This has analytics tracking and is made by Google though. I intentionally wanted to stray away from that.

Edit: typo

If I understand it correctly, then yes, that's the case! I've utitlized several libraries such as "Browser Image Compression", "heic-to", and more, to wrap it in a web interface.

I was actually contemplating if I should've omitted the mention of Invidious, seeing how it is a niche feature, but I guess it was the right call to keep it.

EXIF data is removed by default, at the moment, there's no way to keep those data. I personally see that more as a feature than a bug though. The primary reason why there is no option to keep EXIF data is to maintain feature parity across different image formats.

That's a valid question! The app is intended for less tech-savvy people, as such, the terminologies used are to accommodate those users. "Upload" would rather be "Import", while "Download" would be "Export".

I've shared the use case in a previous Lemmy post:

This app is designed to compress smaller batches of images, aimed at casual users who need to compress and convert a few images at a time.

I created it primarily for friends and family who are less tech-savvy, to help them compress and convert images in a simple, safe, and private way.

If Pinchflat works well for you now, I would stick with it. The FreshRSS approach would be that it's a lot less resource heavy and barely require any storage space. Because of this, you can serve multiple people with thousands of subscriptions.

It applies the theme across the entire instance!

I believe it could be done however, but it's likely more suitable as an extension, opposed to a "theme" that relies on client-side css/js. I haven't explored the documentations for extensions as I intended this to be a "quick" solution to get a youtube-like experience.

Yes, it's all JavaScript and essentially relies on the Canvas API to compress the images, so the performance is heavily dependent of your device and browser. I haven't delved into WASM yet, but it would indeed open up doors for improvements, such a more file format support and more intelligent optimization. At the moment, working with canvas keeps things a lot more straightforward, however.

There is no funding I can provide at all (I've received 2 donations so far, which I'm very grateful for!). I just do this on my spare time, which I have a lot less of these days. I initially created MAZANOKE as a drop-in replacement for family and friends, specifically to those who tend to use questionable or ad-bloated online tools.

Yes indeed, the library I used "Browser Image Compression" is quite easy to work with. I did this as a weekend project + a few more days to prepare for open sourcing.

That's odd, and you made sure that video mode for "All pages and categories " is unchecked?

If you're not on the latest version of FreshRSS, perhaps try updating? During development and testing, I've always stayed with the latest version.

Addressing the subscribing part; I had similar requirements, so I started subscribing via FreshRSS while using a custom theme to give it a YouTube-like experience.

I shared the setup a few month ago here: https://lemmy.world/post/21381606

Edit: One of the benefits of using selfhosted RSS with a web interface is that it is platform agnostic.

Currently, only SVG to PNG is supported. SVGOMG is a great tool I’ve used many times as a user, but since it runs as a Node.js app, it would require server-side processing, unlike the local browser-based approach of this app.

Probably could be used with betterdiscord that supports js plugins.

Correct! This all works in the browser offline. As outlined in the install instructions, you can simply download the project files and just launch index.html. The docker setup is if you want to be able to access the service on local network or share it publicly.

The conversion option "Default" is meant to retain the file format when possible, but you can actively select the other options like jpg or webp if that fits your use case better.

Sorry about that, I've included the fix in the latest release, and instructions on how to bypass the loading screen in the release notes:

https://github.com/civilblur/youlag/releases/tag/v3.0.4

Here in an excerpt from the release note:

In case FreshRSS got stuck in a loading state with the v3.0.2 release:

You can manually bypass the loading state by opening the inspect mode on your browser. Within the "Elements" tab, locate the body element and add the CSS class youlag-loaded.

Example:

• From <body class="normal">
• To <body class="normal youlag-loaded">.

The adjustment above will exit the loading state, allowing you to interact with the content and access the extension page.

For your convenience, below is the url path to the "User CSS" extension page:

https://yourFreshrssDomain.com/i/?c=extension&a=configure&e=User%2BCSS

Head to this page and replace the old CSS with the one provided in this release.

Edit: Fixed typo on CSS class name

Even though this squoosh instance seems to be selfhosted, it has Google Analytics tracking (since Google made this app). MAZANOKE does not include any tracking nor require any internet connection at all if you install it as a PWA.

Edit: Looked at the source code of the fork, and it is applying the same tracking ID (to the big G). As squoosh is apache2 licensed, from my understanding, they should be able to simply remove that off the fork?

Thanks for letting me know, I'd love to get this working for as many people as possible, so please let me know if you got any leads.

It depends on your needs, as with most things. I chose FreshRSS as it allowed me to customize it, to turn it into a YouTube subscription feed. Before I created Youlag, I was using FreshRSS' official YouTube plugin for this purpose.

I did stumble upon Miniflux while deciding on a RSS reader, but never considered it as it didn't include thumbnails in the feed view.

You can catch the previous thread here, where there was a discussion about this using Pinchflat: https://lemmy.world/post/42859073