That … actually looks and feels pretty slick. Very neat UI.
Hi I’m Phil 👋, I’m a software engineer, and I maintain an open source push notification tool called ntfy. I’m also German 🇩🇪, and a big fan of 🇬🇧 & 🇺🇸, and a dad of two 👦👧
That … actually looks and feels pretty slick. Very neat UI.
Great writeup thank you. May I just say that tmyour original plan was both ambitious and a little insane. And even the current cost and infrastructure is bonkers IMHO.
I do hope you’re getting donations to help with the cost. Good luck.
My instance is on the other end of the spectrum: I pay $6/month for it on digitalocean. It has 1G of RAM. It crashes every now and then, likely because of the RAM and OOM killer. But it’s only for me and a few ntfy fans, so it’s quite different.
You can type reset
to fix your terminal if it gets messed up like that.
Excuse my ignorance, but where can I find details to this issueand does it affect only 0.18.1, or also 0.18.0?
Install Debian Stable on a SSD, most likely via debootstrap from the Ubuntu system
What an interesting way to install a new system. I’ve only ever done that for image building purposes. Why would you do that instead of just installing it from a flash drive?
Also: it sounds like you’re manually installing things. I would suggest Ansible or something similar, so that reinstalling isn’t so brittle and manual.
I asked the same question on r/selfhosted a few weeks ago, and I was downvoted just for asking the question.
https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/13elu4p/why_downvote_so_much/
It’s already integrated into a bunch of things, especially the *arrs, but if you have suggestions, please let me or the maintainers of the other software know.
Here’s a list: https://docs.ntfy.sh/integrations/
It only works with 16.4 afaik.
Related to another Reddit app, but not RIF:
The Relay for Reddit dev (u/dbrady) is bravely working on Relay. I got an update yesterday. The changelog said “further reduce API calls”. I think he actually wants to make it a paid app, which I’d gladly pay for.
I hate the Reddit change as much as the next guy, but if the Relay dev can actually make a profit from it that’d be awesome. The app cost a one-time $4 or something, which I’m sure he never made bank with. Having like $3-5/month for it would probably be sustainable.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing 🙏
Sorry I just saw this. I chuckled a little bit when you said “when you get the time”, given that you literally have a back lock as high as the Empire State building ;-)
I’m sure there are other volunteers who can help. I’ll reach out to the Unified Push guys.
I just read this article and what Meta is doing then triggered all the alarm bells!
This tactic even has a Wikipedia page: Embrace, extend, and extinguish
From the Wiki (quite enlightening):
The strategy’s three phases are:
- Embrace: Development of software substantially compatible with a competing product, or implementing a public standard.
- Extend: Addition and promotion of features not supported by the competing product or part of the standard, creating interoperability problems for customers who try to use the “simple” standard.
- Extinguish: When extensions become a de facto standard because of their dominant market share, they marginalize competitors that do not or cannot support the new extensions.
Thanks for the kind words. Feel free to recommend it to your friends or write a blog post about it, hehe.
Thank you for the kind words. I love hearing feedback like this. Tell your friends about ntfy, and if ou have concise examples to contribute to https://docs.ntfy.sh/examples/, that’d be awesome as well. Sound like you have some cool use cases there!
Ha. I guess thinking ahead is my trade :-) I’m a Principal Engineer, and much of my job is to think about how a software architecture will look in a few months or a year from now. I often say “It’s very lonely living in the future all the time”, because people usually think about their current project and current task, not what’s ahead of them that far out.
Sorry, I ramble. :-)
I will say, that while I like Lemmy (despite its bugs and all that), it severely lacks stupid GIFs and videos, from interestingasfuck, damnthatsinteresting, PublicFreakout, aww, etc.
Maybe that’ll come, but I doubt it.
This happened to my ~770 people subreddit r/ntfy too. They really lost their marbles, didn’t they? I turned it back to “Public” out of fear that they’ll delete my Reddit account. I fear even “Restricted” won’t stop them. So instead, I’ll manually delete or lock new posts and direct them to the Lemmy instance. I may assign another dummy mod account too and unassign myself. Maybe that’ll give me a way to close the sub in the future.
I used to use XMPP with a dedicated Google account, but when they discontinued XMPP support, ntfy was born. 😊 I tried some email tools for a while but that was never satisfactory…
There are so many things you can use it for, here are some examples: https://docs.ntfy.sh/examples/
It also integrates with everything under the sun since it’s just HTTP: https://docs.ntfy.sh/integrations/
You got a lot of heat in this discussion, but let me be one of the few to applaud you for actually making a proposal. Saying No is easy, but suggesting something and writing it down and putting it out there is hard.
I am a Principal Engineer by trade, and i do what you did here all the time. I put out suggestions to my team and let them absolutely wreck it. This is how you advance and enhance your idea. Listen and learn from the feedback and suggest another thing based on what you have learned. Rinse and repeat.
That’s how you get to a great proposal. Keep at it. Well done.
Just try it out. I make no guarantees for odd setups like that though. :-)