severak

new features coming soon...

I got a new phone which has some very cool features. One of them is taking panorama photos.

I tested Kyselo with it and found some bugs (fixes coming soon). I also got idea for new cool Kyselo features.

Stay tuned, first one will drop soon...

we have a backup plan now!

fediverse news and speed of timelines

I keep exploring Fediverse and related software projects. While I want Kyselo to be interoperable I discovered that this is impossible without big refactoring of our database followed by data migration to new scheme. I don't want to do this.
So I decided that Kyselo will not federate in it's current form. However I am still interested in Fediverse and I want to create Kyselo-like Mastodon client. But this is question for the future me.
For now I added small experimental feature - I am measuring of how fast our timelines are. Unit of this measurement is number of posts per hour, day or month (whatever makes sense). So please keep those in healthy ranges.

hide yourself from robots

I have noticed that there was no robots.txt file on Kyselo. So I added one.
While I was doing it I added possibility to hide your profile from web scraping robots (and activated this for my cat). It can be enabled on your blog settings (new checkbox exclude from search engines).
Note that posts are still public and robots can index whatever is reposted. Also everyone page is not yet hidden from robots (this may change in the future).
While I was doing it I added filtering by post types to the your /yourblog/tags page.
I also added export for twtxt - it's now automatically enabled for anyone at /yourblogblog/twtxt page. It exports only text posts.

As I want to migrate from bitbucket, I updated our github source code mirror.
More features coming soon.

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• we are alive for 861 days (2 years 4 months)
• we have 151 users
• and 49 groups
• most active user is @gpkvt with 3185 posts
• most active group is @memes with 444 posts
• there are about 33 post per day
• of these 16 are originals (no reposts)

status page

Kyselo now has monitoring page. There are two servers which are monitored:

• Kapybara - my own linuxbox which is used to run chat server
• Kyselo - kyselo itself which run on hosting

notes for myself

- Dont notify when commenting on post of myself.

- Add react button for comment (tág Who we are reacting to)

hear the less talkative

I added new mode of everyone page which shows last posts by each user. I also added the possibility to sort users by last activity and number of posts. There is also new unfiltered view which shows all posts which get posted on kyselo including reposts.

Last new thing is cron job sending you once a week e-mail when you got unread new message or more than five notifications.

More new features coming soon™.

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and now stats:

• we are alive for 851 days (2 years 3 months) 
• we have 151 users and 48 groups 
• most active user is @gpkvt with 3183 posts 
• most active group is @memes with 438 posts 
• there are about 34 post per day of these 16 are originals (no reposts)

new features landing soon

I am busy working on them...

Should we join the Fediverse?

chat is back (and more coming soon)

after some struggling with some linux-fu, chat is back! It runs on server kindly donated by my friend. This server also needs demo of custom mapserver among other things (minetest server coming soon).
But this is just a beginning and I am already thinking about cool future features. Next step will be probably better backup scheme (ZIP archives generated on server).
Also I paid 1257 CZK hosting & domain fee to keep Kyselo alive for another year. It would be appreciated if you sent some bucks to my paypal.

Finally some numbers:

• we are alive for 707 days (1 years 11 months)

• we have 151 users

• and 45 groups

• most active user is @gpkvt with 3169 posts

• most active group is @memes with 408 posts

• there are about 37 post per day

• of these 18 are originals (no reposts)

DO NOT USE backup tool

Please, do not use backup tool. It downloads large numbers of images in short time which leads you to be banned from my hosting. Kyselo then looks completely down from your IP while other connections are completely OK.

I got banned this way. (massive facepalm)

I hope no one other got banned this way. If you know about someone, please let them contact me via my other contacts listed here.

In the near future I will move Kyselo to my own server which I acquired from my friend. There will be proper backup system with big ZIP files generated server side.

privacy policy & backups

as there are new EU cookies rules from 2022, I wanted to sort out these things for Kyselo. I changed how cookies works on Kyselo - now cookies is only saved when needed. This should also (probably) means fewer logouts. Also there is new more visible privacy policy.

Some of you already noticed there is new download backup option in the main menu. This is for downloading backup of your blog, but you need separate tool to download images. Backup format is documented here, it's already possible to import it back to Kyselo (or any other sites running same code).

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we are alive for 538 days (1 years 5 months)
we have 151 users
and 45 groups
most active group is @memes with 356 posts
there are about 44 post per day
of these 21 are originals (no reposts)

Happy New Year!

I want to wish everybody here Happy New Year!

There are some updates already prepared to land in January.

Keep posting in 2022.

repost from Twitter

Twitter is probably most open of all social networks which I use so I added one-click-reposting to be able to repost from Foone, Archillect or any of those image reposting bots.

Also I fixed some small bugs, added random post and my random post to menu and I am still working on backup scheme.

Also - happy holiday from Kyselo!

find random gems!

This update is inspired by this post - Juozas figured out how to open random page of Kyselo overall shitposting history. Now similar function is built-in into Kyselo itself.

Wanna random meme? Or perhaps random cat? We have you covered!

There is new /act/random URL which act like a redirect to randomly found post. This is also very useful for excavating random gems from my Soup backup imported into my localhost instance.
    
But wait - there is more!

