- PeerTube is software that you install on a web server. It allows you to create a video hosting website, so create your
- "homemade YouTube".
-
-
-
- The difference to YouTube is that it's not intended to create a huge platform centralizing videos from the whole world on a
- single server farm (which is horribly expensive).
-
-
-
- On the contrary, PeerTube's concept is to create a network of multiple small interconnected video hosting providers.
-
-
-
-
-
-
- {{ 'What are the main advantages of PeerTube?' | translate }}
-
-
-
-
- PeerTube is unique because (as far as we know) it's the only video hosting web application which combines three
- advantages:
-
-
-
-
An open code (transparency) under a free/libre license (ethic, respect and community-driven development);
-
A federation of interconnected hosting providers (so more video choices wherever you go to see them);
-
Peer-to-peer broadcasting – and therefore viewing – (so no slowing down when a video becomes viral).
-
-
-
- Linked together, these three features makes it easy to host videos on the server side, while remaining practical, ethical and
- fun for the internet users.
-
-
-
-
-
-
- {{ 'Why is it better as free/libre software?' | translate }}
-
-
-
-
- Because by design free/libre software respects our fundamental freedoms, and guarantees them by
- a license,
- so a legally enforceable contract.
-
-
-
Concretely here, it means that:
-
-
PeerTube is freely provided, no need to pay to install it on your server;
-
We can look under the hood of PeerTube (its source code): it's auditable, transparent;
-
Its development is community-based, it can be enhanced by everyone's contributions.
-
-
-
-
-
-
- {{ 'What\'s the interest to federate the video hosting providers?' | translate }}
-
-
-
-
- The advantage of YouTube (and other platforms) is its video catalog: from knitting tutorials to Minecraft constructions
- through videos of kittens or holidays... you can find everything!
-
-
- The more the video catalogue is varied, the more people are interested, the more videos are uploaded... but hosting videos from
- all over the world is (very, very) expensive!
-
-
- If the hosting provider Knitting-PeerTube becomes friends with Kittens-Tube and Framatube, it will display the videos of
- others on its site, thus diluting hosting costs while remaining practical and complete for Internet users.
-
-
- PeerTube's federation protocol is fluid (everyone can choose who they want to follow), and based on
- ActivityPub: this opens the possibility
- to connect with tools like Mastodon for example.
-
When you host a large file like a video, the biggest thing to fear is success: if a video becomes viral and many people watch
- it at the same time, the server has a big risk of getting overloaded!
-
- Peer-to-peer broadcasting allows, thanks to the
- WebRTC
- protocol, that Internet users who watch the same video at the same time exchange bits of files, which relieves the server.
-
-
- There is nothing to do: your web browser does it automatically. If you are on a mobile phone or if your network does not
- allow it (router, firewall, etc.), this function is disabled and switches back to an "old-style" video broadcast 😉.
-
-
-
-
-
-
- {{ 'For those who know how to administer a server, PeerTube is...' | translate }}
-
-
-
-
- It's software you install on your server to create a website where videos are hosted and broadcast...
- Basically: you create your own "homemade YouTube"!
-
-
- There already exists free/libre software that enables you to do this. But with PeerTube, you can link your instance (your
- video website) to Zaïd's PeerTube instance (where he hosts videos of the lectures for his people's university), to Catherin's
- (who hosts her webmedia videos) or even to Solar's PeerTube instance (who manages a vloggers collective).
-
-
- But PeerTube doesn't centralize: it federates. Thanks to the
- ActivityPub
- protocol (also used by
- the Mastodon federation,
- a free/libre Twitter alternative), PeerTube can federate several small hosters so they don't have to buy thousands of hard
- disks to host videos for the whole world.
-
-
- As a result, on your PeerTube website, the audience will be able to watch not only your videos, but also videos hosted by
- Zaïd, Catherin or Solar... without having to host their videos on your PeerTube-powered website. Such diversity in a
- video-catalog makes it very attractive. Such a large choice and diversity of videos is what made centralized platforms such as
- YouTube succesful.
-
-
- Federation offers another benefit: everyone becomes independent. Zaïd, Catherin, Solar and yourself can make
- your own rules, your own Terms of Services (for example, one can imagine a MeowTube where dogs videos are strictly forbidden
- 😉).
-
-
-
-
-
-
- {{ 'For those who wants to upload their videos, PeerTube allows...' | translate }}
-
-
-
-
- It allows you to choose a hoster that fits you. YouTube's excesses are a good example: its hoster, Google/Alphabet, can
- impose its "Robocopyright" (the ContentID system) or its tools to index, recommend and spotlight videos; and those tools seem
- as unfair as they are obscure. Even though, it already forces you
- to give it extended copyrights on your videos,
- for free!
-
-
- With PeerTube, you can choose the hoster of your videos according to his terms of services, his moderation
- policy, his federation choices... As you don't have a tech giant facing you, you might be able to talk with you hoster if you
- ever have a problem, a need, or something you want.
-
-
- The other big advantage of PeerTube is that your hoster doesn't have to fear the sudden success of one of your videos.
- Indeed, PeerTube broadcasts videos with the protocol
- WebTorrent.
- If hundreds of people are watching your video at the same time, their browsers automatically send bits of your video to other
- viewers.
-
-
- Before this peer-to-peer broadcast, successful videographers (or videos that make the buzz) were doomed to be hosted by a web
- giant whose infrastructure can handle millions of simultaneous views... Or to pay for a very expensive independent video host so
- that it can hold the load.
-
-
-
-
-
-
- {{ 'For those who want to watch videos, PeerTube can offer...' | translate }}
-
-
-
-
- One of the benefits is that you become a part of the broadcasting of the videos you are watching. If other
- people are watching a PeerTube video at the same time as you, as long as your tab remains open, your browser shares bits of
- that video and you participate in a healthier use of the Internet.
-
-
Of course, PeerTube's video player adapts to your situation: if your installation does not allow peer-to-peer playback
- (corporate network, recalcitrant browser, etc.) video playback will be done in the classic way.
-
-
- But above all, PeerTube treats you like a person, not as a product that it has to track, profile, and lock
- in video loops to better sell your available brain time. Thus, the
- source code
- (the recipe) of the PeerTube software is open, making its operation transparent.
-
-
- PeerTube is not only open-source: it's free (as in free speech). Its free license guarantees our fundamental
- freedoms as users. It is this respect for our freedoms that allows Framasoft to invite you to contribute to this software, and
- many evolutions (innovative comment system, etc.) have already been suggested by some of you.
-
- In March 2018, PeerTube released its publicly usable beta version. Several collectives set up the first instances, thus
- creating the bases of the federation.
-
-
- But this is just the beginning, PeerTube is not (yet) perfect, and many features are missing. But we intend to keep improving
- it day after day.
-
-
- March 2018 thus represents the birth of the PeerTube federations: the more this software will be used and supported, the more
- people will use it and contribute to it, and the faster it will evolve towards a concrete alternative to platforms such as
- YouTube.
-
-
- Nevertheless, the ambition remains to be a free and decentralized alternative: the goal of an alternative is
- not to replace, but to propose something else, with different values, in parallel to what already exists.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Creation and content
-
-
-
- {{ 'If it\'s free, can we upload illegal stuff on it?' | translate }}
-
-
-
-
- Being free doesn't mean being above the law! Each PeerTube hosting provider can decide on its own general conditions of use,
- abiding by their local laws.
-
-
- For example, in France, discriminatory content
- is prohibited
- and may be reported to the authorities. PeerTube allows users to report problematic videos, and each administrator must then
- apply its moderation in accordance with its terms and conditions and the law.
-
-
- The federation system, for its part, allows hosts to decide with whom they want to connect, depending on the types of content
- or the moderation policies of others.
-
-
-
-
-
-
- {{ 'Who is responsible for content published on PeerTube?' | translate }}
-
-
-
-
- PeerTube is not a website: it is software that allows a web hoster (for example, Dominique) to create a video website (let's
- call it DominiqueTube).
-
-
- Now imagine that Camille has created an account on DominiqueTube and uploads an illegal video, because this video uses music
- created by Solal.
-
-
- Solal goes on Framatube, an instance which follows DominiqueTube. So, Solal can see, from Framatube, the videos published on
- DominiqueTube.
-
-
- Solal sees Camille's illegal video, and signals it with the button provided for that purpose. Although the report is made
- from Framatube, it is sent directly to the person hosting the illegal content, Dominique.
-
-
- From that moment on, Dominique is responsible, because they are warned that they're hosting an illegal video. It is therefore
- up to them to act if they don't want to be held accountable before the law.
-
-
Then Dominique and Solal can turn against Camille, who uploaded the video.
There are none, not at the moment, PeerTube is a tool that we wanted neutral in terms of remuneration.
-
- For now, the solution proposed to people who upload videos is to use the "support" button under the video. This button
- displays a frame in which people who upload videos can display text, images, and links freely. For example, it's possible to
- put a link to Patreon, Tipeee, Paypal, Liberapay (or any other solution) there. Other examples: put a postal address if you'd
- like to receive physical thank-you cards, put a logo of your enterprise, a link to support a non-profit organisation...
-
-
- We did not go any further because to favour one technical solution would be to impose, in the code, a political vision of
- cultural sharing and its financing. All financial solutions are possible and treated equally in PeerTube.
-
-
- However, many improvements of PeerTube are to be expected... Including those that would allow you to create (and choose) the
- monetization tools that interest you!
-
-
- Nevertheless, it is worth remembering that the vast majority of videos published on the Internet (and even on YouTube) are
- shared for non-market purposes: remuneration is a tool, but not necessarily a main or essential purpose.
-
-
-
-
-
-
- {{ 'Where can I put my videos?' | translate }}
-
-
-
-
You need to find a PeerTube hosting instance you trust.
- Then, we recommend you go to the instances, read their "about" page to discover their terms of use (disk space limit per
- user, content policy, etc.).
-
-
- It's best to contact and talk directly with hosting providers, to understand their business model, vision, etc. Because only
- you can determine what makes you trust such or such host, and thus entrust your videos to them.
-
-
-
-
-
-
- {{ 'There are many porn videos on PeerTube!' | translate }}
-
-
-
-
- No. In October 2018, on an average instance federating with ~200 instances and indexing ~16000 videos, only ~200 videos are
- tagged as NSFW (i. e. the content is sensitive, which could be something else than pornography). Therefore, they represent
- only ~1% of all the videos.
-
-
- Moreover, each administrator decides with which instances he wants to federate: he has the full control of the content he
- wants to display on his instance. It's up to him to choose the policy regarding this kind of videos. He can decide to:
-
-
-
Display them
-
Blur the title and thumbnail
-
Hide them
-
-
- By default, this configuration is set to "Hide them". If some administrators decide to display them with a blur filter
- for example, it's their choice.
-
-
- Finally, any user can override this configuration, and decides if he want to display, blur or hide these videos for
- himself.
-
-
- PeerTube is just a software: it's not Framasoft (non-profit that develops PeerTube) that's responsible for the content
- published on some instances.
-
-
- It's up to everyone to be responsible: parents, visitors, uploaders, PeerTube administrators to respect the law and avoid any
- problematic situations.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Comments & Complaints
-
-
-
- {{ 'PeerTube vx.y.z does not seem to me to contain all the tools necessary for a good management of my instance.' | translate }}
-
-
-
-
- "It's outrageous and unconscious: you're releasing PeerTube's version x.y.z when it doesn't contain the necessary tools
- to effectively manage videos claimed by rights holders, or to effectively manage the issue of online harassment in comments,
- or to effectively manage monetization through advertising, or to (insert here your request to PeerTube). It will never work!
- What do you intend to do about it?"
-
-
-
- You're right. PeerTube is not the perfect tool, far from it. And we never promised that this version 1.0 would be a
- tool that would include all the features corresponding to all cases.
-
-
- PeerTube is the realization of the commitment we made in October 2017 to take PeerTube from an alpha version (personal
- project and proof of concept that a federated video platform could work) to a 1.0 version in October 2018 (which does not mean
- "final version", but "version considered stable and distributable").
-
-
- Remember that PeerTube has only one (almost) full time developer and a small handful of very involved volunteers. It is not a
- product developed by a start-up with a full time team (dev, design, UX, marketing, support, etc.) and significant financial
- support. It is a Community free software, the development of which will continue over the months and, we hope, in the years to
- come.
-
-
- We are well aware of the shortcomings of PeerTube, especially in the moderation tools area (videos, comments, etc.). And
- we intend to work on these weaknesses.
-
-
- We have chosen to do so as follows: on the one hand we will work primarily in the coming months to improve these tools within
- PeerTube itself (in the core of the software). On the other hand, we will also focus, in parallel, a large part of
- PeerTube's development effort during 2019 on the integration of a plugin system, which can be developed by the communities.
-
-
- Indeed, we do not claim to have the science behind it and know how best to manage each of the tools according to each of the
- needs. For example: with regard to the question of DMCA requests, cases vary according to geographical jurisdictions (European
- law is different from French law, itself different from Canadian law, itself different from American law, etc.). Concerning
- the tools for moderating comments, here again, we cannot decree ourselves experts of the subject, because this is simply not
- the case.
-
-
- By acting both on the core, but also by allowing the development of plugins, we believe that PeerTube will, in the
- long term, be able to respond much better to these issues and allow different communities to adapt PeerTube to their needs.
-
-
- We are working as quickly as possible to improve PeerTube, but we are doing so with the resources we have, which means
- very limited.
-
-
- In the meantime, as an user if you feel that PeerTube does not currently meet your needs, it's simple: don't use it right
- now (we remind you that we don't make money developing PeerTube, and that if we obviously hope for its success, the
- survival of our association doesn't depend on it).
-
-
-
-
-
-
- {{ 'PeerTube developers did not add moderation tools.' | translate }}
-
-
-
-
- The project's evolution demonstrates the contrary.
-
-
-
- Since the first stable release of PeerTube in October 2018, every release added or improved moderation
- features:
-
-
-
-
PeerTube 1.1 added bulk actions in the admin users table and instance/account muting;
-
PeerTube 1.2 added the ability to unfederate a video on blacklist; the notification system
- now shows reports, and new users;
-
-
PeerTube 1.3 added the possibility for admins to automatically quarantine new videos for
- new/untrusted users until a moderator reviews it. The instance's followers management was also reworked: UI is improved,
- follows can be denied;
-
-
PeerTube 1.4 added a plugin system, and made sure plugins can for instance automatically
- blacklist videos or reject comments based on any rule (similar to Pleroma MRF);
-
-
PeerTube 2.0 setup now asks the admin to answer questions regarding their moderation policy
- and dedication to it. Make a feature to automatically follow a public index of PeerTube instances part of core PeerTube,
- instead of leaving admins to script it themselves. This allows instance administrators to automatically follow instances of
- a "follow list" of their choice; a list which is self-hostable, so that communities can grow at their own pace;
-
-
PeerTube 2.1 added an internal privacy mode to videos (such videos won't be shared
- outside of the instance), and added quick access to moderation tools below the comments and hooks to create registration
- plugins (geoblocking or captchas for example); some third-party plugins already demonstrate this ability. This release also
- put emphasis on describing moderation features within the interface: warnings for features that might increase moderation
- work like autofollow, and descriptions to the action dropdowns.
-
-
-
-
- PeerTube developers are committed to develop and improve moderation tools to make instances always easier to manage.
- We welcome you to take part in discussions to help
- ongoing efforts in that direction or suggest new ones!
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Technical questions
-
-
-
- {{ 'How do I install PeerTube?' | translate }}
-
-
-
- We recommend not to install PeerTube on low-end hardware or behind a weak connection (for example, on a RaspberryPi with an
- ADSL connection): this could slow down all federations.
-
-
- Don't bother the developer to help you install your instance: we have a
- support forum for that.
-
-
-
-
-
-
- {{ 'How do I contribute to PeerTube’s code?' | translate }}
-
-
-
- If you want to help out in another way, or if you want to request a feature, come discuss it on our
- contribution forum.
-
-
-
-
-
-
- {{ 'Why does PeerTube use the ActivityPub federation protocol? Why not IPFS / d.tube / Steemit?' | translate }}
-
-
-
-
- PeerTube uses ActivityPub because this federation protocol is recommended by the W3C and is already used by the federated
- social network Mastodon.
-
-
-
IPFS is a great technology, but it still seems very (too!) young for large scale streaming of large files.
-
-
- After discussing it on our forum, we feel that d.tube is not free or open source, because publishing only compiled code
- hinders freedom of modification.
-
-
-
- PeerTube is free, decentralized, distributed, and does not impose any remuneration model. This is the choice we have made,
- which is debatable, and others (like d.tube) have made other choices, which have their advantages. So it’s up to you to see
- what suits you.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
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-
-
-
-
-
-
Create an account
-
-
- If you would like to interact with videos (like, comment, download...), subscribe to channels, create playlists or play videos,
- then all you have to do is create an account on the PeerTube instance of your choice.
-
- By filtering according to your profile (video maker or viewer), themes that you are
- looking for or languages you speak, find an instance whose rules match your needs!
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2. Create your account and enjoy PeerTube
-
-
- A username, an email, a password and you can already enjoy all the features of PeerTube!
-
Release of PeerTube v2, and redesign of JoinPeertube
-
November 12, 2019
-
-
-
Hello,
-
-
- After a year of work and improvements, we have just released version 2 of PeerTube! Everything is explained in detail in the
- Framablog article
- that we invite you to read.
-
-
-
We present, among other things:
-
-
-
features and improvements since v1 of November 2018;
-
work to facilitate the federation and presentation of proceedings;
-
the new version of JoinPeertube, which is enriched by this work;
our desires and projects for the future of PeerTube (we are considering a new crowdfunding, and dreaming of a video-remix tool and of live streaming!).
Peertube 1.4 just came out! Here's a quick overview of what's new…
-
-
Plug-in system
-
- Since PeerTube's launch, we have been aware that every administrator and user wishes to see the software fulfill their needs.
- As Framasoft cannot and will not develop every feature that could be hoped for, we have from the start of the project planned
- on creating a plug-in system.
-
-
-
- We are pleased to announce that the foundation stones of this system have been laid in this 1.4 release! It might be very basic
- for now, but we plan on improving it bit by bit in Peertube's future releases.
-
-
-
- Now, this system allows each administrator to create specific plug-ins depending on their needs. They may install
- extensions created by other people on their instance as well. For example, it is now possible to install community created
- graphical themes to change the instance visual interface.
-
-
-
A better interface
-
- We strive to improve PeerTube's interface by collecting users' opinions so that we know what is causing them trouble
- (in terms of understanding and usability for example). Even though this is a time-consuming undertaking,
- this new release already offers you a few modifications.
-
-
-
- First of all, we realized that most people who discover PeerTube have a hard time understanding
- the difference between a channel and an account.
- Indeed, on others video broadcasting services (such as YouTube) these two things are pretty much the same.
-
-
-
- However, on PeerTube each account is linked to one or multiple channels that can be named as the users sees fit. You also have
- to create at least one channel when creating an account. Once the channels have been created, users can upload videos to each
- channel to organize their contents (for example, you could have a channel about cooking and another one about biking).
-
-
-
-
- 2 channels on Framasoft's account on FramaTube instance
-
-
-
- In order to make this channel idea more understandable, we have changed the sign-up form, which from now on consists of two
- steps:
-
-
-
-
Step 1: account creation (choosing your username, password, email, etc.)
-
Step 2: choosing your default channel name via a new form
-
-
-
-
- the new sign-up form in 2 steps
-
-
-
-
- We also aimed to differentiate a channel homepage from that of an account. These two pages used to list videos, whereas now
- the account homepage lists all the channel linked to the account by showing under each channel name the thumbnail from the
- last videos uploaded on it.
-
-
- Another unclear element was the video sharing pop-up. We have improved it, and it is now possible to share or embed a
- video by making it start and/or finish at a precise moment (time-code feature), to decide which subtitles will appear by
- default, and to loop the video. These new options will surely be greatly enjoyed.
-
-
-
-
-
- customization options when video sharing
-
-
-
More features
-
-
- Our wonderful community of translators is once again to thank for their work, after they enriched PeerTube with
- 3 new languages: Finnish, Greek and Scottish Gaelic, making PeerTube now available in 22 languages.
-
-
-
- We also added a new feature allowing you to upload an audio file directly to PeerTube: the software will automatically
- create a video from the audio file. This much awaited for feature should make life easier for music makers :)
-
- Thanks to all PeerTube contributors!
-
- Framasoft
-
-
-
-
-
-
PeerTube 1.3 is out!
-
June 5, 2019
-
-
-
Hello!
-
-
We've just released PeerTube 1.3 and it brings a lot of new features.
-
-
- The most important of these new features is the playlist system. This feature allows any user to create a
- playlist in which it's possible to add videos and reorder them. Videos added to a playlist can be viewed entirely or partially:
- the creator of the playlist can decide when the video playback starts and/or ends (timecode system). This system is really
- useful to create all kinds of zappings or educational contents by selecting extracts from videos which interest you. In
- addition, a "Watch Later" playlist is created by default for each user. Thus, you can save videos in this playlist when you
- don't have time to watch them immediately.
-
-
-
- Another feature of this 1.3 version has been entirely developed by an external contributor:
- Josh Morel who add a quarantine system for videos on PeerTube. If the
- administrator of an instance enables this feature, any new video uploaded on his instance will automatically be hidden until a
- moderator approves it.
-
-
-
- PeerTube translation community have done a huge job. 3 new languages are now available: Japanese, Dutch and
- European Portuguese (PeerTube already support Brazilian Portuguese). Amazing! PeerTube is now available in 19 languages!
-
-
-
- Now, administrators can manage more finely how other instances subscribe to their own instance. The
- administrator can decide whether or not to approve the subscription of another instance to its own. It is also possible to
- activate automatic rejection for any new subscription to its instance. Finally, a notification is created as soon as the
- administrator's instance receives a new subscription. These features help administrators control on which instances their
- content is displayed.
-
-
-
- We're also redesigning the PeerTube video player to offer better video playback and to correct a few bugs.
- With this new player, resolution changes should be smoother and the bandwidth management is optimized with a more efficient
- buffering system. Version 1.3 of PeerTube also adds ability for administrators to enable this new experimental player so we can
- get feedback on it. We hope to use this new player by default in the future.
-
-
-
- Finally, we have made some adjustments to the user interface so it easier and nicer to use. For instance,
- video thumbnails are becoming bigger so that they're more highlighted. Users now have a quick access to their library from the
- menu that includes their playlists, videos, video watching history and their subscriptions.
-
- Thanks to all PeerTube contributors!
-
- Framasoft
-
-
-
-
-
-
PeerTube: retrospective, new features and more to come!
-
February 26, 2019
-
-
-
- Since version 1.0 has been released last November, we went on improving PeerTube, day after day. These improvements on PeerTube
- go well beyond the objectives fixed during the crowdfunding. They have been funded by the
- Framasoft non-profit, which develops the software (and lives only
- through your donations).
-
-
-
Here is a small retrospective of the end of 2018/beginning of 2019:
-
-
- In December 2018, we released version 1.1 which contained some moderation tools requested by instance administrators.
-
- We also took the opportunity to add a watched videos history feature and the automatic resuming of video playback.
-
-
-
- In January, we released version 1.2 that supports 3 new languages: Russian, Polish and Italian. Thanks to PeerTube's community
- of translators, PeerTube is now translated into 16 different languages!
-
-
-
- This version also includes a notification system that allows users to be informed (on the web interface or through email) when
- their video is commented, when someone mention them, when one of their subscriptions has published a new video, etc.
-
-
-
- In the meantime, the PeerTube federation has grown: today, more than 300 instances broadcast more than 70,000 videos, with
- nearly 2 million cumulated views. We remind you that the only official website we maintain around PeerTube is
- https://joinpeertube.org/en and that we bear no responsibility on any other site that
- may be published.
-
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- As you can see, we have gone far beyond what the crowdfunding has funded. And we will continue!
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- For 2019, we plan to add a plugin and theme management system (even though basic at first), playlist management,
- support for audio files upload and many other features.
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- If you also to contribute to the growing of PeerTube, you can participate in its funding here:
- https://soutenir.framasoft.org/en
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- Thanks to all PeerTube contributors!
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PeerTube crowdfunding newsletter #4
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October 16, 2018
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Hello everyone!
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We are now in mid-October! As promised, we have just released the first stable version of PeerTube.
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It implements all stretch goals we planned in our crowdfunding:
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Localization support (as we write these lines, PeerTube is already available in 13 different languages!)
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Subtitles support
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Ability to import videos through an URL (YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and many others!)
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Ability to import a video through a torrent file or a magnet URI
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- RSS feeds, allowing you to track new videos published in all federated PeerTube instances, in a specific PeerTube instance
- or in a video channel you like. You can also subscribe to comment feeds!
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A more relevant search, with the ability to set advanced filters (duration, category, tags...)
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- Subscriptions throughout the federation: you can follow your favorite video channels and see all the videos on a dedicated
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Redundancy system: a PeerTube instance can help sharing some videos from another instance
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We know that feature descriptions are not very amusing, so we have published a few demonstration videos:
- This is the last newsletter regarding the PeerTube crowdfunding. We would like to thank you one more time, for allowing us
- to greatly improve PeerTube, and therefore to promote a more decentralized web. But the journey does not end here: we will
- continue to work on the software, and there is still a lot to do to fully free up video streaming. But before anything, we'll
- take a few days off ;)
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A month before the version 1 of PeerTube, we would like to share some (good!) news with you.
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- We just released PeerTube beta 12, that allows to subscribe to video channels, whether they are on your instance or
- even on remote instances. This way, you can browse videos of your subscribed channels in a dedicated page. Moreover, if your
- PeerTube administrator allows it, you can search a channel or a video directly by typing their web address in the PeerTube
- search bar.
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- It was not included in the crowdfunding, but we created an "Overview" page, that displays videos of some
- categories/tags/channels picked randomly, to show the diversity of the videos uploaded on PeerTube. You can see
- a demonstration here.
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- You can read the complete beta 12 changelog here.
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- Regarding the crowdfunding, most of the rewards are ready: the PeerTube
- README and the JoinPeerTube Hall of Fame show off the names of the
- persons who have chosen the corresponding rewards. We will soon be able to send the personalized thank-you digital arts to
- people that gave 80€ (~93 USD) and more (and it's so beautiful that we are looking forward to it!).
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- The last feature we have to implement is the videos redundancy between instances, which will further increase resilience on
- instance overload. If all goes well, we should finish it in about two weeks (end of september).
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- We remind you that you can track the progress of the work directly on the git
- repository, and be part of the discussions/bug reports/feature requests in the "Issues" tab.
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The development of the crowdfunding features is going well.
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- As a reminder, in the first newsletter (July 23rd, 2018), we announced that the localization system and RSS feeds were
- implemented, and that we were making progress on the subtitles support and the advanced search.
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- These four features are all implemented, and can already be used on instances updated to version v1.0.0-beta.10 (for
- example https://framatube.org). Regarding the subtitles support, you can test them on the
- the "What is PeerTube" video.
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- We are currently finishing the video import system, from a URL (YouTube, Vimeo etc) or a torrent file. This feature should be
- available in a few days, when we will release a new version (v1.0.0-beta.11).
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- The import system will complete the first crowdfunding goal. The next feature we will be working on will be the user subscriptions.
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- We remind you that you can track the progress of the work directly on the git
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First of all, thank you again for contributing to PeerTube! ❤️
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- During the crowdfunding campaign, we continued to work on the localization system. And we are happy to announce it's
- finally completed: it will be available in the next beta (beta 10) of PeerTube. As of this writing, the web interface is
- already available in english, french, basque, catalan, czech and esperanto (huge thank you to all of the translators).
- If you too want to help translating PeerTube, do not hesitate to check out the documentation!
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- Regarding the RSS feeds feature, it was already implemented by Rigelk and you can already use it in the beta 9.
- You can, for example, get the feed of the last local videos uploaded in a particular instance.
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- Subtitles support is well under way, and we should have a first version available soon.
- When this work is finished, we will develop the advanced search.
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- We remind you that you can track the progress of the work directly on the git repository, and be part of the discussions/bug
- reports/feature requests in the "Issues" tab.
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