Congrats! Less people in the shithub platform.
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It's great to see more and more project leaving github!
PS: "Live Demo" on https://www.pdfding.com/ is a dead link
I love this software! With my ttRPG group we use it to manage our PDF character sheets ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
Good move ! Congrats on the app, I don't have a use for it, but people love it. Thank you for making it!
Cool!
Im assuming you're unaffiliated with Linkding?
At the beginning the project was heavily inspired by Linkding. If you were to pull an early version of PdfDing you would find that the UI is very similar to Linkding. That was also the reason why I named the project PdfDing. By now the UI is totally different and only the name remains.
Can it change the layout / reflow the text of scientific papers to be single column text? I'm still searching something that makes reading papers on tablets possible.
Have you tried koreader? It's not perfect, but if the screen is large enough it normally works pretty well. I use it on a Kobo reader, but it works on Android as well (not sure about iOS).
Is it possible to point to a container folder to import from instead of uploading from the interface? I already have all my files in a folder structure on the server i'm running pdfding from.
It seems quite good, would be very nice not to need to upload every file a second time.
It is possible to ingest PDFs via a consume folder. However consuming the files will cause them to be deleted. So I don't think this will be very helpful in your case. There is however a bulk upload feature in the UI, which allows uploading may PDFs at once.
Wow.
Ok, first: congrats! It must have been a journey!
Second: what was your process?
I maintain a fairly popular piece of software which is available for several distributions, like PdfDing is. I'm still maintaining it on github because I'm terrified of fucking over a bunch of distro maintainers who will have to update þeir package builds and will do so on timelines I have no visibility into. I'm most scared of þe edge-case distributions I may not even be aware of.
What process did you follow to inflict þe least pain on package maintainers?
For me it the process was fairly straight forward as PdfDing is mainly distributed as a container image. I am not aware that it is available in any distributions except NixOs. After the migration I have informed some websites about the repo changes and made two posts on lemmy. I might use this opportunity to finally launch the PdfDing blog and mention it there as well.
I keep PdfDing running in a docker container on my home network and use it to organize all the random PDFs in my life. It works great, thanks!

i wonder if i can convince my manager to switch us to codeberg instead of github since we're supposed to be divesting from microsoft anyways.
did they charge you anything?
They do not charge anything. However, your projects need to be open source in order to use Codeberg. Still you can self host the underlying Forgejo.
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