Finding it unendingly hilarious that my corner of cohost wrote an all-your-posts downloader in Python ages back and went "this is probably no good to you if you're not at least moderately technical, sorry"
and now a different corner is loudly going "oh now there's an all-your-posts downloader hooray!!! anyone can use it you Simply have to— [guide which pretends to be accessible to the non-technical by being a million steps long, including install the code author's preferred fork of nodejs]"
if it works for people, it works! it's just, like,
all the usability problems that made us go "this is too hard to use, really" are instrinsic to the fact that Cohost never got round to a genuine user-facing API; people installing deno to use the written-in-typescript downloader have to jump through exactly the same dig-your-login-cookie-out-of-browser-devtools hoops.
It's just being hailed as "finally this exists and everyone can use it!" because — ???
(and really, the fact that "run some code" is also just so damn painful to do on Windows is Microsoft's fault and has been forever)
Hey now, you can write in PowerShell now!
Wait, where are you going, come back!
