6d ago

Big Updates Are Coming to Loops

Big Updates Are Coming to Loops - We Distribute

There's a lot of cool stuff in the pipeline for the open source federated alternative to Tiktok and Vine, including a Web UI and a boatload of new features. Let's dive in, and see what's coming in the next release.

Fediverse @lemmy.ml

Sean Tilley @lemmy.ml

6d ago

Big Updates Are Coming to Loops

wedistribute.org /2025/08/big-updates-are-coming-to-loops/

Fediverse @piefed.social

cm0002 @lemmy.world

6d ago

Big Updates Are Coming to Loops

wedistribute.org /2025/08/big-updates-are-coming-to-loops/

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not sure why they keep callin it open source.
how bout you start throwin that around after you make the code available
- A significant portion of the code is available, I think it's just a matter of getting the latest code pushed out to public release status. Judging by the server repo, seems like a lot of development is happening out in the open.
  https://github.com/joinloops
It launched wayyyy too early and basically killed the project.
- I haven't even think about loops since that disaster launch. Not even a single though.
I liked the idea of loops, still have it on my phone, but there wasn't enough content to make it worth checking
Is it actually federating yet?
- Yes. You can read more about it in the article.
You can selfhost it soon™ 😁
Again based on PHP and I think the documentation will be incomplete and outdated, like it is for Pixelfed. For Pixelfed some commands are only mentioned in Github issues, S3 was a pain. He is working on too many projects. Any news on the Sup-messenger? 😅
- What's up with ActivityPub projects being beholden to PHP. Not even pitting languages against each other, just interesting that most new projects nowadays will choose something like Typescript + React but fediverse tends to favor PHP.
  
  I don't think Fediverse tends to favor PHP. Mastodon is written in Ruby, GoToSocial is Go, *key forks are Typescript for example. Pixelfed is the only one which comes in my mind for PHP.
  PHP is not beginnerfriendly to setup imo. Different configuration files for different settings....
Music and analytics are huge news. Those, alone, bring Loops much closer to being a viable platform for users who take content creation/reach seriously.
I would kill time with this for a little while but over the last few months the audio lag has made it unusable in my opinion. After opening and pressing play it would take a few seconds for it to start playing, and then after swiping to the next one the audio from the previous one would keep playing for a few seconds. I could swipe through like 4 or 5 videos until the audio would catch up. Also, the hashtags are nice but at the moment they function where I have to select one, watch it, swipe back to the hashtag page, select another one, and repeat. I want to just be able to scroll through hashtags or someone’s account instead of clicking on individual videos (like you used to be able to). My following page gets stuck after a few videos where I can’t scroll anymore too. I’ll reopen it when the update drops, but there’s definitely issues to iron out.
~~Not to be a dick, but… why do I care? This is a Meta product.~~
I was thinking of threads. My bad.
- No, it's from the pixelfed guy?
- It's not owned or operated by meta as far as I know? Where did you see that
  
  Yep I was crossing some wires
My biggest gripe is that if I try to post anything over 15 seconds it errors out every time. 15 seconds is juts not enough time to capture the silliness of the morning feeding time here, but I post anyway.
- Didn't Vine used to limit it at 7 seconds? Find your inner speedrun.
- I would imagine that this is getting addressed in the update as well.
Looks like he is putting features into Loops that were originally planned for Pixelfed, but didnt work to implement there (Pixelfed is said to have a very messy codebase, dansup recently said that for weeks he had a broken CI on github).
Sounds nice

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