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title: "better reliability, new infrastructure, pinterest support, and way more!"
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date: "June 7, 2023"
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banner:
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file: "catswitchboxes.webp"
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alt: "a cat climbing into two empty boxes of asahi beer"
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hey! long time no see, hopefully over 40 changes will make up for it :)
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cobalt now has an official community discord server. you can go there for news, support, or just to chat. <a class="text-backdrop link" href="https://discord.gg/pQPt8HBUPu" target="_blank">go check it out!</a>
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<span class='text-backdrop'>tl;dr</span>
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- new infra, new hosting structure, new main instance api url. developers, <a class="text-backdrop link" href="https://github.com/imputnet/cobalt/blob/current/docs/API.md" target="_blank">get it here.</a>
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- added support for pinterest, vine archive, tumblr audio, youtube vr videos.
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- better web app performance and look.
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- better stability thanks to load balancing.
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- (hopefully) no more random video/audio download drops.
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service improvements:
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- added support for pinterest videos and stories (pr by <a class="text-backdrop link" href="https://github.com/imputnet/cobalt/commit/40291c4d24cb5f441cdddfd26104f149bc4ee27c" target="_blank">@Snazzah</a>).
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- added support for tumblr audio. sorry, tumblr.
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- added support for youtube vr videos. please note that they're in youtube's proprietary ratio.
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- added support for vine archive.
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- added support for ancient vk videos in 240p.
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- fixed an issue related to muted video downloads from tumblr.
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- moved to twitter v2 api.
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- soundcloud share links are now processed without errors.
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ui improvements:
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- lazy image loading. should significantly speed up the page load.
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- fixed checkbox width on mobile devices.
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- addition of a temporary urgent notice.
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- added hover border to all buttons.
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- less annoying donation button highlight.
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- more consistent color scheme.
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- added link to a discord server into about popup.
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- remember celebratory emoji changes? they've been fixed, and are now dynamically loaded!
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- changelog history now lets you try to load it again if first attempt failed for whatever reason.
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- padding (everywhere) has been slightly reduced to fit in more content and be consistent across ui.
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- added more info to the "how to save" popup for ios devices.
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- crypto wallet press-to-copy buttons now look like buttons.
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- improved ui layout for smallest screens (iphone 5, 5s, se, etc).
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- removed partial translations for sake of clarity and consistency.
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internal improvements:
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- separated web and api servers. they're now completely independent and therefore more stress-resistant.
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- added a dedicated script for building the web app if you don't want to reload the frontend server.
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- web app building improvements.
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- async localization preloading.
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- consistent server start time reporting.
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- dynamic stream and ip hashing salt generation.
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infrastructure improvements:
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- load balancing: your api requests are now sent to the least busy server. yes, there are now several of them with more to come in the future.
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- when possible, server in closest region is used instead of a far-away one. this should help with download speeds.
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- currently there are multiple servers in europe. i will let you know when (and if) i manage to get an american one.
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updates for developers and instance hosters:
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- server info api endpoint: you can now check up on the api server of choice. it reports all the basic info you may need. <a class="text-backdrop link" href="https://github.com/imputnet/cobalt/blob/current/docs/API.md#get-apiserverinfo" target="_blank">check the api docs</a> for more info.
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- api names: each and every api instance should have a distinctive name. this will be useful in the future :)
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- added docker compose sample config.
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- updated and more granular setup script.
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- better api scalability and faster server start up thanks to web and api separation.
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- added ability to specify ffmpeg threads. simply add ffmpegThreads to your environment variables!
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i'm still in awe from how popular cobalt has become. there are now over 200k of unique users monthly, and that number only keeps growing. i even had to come up with something to accommodate for larger traffic, it's absolutely insane.
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love you all, have a great day :D
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