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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by alfagun74@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

Hey folks,

our team has worked tirelessly for a year to bring you Crackpipe, the open-source, decentralized, and liberal alternative to conventional cloud-based game platforms like Steam and Origin. We're thrilled to announce that Crackpipe is now available for everyone, and we're delighted to share it with the community as an open-source project.

With Crackpipe, you and your friends can enjoy playing and tracking games on a shared file server, free from the restrictions of traditional platforms. Embracing "alternatively obtained" games, including DRM-free titles, Crackpipe offers a flexible and open approach to gaming - think Jellyfin, but for Videogames.

Take full control of your gaming experience with Crackpipe's self-hosted approach. Explore your server's game collection, securely download, launch, and play games, and monitor your playtimes and progress - all even when the server is offline. Compare stats and play states with other users on the server for added fun.

Our server features include automatic indexing of games, metadata enrichment with RAWG API, multi-user authentication, configurable logging, health monitoring, full-text search, filters, sorting, pagination, and a fully documented API. Crackpipe's high configurability ensures it fits your specific needs.

Join us on this journey to embrace a more open, flexible, and enjoyable gaming experience for all. Try Crackpipe today and share your contributions, feedback, bug reports, and feature requests.

Link: https://crackpipe.de

You can also check out our launch at producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/crackpipe

UPDATE: here

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[-] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago

I for one will not be using this to introduce my kids to gore simulators where you can see chunks of peoples' heads blown off at your own hands, because it's called crack pipe, and that is where I draw the line

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[-] greater_potater@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago

I'm not going to talk with my friends about using something called crackpipe. Might be cool software, but I can't take it seriously. This would be like if Plex called themselves bootlegpimp.

[-] RobotToaster@infosec.pub 11 points 1 year ago

Still less embarrassing than recommending GIMP.

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[-] charles@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Completely agree, having a memorable name is important but that doesn't mean the name should be a joke.

[-] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Gonna contribute to the project just to keep the name as is

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[-] lordcommander@waveform.social 27 points 1 year ago

Cool idea, problematic name. Have you considered any others? There’s a ton of racist/problematic connotations in the US with this name that probably wouldn’t be well understood in DE/EU…

[-] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Agreed. As an American, cool concept, rough name. There is no way I’m recommending a software called crackpipe at work.

And let’s say I wanted to use it, I’m going to install this and instruct my kids how to use crackpipe? I’m sure that will go over great with little Timmy’s school when he tells his teacher and friends.

I’d strongly consider changing it.

[-] LegendofDragoon@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

And it's not like you can even abbreviate it since cp has its own problematic connotations when it comes to the Internet

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[-] charles@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

And when we are troubleshooting, we'll be searching "crackpipe _____"... I can definitely think of a few scenarios where that'll return very different results than expected.

[-] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

Would be kind of funny to skew Google results for crackpipe towards a game platform though.

[-] aski3252@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

And let’s say I wanted to use it, I’m going to install this and instruct my kids how to use crackpipe?

I mean I get your point, but if you instruct your kids how to use a tool for managing pirated games, they are probably going to see a lot harsher stuff than the word "crack pipe"..

[-] PeachMan@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

This is a tool for hosting pirated games. It's not meant to be safe for work or kids.

I get that the name is offensive, but it doesn't really matter. They're not going to hire a marketing team and do an IPO.

Also, the name makes sense. It's a pipe to transport cracked games.

[-] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

It's actually more racist to be afraid to bring up crack pipes when Breaking Bad counts as totally tame watercooler talk.

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[-] lemmy@lemmy.quad442.com 7 points 1 year ago

Crack pipe isn't racist. People of all Skin tones can enjoy that sweet sweet crack.

[-] lordcommander@waveform.social 10 points 1 year ago

In the US specifically there’s some historical connotations back to the 80’s and how the US government fucked over black communities by flooding them with crack. I’m sure you all didn’t mean anything racist/negative with this, but wanted to flag this to y’all since you were based in the EU and likely wouldn’t have the same connotations with the term :)

Anyways, best of luck with this! It’s a cool idea.

[-] Neato@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Not doing the least bit of research and choosing an edgy name makes this seem extremely amateurish.

[-] dsemy@vlemmy.net 4 points 1 year ago

“Amateurish”? This is literally a server for hosting pirated games, who gives a fuck.

Also, if your first thought after reading the word crackpipe is black people, maybe you’re the racist one.

And even if in the US it does have this connotation (IDK I’m not American), why should Europeans care?

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[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

In the US they can change it to MethPipe

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[-] KairuByte@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

For god sakes, change the damn name.

[-] mvirts@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How about buttcrack? Jk that would be terrible. CriticalPoint would keep the two letter combo and be a dig at steam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_point_(thermodynamics)

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

CP is the second reason the name is terrible. “Let me connect to your CP server” is going to get so many people onto so many lists, unless they specify CP == CrackPipe.

There are just some names and abbreviations you do not use. And this is both of those.

[-] apotheotic@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

While Crackpipe can be used with cracked games, it does not encourage or condone piracy.

This is so fucking hilarious to me. Your logo is a pirate, and your app name is "crack"pipe (which is dumb for many reasons), and you use 'alternatively sourced' in the language instead of just talking about DRM-free games.

Cool software, but if you don't want to get shut down you certainly should reconsider your approach.

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[-] themachine@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

As others have said, cool concept, awful name.

Bad name aside Windows only client support is a big letdown and makes the application useless to me.

[-] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

My favourite part is 100% the name never change it

[-] CrimsonFlash@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Terrible name. Call it something like Gamepipe instead.

[-] priapus@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

I'd be interested if there's any plans for a Linux client

[-] shadow@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

Same here. My current method is a self hosted website on my home network which showcases all available games, followed by a bash script download that will automatically generate the yml file for Lutris to fully install any of my 200+ games.

Whilst this is currently the best way I've found for my setup this app seems like the perfect thing to potentially swap to, if Linux was supported.

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[-] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 7 points 1 year ago

Lol, gonna be honest, it would be pretty hard telling my friends about this awesome thing I learned about called Crackpipe.

That said, it's not really something I could do anyway. My ISP doesn't let me host servers, and they're the only ISP in my area without disgustingly draconian data limits.

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[-] RobotToaster@infosec.pub 6 points 1 year ago

I love the chutzpah of it.

Creative commons isn't a licence designed for code though, consider using the AGPL instead.

[-] quortez@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Cool software.

Even as someone sympathetic to 'privateers' though...you gotta have more plausible deniability bro, workshop that name lmao

[-] garrett@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

Would’ve been a hundred times funnier to call it crackpot.

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