To any comrade who has requested an account on TankieTube: Sorry for ignoring you! I plan to accept all your applications (anyone from Hexbear or Lemmygrad is welcome), but I need to do some things first.

I’m working as fast as I can to configure the server to allow more users and videos but my brain is the size of a walnut and my paws can barely reach the keyboard so technology is difficult for me. @wombat@hexbear.net with movie night.

Edit 1: Technical details:

• According to comrade @CARCOSA@hexbear.net, our CyTube instance needs an update before it’s compatible with PeerTube for movie nights. Something about RC 3.9 (I’m assuming that’s the version number but maybe it’s a dependency idk)? Done!

• The server’s storage is currently limited to the 50 GiB partition on which it runs. This is the main problem. I’m trying to configure S3 object storage for proper scalability but it’s something I’ve never done before.

• Email notifications aren’t working yet. That means you won’t get an email when I’ve approved your account, so just watch this space or try to log in in a couple days from now. That also means it can’t yet do automated password resets. Apparently PeerTube wants me to use something called Sendmail but I’d rather send the emails from the server’s localhost because I don’t want to pay money for some stupid app and because emails are already working for the GNU CLI mail utilities so it should also work With PeerTube—why isn’t it working with PeerTube!? I’m dumb. Sorry for slandering sendmail. Smarter comrades are currently walking me through this stuff

• I got a tremendous deal on a VPS in the Netherlands with a 10 gigabit connection for about $15/mo.

• Although the network speed is great, the CPU power is limited, so expect post-upload video transcoding to take quite a bit more time than it does for Vimeo or YouTube. I’m trying to improve this by tweaking parameters but currently it takes longer than the video’s runtime to be processed

• It’s running on Arch (btw)