Very few people would actually use it. IMO it’s not worth the effort, they should focus on quality of life features, so that peertube becomes a very good alternative to other video sharing services.
People that don’t like JS can use a third party client. Maintaining 2 clients is a lot of work, and not really motivating if only 3 people use one of them. Also on peertube the JS actually has a purpose that can’t be replicated with JS (P2P video loading).
An anyway the code is OSS, so there’s not really any risk in enabling JS for peertube.
I’ve seen found out about SimpleerTube and recommended it in that list you linked so that’s one option without using javascript.
Of course, I’m thinking also of the possibility that desktop client could do for P2P sharing too. Apparently, there is a project for a Linux client so that’s cool.
I don’t have a problem about JS personally and yeah it’s OSS so if somebody wants it maybe they could do something (I’d be up to donate a small amount maybe too). Perhaps Framasoft’s PeerTube team could help boost third party clients in their next fundraiser too? Maybe give a percentage of funds to selected projects but that is of course more work and I’m not sure Framasoft would want to do that either way. They could also just do a series of blogpost and emails about those clients with a message on how to support them (both code contributions, reporting bugs, feature request and donations).
SimpleerTube kinda sucks in terms of UI. If I want to browse peertube without JS I’m more likely to use a desktop client like peertube-viewer or cuttlefish, which are a lot lighter than a web browser, even without JS, and much better looking than SimpleerTube (which could look quite good if some work went into its looks IMO).
Ideally there should be a desktop client that is capable of using webtorrent for viewing, then keeping the videos on disk and continuing seeding them. That way, it would make webtorrent much much more useful, because you could start to have a lot more long term seeders. For the moment, webtorrent only makes sense in the livestreams.
Very few people would actually use it. IMO it’s not worth the effort, they should focus on quality of life features, so that peertube becomes a very good alternative to other video sharing services.
People that don’t like JS can use a third party client. Maintaining 2 clients is a lot of work, and not really motivating if only 3 people use one of them. Also on peertube the JS actually has a purpose that can’t be replicated with JS (P2P video loading).
An anyway the code is OSS, so there’s not really any risk in enabling JS for peertube.
I’ve seen found out about SimpleerTube and recommended it in that list you linked so that’s one option without using javascript. Of course, I’m thinking also of the possibility that desktop client could do for P2P sharing too. Apparently, there is a project for a Linux client so that’s cool. I don’t have a problem about JS personally and yeah it’s OSS so if somebody wants it maybe they could do something (I’d be up to donate a small amount maybe too). Perhaps Framasoft’s PeerTube team could help boost third party clients in their next fundraiser too? Maybe give a percentage of funds to selected projects but that is of course more work and I’m not sure Framasoft would want to do that either way. They could also just do a series of blogpost and emails about those clients with a message on how to support them (both code contributions, reporting bugs, feature request and donations).
SimpleerTube kinda sucks in terms of UI. If I want to browse peertube without JS I’m more likely to use a desktop client like peertube-viewer or cuttlefish, which are a lot lighter than a web browser, even without JS, and much better looking than SimpleerTube (which could look quite good if some work went into its looks IMO).
Ideally there should be a desktop client that is capable of using webtorrent for viewing, then keeping the videos on disk and continuing seeding them. That way, it would make webtorrent much much more useful, because you could start to have a lot more long term seeders. For the moment, webtorrent only makes sense in the livestreams.
Yes I agree completely with you. I’m looking forward to Cuttlefish as that seems like the direction they are going.