Let's talk about PeerTube!

Here, we talk about PeerTube, both the decentralized video hosting network, and the on free/libre software it’s based on.

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Oh, and yes: here, we talk in English, as PeerTube is a software used worldwide.

If you have trouble with english, please check out the french speaking PeerTube category or try using an online translator (I don’t know of a Free-Libre data-friendly one, but that being said, DeepL is a very solid alternative to Google Translate :wink:)

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Can you guys please stop directly linking to the Animated Video when someone clicks the “getting started” button? Someone coming onto Peertube likely already gets that its a video streaming service like Youtube and Vimeo just by going to the website and seeing a million videos on screen. The video itself doesn’t actually cover anything about making an account on the site. Its not intuitive for new users.

The video itself doesn’t really convey any useful information about the site itself for new users either. The information provided is really only useful to Content creators publishing content on the site, not the audiences who will make up the majority of your user base.

If a person wants to use this website, they don’t need to know how everything about it works. They need to know how they can use the website to get what they want.

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Hello,
there are a lot of statements from you in your message about what visitors want, what they don’t want, and what we (“guys”) should do.

Unfortunately, we are not service providers, we are not a start-up. PeerTube is fortunate to be supported by a non-profit association that allows it to have an employee who can spend 3.5 days a week doing the bulk of the development of this software. But no one is paid to do the communication, or update the site, or create videos.

The philosophy of free software obviously allows criticism, but it also strongly encourages contribution. So, if you want a homepage that would include a video, please make this video and send it to us, if you plan to adapt the website, the sources are here: https://framagit.org/framasoft/peertube/joinpeertube Please make the changes you propose yourself, so that they can be discussed by the community.

Don’t see any intention of being rude to you, I’m just answering you in the same tone. PeerTube is a free project, there is no “you” that holds, only “we” that includes you too.

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I flunked out of Computer Science in college. Coding just isn’t a language i can grasp effectively. Mostly because everything is so arbitrary. My time in the major did leave me with a functional understanding of good Web design and User-Psychology, but I would need to collaborate with someone else in order to actually get any real changes done.

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Hi I am New here I am looking for documetation or videos to set up peertube in localhost dev environment to contribute

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Take a look here: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md

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Période de confinement mondiale :
Youtube explose les compteurs Champion haut la main Vs Peertube à la ramasse perdu à jamais ?
le décentralisé ne semble pas être le modèle de demain … sans doute pas assez d’argent à la clé ! :upside_down_face: à moins que certains points soient bloquants pour franchir le pas du changement ? (fermetures d’instances, modération locale inapropriée , recréation de zéro de compte et amis etc…)

Non ça va on est plutôt contents. :upside_down_face:

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tant mieux alors si les compteurs son bon en haut :slightly_smiling_face: pas l’impression que ça donne vu d’en bas :upside_down_face:

Where should I go to report a bug or make suggestions to peertube behaviour? I will include it here until I’m told to do otherwise.

When attempting to share a video of a creator I subscribe to, I am given the URL of the instance I am a user of instead of the original Public URL. In this case it is invalid and only available to someone on my instance.

The expected behaviour would be a direct link to the original.
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This would be the preferred behaviour from the original instance. It’s now available to anyone without login.

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What is the best (PeerTube supported) alternative to SuperChats?

@peering_at_tubes please open a thread dedicated to your question

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