How do I get Peertube Video News Site Working?

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How do I get Peertube Video News Site Working?

Unread post by Hanna » 2021-06-27, 09:24

Hey all! I am currently on v. 28.9 - however this problem is also present in v. 29.

https://swebbtv.se/w/82fd7caf-eeda-44bf ... c6c6aacab8

SwebbTV, utilising Peertube for video content. Peertube is a site that can play videos, like Youtube - and uses P2P technology for making the videos available. SwebbTV is a Swedish news video channel.

It seems that it won't play with Palemoon anymore.

I've used this site with Palemoon for about 6 months without any problems - but suddenly yesterday morning, without me changing anything - it stopped working and gave a message that my browser is not supported. I remembered when Youtube stopped playing with an older version of Palemoon, so I upgraded (....and got some nasty surprises - see separate thread). However the upgrade did not solve the problem. Rolled back to 28.9, since I was not ready to give up on some add-ons, plus the upgrade hadn't solved the problem anyway.

How do I get this channel working again? Where does the fault like, with playing these videos? Can I trick the site to override this silly message?

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Re: How do I get Peertube Video News Site Working?

Unread post by moonbat » 2021-06-27, 13:13

If it doesn't work with the older version of the browser, then obviously the site has changed something, and that happens quite often with idiot webdevs rushing to implement the latest Chrome specific shiny. What do you expect PM devs to do about it?

Also they are misleading with the message - it is they who are implementing the retarded browser check. Other Peertube instances work perfectly fine.
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Re: How do I get Peertube Video News Site Working?

Unread post by miroR » 2021-08-27, 02:53

moonbat wrote:
2021-06-27, 13:13
If it doesn't work with the older version of the browser, then obviously the site has changed something, and that happens quite often with idiot webdevs rushing to implement the latest Chrome specific shiny. What do you expect PM devs to do about it?

Also they are misleading with the message - it is they who are implementing the retarded browser check. Other Peertube instances work perfectly fine.
None of the updated instances work at all. Only old versions of Peertube instances, i.e. which have not been updated at all for longer, work.
If I manage to find time, it's worth reporting it on https://framacolibri.org/ .
If there's other people who really miss using Pale Moon with Peertube instances, who can report it, great!
I trust Pale Moon, and I trust Firefox much less, this is another sore in my usage of Pale Moon...

Report it on framacolibri.org (English is fine there as well) or directly to the developers, or on, I think it's github where the source is.
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Yes, but, while I searched for it on https://joinpeertube.org/, here's another thing that doesn't work in Pale Moon:
https://framagit.org/framasoft/peertube/joinpeertube
The gitlab. Could it be related?
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And it would be best that a develper (I'm an advanced user only) report it on:
https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues
Because, I myself would (or will) first need to understand why their browser check is "retarderd", and only then report it.

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Re: How do I get Peertube Video News Site Working?

Unread post by Moonchild » 2021-08-27, 10:20

miroR wrote:
2021-08-27, 02:53
And it would be best that a develper (I'm an advanced user only) report it on:
https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues
Because, I myself would (or will) first need to understand why their browser check is "retarderd", and only then report it.
So instead of putting in some effort to investigate (and maybe learn something in the process) you'd rather just offload web design issues on us for a service you want to be using?
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Re: How do I get Peertube Video News Site Working?

Unread post by miroR » 2021-08-27, 14:22

Thanks for you reply, Master!
Moonchild wrote:
2021-08-27, 10:20
miroR wrote:
2021-08-27, 02:53
And it would be best that a develper (I'm an advanced user only) report it on:
https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues
Because, I myself would (or will) first need to understand why their browser check is "retarderd", and only then report it.
So instead of putting in some effort to investigate (and maybe learn something in the process) you'd rather just offload web design issues on us for a service you want to be using?
Fact of the matter is: I've been into this issue, and solely into this issue for all the time since that post of mine (barring a few hours of other obligations, and maybe two more hours of sleep, I live in Europe, that was 02:53 UTC or 04:53 CET when I posted, and I suffer from mild insomnia).
It's not asking for offload for laziness, it's that the gain of underlying understanding is possibly so much work that it may be very difficult to make it for me, simply by measure of time necessary. Maybe this issue is bigger than I can manage, so hard it is.
I don't think I can simply open an issue with their github account and say: pls. fix your code, my Pale Moon isn't working with your new Peertube instances. And understanding the matter enough to open an issue is very hard.

There is currently:
118 users online :: 21 registered, 2 hidden and 95 guests
(paste from index.php)
I know most of those can't understand enough to help here, but if we try to not burden the devs with this issue, maybe still some of the visitors above numbered do understand enough to help. Thanks in advance!

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Re: How do I get Peertube Video News Site Working?

Unread post by Lunokhod » 2021-08-27, 19:51

It has been reported already it seems:
https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/4311
And they claim the message is triggered by a fatal javascript error, not some general UA discrimination, and the cause is this Pale Moon issue:
https://repo.palemoon.org/MoonchildProd ... ssues/1691
Wait, it's all Ohio? Always has been...

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