David Sterry @weex@c4.social

The near term plan with #Ecko and Magic Stone is to develop features and facilitate using the software so that we spin up the user-contributor feedback loop.

If anyone has question about how to run an instance or find one to try, don't hesitate to reach out!

https://c4.social was just updated to latest #Ecko and has a new custom favicon that was uploaded via the admin UI. Seems not to be displayed on mobile but looks good on desktop. So the iteration under C4 goes...

Bumping the version of Ecko on #YunoHost has been waiting for their CI to get to the latest PR. The weekend load spike seems in danger of wrapping around, so if anyone out there is a bash wizard or has a passion for CI 👀@ https://ci-apps-dev.yunohost.org/ci/

Just merged Favicon editing by UI into #Ecko, closing https://github.com/magicstone-dev/ecko/issues/245

I saw it work on a Heroku demo, and don't have the latest version running, so we could use some help running and testing the latest main branch, but the changes are pretty minimal for how cool the effect is.

We also have a procedure that needs testing for running a demo server of Ecko. https://github.com/magicstone-dev/ecko/pull/280

Ecko is now available for installation in #YunoHost. If you'd like to try #Ecko in an easy, low-risk, self-hosted way, this is it.

Please report any issues at https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/ecko_ynh/issues and have a nice day.

Thanks to @PaulaToThePeople for raising this idea, to #glitch-soc for having a working ynh package to mod and to #Mastodon for making this quest for better social networking possible.

I wonder how many kids out there are stuck in scratch tutorial hell.

🎉 Merged! 🎉

The PR to make #Ecko live on Yunohost was just created. https://github.com/YunoHost/apps/pull/1270

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The folks at Yunohost have built something very special.

#Ecko is now in the apps catalog but marked as 'inprogress' while some final touches are put on.

Extremely impressed by the user friendliness of their app packaging community and how the various scripts give output that humans can read.

Spent a good chunk of time today editing video with Blender and it's been a challenge, because I think of the variable frame rate video coming out of my camera.

Working with FOSS can be hard but it's worth it because the value I'm creating along the way belongs to the community. Tempted to analogize but I'll just say I'm going to be very satisfied once I have my FOSS video editing pipeline.

To begin the Magic Stone forks, I pulled in a lot of upstream PRs but also commented on others to inquire about the problems they address.

A few months later I feel better about reaching out to authors to have them PR directly against Ecko. This is progress.

Installed Ecko via YunoHost on a local instance which went very smoothly since it was based on Glitch-soc's ynh integration. Once we get the repo transferred to YunoHost-Apps, I'll install it as a subdomain of magicstone.dev!

Progress on Acropolis for YunoHost also progressing nicely.

Playing with the import and export domain blocks feature in Ecko,

import wants the same format as output by export which makes sense but it's doubtful anyone's currently providing such a list.