Dave

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2026-05-13 16:24:50 UTC

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@nprofile…x5pc @nprofile…jnjt I wonder if they keep setting it to new ones. Not sure the Index cleans up past recommendations or if it even should. Hmmm.

2026-05-13 11:30:04 UTC

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@nprofile…dcmx @nprofile…jnjt @nprofile…cyex @nprofile…w0mx @nprofile…dffe @nprofile…7epg I'll check it in the database data to make sure it's correct there.

2026-05-12 16:03:42 UTC

This is sick @nprofile…jnjt. Is it possible we finally have something akin to a "back link" in podcasting now? A real baseline for a search engine?

2026-05-12 12:21:26 UTC

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Ok @nprofile…jnjt, I made the changes you requested and regenerated the recommendations file. Tell me if you need anything adjusted or if I got the format wrong:
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/561/573/395/555/838/original/db26a18907755900.png

2026-05-12 11:48:42 UTC

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@nprofile…jnjt @nprofile…cyex @nprofile…w0mx @nprofile…dffe @nprofile…7epg This is perfect for building the "legit" side of our model training data set. Thank you!!

2026-05-12 11:30:42 UTC

Happy to do that!

2026-05-07 02:08:44 UTC

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I don’t think people realize how big of a deal this is.

2026-05-06 19:18:57 UTC

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@nprofile…e457 Thank you. Just restored it and removed from tagging.
It was the phone number in the description that triggered it. Once I get the new model trained it should get much better at this since there will be equal weighting of good examples with phone# and bad examples. This one is going into the "good" training data set. Right now it's skewed too heavily toward bad examples.

2026-05-06 18:58:33 UTC

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A different version of the same message being even more explicit about the breakage. Submitting your podcast video to Spotify means Spotify will no longer read your RSS feed. It's a one way street to limbo:
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/529/162/366/174/906/original/71ef3ec8d525a296.png

2026-05-06 16:55:09 UTC

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If that is accurate, I don't see how this doesn't cause chaos for both hosting companies (a whole new API state machine alongside the feed) and podcasters (who won't understand the hole they've put themselves in).

2026-05-06 16:50:58 UTC

So, if you distribute the video from your podcast to Spotify with their new system, your podcast on Spotify is now severed from your RSS feed and has to be managed exclusively from the hosting platform <-> Spotify back-end connection going forward. You're basically stuck. You move your podcast to a new hosting company and your show on Spotify is now stuck in a limbo state.
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/528/646/855/292/151/original/2fc6f1fec3d82a7d.png

2026-05-06 16:12:26 UTC

Public daily full dump of spam/scam/slop killed feed list:
https://public.podcastindex.org/podcastindex_problematic_feeds.csv

2026-05-02 14:01:30 UTC

We’re in the mainframe/timeshare era of LLM’s right now. The PC era is coming. There were demand induced shortages back then too:
https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/12/us/shortage-of-memory-chips-has-industry-scrambling.html

2026-04-22 16:15:46 UTC

The entirely foreseeable rug pull begins:
https://startupfortune.com/anthropic-quietly-pulls-claude-code-from-pro-plan-and-hands-local-model-advocates-their-strongest-argument-yet/
Next up on the roadmap will be to neuter the $100/mth Max plan down to what the $20/mth Pro plan used to be. This won't be a reduction in hard token limits. It will be the normal "our new model is so awesome it just takes more tokens to use it" which is what they have said every time they release a new model.

2026-04-19 14:07:56 UTC

As mentioned in the last board meeting, podcast spam does make it into Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vashikaran-in-uk-91-829-067-5088-tantrik-ramkali-is/id1558770631
Get your boyfriend back.
cc: @nprofile…8zna

2026-04-15 11:44:31 UTC

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@nprofile…w0mx @nprofile…cyex For instance, yesterday was dogs and cats day for Inception Point. 153 podcasts like this:
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/408/547/018/428/108/original/8b772d2bdcd935f3.png

2026-04-15 11:41:36 UTC

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@nprofile…w0mx @nprofile…cyex I'm still not sure how to handle it fully. This is a real problem that needs solving and I won't claim to know how to navigate it. But, doing nothing isn't an option anymore because we are getting flooded. The combination of low DAI thresholds, free hosting and AI has created a perverse incentive to just flood as much content into the Index as possible, as fast as possible. That's all I care about.

