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Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

#91

Post by ninkendo »

michaelmrose wrote: post #80
ninkendo wrote: post #76

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> Back button works Maybe a little too well... I tried a whole bunch of channels to get an idea of which ones work, and my history was too full to get out of the site. Maybe every channel change doesn't need to push to your history list.

Generally filling up the buffer is fine. It's perfectly normal that after viewing a certain number of documents one has to manually decide where to go. You know what you need. A button that goes back but instead of going to the prior document goes to the first document with a different domain than the current one.

Yeah, I'm not convinced it's really the site's fault... I can understand the logic of wanting the back button to go back a channel, but also I generally want to go "out" of a page when I hit the back button, so there's no real one-size-fits-all answer.

But speaking only for myself, if history.pushState was removed from my browser I would probably be happier in the end. JavaScript SPA's abuse it 10x more often than they use it appropriately, I'd rather that if you're an SPA anyway, you implement your own in-app navigation and let my browser's mean "get me out of this app". Lord knows SPA's already reinvent every other web standard, why not one more...

Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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Post by dtagames »

SoftTalker wrote: post #90
ssl-3 wrote: post #31

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That is an unbelievably slick thing that you've got there. It feels very light-weight, it's approximately instantly-responsive. Back button works. I don't understand the stats (or my contribution to them), but whatever. (the closed-captioning pop-up causes some overlay issues for me, though) moar edit: Upon further review with my very not-special desktop box, I'm reasonably confident that this is the quickest, most-r…

Looks potentially very nice but the majority of the channels I tried were "blocked in my area or not broadcasting"

Thanks for the feedback and I'm sorry that happened. Because the data comes from a public GitHub list of channels, the app has no way to know what will be geoblocked for you (or not) or actually online at the moment (or not) until you try to tune it -- very much like an old analog TV.

But... TV Explorer does keep track of what's tunable (with status lights down the left column) and also lets you scan in the background to find the ones that are live for you right now.

https://tvexplorer.live/help/25-things-18

Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

#93

Post by nickzelei »

dtagames wrote: post #28

For a no hacks alternative, I built TV Explorer. It puts the channel's published HLS stream into your browser with no interim steps. Uses the public GitHub list of more than 10,000 free channels. https://tvexplorer.live

This is probably the nicest IPTV site I’ve ever seen, nice work!!

Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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Post by dtagames »

nickzelei wrote: post #93
dtagames wrote: post #28

For a no hacks alternative, I built TV Explorer. It puts the channel's published HLS stream into your browser with no interim steps. Uses the public GitHub list of more than 10,000 free channels. https://tvexplorer.live

This is probably the nicest IPTV site I’ve ever seen, nice work!!

I'm so honored that you feel that way, and thank you for saying so!

Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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Post by dtagames »

jarym wrote: post #47
dtagames wrote: post #28

For a no hacks alternative, I built TV Explorer. It puts the channel's published HLS stream into your browser with no interim steps. Uses the public GitHub list of more than 10,000 free channels. https://tvexplorer.live

Love it

Thank you, kindly!

Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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Post by sharts »

dtagames wrote: post #28

For a no hacks alternative, I built TV Explorer. It puts the channel's published HLS stream into your browser with no interim steps. Uses the public GitHub list of more than 10,000 free channels. https://tvexplorer.live

dis sum good stuff

Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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Post by SoftTalker »

dtagames wrote: post #92
SoftTalker wrote: post #90

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Looks potentially very nice but the majority of the channels I tried were "blocked in my area or not broadcasting"

Thanks for the feedback and I'm sorry that happened. Because the data comes from a public GitHub list of channels, the app has no way to know what will be geoblocked for you (or not) or actually online at the moment (or not) until you try to tune it -- very much like an old analog TV. But... TV Explorer does keep track of what's tunable (with status lights down the left column) and also lets you scan in the backgroun…

Thanks, I'll play with it a bit more.

Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

#98

Post by Razengan »

dimator wrote: post #43
yard2010 wrote: post #40

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You're absolutely right and let me be honest about the honest load-bearing smoking-gun you point at.

That's the core tension — and you're right to call it out! Let me walk back my claims.

Yearly Quota Exceeded. Click here to buy the $69/minute plan.

Re: Better and Cheaper Than IPTV

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Post by mcmoebius »

dtagames wrote: post #28

For a no hacks alternative, I built TV Explorer. It puts the channel's published HLS stream into your browser with no interim steps. Uses the public GitHub list of more than 10,000 free channels. https://tvexplorer.live

that's INCREDIBLE! thanks so much for creating and sharing this!
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