vogon

the evil "Website Boy"

member of @staff, lapsed linguist and drummer, electronics hobbyist

zip's bf

no supervisor but ludd means the threads any good


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bluesky
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YuushaRuby
@YuushaRuby

I hope cohost can support video eventually not in like tiktok/reels way but like hey I made this video art or short film and would like to put it in a chost


pendell
@pendell

there have already been multiple occasions where I wanted to post a video but I had to like make an unlisted yt upload or something and embed it instead.

I totally understand the bandwidth limitations of that sort of thing, but frankly I wouldn't even mind if all videos got scrunched down to 480p if it just means we get any sort of video functionality at all. Even make it a Cohost+ feature or smthn, it'd be totally justifiable to have to pay for that, since your video posts would objectively cost more to host and serve.


vogon
@vogon

yeah, to be clear our lack of video support is not like a Principled Stand we're taking or whatever, we just haven't had the spare time to write the code yet

sorry! we know that it's taking a while


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in reply to @vogon's post:

These features seem like exactly the kind of thing a lot of folks here would love to help with! I know Cohost isn't source-available and doesn't accept community contributions, but I honestly don't get why. Is there somewhere y'all have talked about that at all?