That’s what I thought as well! I was quite surprised with what it still can do, so I’m really happy with it! Especially since I love giving tech a longer/second life when it’s still good. I always try to get the most out of it and this project is a great success :)

Yeah, I agree. I’ve wanted to get into home servers for a while now. The final push was me running a Valheim server for me and my friends on my regular PC, while I also recently got some old parts from a friend that had build a new PC.
I just needed to gather a few more parts that were missing (case, SSD and CPU cooler) and now it’s running like a dream. It’s some old-ass hardware: An i5 4460 with 8GB of DDR3 and a 250GB SSD. That’s a 10 year old CPU. Doesn’t seem like a lot and I haven’t put a lot of services on it for now, but it still runs surprisingly well. I’m currently running a Valheim server with often 2-4, sometimes 5 or 6 players playing at the same time, Adguard and Syncthing. And yet, only 2.4GB of Ram is in use, with often around/less than 10% CPU usage, maybe a little more when a lot of people start playing VH. The CPU temps are around 30-33 degrees Celsius today, and that’s only because summer is arriving. It was consistently around 25 degrees Celsius in the past week. Today I tried to add a Wireguard server to it, although I ran into some problems and I wanted to put some more thought into what OS to run anyway (It’s just Ubuntu Server for now as I just wanted to get the Valheim server to run for now).

I’m starting to get into an infodump, but long story short: You can indeed get really, really far with some very cheap hardware. I’ve only spend around 50-60 euros on it so far, by having some luck, patience and keeping an eye out for deals or viable hardware that people want to get rid of. You can always upgrade to something more powerful or more energy efficient, but if you just want to get into the hobby, you really don’t need a lot.

the owners of Tildes don’t seem to want them around. I’ve read in multiple places that they believe mobile apps go against everything they stand for.

It might not be intentional, but you’re spreading misinformation that could be prevented with a quick search.

The (sole) developerbof Tildes specificlly stated that Tildes will have an API and that they don’t want to discourage apps. Their philosophy is just that the official way of visiting Tildes should be the same lightweight website as the desktop. A solution that works on every device. To me, this makes a lot of sense. It fits the philosophy of Tildes, results in less code to maintain and ensures the experience is the same on every device.

Source from the Tildes Documentation:

The site is the main mobile interface, not an app

Tildes is a website. Your phone already has an app for using it—it’s your browser.

Tildes will have a full-featured API, so I definitely don’t want to discourage mobile apps overall, but the primary interface for using the site on mobile should remain as the website. That means that mobile users will get access to updates at exactly the same time as desktop ones, and full f

My thoughts exactly. Deadalic is an awesome studio with some of the best point-n-click games, an IMO underrated niche genre and some great other unique games. However, they are not the kind of studio for a games like Gollum. Every studio (and even every person working at that studio) has it’s own strengths and weaknesses. By utilizing that strengths and weaknesses correctly, you can make great games. It’s a shame they got a bad rep because they didn’t do that with this game.

Bonus tip: You can also filter Hacker News posts on the amount of upvotes/points. For example, this URL will return only the newest posts with a minimum of 200 points. This way, you only get some of the best/most important posts in your feed.

https://hnrss.org/newest?points=200

Sounds good, I will check it out! Thanks for sharing!

I’ve been using yt-dpl + MPV + qutebrowser or ytfzf for a long time, but lately I’ve been using Freetube a lot on my desktop (which can also use MPV as an external player). Subscriptions are saved locally and can be exported in several formats. I occasionally export them, sync them over syncthing to my phone and import it on my yt apps on my phone. On my phone I mainly use Libretube, with NewPipe as a backup.

Awesome! :D

Check the thread again, I edited it. The other sidebar I mentioned, which previously didn’t work on my machine, has been fixed and I even prefer it over the already awesome Floating bar. It might work around your issue.

That fixed the issue, it’s working perfectly now! I really like the extra functionality of it!
I will edit the post and add it to the recommendations. Thank you very much for the quick response!

I just thought of a small improvement that you might want to take into consideration. It’s really not a necessity, just a small QoL improvement.

I noticed on a profile page that it selects a random icon for each placeholder. This means it will use different variants of Kibby for each comment, even when multiple of those comments are from the same user. I thought it would be less confusing if it assigns a random Kibby variant to a user upon loading the page, so it is consistent when reading a thread. It doesn’t matter if it changes the assigned variant to a different variant when you go to a different page, but having the consistency in a longer comment thread could be helpful.

I wasn’t expecting that the author would show up here, hi!

The problem I run into is that it won’t load the list of magazines. It just says Failed to load subscriptions with a spinning load-icon on top. Your sidebar looks really good on the screenshots, though!

Your comment made me re-enable your script again to investigate the issue a bit deeper. I opened up the console and it seems like the URL that is used to request the list is not valid:

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Thank you for reaching out and looking into it. I really appreciate that!

I agree. One of the things that I really love about open source projects that gain popularity like this, is that the community can get really involved with the process of development and it can allow the project to evolve noticeably fast. It’s quite the opposite of a large corporation where all small decisions are made by having a lot of meetings, with a lot of people that are only looking for the highest profit margin. I’m looking forward to see what the future of Kbin might hold.

That’s exciting! Scripts like these are really awesome and are not only a great way for users to tinker with the site to their liking, they are also some sort of feedback and an idea box for you guys (I noticed you contribute to the code of Kbin). But although scripts can be awesome, it’s even better when they are not “needed” because the functionality is build right into the site itself. Not to say I dislike the current vanilla experience. It’s already very good!

Thank you for your contributions, you guys are awesome!

I didn’t even know Safari has extension support nowadays. Great to hear it all works without issue, it’s such an improvement!

I’m on Firefox as well, so I don’t think that is the issue. This is how it looks on my side Example.

This are the settings that I use:

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About the double OP tag: I just noticed that bug too in another thread, but now it seems to be gone again. Maybe it’s a one time thing. It’s a bit buggy in these early stages anyway, hopefully it will get fixed.

You’re welcome! I really like the sidebar as well! It makes it way easier to see which Magazines I’m subscribed to and to quickly switch to them. Since I’ve installed that userscript I’ve been visiting separate Magazines a lot more, instead of just scrolling through my home page.

KUP also goes great with KES so far, they complement each other nicely. Best thing to me about KUP is the inline previews of articles. That was one of my favorite features of RES back on Reddit, so I’m excited to see an equivalent on Kbin :)

That’s weird, I don’t have that issue myself. The only small bug that I’ve noticed in the floating subs bar, is that it makes the rest of the website slightly less centered when opened. But that resolves itself when I close it again. You could try doing a full (cache) refresh of the webpage (Ctrl+F5). Sometimes that fixes those kind of issues.

E: You could of course also give the alternative sidebar a try. I really like that that sidebar groups magazines/communities with the same name together. However, it wouldn’t load my magazines on my system. It just kept spinning a loading icon. Maybe it does work for you, it’s worth a try!

Very cool! I will add it to the thread. Thanks for sharing :)

I think I will, thanks! I’ve also just posted a small list of Kbin userscripts that I like to spread awareness and added yours as well :)