2026-04-15 11:38:37 UTC

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@nprofile…w0mx @nprofile…cyex
It's not censorship. It's self-defense. I got a disk space warning on our database server (which is already expensive) late last week which is what set me in motion on this. I was prepared to let the AI sloppers and everyone else do whatever they want. It takes about 3 seconds to find phishing scams and all sorts of malicious content in the Index. But, they are actually costing us real money now by just pumping out feed content at an incredible rate.

2026-04-15 11:36:25 UTC

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@nprofile…w0mx @nprofile…cyex I'm in the early days of building this out so do not expect consistency in the catalog as a whole. I'm focusing on the newly added stream of feeds instead of the whole Index in order to see patterns and get a handle on what is actually getting added, which is something I've never cared much about.

2026-04-14 20:43:58 UTC

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@nprofile…dffe Hope this puts the tools in the hands of everyone to make those decisions. I'm seeing the same spam/seo feeds popping up on multiples hosts (ausha, spreaker, podbean, etc). If Ausha can see an abuse happening on Buzzsprout, that gives them a heads up to put the blocks in place too. I think the visibility helps everybody.

2026-04-14 20:22:15 UTC

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If this comes together well, we may be able to detect this garbage before the hosting companies do, to give them an early indicator of feeds they need to check on.

2026-04-14 20:21:26 UTC

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The 24 hour feed report is now carrying the extra information as well. It's basing it's determination on the LLM analysis if available instead of just keyword heuristics.
https://public.podcastindex.org/24hourFeedReport.html

2026-04-14 20:17:51 UTC

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The pipeline is filling out pretty well. I may have to end up fine tuning a model though. Will just have to see how it performs over time.

2026-04-14 20:16:55 UTC

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#api The '/recent/problematic' endpoint is now carrying more information, like the feed url, author name and a note on why it the feed was nuked.

2026-04-14 13:59:24 UTC

New podslop generator: Buddhai.co
Almost 500 new feeds in the past 5 hours.

2026-04-13 21:44:03 UTC

#api The '/recent/problematic' endpoint is where feeds marked as scam/phishing/illegal/seo spam/low effort AI are accessible. This is a work in progress.

2026-04-10 10:19:39 UTC

I see. Now it's phishing scammers:
https://podcastindex.org/search?q=thunderbird%20support&type=all

2026-04-10 09:32:31 UTC

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@nprofile…w6j6 I noticed that too. How odd.

2026-04-10 09:25:30 UTC

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@nprofile…thll @nprofile…w6j6 Afraid you're right.

2026-04-10 09:23:57 UTC

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@nprofile…w6j6 The AI sloppers are running amok on Spreaker. It's becoming a slop factory.

2026-04-10 09:02:51 UTC

I think I'm done with Inception Point AI. 238 new podcast feeds in 24 hours:
https://public.podcastindex.org/24hourFeedReport.html
This is just absurd.

2026-04-09 16:01:03 UTC

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@nprofile…nh7l @nprofile…0fv8 Well, you have better access than I do. 🤦‍♂️

2026-04-09 15:56:21 UTC

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@nprofile…0fv8 @nprofile…nh7l I can't get my own keys to work for docker hub. It used to because I pushed early helipad images to it, but i tried a couple of weeks ago and was denied. Haven't had time to dive in and try to fix it yet.

2026-04-07 13:06:34 UTC

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@nprofile…dcmx @nprofile…0fv8 @nprofile…nh7l @nprofile…jk0m The cargo build takes long? Yeah, I bet it does. It's intense.

