Hi,

love your launcher @ock88@lemmy.world

Was a long-time Nova launcher user and made me switch with ease. Even though it does not implement all Nova convenience features it’s already so good at this stage that it made the switch worth it. Most stand-out feature for me are stacked widgets that help preserve so much screen space. Using it on two GrapheneOS devices right now. Already sent some support your way.

A few suggestions / observations:

• It’s understandable if you decide to not open-source it, but would be great to have a central issue tracker for bug reporting / feature requests. Would make your support work easier I guess? Could also involve the community to sort and clean up reports.
• One main observation (bug?) that is affecting my experience regularly: Other launchers allow you to open a folder and re-arrange apps by simply dragging and dropping right then and there. Not sure why the launcher insists on going through the dedicated “Arrange items” option to sort apps within a folder.

Feature wishlist:

• Would be great if the launcher would read the show / hide private space flag and show / hide private space accordingly in the app drawer.
• Add newly installed apps to the home screen automatically.
• Might be a very obscure niche thing that does not affect many users: I’m using the PixBit icon set and Nova somehow renders icons that are not available within the icon set with a pixellated custom outline which results in a very cohesive icon experience… even when icons are not available natively. Not sure how they do that, but that’s really impressive.
• Per-folder setting of “swipe up/down” or “open folder” behavior instead of one global setting

Happy if maybe something gets picked up in the future, but already committed to the launcher as-is anyway. Thank you for your work in any case!

Had a similar idea with https://gohug.eu/

Main collection of resources starts here: https://gohug.eu/join/ - even added your guide a few days ago: https://gohug.eu/join/alternatives/

Domain name is a challenge I know well. At some point I just went with short to just get going.

Happy to contribute / join our efforts to build something great.

I agree. Did try a few searches before I added them and did not see any glaring errors. But checking more of their listings it seems they might have just scraped wrong data. Can confirm your findings and removed them.

Oh, good eye. Typo is fixed.

Thank you for your encouraging words!

Let me know if you miss anything. I’ll keep adding & maintaining anyways, but any recommendations are appreciated.

Interesting. Did not know that:

Startpage is a global privacy technology company that was founded in 2006 in the Netherlands. It is owned by a Dutch company, which is operated from its headquarters in The Hague, the Netherlands. Startpage is also part of System1, a publicly traded company based in the United States. System1, through its subsidiary Privacy One Group, acquired a majority stake in Startpage in October 2019. Despite this acquisition, Startpage has maintained its commitment to privacy and continues to operate under the leadership of its founders, including Robert E.G. Beens, who is the Co-Founder and CEO

Personally I see any switch away from big tech (ideally to FOSS) as win. We don’t need to be perfect, but try our best. In the end a lot of people doing it imperfectly will have a bigger impact than a few people doing it perfectly.

That said I’ll most likely remove it from the selection in the next couple of days.

Edit: replaced it with Karma search

Thank you!

No abbreviation - quite literally a place to show some appreciation for EU/Europe… and short.

At this point it’s mostly personal notes on interesting resources. Saved lemmy posts, reddit posts, and browser bookmarks got too overwhelming. Decided to aggregate all that info there.

Was (and still am) excited when I joined the community that I also needed an outlet to hopefully give something back that somebody finds useful.

My goal is to replace my current start page with the project start page. Ideally in form of a browser extension.

Thank you for the encouragement @blaze@feddit.nl Just posted https://lemm.ee/post/61489696

Nice, added to gohug.eu/join/alternatives/

US imported $3.2 billion in goods and exported $595 million. Trade deficit of 2.7 billion Syria, Iran, Venezuela (according to Forbes) were tariffed - despite being already sanctioned.

For me any migration from big-tech is a win. Especially to self-hosted FOSS alternatives that don’t require paid licenses.

We don’t need a hand full of people doing it perfectly, we need a big mass doing it imperfectly.

That said - I love all those alternatives that we suddenly learn about and hear about. There might be even better solutions for this particular niche.

Self-hosting is possible and without any fees (except your infrastructure) for both Ente and Immich. Personally run Immich for our family at home in our home network and everybody loves it. No cloud fees for Google/Apple photo storage anymore. Handles our current collection of 130K+ photos & videos spanning multiple decades well.

No experience with Ente, but their privacy focus / encryption support sounds awesome. Immich might have a bigger userbase / dev community through Futo / Louis Rossmann. AFAIK no encryption planned there.

Can reproduce and just shot the dev of Raccoon an email if we can do anything to fix it on our side. Love when this hopefully is all done within Lemmy natively and redirect services are not needed anymore.

URLs are now prettier - while being fully backwards compatible to the initial path structure.

Edit: Also handling invalid URLs more gracefully now

Got it.

Updated the issue tracker.

Absolutely open for that.

But not sure I’m following. Couln’t you already define the custom URL as https://lemsha.re/%s and leave GET params empty?

I like that. Will pick it up for the next update.

Exactly. There are differences, but the core functionality is the same.

Thanks for the shout-out. Thank you for your endless stream of inspiration. Keep 'em coming! Those links are so valuable.

Thank you so much for that background info! Will migrate my Gitea instance to Forgejo. Was quite fresh anyway, better do it now than later.