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1. Simon Repp (freebliss@post.lurk.org)'s status on Thursday, 23-Mar-2023 05:37:04 JST Simon Repp

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   Almost two months already! Here's a long-promised, packed faircamp news bulletin:

   Faircamp is now in early Beta! I wrote a comprehensive standalone manual [1] for faircamp. Homepage and artist pages have been redesigned, the entire interface polished. All interface text has been made translatable (de/en done). Audio player waveform rendering is now clientside and perfectly responsive. An http server for local previewing has been integrated. GIF, HEIF and webp images are now supported. AIFF files are now supported as input too. Faircamp can now be built without libvips too (easier builds). Responsive image implementation has been greatly polished. Fullscreen cover view was added. Unlock code page now offers customizable text. Soft paycurtain page is functionally fully implemented now. The cache implementation now instantly persists computed artifacts so builds can be stopped and resumed at any point. Cache retrieval now performs full integrity checks and orphaned file cleanup at the start, also handling cache layout incompatibilites between different faircamp versions ... and lots and lots and lots of other improvements.

   Attached as a teaser: WIP images from the generative release cover design process! Adding this soon. (⌒‿⌒)

   [1] https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/manual/

   • Simon Repp (freebliss@post.lurk.org)'s status on Thursday, 23-Mar-2023 05:37:05 JST Simon Repp

     On the news of Epic Games aquiring Bandcamp, and possible alternatives: As it depends entirely on my free time (and asides two weeks early this year I've in fact been struggling to make space for it for a while now) I can't make any lofty promises, but I will say that https://codeberg.org/simonrepp/faircamp is still very much alive on my agenda. I received a lot of positive feedback last year (thanks again everyone) and with the Bandcamp takeover there's now more than ever a motivation to bring this towards an official release. Still: It's done when it's done, self-care and a healthy work mode come first. ( ◡‿◡ *)

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.