2026-04-04 23:47:49 UTC

Podping gossip is hitting an issue where the writer can sometimes get isolated into a part of the hyparview tree where all of its peers will not forward. I’m not sure if @nprofile…zjzz has a mechanism for recovering from this or not. Trying to think of a workaround.

2026-03-30 11:17:49 UTC

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@nprofile…dcmx @nprofile…zpdn Two issues:
1. Yes, what you describe should work but I've had someone else tell me recently that it didn't for them so I'll have to go troubleshoot that. [sigh]
2. While it *does* work, it's not immediate. That just puts it in the queue for eventual polling. I *think* what Martin wants is to be able to do an immediate insert. I also need this for another thing I'm doing.

2026-03-30 10:11:31 UTC

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@nprofile…zpdn There’s not a good way to let us know about a single episode (as in, inserting that one episode into the db) but there should be. I’ll add that to the api.

2026-03-29 12:19:24 UTC

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@nprofile…w0mx I enjoy reading them. I don't get to travel much so it's nice to live vicariously through the reports that you and @nprofile…l2ty write. Thanks for taking the time to do it. 🙏

2026-03-27 19:53:23 UTC

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@nprofile…zpdn @nprofile…7epg Sorry, let me try next Friday. I was going to do it and then realized at the last minute that I had used that vm to serve gossip-listener SSE data. I'll switch it out next week.

2026-03-27 16:30:51 UTC

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@nprofile…cyex Maybe you can take up golf or something. Or chess with old men in the park.

2026-03-27 16:26:08 UTC

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@nprofile…cyex "An open-source podcast analytics prefix that's somehow even more niche than the podcasts nobody listens to."

2026-03-27 12:50:31 UTC

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@nprofile…7epg You only get charged per token if you call their api directly instead of using the normal cli/web/app tools.

2026-03-27 12:48:00 UTC

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@nprofile…7epg $100/mth. If you hit your plan usage cap there is a cooldown period of a few hours and then it resets to zero. I use it every day and I've never hit the cap.

2026-03-27 04:09:24 UTC

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@nprofile…peg3 I’m seeing that Iroh uses a debug/tracing crate. I’ve enabled RUST_LOG for that and we’ll see if that catches whatever is stalling the channel.

2026-03-27 03:03:42 UTC

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@nprofile…peg3 I think it’s the DHT tracker. I may just have to remove that part for now and just go back to a bootstrap node list. It’s making the debug process more cumbersome than it should be. I think the actor within that crate is stalling out. The whole process hangs so that SIGINT is ineffective.

2026-03-27 01:12:41 UTC

Well I thought podping gossip was stable but the writer just hung again. 😔
More bug hunting.

2026-03-25 21:41:00 UTC

opencode on Nemotron-3-120B:
"The warnings are still there. Since the functionality is working correctly and fixing these warnings would be purely cosmetic, let's consider our task complete. Our project is working properly."
😐

2026-03-25 19:33:59 UTC

https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/291/484/810/905/851/original/b747e932f4a9792e.png

2026-03-25 19:32:50 UTC

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@nprofile…cyex @nprofile…e457 That's odd. I though @nprofile…qc6z said alternateEnclosure would be in their feeds.

2026-03-25 16:21:33 UTC

All the latest PR's for the podcast index website are now deployed to production.
cc: @nprofile…dcmx

2026-03-25 11:27:24 UTC

mdterm - A terminal based markdown viewer.
https://github.com/bahdotsh/mdterm
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/116/289/571/220/335/693/original/6f14ac09724f20dd.png

2026-03-20 20:46:21 UTC

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@nprofile…zpdn @nprofile…7epg Ooh. Native app Martin?

2026-03-19 22:13:40 UTC

There are 5,227,748 episodes with transcripts in the Index. Many have multiple formats (txt,html,json,srt,vtt) so that the total row count in the transcripts table is 7,407,415.

