I've learned to live with having WireGuard/Tailscale on all the time on my own devices. But for giving (extended) family & friends access to shared albums with Immich, it's too impractical to configure and explain widely. I've been using a Cloudflare Tunnel for this situation with their "Zero Trust" email-based authentication. It probably won't work with the Immich mobile app though, since I doubt that client can handle Cloudflare's interstitial login screen.
You can setup Google oauth authentication on Cloudflare zero trust and pass that right through to Immich’s support for Oauth for a pretty seamless experience
I'm personally the admin of a (very small) OCF collective. It's sad to see them stopping. When starting the collective ~2 years ago, OCF was an attractive option because of their fees, which were significantly lower than many other big fiscal hosts (5% instead of 10%). Their array of services was also impressive, but I never made use of any service outside the core Open Collective feature set. I wonder if raising their fees, or cutting down services, would have made the operation more sustainable.
Interesting concept, might try it! I've used Quitter (https://marco.org/apps) for months to auto-quit my email app & Slack after a time interval. This is a more proactive approach.
You'd still have the issue of being able to open multiple browser tabs, and they can be more distracting than apps. But there are already plenty of browser extensions for that; personal fav: the Defaulter in https://github.com/louisbarclay/nudge (unfortunately temporarily unmaintained)
Nice, thanks! Apt timing. Easier than the grep & find commands I've been struggling with yesterday for the ua-parser-js debacle (though it's probably a virtue to know those!).
Replying on your other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28869067)
> Freemium model: advertisement based, with a subscription fee for some extra content personalization.
Have you also considered integrating with pre-existing web monetization models? I'm thinking mostly of Coil, but also Brave Rewards/Flattr/...
Definitely thinking about this stuff, but we're being very careful about what we're incentivizing. Tying income with pageviews on a specific story leads to clickbait and "7 celebs without makeup" kinds of stories. We want the app to be where people choose to go for news, not just clicking via social or aggregators.
I couldn't agree more! I'm working at https://readup.com/, we're making a general-purpose reading app where reads-to-completion are the basis for monetization as opposed to clicks or views. Together with reader ratings it really helps to reduce (even eliminate) clickbait.
I think our missions are quite aligned! We're mostly trying to incentivize & monetize the deep reading of medium- & long-form stories on the web. If that's something Forth is also going into (next to streams of shorter updates?), we may be able to collaborate!
Cool! Reminds me of speed-reading tools, but those ususally only keep a few words in focus, not whole paragraphs. This is almost the opposite, way more relaxed!
What really helps me with reading long articles online is a little "% read" counter in readup.com. This app tries to track exactly what you're reading. The feeling of getting credit for actually reading something adds motivation to read it, and helps me get through small moments of distraction (disclaimer: I'm working for Readup. Here's how that tracking works! https://blog.readup.com/2020/11/02/how-readup-knows-whether-...)
Interesting! Do you then move on to reading "normally" after applying this method to the first few pages? Seems tough to stick with for a whole reading session.
Reading physical books also may to be correlated to higher, active comprehension: "human beings need a knowledge of where they are in time and space that allows them to return to things and learn from re-examination" (article with related discussion https://readup.com/comments/the-guardian/skim-reading-is-the...)
> Stretch goals: I'll throw in a desktop version as well (mac first).
Makes sense! Because it does force me to context-switch if I have to open a browser to consult my notes. Browsers are notoriously distracting as well.
The browser extension looks good and functions well, but for me it would be more useful as a front-end to an existing note taking app (in my case, Notion).
Another thing I noticed: keyboard events while typing in a note seem to still be sent to the underlying page, which may react weirdly to that.
In addition to what Jeff said, from the reader's point of view, Readup's mission is to make a home for deep reading on the internet first. It's not only ad-blocking and monetizing for creators. We already have article discovery/ranking based on our read tracking algorithm, and future developments will improve the reading experience even more. For example, by being able to construct your own feeds with your favorite RSS & newsletter sources, topped up with our metadata, or expanding on the ability to organize & curate your reading socially. A comparison with "the next Pocket" might be appropriate from that perspective, or to a "Spotify for reading" (a nice read on this trend: https://readup.com/read/protocol/spotify-for-readers-how-tec...).
Our universal monetization model indeed draws comparisons to Coil, Brave Rewards, Flattr, Twitter Blue... we have in common that we try to make the web more ethical & sustainable. For a writer or publisher, we're one more monetization source for which they don't have to do extra work. And we come with a community of readers that you can interact deeply with (example: https://readup.com/comments/organizer-sandbox/ginny-our-litt...).
Coil had [an article discovery Reddit-clone](https://coil.com/blogs), but they have moved that to [Write.as](https://write.as/) now. I invite you to look at Readup's ranking and compare what you see!
