored emanuel@labonneheure.ch: On labonneheure.ch, I went to create new channel, then I went to "import from other hub". As remote channel name, I entered "emanuel@labonneheure.ch", and I entered the valid password. And, magically, emanuel@labonneheure.ch was restored. And now, under /locs, both clones appear, and I can specify which of them should be primary.