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Suggestion: separate front ends from clients

Open lordkitsuna opened this issue 3 years ago • 6 comments

I personally feel that "front end" is being used too loosely in the list. for example none of the twitch things are an actual web front end but just apps or clients. it would be nice if there was a separation between web front end, and alternative clients. I'm always on the search for actual front ends i can self host.

lordkitsuna avatar Mar 03 '23 06:03 lordkitsuna

It would be useful to easily separate the operating systems and a Android as well. There are many Android apps. Also Youtube-DL group.

maboroshin avatar Mar 12 '23 17:03 maboroshin

Yeah, the youtube section specifically is kind of a mess. Could separate it into, for instance, 3 sub-sections, which would be:

Web Frontends Apps/Clients Downloaders.

meatspinner avatar Mar 13 '23 06:03 meatspinner

The three classifications by meatspinner are reclassified as follows:

  • Web Frontends

    • Instance is on the project top page. (Ready to use)
      • Followed by those intended for music playback (Audio only, Not Youtube music)
    • Hard to find instance / Error in instance.

  • Apps/Clients

    • Desktop groups
      • Cross-platform groups if there are too many
      • Windows only groups if there are too many
    • Mobile groups
      • Andoroid only groups if there are too many
        • Andoroid TV at the end
      • iOS only groups (Always fewer)

  • Downloaders

    • Youtube-DL groups if there are too many
      • Cross-platform / Windows only groups if there are too many

Move to the top of the group

  • Multilingual support (Large demand. Stalled projects will be determined on a case-by-case basis)
  • Thousands of stars☆

Move to the end:

  • Fewer features and Dozens of stars☆
  • Non-English regional services (Low demand, Limited users)
  • Last updated over 3 years ago (Development has stalled)
  • No executable release while non-script project (Considered under development. Except for the test version available)

maboroshin avatar Mar 15 '23 08:03 maboroshin

Websites fall somewhere between desktop and mobile. Also splitting those would require e.g. having multiple twitter groups.

HookedBehemoth avatar Mar 15 '23 13:03 HookedBehemoth

You could just introduce "labels" for platforms, using simple colored tags saying Android/iOS/Web etc. instead of dividing everything into an endless amount of categories...

ltguillaume avatar Mar 15 '23 15:03 ltguillaume

Of course you are welcome to use labels or icons.

But... There are many Android only clients, NewPipe / LibreTube / SkyTube / VueTube / SongTube / HoloPlay / etc. And also many will be Win only. They need to be on one continuum. We have a clutter problem: do you want to see 5 androids after 2 Win, 4 Androids after iOS, Linux, then 3 Win... Would you like to see this?

There is no need for strict rules, but I would like it to be simple and cohesive.

maboroshin avatar Mar 15 '23 15:03 maboroshin