Loops

cross-posted from: https://dubvee.org/post/2439012

This is probably the biggest feature-creep release to date (especially for a point release) lol. Most of the changes are architectural or subtle UI tweaks, so I wanted to include a few new things that would actually be noticeable.

Tesseract now supports Loops video embeds. 🎉

This has been an "ask" for a month or longer (or since Loops went live), and I'm happy to say I finally came up with a way to make this happen (Loops doesn't provide any video embed metadata so I had to get creative 😔)

As for a release date, I'm still running through tests since there were so many architectural changes this time around. If you want to help with this, please consider testing for me via the hosted instance (https://tesseract.dubvee.org/) and submitting bugs via Github or posting in this community with the bug details.

There are a few areas I wanted to touch up this release (search and modlog), but those are just going to have to wait.

Best estimate is next week assuming I don't hit any snags with the Loops integration. Again, testing and submitting buts is extremely helpful as I cannot test every possible scenario.

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Kind of surprising how quickly it happened. Here's one example:

https://loops.video/v/4U2D0EEUhx

It's not too much yet, but probably something they'll need to consider. Will probably turn people off of Loops if not moderated or tagged or something

Anyone know if it's on the radar to support better integration with other Fediverse clients such that links to Loops videos can be displayed inline without going to a separate page? I've had a couple of people ask about this when I've posted videos.

Anyone know if there's any public roadmap at all, for that matter? I respect that the dev wants to get stuff right before open sourcing and all that, but it would be nice if there were some document/place I could follow along.

Additionally, it appears that the code for the backend server is intended to be public as well, but just doesn't exist outside of a readme.md document in the main branch.

This is setting off sirens, particularly the lack of a license.

Lots of people were asking for a WebUI to share link and view them in desktop etc.., and it is now available! :)

It feels way more usable now, that's good! Still needs work but it feel like we're getting there