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I agree, this project needs urgent fixes immediately because many YouTube layouts are broken or glitched. |
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I can confirm that 2012 layout seems to slowly break apart, especially visible on playlists and livestreams. |
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I agree, we can wait 2 (or 3) weeks for any commits, and if no changes happen, then this project is probably abandoned. For example, the project Firefox Scripts (by xiaoxiaoflood) faced a similar fate, that project was often updated, but from one point of time, no changes were made at all making it abandoned. EDIT: The last contribution made by lightbeam24 was on 19th March (but that was for a foreign project), so we still have a small hope, but I don't think, because I don't want to believe, that someone is ignoring important bug fixes for his own project. |
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Alright, so it's been a while and I randomly came across this: Well, from reading what's in there it seems like CustomTube is unofficially discontinued, and the project repo owner works on something else, thought this project is not abandoned as the author didn't decide yet. Not sure why the repo owner is inactive here, as he is indeed active there on Reddit. Apparently there is something else, a better replacement going on there. But I don't really wanna mess with installing 3rd party stuff, as an extension that is officially available on Google and Firefox web stores + GitHub repo makes the project clear as day and ultra easy to install. I'm not saying that the replacement is unsafe or something, it's just that I don't care enough messing with the YouTube layout any more than just using a simple extension that you can review at any time. Just took a look at the Vorapis extension they seem to promote now, and the extension code is obfuscated (made in a way to be barely understandable by other programmers). The thing with this (CustomTube) extension is that it's open source and clear as day to review. That (Vorapis) project seems to be closed source, and only its devs can do anything with it. It does NOT necessarily mean it's dangerous (it could be for performance), but just worth noting. I think I'll try forking the CustomTube repo and do stuff with it. |
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By the way, what are StarTube and Redux if I can ask? |
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StarTube is the successor to CustomTube, which allows the use of the 2011-2022 layout and is customizable like CustomTube. However it requires V3. Redux is very inaccurate and buggy. |
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I agree with you. CustomTube was much better than StarTube since CustomTube was an independent extension with its own features, but StarTube is dependent on V3 which isn't ideal since independent software is always better than plug-in, script or extension to other software. I don't even know why lightbeam24 betrayed us by discontinuation of CustomTube. At least lightbeam24 could write a reason for discontinuation and/or fix major issues, but he isn't even responding to his own users and he has been inactive on GitHub since 19. 3. 2024. |
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2 dislikes? For what? For my opinion? Such undemocratic and disrespect. |
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As I said in #240, I had a reason for that, though maybe it wasn't the right choice. Either way, I tried to address everything there. |
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I'll stick with CustomTube unless there's a better extension but that's unlikely right now. |
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Have you switched to V3 and Startube? If not, download it there: vorapis.pages.dev |
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I actually gave it a try once and reverted back to CustomTube. |
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Genuinely curious, what made you go back? |
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It was a bit too confusing for me. |
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Understandable, that's probably one of StarTube's biggest faults, and I'm looking to mitigate it in the future. However, you should know that simply applying layout presets is not difficult. All you do is:
Further customization is more complicated and is the reason why I wasn't gonna mention StarTube here yet, since I do want to fix that eventually. |
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Anyone still around? Here's a random screenshot: As you can see, I did my best to achieve every single bit of nostalgia, leaving nothing much done in a wrong way, making stuff 1:1 like they used to look like. Now, my actual questions are, like I said earlier:
Second and third questions are important, so I can know on what do I have to focus on and fix on which layout. Thanks for reading this! |
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Any updates yet? |
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Publishing would be great even if it's still in the Alpha phase since I'm extremely interested in the new version (And many people too). Could you upload the .xpi file to MediaFire and post a link to us? |
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A CustomTube fork is not needed when V3 (and maybe StarTube) exists |
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But Lort533 decided, so stop attacking us. |
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i hope for the best of u since youtube changes shit in polymer every day sooooo |
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i quit using CustomTube |
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They have switched to V3 and V3 is more accurate. |
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No, V3 isn't accurate. I loved CustomTube, but the developer (lightbeam24) betrayed me and the whole community because of discontinuation. Fortunately, Lort533 is working on the CustomTube fork. |
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No disrespect but do you care to explain how? If it's missing features then V3 is still in development. And for everything else, there are userscripts that can increase accuracy of older layouts. Mainly 2016-2017. I'm aware that it is not entirely accurate because of the Polymer 2016-2021 layouts. |
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V3 is literally (technically) 2013 html, how is it not accurate?? |
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tell me how is it not accurate then compared to customtube :/ |
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Abandoned, as explained in fairly great detail here: #240 |
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Alright, so there was enormous activity here while I couldn't reply, so let me catch up a bit. CustomTube is now officially abandonded, and like I said earlier, I'll be working back on a fork of this project next month. I guess I have to clarify few things first.First of all, I never told anyone what should they use, whether it's StarTube/V3 or CustomTube. Use whatever you prefer. Anyways, what are the plans for the fork though?Well, from the very beginning I knew that YouTube keeps changing, and that things keep breaking. I know that relying on YouTube's website structure is pointless, it's a temporary solution. However, changing this behaviour is not a five minute fix - to make CustomTube any independent from breaking, I will have to replace a lot of CustomTube's code. That's why I'm unsure of how exactly I'll be working yet. I may try making things work as intended, and then I would keep fixing them up, while also I would be trying to make CustomTube as independent from YouTube's current HTML and as much "unexpected change" resistant as it can get. I don't know if there is anything else to say. |
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Mr. Lort533, we should open another place for discussion about your fork (e.g. Reddit, Discord, etc) in case if this project (CustomTube) get eventually archived by lightbeam24 (archiving means the project would be locked permanently) because I have bad feeling that it would eventually happen. |
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why do you still care about customtube |
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Because it was something I liked. Why you are constantly attacking me? |
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Hello, any news Mr. Lort533? |
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Hello, |
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I'm afraid you came too late. we can talk each other in v3 server
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Hello,
sorry for the late reply. While I didn't have enough time to work on
CustomTube (remake, prob won't preserve the project as is) so far, I've
sure made a Discord server back when requested:
https://discord.gg/VbSmjaTFB7. It will be way easier to talk to each
other in there, and I have quite huge plans on this addon, which, of
course, will be open source, and based on open source.
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Hello,
I would like to ask, like the title says - is this project alive or abandoned? It's been a month since any activity on the repo. No commits? That's understandable, but there are no replies to new issues too. Is there a reason why does this happen? If the repo owner reads this right now, I'd just like to know if the project is abandoned, or just temporarily left aside, or maybe there is actually something happening "behind the scenes", new beta (or an actual release) that's simply not public yet. I may be a bit paranoid to ask such a question after just a month of inactivity, but it's somewhat rather a month already.
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