Nicely done - thanks for making it. Not sure if I’ll ever get used to swipe actions between boards though… other than that I appreciate its simplicity. The haptics slider is a nice touch too
M'yeah... having clean, native workout animations would make the experience muchhhh smoother.
Right now, the videos are embedded from a partner app that kindly gave me permission to use them for this open-source project. I really wanted to avoid any gray areas around licensing or scraping/unapproved reuse.
The challenge is this: producing quality 3D exercise animations is very expensive often €10–20 per animation let's say, or thousands per month via "proper/serious" APIs. That's part of why it's so hard for open-source fitness tools to offer the same polish as commercial apps.
That said, I'd love (will?) to help kickstart a community-driven, open-licensed library of movement animations long-term something reusable by anyone building fitness tools. it's a REAL need.
Seems like almost every community nowadays has to have their own Discord server or private Facebook group. Often a deal-breaker for the more privacy-conscious people, unfortunately
My initial reaction to your comment was that privacy-consciousness has always been a potential deal-breaker for social engagement - which I think is true, building connection is an inherently vulnerable activity - but it's interesting how the word "privacy" means something very different on- and off-line.
We haven't ever lived in a world where not being "privacy-conscious" in a social setting could mean any of the following if that privacy is compromised by a corporation:
- Someone constructed a whole fake online presence using my data
- Someone used generative AI to make fake photos and videos of me doing things
- Someone has access to my bank accounts and all of my personal communications
- ...
We used to think of privacy as something that exists between people. Now we think of it as something that is mediated by corporations.
> We used to think of privacy as something that exists between people. Now we think of it as something that is mediated by corporations.
I have never heard of the second interpretation. The second sentence should in my opinion rather be: "Now we think of it as something that is violated by corporations."
> Often a deal-breaker for the more privacy-conscious people, unfortunately
You can’t have conversation in your community without them being public either. Saying anything in discord is just as public as on the middle of a busy shopping street.
Typically in public you don't have an irrevocable transcript of every word spoken. The predominace of electric communication and its natural surveillance has eliminated the ephemeral nature of conversation.
To some extend. But some must be pretty dedicated to find something you said even several days ago in a public discord. Coupled with the low stakes communication generally going on there it seems unlikely to me anyone would ever bother.
I'm a contractor working on the GTM side of a well a respected company with a very active slack public community. And let's just say all the activity in slack is piped into their data lake.
Oh man I absolutely love the work that you guys do. I'm actually in the process of learning Ebook production using the 'Step by Step' guide on your website. I'm essentially learning it all from scratch as I have little to no programming/SWE experience (I learned a bit of Lua because of KOReader[1]) but the technical side of ebook production has always fascinated me enough to keep learning. Also because I wanted to contribute more than just typos and grammatical errors (as important as they are).
>Artwork costs money