hextube
live.hexbear.net

MOSTLY kidding. We have spun up our own cytube server so we are no longer beholden to the weirdo CHUD dev that owns cytu.be.

Join us at our (probably permanent unless something bad happens) new website: https://live.hexbear.net/

Movies will now be hosted here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

and music here: https://live.hexbear.net/c/music

We literally spun this up in about 2 days so if there are any issues you run in to please create a thread on /c/feedback or reach out!

Note: You will need to create a new account for this. Neither your cytube login info or Hexbear login info will work for the new site!

  • itsPina [he/him, she/her]M
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    2 years ago

    special thanks to @layla for knocking this out in like a day and a half

    I asked the admin team if this was feasible yesterday expecting it to be too much of a PITA to actually do but layla knocked it out of the park.

    • wombat [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      how do I add things to the queue? It's locked and Sunday Slop is coming up soon. I want to try using the new site if possible. It can be our inaugural stream!

      https://hexbear.net/post/226573

    • Mabbz [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      When I learn how to animate :kitty-cri-texas:

  • CheGueBeara [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Neat! But also I like the idea of a CHUD taking all of the legal risk for lefties watching movies and listening to music. Is there any risk y'all are taking on? I want to make sure my comrades are safe.

    • hypercube [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      I think it just plays videos hosted elsewhere at the same time for everypony, so the actual hosts would be the ones liable (that said, I don't have a law degree and I failed my compsci one)

    • vote_manip_bot [it/its]
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      2 years ago

      Music all comes from Youtube legally. Movies are a bit more sus but really all that will happen there is the mediafire account getting banned if it gets caught, there's no legal liability.

    • itsPina [he/him, she/her]M
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      2 years ago

      All of our spicy content is hosted off site and I'm not really affiliated with the site itself besides modding some comms and being in communication with the admin team so I don't really think Hexbear itself could get in any trouble.

      Also our servers are hosted in [redacted] where all crime is legal.

      Cytube is just a shell to watch off-site content together, nothing about it should be risky.

  • pooh [she/her, any]
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    2 years ago

    This is awesome. Much thanks for this.

    Question: What does this mean as far as new changes to the platform? Will it allow for better features, easier streaming from non-YouTube sources, etc.?

      • pooh [she/her, any]
        ·
        2 years ago

        Thanks for the response! I'm not up to speed on this stuff, so I apologize, but does stuff like google drive or dropbox also work ok?

        • itsPina [he/him, she/her]M
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          2 years ago

          I do not believe so. Google Drive works with some extensions (everyone will need those extensions so we dont ever use google drive) and dropbox doesnt work at all I think. For the spicy movies we play we have a premium mediafire acct.

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
    ·
    2 years ago

    It appears the revolution is going to be televised after all.

  • Donut
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    1 year ago

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  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    This is awesome! But are we hosting the server for this? Considering the main site already has load problems, will this affect them?

    • itsPina [he/him, she/her]M
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      2 years ago

      AFAIK the main site doesnt have server issues its database issues. The site hardly ever 404s and cytube itself is incredibly lightweight so I dont forsee any future problems but we always have the old channel as a backup just incase :)

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        the main site doesnt have server issues its database issues

        (me, pretending to fully understand what that means) Okay thank you :blob-no-thoughts:

        • itsPina [he/him, she/her]M
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          2 years ago

          the database (the place the server pulls the data from) gets all clogged up due to some bad optimizations, but the server itself USUALLY is just fine. Basically if you can load hexbear.net without getting a 404 error the server hasnt shit itself

      • hostilearchitecture [any]
        ·
        2 years ago

        If anyone wants to talk database problems that's my original professional wheelhouse.

        Unless it's just some problem of Lemmy's ORM making shit queries.

        • CARCOSA [they/them]A
          ·
          2 years ago

          If you wish to contribute to site development please refer to here as our current Dev Volunteer Focus is to fork Lemmy again, this time deliberately not diverging too far from upstream so it's easier to maintain the patches and apply them on top of each new Lemmy release.

          This is a large undertaking. There is no timeline, but we expect it to be a while before the site is migrated over to the finished fork.

          We're still in the early stages, but the more people involved the sooner we can progress. Primarily, we need developers (Rust & TypeScript) and ops/infrastructure people. Please reach out to Layla via Matrix

          Ella via Matrix or me via Matrix If you're interested in helping out. If you need help setting matrix up, let me know.

          For more information contributing to the dev side of Hexbear please refer to this post

        • silent_water [she/her]
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          2 years ago

          yeah, I think they need someone to optimize the queries. from what I understand, the tech stack is the same as Lemmy's (on the backend) but a lot of stuff got rewritten, but without a deeper understanding of how diesel generates queries to run.

  • D61 [any]
    ·
    2 years ago

    :fidel-wut: Add bookmark? I think I will.