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Introducing NodeTube, an open-source YouTube alternative powered by NodeJS
- noicebrewery 7y agoHow is this better than PeerTube?
- galactic0wl 7y agoWhat made you choose NodeJS to power a media streaming platform?
- mayeaux 7y agoI'm a JavaScript guy and do most of my servers in Node, and was able to use a great repo called 'hackathon-starter' from Github for some basic functionality out of the gate, and I like their setup of a Node app.
- burgerzzz 7y agoBeing served by Node.js isn't really a selling point to most people, but I applaud the effort none the less.
- smt88 7y agoIt's actually the opposite of a selling point. Node does well against other languages with I/O bound jobs, but throw something CPU-intensive at it and it's not even close to C, C++, Java, or Go.
- mayeaux 7y agoThe app is decoupled such that the frontend can run separately from the intensive processes. I have the app running on a free Heroku dyno right now and it's running great even serving up to 100 concurrent users.
- smt88 7y agoHow are you handling the intensive processes and why is it worth having JS in the mix? Why not use one language? Unrelated: the planned federation is muuuuuch more interesting than the stack you're using.
- mayeaux 7y agoYup federation is planned. And JavaScript is the language of the web, JavaScript + Node together is something I really enjoy working with. And intensive things like video conversions is run closer to the metal than the Node app
- jmartrican 7y agoWhy name it after the language?
- notatoad 7y agoit's only been 18 days since your show HN post. maybe you can find other places to promote this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21926666 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21926666
- mayeaux 7y agoSorry, I've just been working a lot on the frontend lately and feel that the actual live instance now is about a 1.0 which is my motivation for the post. Hopefully that's OK I know there's a LOT of people who have still never heard about this but find it interesting.
- notatoad 7y agoIf you want to keep re-submitting maybe consider starting a dev blog where you can explain what's new, instead of just reposting the same thing over and over again with no context.
- mayeaux 7y agoI did that based on a suggestion before, and wrote up a pretty long blog entry about my motivation for the project and it got like zero pickup on HN. People really like to just see the real thing, here is the post for reference: https://medium.com/@NodeTube_org/my-plan-to-ensure-the-free-flow-of-information-and-advancement-of-human-consciousness-in-the-21st-5787e9288f66 https://medium.com/@NodeTube_org/my-plan-to-ensure-the-free-...
- detaro 7y agoHN has clear rules about when you are allowed to repost, as people explained to you already when you complained the last time one of your posts got flagged.
- dang 7y agoThe problem was that you reposted it as "Introducing". That's clearly a dupe relative to the Show HN. If you made a post specifically about the differences since the last post, that might be ok, though probably not as a Show HN. It depends on how major the differences are, and how intellectually interesting they are to discuss.
- grzm 7y agoOpen source announcement, 18 days ago, over 150 points, over 70 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21926666 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21926666
- svnpenn 7y ago> Your video is currently pending moderator approval. If it's still pending after several minutes please contact a mod at Discord Hm, that could get terrible pretty quickly.
- mayeaux 7y agoIt's a stopgap measure right now since I only have a couple other mods and can't guarantee someone can be around to monitor uploads. It can be turned off via a flag in the settings file.