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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • In a similar vein, I’ve seen a lot of auto moderator implementations created. If instead of creating yet another project, people started contributing to existing ones we’d have a good core set of functionality that could be shared across instances. Competing implementations are fine, but at some point the efforts get spread so thin that progress is limited.








  • The server itself is running nothing but the hypervisor. I have a few VMs running on it that makes it easy provision isolated environments. Additionally, it’s made it easy to snapshot a VM before performing maintenance in case I need to roll back. The containers provide isolation from the environment itself in the event of a service gone awry.

    Coming from cloud environments where everything is a VM, I’m not sure what issues you’re referring to. The performance penalty is almost non-existent while the benefits are plenty.


  • The wiki is a great place to start. Also, most of the services have pretty good documentation.

    The biggest tip would be to start with Docker. I had originally started running the services directly in the VM, but quickly ran into problems with state getting corrupted somewhere. After enough headaches I switched to Docker. I then had to spend a lot of time remapping all of the files to get it working again. Knowing where the state lives on your filesystem and that the service will always restart from a known point is great. It also makes upgrades or swapping components a breeze.

    Everyone has to start somewhere. Just take it slow and do be afraid to make mistakes. Good luck and have fun! 😀


  • If you have the time and resources, I highly recommend it. Once it’s all running it becomes mostly a ‘set it and forget it’ situation. You don’t have to remember to scroll through pages of search results to find content. It’ll automatically grab them for you based on your configured quality profile (or upgrade it to better quality). Additionally, you can easily stream it to any devices in our home network (or remote with a VPN).

    You don’t have to do it all at once. Start with a single service you’re interested in and slowly add more over time.


  • For a long time, that was the case. Then the greed nation attacked. Now they’ve reproduced the cable model on the web and more than half of which have terrible clients / infrastructure.

    If I could pay for a single service that operated similar to this setup:

    • Tell it what I’d like to watch while also displaying similar content for discovery.
    • Tracking progress in every show (while not forgetting!).
    • Not losing content I have been watching as it’s now in ‘another castle’.
    • A single place to view all tracked shows rather than loading each service individually.

    I probably would sign up for it as that’s what was so successful for Netflix until all of the studios thought they could do better. And now the consumer has to suffer the consequences.