PokeTube, the privacy-friendly youtube front-end built with the InnerTube API ( Docs ) that’s packed with some pretty cool stuff including: ZERO ads Lyrics to songs A clean and modern UI A Javascript-free frontend No cookies or data collection And built-in dislike counts Thaks to the Return YouTube …

[image] SudoVanilla: Lyrics to songs Tried a couple of music videos and several of them didn’t so not sure how that’s supposed to work. [image] SudoVanilla: A clean and modern UI LibreTube has a clean and modern UI. As does Piped. PokeTube is all over the place and frankly looks as if…

Yeah no that is not happening, that readme alone is a hot mess. Hilarious but in the wrong way

frontend code isn’t the problem, invidious works best but IP blocks and instance costs are main bottleneck.

Right, I should update this, as Ashley hasn’t actually gotten around to making this work. Although I’ve noticed the code is there, I guess that stuff never got done. Yeah sorry about the UWU text and all, but I don’t think Ashley will go away from this.

That’s fine, it’s her project, she’s allowed to design it the way she likes. However I dare say that it will turn off a lot of people. More importantly though is the usability aspect. Fun and creative design is all good and well, but the messy layout, design and language is a real detriment to the …

Well in that case, I might come back with my PokeTube fork which will have a revamped user interface and cleaner code, and the choice of text will be more standard. Currently, that fork is in early development, so won’t be for a while, but a lot of progress has been made to clean up her awful messy…

Now, how do I go about locking a post.

Just got an update that the music features listed will actually be removed from PokeTube and be moved to a new project “PokeMusic”.

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Sorry, but that how the developer is.

Anyways, I was just ask by the developer, Ashley, to see if PokeTube can be added here.

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