No public instances yet?

[Impeta]

I commend a lot your efforts an open-source frontend for Tumblr! Thank you very much for standing up for it. On a kind gesture, I had recommended your work for the libredirect repository. Though the developers there are open for implementing your front-end into their extension, they regard minimum requirement of one active public instance. I have yet to see one as publicized in your page.

Would it be possible for you to host one?

[heyLu]

Thanks for your interest! I am not sure if I want to host a public advertised instance at the moment. Right now many Tumblr posts are broken because their RSS feeds are lacking a lot of information (lacking images, video, ...), so I am bit more hesitant because of that as well.

I was considering hosting a cache-limited instance that would be restarted daily, but I haven't looked into that in detail.

And finally, I do have my own instance running, but it is not (and should not be) advertised publicly. For now I recommend people to host their own, I tried to make that as simple as possible.

[KaKi87]

Hello,

Would you have changed your mind since then ?

Thanks

[heyLu]

Hi @KaKi87, I have not unfortunately. I have looked at using fly.io or render.com to host a public instance, but they seem to require having a credit card, which I do not have (and don't want to).

If you find a service with a free or very cheap low-usage tier (<1eur/month) and support for paying with something other than a credit card then I'd be happy to try that out!

[KaKi87]

I don't understand : you said you have your own instance running so why don't you want to just share that one ?
Thanks

[heyLu]

why don't you want to just share that one

Because I am not ready to host it as a public service, with the level of traffic and attention (and potential security concerns as a server admin) that might bring.

But as I said above: If you have a server of your own or you want to run it locally on your machine, it should be quite easy to do as I designed it to be easy to run.

[KaKi87]

If you find it risky to publish your instance, how could I publish one of my own ?

[heyLu]

This is not about numblr itself, it's about hosting any public service. Feel free to host your instance or don't, I find numblr useful, but as the README says:

Very scrappy, but usable and useful for its original author. Please host your own!

[kingofcube]

Hi @KaKi87, I have not unfortunately. I have looked at using fly.io or render.com to host a public instance, but they seem to require having a credit card, which I do not have (and don't want to).

If you find a service with a free or very cheap low-usage tier (<1eur/month) and support for paying with something other than a credit card then I'd be happy to try that out!

surge exists

[heyLu]

surge exists

If we're talking about https://surge.sh/, that looks like it is frontend-only and also only for Node.js. numblr is written in Golang and pretty much backend-only (with some progressive enhancements in plain JavaScript), so that won't work.

[Impeta]

Either way, there's already Priviblur. You might like to put it on your README if you want.

[kingofcube]

surge exists

If we're talking about https://surge.sh/, that looks like it is frontend-only and also only for Node.js. numblr is written in Golang and pretty much backend-only (with some progressive enhancements in plain JavaScript), so that won't work.

I forgot, shit, uhh how about heikou or whatever jts called