Small release:
  • links to videos are now detected and will show a player like in #672200:
This is the first step towards support for more upload types like video or audio.
  • fixed logout button on Firefox
  • fixed wallet form showing a different state if you reloaded the page while you were on it
  • fixed layout shifts caused by loading images
  • performance improvements regarding loading dupes

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Previous release: #664522

I should be seeing the video previews in this post, right?
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You mean the video player? Yes
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Very strange, it doesn’t seem to work on my laptop or mobile.
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Yes. I don't see it :thinking_face:
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It works in a private browser session as anon. Probably a local caching issue or something
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Mhh, the video is playing but I see no controls on iOS PWA
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 5 Sep
Do you have proxied images only set?
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 4 Sep
Weird it behaves like a photo. Clickable and everything.
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Ah, it's because we preferentially assume links are images and safari allows mp4's in img tags.
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194 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 4 Sep
Now video layout shift can make me crazy.
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moar cats videos now :)
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YouTube videos were already embedded, right? Is this expanding that to videos hosted on other sites?
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It should be any link that end up in .mp4
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239 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 4 Sep
Also .webm and anything browsers support as videos. This is just the groundwork for video uploads though mostly.
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Nice. Are video uploads going to cost more than image uploads?
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200 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek OP 4 Sep
mhh, maybe we'll use a shared quota but make it really high
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Thoughts @ek? @ek is the image toll collectoor.
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Yes! Been waiting 10 years for this!
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The video thing I was missing. Now it's fulfilled, no stopping from here to SN getting too much engagement. Great job team SN! Thanks!
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Thnks for the support :)
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Thank you for your excellent work. You always think about the users of the platform. Congratulations to everyone who has contributed to the project. They have done an excellent PoW
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Sweet as. Cheers guys 🙏
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stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.