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Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by ryandrake »

pdntspa wrote: post #3

"Self-hosted" ... on something that very much used to be a fairly simple desktop app... JDownloader anyone? Or yt-dlp ????

I totally agree. The idea of running a server application in Docker and then firing up a browser for something like this just seems so... round-about and alien to me! Is this the direction software development is really going?

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by happyopossum »

ryandrake wrote: post #4
pdntspa wrote: post #3

"Self-hosted" ... on something that very much used to be a fairly simple desktop app... JDownloader anyone? Or yt-dlp ????

I totally agree. The idea of running a server application in Docker and then firing up a browser for something like this just seems so... round-about and alien to me! Is this the direction software development is really going?

For a large group of people, the vast majority of their computing and consumption is done apart from a desktop or laptop. Something like this makes perfect sense in a mobile-first world.

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by pdntspa »

happyopossum wrote: post #5
ryandrake wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I totally agree. The idea of running a server application in Docker and then firing up a browser for something like this just seems so... round-about and alien to me! Is this the direction software development is really going?

For a large group of people, the vast majority of their computing and consumption is done apart from a desktop or laptop. Something like this makes perfect sense in a mobile-first world.

My generation dropped the ball on teaching computer literacy

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by thaumasiotes »

happyopossum wrote: post #5
ryandrake wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I totally agree. The idea of running a server application in Docker and then firing up a browser for something like this just seems so... round-about and alien to me! Is this the direction software development is really going?

For a large group of people, the vast majority of their computing and consumption is done apart from a desktop or laptop. Something like this makes perfect sense in a mobile-first world.

There's already a mobile application for downloading from YouTube, NewPipe. It's a simple desktop app, except that your desktop is a phone. Nobody hosts anything.

Re: MeTube: Self-hosted YouTube downloader

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Post by meroes »

pdntspa wrote: post #6
happyopossum wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For a large group of people, the vast majority of their computing and consumption is done apart from a desktop or laptop. Something like this makes perfect sense in a mobile-first world.

My generation dropped the ball on teaching computer literacy

Curious if this is at millennials for not teaching the next generation(s) or at genz/alpha for not teaching themselves.
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