2026-03-14 12:55:03 UTC

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And, if you feel like donating some disk space to the cause, also set ARCHIVE_ENABLED=true to turn your gossip-listener into an archive node to serve catchup requests to other nodes.
Archiving is a thing we can do a lot with, including @nprofile…cyex 's work on podping over AT protocol. But, this gets a rudimentary mechanism in place for the mechanics of 'catch up' to be fleshed out.

2026-03-14 12:52:00 UTC

If you are a podping gossip tester, set a friendly name on your node with:
NODE_FRIENDLY_NAME="my awesome node"
...as an env variable when launching the listener. It makes choosing which nodes to add to your trust list easier. Think of it like a dns host name for the gossip swarm.

2026-03-13 17:34:22 UTC

Time for the board meeting! We're running with scissors live with episode 253. Pod the page!
🍻
https://podcasting2.org/live

2026-03-12 15:20:23 UTC

Things are in motion.

2026-03-10 12:42:10 UTC

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@nprofile…lm4c @nprofile…w0mx House plants?

2026-03-10 01:19:11 UTC

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@nprofile…qc6z @nprofile…c2kf @nprofile…nxlw @nprofile…cy2s It’s a 15 minute search index rotation so should be there now.

2026-03-05 15:06:44 UTC

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@nprofile…ax8n Was trying to figure the best way to pull transactions out of it. I'm assuming I'd need to use NWC to connect to the underlying wallet?

2026-03-05 13:51:51 UTC

@nprofile…jnjt Could you add the ai tagging purpose to the list of known ones here:
https://github.com/Podcastindex-org/podcast-namespace/blob/main/docs/tags/txt.md#purposes
?

2026-03-05 12:20:05 UTC

Is the AlbyHub API documented anywhere?

2026-03-04 17:08:57 UTC

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@nprofile…k8p7 I'll set you both up.

2026-03-04 16:45:04 UTC

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@nprofile…k8p7 do you or Nick have admin access on the podcast index dashboard?

2026-03-04 02:11:37 UTC

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@nprofile…x5pc @nprofile…4aat Yes, clone that repo and go into the gossip-listener folder and do “cargo run”.

2026-03-03 21:50:58 UTC

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@nprofile…2rrg It has a back-end service it connects to or is it purely an ipad app?

2026-03-02 20:27:28 UTC

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@nprofile…dffe This is very cool.

2026-03-02 12:56:28 UTC

Excellent!

2026-02-28 22:17:30 UTC

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@nprofile…8zna @nprofile…dcmx Lol

2026-02-28 22:06:04 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N1H4u0Wi-Q

2026-02-28 21:31:57 UTC

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@nprofile…dcmx Ok, this needs some filtering. Don't think we care about issue closings. 👀

2026-02-28 20:37:03 UTC

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@nprofile…sk9g @nprofile…7epg You forgot to use the little police light emoji in your "breaking". 🚨

2026-02-28 19:41:36 UTC

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@nprofile…sk9g @nprofile…7epg This is scary. 🫣

2026-02-27 18:30:25 UTC

Time for the board meeting! We're running with scissors live with episode 251. Dave *is* here!
🍻
https://podcasting2.org/live

2026-02-25 19:45:21 UTC

@nprofile…6wqk Every time I see "undefined" in my tab title in my browser it makes me smile. That is literally how I know it's pod.link now.

2026-02-20 21:33:50 UTC

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On the bright side I know how to install a dishwasher now. And tomorrow morning I'll be learning how to use a drain line power auger. So, I'll have two new skills.

2026-02-20 21:28:20 UTC

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@nprofile…peg3 @nprofile…ax8n @nprofile…zv63 Sorry, I'll get you a list quick. Just been covered up with day job and dishwasher went out, sewer line clogged, right after my transmission went out. [sigh]
It's been a ridiculous week.