I also redesigned bottom part of page (THE END or see more button). This may or not broke layout, in case of problems use Ctrl+F5 to reload CSS.

Kyselo was down because of hosting issues. After that I downloaded backup of whole Kyselo to my hard drive to be safe. I am also working on backup scheme, for now you need to ask me for it (backup is generated by script at my local machine).

Also - if you not participated in Great Kyselo user survey - leave us your opinion -  it's still open.

Finally some numbers:

- we are alive for 518 days (1 years 5 months)
- we have 149 users
- and 45 groups
- there are about 45 post per day
- of these 22 are originals (no reposts)

let's talk in real time!

as you may have notice in last update, I was working on another brand new feature - realtime chat.
This was more challenging than I expected but hey - it's there. It's just a basic chat. No direct messages, there is only one room, no emojis and gifs. But I keep tab with chat open (when I am online) and you can write me.

okay, new Kyselo features not finished but I already know what to include as easter egg

Great Kyselo user survey

testing kyselo on mobile

Kinda works but need some polishing.  

I am going on vacation

I am going on vacation next week. I will be back at Monday 13th September.

I am staying at place where there is no internet connection not even any computer, so I cannot fix Kyselo if it's broken at this time.

But keep shitposting, I want to see new memes when I am back.

please leave us a comment

Until today, Kyselo was missing one important thing, which enables social networks to be really social and news websites to be those burning hellholes which they are. That both horrible and both wonderful thing is commenting. Now you can leave your comments under every post on  Kyselo (once you are logged in).

Another new thing is notification system. I am not going full facebook and invent notifications out of thin air, but you can already be notified when:

- somebody comments on your post
- somebody mentions you in the comment
- somebody starts following you
- somebody joins group you are member of

I hope these new features will help us build more live community.

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• we are alive for 393 days (1 years 0 months)
• we have 147 users
• and 43 groups
• most active user is @gpkvt with 3070 posts
• most active group is @memes with 286 posts
• there are about 51 post per day
• of these 25 are originals (no reposts)

all your memes belong to us

Did you ever wanted to easily repost memes from Souper.io or Loforo.com without manually copying image URLs, taking screenshots or doing other workarounds?

Now it's possible - just open new tab with image you want to repost and use kyselo bookmarklet to post it here.

I have already reposted this medieval shitpost and this non-fiction book cover but many other memes will come.

I can also add support for another sites - I just need some site with predictable HTML structure to let my black magic code do it's job. Let me know in the comments...

Speaking of comments - something big is coming soon, something that will change your tune... Stay tuned and maybe throw some euros in my hat to let my know that you like these updates...

• we are alive for 387 days (1 years 0 months)

• we have 147 users
• and 43 groups
• most active user is @gpkvt with 3070 posts
• most active group is @memes with 286 posts
• there are about 51 post per day
• of these 25 are originals (no reposts)

sorry for logging you out

It seems that it was not possible to login because there were too many session tmp files. I deleted it and now login works.
But this also means I loggged everybody out, sorry for that.

Severak's new project

My newest project:

𝓡𝓮𝓰𝓮𝓷𝓼𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓻𝓲 - an eletronic comb organ with built-in tape recorder based on modern javascript technology.

Use your modern browser (Firefox / Chrome / Edge) and MIDI controller or computer keyboard and/or mouse.

Try it at: https://severak.github.io/cyber-music-studio/regenschori.html

Kyselo, now also your personal jukebox

loforo got it's own indonesian cock-fighting spam

found nice review by ztar:

timbler, facecook etc... nope.

loforo? who is behind it? they dont tell, dont even pretend to know they might have to... tells enough, i think.

souper.io? i'll have a look, when it works

kyselo? looks nice, backyard handywork with at least a honest agenda and a name and adress behind, feels legit, opensource too, might be my choice

got other alternatives? just tell before soup.io shuts down.

time will tell, but we will find our way ;)

thats all folks, see u around

changelog

I really like to see influx of new users to Kyselo.

I fixed some subtle bugs and made some improvements to make it more usable. Most visible changes are new homepage and error messages.

I already have some ideas what to improve:

• implement comments, mentions and notifications
• make CSS more mobile-friendly
• make user blogs stylable
  
• built-in RSS client and usable RSS output (to achieve some sort of decentralization)
• have proper domain and hosting

Soup is (near) death, long live the Soup (clones)

Hi. As you probably know - Soup.io is shutting down and I am creating clone of it. While you cannot clone community, you can definitely clone the software which is exactly what I did. My software is called Kyselo (after certain kind of czech soup) and in fact, you are using it right now while reading this post.

It's not finished yet. There are missing features, there are bugs and ugly CSS is all over the place. But it works. I use (private instance of) it on daily basis for notekeeping and bookmarking stuff.

Feel free to register and click around. Try to post something and follow other testers. Feel free to contact me with your ideas and bug reports.

You can even try to self-host it for yourself if you are brave enough. It's already open source.

If you find Kyselo promising, let me know and if enough people is interested, I will start patreon to finish it and provide proper hosting for it.

Why patreon?

Well, development needs some time and I need some motivation (beer and synth money ;-D ). I even have to hire someone with graphics skills to make it look somewhat better.