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[Enhancement] provide precompiled assets with the releases

Open OniriCorpe opened this issue 9 months ago • 0 comments

Is your enhancement request related to a problem? Please describe.

Hi! I'm a YunoHost volonteer and packager. YunoHost is packaging invidious so it can be installed with ease by almost anyone.

For now, the package is cloning the invidious's repo, but I noticed that you started again to provide proper releases, it's a good news for us!

But one thing that limits the use of invidious for YunoHost users is the compilation of assets, because YunoHost servers tend to be modest or weak (usually an old computer or an ARM board selfhosted at home)

For my own server, as an example, the compiling time can take 2 hours or more and is prone to paralyzing my whole home infrastructure, as the server is really struggling

Describe the solution you'd like

Providing precompiled assets in the releases would allow more people to install their own invidious instance and offload public invidious instances It would also probably reduce YouTube's waves of blocking by decentralizing user requests

Describe alternatives you've considered The alternative is the statu quo, leave things as they are

Additional context https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/2648 related

Thanks for your time and have a good day! ^w^

OniriCorpe avatar May 01 '24 00:05 OniriCorpe