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Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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Post by holler »

oftenwrong wrote: post #240
holler wrote: post #79

If you're looking for a low-cruft, minimalist alternative to Reddit or Twitter that's focused on live conversation, check out https://sqwok.im Disclaimer I am building it. Key Points: - Minimalist design with focus on readability & usability. - Real-time messaging meets news aggregator - All posts have a built-in chat room including presence, typing activity, etc. - Fast, open, simple - Anyone can view posts simply b…

Very nice concept and design. One thing I partially dislike about hn/reddit/youtube/etc is that most of the discussion has already occurred once I have arrived at a post. Although I admit that I find reading others' online discussions addictive, having a more real-time chat attached to a post like on sqwok is appealing. It means anyone can jump in and steer the discussion at any time, and not just be forced to tack o…

thank you for checking it out & the thoughtful feedback, I appreciate it!

1) I've received this same feedback about the chevron being confusing before and I think this cements that it needs to be updated to work like a back button on both desktop/mobile. I think that makes sense since the author of the post can be clicked on right below that.

2) I agree with this that it'd be nice to have a way to adjust the screen space and make just the chat focused on desktop, and perhaps a split screen mode on mobile. I think it's a good idea and will have to explore building that. One thing I'm not sure of is where/how to display the content of the post in a chat-centric desktop mode? I was thinking either horizontal strip along top of the chat, or maybe a minimized box floating top-right of the chat (like picture-in-picture style)?

Thanks again, it's very helpful!

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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Post by nebulous1 »

NosyHammock wrote: post #206
cole-k wrote: post #139

Would probably switch in a heartbeat if I could expand the posts without opening a new tab. How difficult would it be to port Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES) to this? Or is there some browser extension that lets me accomplish roughly the same thing? I think I'm one of many people who spends most of their time lurking anyway. Might still give it a go...if I wouldn't browse reddit as much with the added friction of open…

This is really challenging thing to do without any client-side JS. It would require downloading media (not just little thumbnails) of every post in the current subreddit view. I might make a feature where people can enable (disabled by default) certain features from the preferences which enables them to use features like this which require client-side JS.

Having given teddit a go this would probably be a must-have for me. I'm by no means an anti-javascript absolutist though.

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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Post by schmorptron »

ornornor wrote: post #239
schmorptron wrote: post #223

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Funny, that's pretty much the only reason I pay for spotify. Having music offline is really handy when you're out and not near wi-fi.

I’m not talking about being able to download an album actively. I’m talking about Spotify using up all my devices storage to store their own cache, songs I listened to but didn’t select to be downloaded for offline listening.

Ah, fair. Though to a certain degree I still think that's helpful when I recently listened to something but forgot to download it. I agree though that that shouldn't take up all of your storage and should definitely be toggleable.

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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Post by h_anna_h »

NosyHammock wrote: post #200
sillysaurusx wrote: post #48

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Somehow it takes 4 seconds to un-collapse a toplevel comment in Chrome. E.g. this one: https://teddit.net/r/Bossfight/comments/k6vh5v/bearers_of_th... Pages also seem to take around 10 seconds to do the initial render. No server problem, just rendering. So if you do use this, I guess don't overdo it. :) Or at least profile. I use a 2015 MBP potato laptop. I guess my perf problems aren't really relevant. But it handle…

Dev here. This is a known issue. https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit/issues/24 So far I haven't come up with any solution. The nested .comment styles seemed not be the problem. Although something in the CSS triggers the slow rendering on Chromium based browsers – not sure yet what. If any of you have an idea, leave a comment here or in Teddit, appreciated! EDIT: Oh, forgot to say: Works fine in Firefox, no rendering i…

Any reason not to use flex instead of float?

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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Post by ComputerGuru »

DenseComet wrote: post #103
ComputerGuru wrote: post #94

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I wish I could get Safari reddit links to open in Apollo without having to copy the URL. First it's "continue in browser" to dismiss the overlay that shows up each time trying to get me to use the app, then it's "read the rest of the discussion" to go from amp trash to the actual reddit site, and now they only load like 4 comments at a time and you need to click a link to load another page each time you want to see t…

If you are on reddit.com, click the share icon, and there will be a "open in Apollo" option. If you end up on an AMP page, you have to click the share icon in the gray bar up top next to the reddit.com header, and there will be an "open in Apollo" option.

Yeah, but it’s always via AMP and the double dance to get the share action to be available and then open in Apollo is too much friction.

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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Post by ComputerGuru »

codetheweb wrote: post #97
ComputerGuru wrote: post #94

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I wish I could get Safari reddit links to open in Apollo without having to copy the URL. First it's "continue in browser" to dismiss the overlay that shows up each time trying to get me to use the app, then it's "read the rest of the discussion" to go from amp trash to the actual reddit site, and now they only load like 4 comments at a time and you need to click a link to load another page each time you want to see t…

Opener works pretty well for this: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/opener-open-links-in-apps/id98...

Apollo already has a share target that opens Reddit links in Apollo (and can also detect copied Reddit links when you launch Apollo). I just purchased Opener because I want it to automatically launch Apollo when I click a Reddit (AMP) link in Google, but it can’t do that.

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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Post by ducktective »

holler wrote: post #249
ducktective wrote: post #158

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Can you talk about the tech stack you used to build it? How much time did it take? Is this a solo project? Thanks

Hey, the entire project is running aws services w/serverless py api, websockets, ember.js frontend, about a year to build so far... This is the 2nd go-around with an older v1 that was scrapped & rebuilt.

How long do you estimate it takes to design a reddit-like website for someone with beginner experience in webdev?

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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Post by ComputerGuru »

IgorPartola wrote: post #118
DenseComet wrote: post #103

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If you are on reddit.com, click the share icon, and there will be a "open in Apollo" option. If you end up on an AMP page, you have to click the share icon in the gray bar up top next to the reddit.com header, and there will be an "open in Apollo" option.

Switch to DuckDuckGo and don’t get AMP pages again. You can also use !g at the start of your search to try Google’s results. Search quality is good and I only check Google occasionally when I know I’ve found the answer that way before but it’s not one of the top results on DDG. I haven’t measured but I think this saves me time.

I used DDG for years but switched to Google and StartPage because DDG just doesn’t work well for the types of searches I tend to perform. I found myself using !g for everything.

Re: Teddit: a free and open-source Reddit front end focused on privacy

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Post by ComputerGuru »

floatingatoll wrote: post #104
ComputerGuru wrote: post #94

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I wish I could get Safari reddit links to open in Apollo without having to copy the URL. First it's "continue in browser" to dismiss the overlay that shows up each time trying to get me to use the app, then it's "read the rest of the discussion" to go from amp trash to the actual reddit site, and now they only load like 4 comments at a time and you need to click a link to load another page each time you want to see t…

If tapping Share -> Apollo isn't ideal for you, there's always the web extension route. You can hack the Sea Creator sample code extension's `content.js` file to replace https://*.reddit.com/ with x-whatever-apollo-url-prefix-is:path/to/reddit/comment if you're serious about doing this in iOS Safari: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/saf... That's using their modern extension model, so you coul…

Thanks, I’m going to give this a try.
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