Made a thing. Fedigest is a self-hosted site where you pick posts from anywhere in the threadiverse, write a few lines about why they're worth reading, and publish them as one front page.

Comments are pulled live from the original thread. Want to vote or reply? Enter your home instance once, it gets saved in your browser, and from then on every post takes you straight to the same post on your own instance. It can also follow communities and add new posts automatically.

Comes with 15 themes (light/dark pairs follow your device, and there's a terminal one with an old PC font), and you can make your own with a live preview.

Runs as one Docker container, SQLite inside. Still early, version 0.1.3. Built with help from an LLM.

Demo: https://demo.fedigest.org
Code: https://github.com/DaDosDude/Fedigest

Feedback welcome.

cross-posted from: https://retrofed.com/c/meta@retrofed.com/p/2373766/retrofed-forum-powered-by-piebb

Hi,

After getting forum.retrolemmy.com running with lemmyBB, I wondered if Retrofed could get something similar. Instead of getting lemmyBB (an ancient software for lemmy) to work through a proxy, we created a new frontend made natively for PieFed: PieBB. PieBB is more feature complete than lemmyBB and lighter on the server.

Note: This project was created with the help of an LLM.

It's live at forum.retrofed.com, and makes PieFed look and work like an old phpBB2 forum. You log in with your normal Retrofed account. Posting, voting, polls, PMs, notifications and moderation all work, and you can even import (some) old phpBB2 themes.

If you notice any bugs, you can message me, or reply here.

If you want to use it yourself, it's at Github. Tested on PieFed 1.8.x.

Known limitations:

• Register sends you to Retrofed's own sign-up page.
• The index (Last Post, counts) can be a few minutes behind, to keep API calls down.
• Votes made on Retrofed itself can take up to 10 minutes to show in PieBB, due to a cache in PieFed.

cross-posted from: https://retrofed.com/c/meta@retrofed.com/p/2373766/retrofed-forum-powered-by-piebb

Hi,

After getting forum.retrolemmy.com running with lemmyBB, I wondered if Retrofed could get something similar. Instead of getting lemmyBB (an ancient software for lemmy) to work through a proxy, we created a new frontend made natively for PieFed: PieBB. PieBB is more feature complete than lemmyBB and lighter on the server.

Note: This project was created with the help of an LLM.

It's live at forum.retrofed.com, and makes PieFed look and work like an old phpBB2 forum. You log in with your normal Retrofed account. Posting, voting, polls, PMs, notifications and moderation all work, and you can even import (some) old phpBB2 themes.

If you notice any bugs, you can message me, or reply here.

If you want to use it yourself, it's at Github. Tested on PieFed 1.8.x.

Known limitations:

• Register sends you to Retrofed's own sign-up page.
• The index (Last Post, counts) can be a few minutes behind, to keep API calls down.
• Votes made on Retrofed itself can take up to 10 minutes to show in PieBB, due to a cache in PieFed.

A GL 4.3 / SDL3 modernization with gamepad support, render scaling, display presets, and Flatpak packaging, aimed at current hardware while staying mod-compatible.

In case anyone is wonder why progress on the emulator appears slow or feature requests feel ignored, we are currently still understaffed and have, in addition to new bugs reported every day that have to be fixed, a backlog of items on our internal TODO list such as:

• EISA;
• Turbo Button for XT PCs;
• Emulation of the ESS Solo-1;
• PD (Phase-change Dual) and DVD-RAM support;
• IBM Expanded Memory Adapter (XMA);
• Passthrough of real CD/DVD drives to the emulator on macOS;
• Support for cloneCD and TOC CD-ROM image files;
• Mitsumi CD-ROM emulation (it would also allow eventual emulation of the Tandy VIS).

In addition, we are currently in severe need of developers and/or maintainers for the following:

• New dynamic recompiler;
• macOS support;
• Emulation of the NEC PC-98 family of computers;
• A potential built-in non-GDBSTUB debugger to replace the current GDBSTUB implementation;
• Our SDL backend;
• The ImGui OSD;
• The Qt UI.

We would also appreciate anyone who could help the fixing of issues that get reported to our GitHub or in our Discord server.

In case anyone is wonder why progress on the emulator appears slow or feature requests feel ignored, we are currently still understaffed and have, in addition to new bugs reported every day that have to be fixed, a backlog of items on our internal TODO list such as:

• EISA;
• Turbo Button for XT PCs;
• Emulation of the ESS Solo-1;
• PD (Phase-change Dual) and DVD-RAM support;
• IBM Expanded Memory Adapter (XMA);
• Passthrough of real CD/DVD drives to the emulator on macOS;
• Support for cloneCD and TOC CD-ROM image files;
• Mitsumi CD-ROM emulation (it would also allow eventual emulation of the Tandy VIS).

In addition, we are currently in severe need of developers and/or maintainers for the following:

• New dynamic recompiler;
• macOS support;
• Emulation of the NEC PC-98 family of computers;
• A potential built-in non-GDBSTUB debugger to replace the current GDBSTUB implementation;
• Our SDL backend;
• The ImGui OSD;
• The Qt UI.

We would also appreciate anyone who could help the fixing of issues that get reported to our GitHub or in our Discord server.

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Over three decades later, this historical curiosity has more than a few rough edges...

After hosting RetroLemmy.com for close to 3 years, we are proud to announce we now have also opened up a PieFed instance called Retrofed.

This is not meant to replace RetroLemmy, but instead give retro-minded people a choice.

Also, Retrofed is available and fully functional on http as well as https. Meaning old hardware should be able to connect and interact with retrofed if people so wish.

Your home away from modern life.

Welcome to the nostalgia-filled piefed instance of yesteryear.

Open Registration with Application questionnaire.

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Meta for Retrofed