Potential bug in the latest version of GoToSocial: open registrations!

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What app is this about, and its version: GoToSocial, 0.22.0~ynh1
What YunoHost version are you running: 12.1.40.1
What type of hardware are you using: VPS bought online

Describe your issue

I noticed by accident that even if the default state of “Open Applications?” in GoToSocial is set to false, once I install it, it switches to “True” (even if it diplays “false” in the Config panel). The sign-up page on my new instance works - people can apply for an account!

When I re-apply “false” in the config panel and hit “save” I get an error message.

Share relevant logs or error messages

https://paste.yunohost.org/raw/zeqomibeco

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once I install it, it switches to “True” (even if it diplays “false” in the Config panel).

Hi @ele
This is a known bug which should be fixed soon.

In the meantime, you can install the application via the cli.

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Thank you! GoToSocial is already installed for me - do you mean that I can change the setting in CLI (this is what I was planning to do)…

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CLI to use is:

Show current config:

sudo yunohost app config get gotosocial

Change values (all the values will come prepopulated, press enter to skip/leave as-is):

sudo yunohost app config set gotosocial
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Thank you so much! I’ll try this today :slightly_smiling_face:

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So I followed your instructions and used Terminal to manually edit the gotosocial config. Problem is: open registrations is already set to false; and yet the URL mydomain dotcom /signups is an active signup page:

gtps-cli
gtps-cli419×140 11.4 KB

gts-signup
gts-signup936×501 35.9 KB

I have another GoToSocial account that I set up a year and a half ago… registrations are close and the page /signup correctly displays a message that goes “This instance is not currently open to new sign-ups.”

Any suggestions on what to do?

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In file /var/www/gotosocial/config.yaml, what’s the value of accounts-registration-open? Is it false or, as it happened in the past, 0?

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it’s set to false

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Hmmmmmmmmmm this is strange. The path I gave you is for the first GoToSocial instance that’s running on the machine, is that the one that gives you trouble?

I just installed GoToSocial 0.22.0 and indeed, initially registrations were open. Once I disabled them via the config (had to change true to false) and restarting the service the problem went away.

My suspicion is you’re running into the problem reported as Since yunohost-admin 12.1.14 all choice buttons are force tagged enabled installing an app · Issue #2799 · YunoHost/issues · GitHub

To sum up: I gave you a path for a config file, is it the one related to the instance you’re having problems with? Second instance lives under /var/www/gotosocial__2

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actually I just exchanged messages with GoToSocial’s dev tobi on Matrix (the GtS Help channel) and they said it could very well be a GtS bug. They will be checking today…

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I can confirm GtS worked as expected once I fixed the configuration (which WAS wrong after initial install on my end) :person_shrugging:

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my settings have had “open registrations?” set to false since the very beginning… even when I check the yalm file and yet on my instance’s “about” page it says registrations are “open” - so tobi is checking if it’s a bug with GtS

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Can you confirm so we have that one out of the gate - in WebAdmin next to GoToSocial it says gotosocial and not i.e. gotosocial__2, hence confirming that the app indeed lives under /var/www/gotosocial and runs off the config stored under /var/www/gotosocial/config.yaml, right? Just to triple check so that we’re not chasing ghosts :wink:

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yes I can totally confirm it’s the right installation. my main GtS account is on a different VPS. and I triple-checked the yalm file again and it is indeed referring to this installation

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So I restarted GoToSocial and now registrations are closed :woman_shrugging: