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It's not something I use majorly here but I had one user asking for it. Me and a co-admin decided to make favorites public for the time being so you can also share your favorites page if you want.

I'll be adding listing of other discussions soon.

Edit: I have that partially added now https://matrix.gvid.tv/otherposts/7ySCeZoojp

That's about the same level of what Reddit has but I want to make other posts more obvious than being hidden behind a link.

https://matrix.gvid.tv/c/MatrixDev/BxfgQWE5ou

Check it out on the front page: https://matrix.gvid.tv/

Not too long ago Matrix got support for optionally reuploading images. This was largely intended to help move discord images to a better host. But they still get posted even with the option there.

One issue with Discord images is that they have a limited lifespan. It's sort of what the cdn part of the URL means, is that it's a temporally provisioned resource in a content distribution network.

Discord's approach is to encourage users to engage directly with their platform, which is great for their community, but they aren't really interested in offering utility to other sites because their model is a single everything included app with little cross site interaction. That's the why of what they do. The what is links that last about two days.

Matrix is now taking a new approach by identifying temporary image URLs and rehosting them. This means we'll also be adding uguu.se and litter.catbox.moe. If you know of any more common temporary image URLs let me know.

Let me know what you think of this. Right move, wrong move, let me know.

Similar post on Matrix: https://matrix.gvid.tv/c/MatrixDev/Dsv84Pq6Ko

Custom sort admittedly only impacted the front page when I first put it in. Now you can use it in sub and on users.

What is custom sort. It's like 'Hot' and 'New' had an infinite number of babies and you get to select that baby like IVF throwing out all the other fetuses.

To put it another way there's an algorithm and it has factors. How new something is, how many votes it's gotten, proximity which is basically if it is similar to other things you've upvoted. Right, the same as any other site. The difference is I let you control the weights of the factors. It's like if you went to google, and google has two factors they look at, relevence, and "authority" (how much it's from one of the top 20 sites on the internet), and google wasn't giving you anything relevant to your search. You could say fuck you, just give me what's relevent, fuck your authority bullshit.

Soon I plan to add bump as a factor.

Then I also just added hidden from front, which is like "Exclude from all" here. It probably won't get used much but it is there.

And then I just added support in settings for making animated thumbnails still. By default animated gifs are also animated in the thumbnail. Personally I like it. It makes the front page more.. animated. But a few users weren't fans so now there is a setting.

https://matrix.gvid.tv

We had some old posts sticking around on the front page a little too long. Rather than re-tune the algorithm I did something better. I let users control it entirely. Plus also the default settings for it are better than what they were before.

So now you get complete control how much something being new vs something being liked vs something being similar to the things you like is.

Check it out on the front page: https://matrix.gvid.tv/

Here is the announcement for it where I go in a little deeper about the motivation: https://matrix.gvid.tv/c/Announcements/76FczY7Qgc

I was planning to integrate some of those suggestions in gvid so you would get both gvid suggestions and "youtube" suggestions. As you likely know gvid in its current form lets you both upload videos as well as use it as an invidious instance, so I wanted to add those suggestions for the videos that are the invidious style. Well RIP.

I've hated youtube's suggestions on site for a while now and it looks like their "related to this video" data is no longer available to their competitors to do something better with it.

At the very least if you do use gvid as an invidious instance I'll make sure you get some kind of suggestion and hopefully it's a little relevant. I want to work on that algorithm some because I think I can do better. I was so proud of it when I made it but, no, I can do better. AI and crypto-trading have been about 80% of my coding lately. I consider that work. And the remainder has been a big push on https://matrix.gvid.tv , currently taking up my fun coding. But if I get that to a happy state I'll be trying to improve gvid suggestions so they are more relevant and mix in newest videos so there is better churn.

But does anyone know how long ago Invidious cut that? Gvid + Youtube suggestions may have been good.