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cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/23975491

The announcement reply in the (from original developers rejected) Feature Request issue: https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/issues/4447#issuecomment-3697918113

And the repository: https://github.com/D3SOX/FreeTube

And for Arch users in the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/freetube-git-d3sox

There is a new fork of FreeTube that implements a (at least by me) long wished feature: Save video playback speed setting for each channel separately. He plans to do a Flatpak version maybe and its already in the AUR.

I personally have trust issues to run unknown forks and rely on them, for security and other reasons. So for now I won't use it unfortunately. But maybe someone else is interested.

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[–] GreyCat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Just seems a little too light on added features for a whole fork. Maybe if the forker does as he says and implements other rejected features it might be worth it. Depending on what those features are.
Good luck to him.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is this fork going to keep up each time g∞gle decides to play cat & mouse? We're about due for another round.

[–] thingsiplay@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago

I don't know the exact process, but I think its still based on the original, with the changes and additions on top of it. So it depends on the FreeTube team to keep up. I imagine its similar how the Firefox forks work, that still depend on the original Firefox.

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Sound like exactly what I have been wanting, though i will never use this fork for something so small and without a Flatpak.