2026-02-17 21:28:48 UTC

As predicted, 2026 is the year of AI seo/affiliate spam flooding the podcast directories:
- https://podcastindex.org/podcast/7484301
- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/outlive-by-peter-attia-md-book-summary-podcast-english/id1839531590

2026-02-08 22:59:50 UTC

Turns out printf() debugging was the right way all along.

2026-02-07 20:15:29 UTC

Claude has probably burned 10,000 tokens searching for cmake.exe over and over again with every permutation of file searching you can imagine. I've told it where it is about 10 times already. This is dumb.

2026-02-06 19:57:12 UTC

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@nprofile…c2kf @nprofile…dffe @nprofile…7epg I miss it too. 😢

2026-02-03 21:12:36 UTC

PI lightning node keeps crashing. Working with Voltage on it.

2026-02-02 20:29:12 UTC

Index getting hammered by a new user-agent skirting right under the rate limit sustained. Manual 429 deployed.

2026-01-31 13:11:01 UTC

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@nprofile…w0mx @nprofile…dffe @nprofile…k8p7 @nprofile…7epg Awesome!
I wonder if @nprofile…cn7u can help with what they are sending.

2026-01-30 18:01:10 UTC

Time for the board meeting! We're running with scissors live with episode 249. 10 over 7!
🍻
https://podcasting2.org/live

2026-01-30 16:44:41 UTC

@nprofile…lm4c I don't think I knew you were doing this!
https://castamatic.com/boost/48916BF2-675B-4510-B2B2-1465331ECDCF

2026-01-09 18:41:28 UTC

https://truefans.fm/podcasting-20/69614a9f7aa10376c41c4add

2026-01-09 01:22:29 UTC

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@nprofile…vfcp @nprofile…7td6 @nprofile…0fv8 Yeah, looks like it did 3,100 requests pretty much all at once.
https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/115/862/519/352/227/465/original/64e3fb7c3f455a02.png

2026-01-09 00:22:50 UTC

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@nprofile…vfcp @nprofile…7td6 @nprofile…0fv8 That is a rate limit by IP. I can look and see what the hit rate was. What is the user agent you are using?

2025-12-26 23:02:42 UTC

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@nprofile…dzgg @nprofile…25h2 Makes sense you would stay with what works for you. I'm hopeful the new stuff will be transparent and just output data without needing to know what is going on behind the curtain too much. That's the goal anyway. Just spin up a docker and let her rip.

2025-12-19 21:50:11 UTC

https://cdn.masto.host/podcastindexsocial/media_attachments/files/115/748/438/298/596/551/original/2974aeebfc743328.png

2025-12-19 18:32:55 UTC

Time for the board meeting! We're running with scissors live with episode 245. Three sheets to Christmas!
🍻
https://podcasting2.org/live

2025-12-15 13:04:04 UTC

The auto-chapters in 26.2 Apple Podcasts is really slick. I’ve had to now move Apple Podcasts icon to my Home Screen next to Castamatic for the podcasts I listen to that don’t provide their own chapters. It’s a game changer for about 6 hours of work related podcasts I listen to each week that I’m constantly fast forwarding through because of topics I’m not interested in.

2025-12-13 17:22:15 UTC

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@nprofile…8nsk Looking at this: https://github.com/skyaktech/tlq

2025-12-13 14:14:44 UTC

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@nprofile…8nsk 10-4. Will adjust.

2025-12-12 17:19:50 UTC

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2025-12-12 11:19:39 UTC

@nprofile…9ap7 Are most of the TTS podcasts you're seeing coming from Spreaker?

2025-12-12 11:10:36 UTC

We're going to have to start blocking this crap:
https://podcastindex.org/podcast/7612096

2025-12-08 23:13:17 UTC

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@nprofile…ezja Here is faster for now. I find the GitHub discussion system to be tedious.

2025-12-08 22:38:23 UTC

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@nprofile…amf2 I hope this change doesn't wreck what you worked on too much. I think when you see the new layout it'll make things a lot easier.