ChappIO

Hi there,

I have decided to take down waveform.social. There are too many nefarious actors trying to break it and I don't have the time or energy to keep fighting them off.

For your information: Over the pas month I have had to:

1. Add various DDOS prevention measures to block unwanted (repeated) signups.
2. Delete a bunch of literal white noise uploads that filled my 4TB picture storage... Twice.
3. Repair Lemmy (or rather pictures) after it crashed because of full storage.

I will keep waveform.social active until Friday next week so you can pull data from here, though I expect most of it has been federated to other servers anyway.

I am working on a small web app to allow sharing audio and videos on my instance. I read that lemmy supports embedding pages that provide opengraph metadata. To test this I created a simple page: https://chappio.gitlab.io/embed-demo/

But when I post it, no content gets embedded. My goal is to provide an embeddable widget to my instance. What am I missing?

I am thinking about adding some functionality to this instance (audio and video upload) which probably requires me to make changes to the themes.

To limit the amount of work I have to do, would you please let me know what theme you are using?

1. Visit your settings to check: https://waveform.social/settings
2. Fill out the poll: https://fast-poll.com/poll/903a1e38

I am looking to add video and audio clip upload functionality to the instance over at waveform.social since this is a music-focussed instance.

The way I am thinking about doing this is building a micro-app (similar to pictrs but with a mini frontend) that allows my users to upload audio and video clips and adding the required metadata to the pages to allow embedding.

I would love to add a few buttons (in nav and on the create-post) page to link to this micro app to allow users to find it more easily. My first thought was to create a custom theme. But from reading the docs, I can only see mentions of css.

Is there a way for me to modify the html to add these buttons? Or do I have to fork lemmy-ui to be able to achieve this?

So Lemmy (the software that runs this website) allows admins to define taglines. When people visit the website a random one shows up.

Any funny suggestions that work with the theme of this instance?

I am looking to add video and audio clip upload functionality to the instance over at waveform.social since this is a music-focussed instance.

The way I am thinking about doing this is building a micro-app (similar to pictrs but with a mini frontend) that allows my users to upload audio and video clips and adding the required metadata to the pages to allow embedding.

I would love to add a few buttons (in nav and on the create-post) page to link to this micro app to allow users to find it more easily. My first thought was to create a custom theme. But from reading the docs, I can only see mentions of css.

Is there a way for me to modify the html to add these buttons? Or do I have to fork lemmy-ui to be able to achieve this?

Hi there,

This site has a focus on music. Not being able to share audio clips makes no sense. Of course you can use a third party tool to share audio clips but I think the barrier is too big.

Here’s what I want to do: I want to create a micro application that allows people to upload audio or video clips to be able to embed them into their posts. The design goals are:

• low barrier of entry
• good viewing experience
• useful on mobile

Now I can easily do the technical stuff (upload and store files, embedding, deployment) but I’ve always had a hard time with graphical design for small apps with very few features.

Would any of you have the skills and time to contribute a design?

I got started on an app for this community. I’ve got a basic integration and spent most time on project setup.

My plan is to post an update every week with what I did and what I expect to do next week.

Next Week

I will be working on the comments viewer and maybe making an attempt at a login function.

I also expect to set up a beta program for iOS so you can help me test if you want to. (Android will follow later).

I am looking to get better at native app development so why not make an app to provide access to this community? 😁

Comment here if you want to join the beta testing group. I will post updates from time to time.

Hi there,

I am currently working on getting things up and running so we can create a place to share our passion for music.

Feel free to ask any questions or leave any suggestions you might have.