Allow self-hosted instances

[WardPearce]

Assuming this is planned & will be added in future. Raising issue for tracking.

[themonarchoftime]

you can selfhost lighttube instances, which are used in this app on setup check https://github.com/kuylar/lighttube

[WardPearce]

you can selfhost lighttube instances, which are used in this app on setup check https://github.com/kuylar/lighttube

Yes but doesn't appear you can add it to the app as a instance without building the app yourself.

[themonarchoftime]

you can, by adding your instance to instances.json

[WardPearce]

Do you mean public_instances.json? & what if you don't want your instance to be public?

[themonarchoftime]

~~skill issue tbf~~

yea, already told @kuylar about that

[WardPearce]

~skill issue tbf~

yea, already told @kuylar about that

haha yea, also seems like a scalability issue if in the future their is like 1000+ instances listed in a random json file.

[kuylar]

The current version of the setup process is something I made in 30 minutes just to get a sample app working. It's one of the worst pieces of code I've ever written. I'm going to rewrite it fully when everything else is in a "good enough" state.

Thanks for opening the issue though, now I have a motivation for it!

1000+ instances listed in a random json file.

I've been thinking about doing a quick backend for that because storing them in GitHub is not a good idea