I realize there is a lot of back and forth among selfhosters about Cloudflare’s usage, but I am thoroughly pleased with the set up. The only thing I chuckle about is their promotional emails.

Your site saw more threats last month than the average site on Cloudflare. Here’s what that means:
The good news is that these threats were mitigated by Cloudflare with the basic web application firewall (WAF) and bot protection you have on the Free plan.
The bad news is that more complex and sophisticated cyber attacks may not be stopped by your current web application security posture.

…however they promise if I spend some money, that will all go away, and it might, but it’s good now so don’t wake the sleeping dog.

Had me rolling last night and this morning.

hilarious

I have been investing my time in building the functionality rather than focusing on “marketing”.

No worries mate. Understood.

Yeah I saw a blurb about that a couple months ago. Will have to investigate. Thanks for the heads up tho

It made me laugh uproariously. Funny stuff.

complaining about the lack of screenshots

For my part, it was a request not a demand or complaint. But yes, I do feel kind of stupid. I’m also giggling at OP’s last response and his reactions to all these requesting screens,

Boy do I have egg on my face now. Please have pity on an old head.

I’ll tell you honest that escaped me. Well, thanks for sharing. Much appreciated. I feel kind of silly. I was sitting here appreciating my greenery, and wondering just what is @kamenlady trying to tell me? Gotcha. Me skuzi

OP, I echo the screenshot sentiment. It’s one of the top 5 things I look for in a project since I am a very visual person and I’m a sucker for a great looking UI. If I can’t find one on the dev’s site, I have to go do an image search which is hit or miss for opensource software at times. I realize you are early in the development stage, I get that. However, I would encourage you to put up some screenshots. They really help ‘sell’ the project.

Thank you for working on this project, and thank you for sharing it with the community.

I still say even if the guy is an asshole, we still lost someone who was contributing.

I use tt-rss. Tho I’ve never interacted with the dev personally, from what I can tell, he is kind of a hard headed, asshole. Still a great piece of software tho. Him being an alleged asshole doesn’t deter me.

I liked the UI too

It looked like a very solid UI. In fact, so much so that I’ve toyed with the idea of deploying it.

I share some of your same views. It would be good if devs using AI would state that on their github or codeberg, etc. However, the immediate, kneejerk, backlash probably snuffs that disclosure. Just look ar the reactions to AI here at Lemmy Selfhosted. AI is a tool. As much as I chafe against regulation, it’s a tool that needs some heavy governmental regulation imho, but a tool nonetheless. It’s not going away. I’d say there will come a day when we use AI without even knowing it. It will be seamless.

Unfortunately, right now we are stuck in the novelty phase of AI rice cookers and pretty pictures. I think with some regulation, and more fine tuning, it could become a great dev assistant, and has some very real world use cases. I can understand why people don’t want a 100% AI coded piece of software where the dev really has no idea what they are doing as far as security. I don’t either. That’s an obvious. You’ve got to understand and be able to interpret and understand the results of an AI query. However, if the dev is competent and uses AI as an assistant, I don’t see the conundrum.

I also think there are young devs who are excited about contributing to opensource and the selfhosting community. They have the fire, just not the experience. Experience is something you don’t have until after you need it.

I’ll have to check it out. Thanks.

Could be. Not ruling that out. It seems to pile up tho on certain comments tho. Makes me wonder. I’m always down to be schooled. Shit son, ring the bell! Ahhh the internet.

because it just raises questions and confusion.

This. I think, waay back in the day, down voting was a way to filter bad information. Whenever I see a down vote on something I’ve said, I’m always left wondering if I gave erroneous information, was I out in the weeds smokin’ crack? I’m always down for being educated.

Instead I use one from OpenNIC

Fast? How would it compare to the evil Cloudflare?

I’ve often wondered about down votes as well. It’s not the points, as I care nothing about that. However, if you’re going to down vote something, have the balls to explain why. Maybe the down voter knows something that we all can learn from. It just seems like a common courtesy to do so.

Owning your own modem/router gives you full access to security features. It gives you opportunity to install custom firmware. If you can spring for the $$, I think it would be advisable. That way, the only thing you need from your ISP is the cable/delivery device piping internet into your house.

I sort of said as much. It really doesn’t matter, imho, what you use. As soon as that service becomes abused globally, everyone blocks it, including Tor. Any server using DPI or TLS will spot it a mile away. Now, if you have a fool proof way, than I am very much ready to be educated.