NosyHammock

So this website allows you to browse Wikipedia without giving them your IP address. Wikiless is self-hostable and the source code is available at: https://codeberg.org/orenom/wikiless

I tried to make some kind of use-case for Wikiless in the README section. But it could be that privacy-wise it doesn't give that much an advantage compared to using Wikipedia directly.

It makes much more sense to use these "alternative front-ends" for sites like Reddit (Teddit or Libreddit), Instagram (Bibliogram), YouTube (Invidious), and Twitter (Nitter), but I guess we also have now one for Wikipedia too.

>And we are learning that analysis of that record is sufficient to destroy any pretense of anonymity or pseudonymity.

Fortunately we have Monero! And pretty much every other issue too he raises, Monero has it better.

Habits. Haven't updated my CSS skills as much as I would've wanted along the years. I'm mostly writing CSS like it's year 2010.

Thanks! One solution for this could be to install an add-on which redirects Reddit => Teddit. I've used add-on called Privacy Redirect: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redir...

But there are others too which can do the same, like: https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/redirector/

>So you're asking how to do it without a tool that was specifically designed for that purpose?

Yes, you are correct. This is a hobby project of mine, and one of the goal was to make old.reddit.com like UI without no JS at all. That's what I will do.

>I really don't get the hate for JS these days.

Unnecessary Javascript bloats websites, hogs system resources, enables surveillance, hinders accessibility that’s native to devices and clients, and introduces vulnerabilities. https://nojs.club/

Of course in this case using JS to hide/show comment tree wouldn't really be that bad, but works fairly well without it. Not many have complained.

>Wait, I just realized after 15 minutes browsing this website that I'm not using VPN. Reddit is blocked in my country, so Teddit will be the replacement for me.

I love to heart that! Awesome.

This is really challenging thing to do without any client-side JS. It would require downloading media (not just little thumbnails) of every post in the current subreddit view. I might make a feature where people can enable (disabled by default) certain features from the preferences which enables them to use features like this which require client-side JS.

Yea, the server side is running on Node.js (with Pug template engine), but the client-side doesn't have any JS whatsoever.

>The show/hide design pattern is annoying, IMO.

Hmmh, I don't know how to make it better. It's really challenging to do it without JS in the first place. Do you have any ideas?

Dev here. This is a known issue. https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit/issues/24

So far I haven't come up with any solution. The nested .comment styles seemed not be the problem. Although something in the CSS triggers the slow rendering on Chromium based browsers – not sure yet what.

If any of you have an idea, leave a comment here or in Teddit, appreciated!

EDIT: Oh, forgot to say: Works fine in Firefox, no rendering issues.

Yep, I use(d) also old.reddit.com, but I got annoyed of the potential privacy issues of giving all my browsing data to Reddit. Do I want Reddit to know all subreddits I browse, or posts I read? No I don't. Who knows to who they give or sell their data they gather...

So this has been a project of mine which I've been creating for last couple months. Source is available at: https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit

Feedback and suggestions are welcome!

Basically teddit is alternative front-end for Reddit. Like what Invidious is for YouTube, or what Nitter is for Twitter, or what Bibliogram is for Instagram.

Teddit doesn't use any client-side JavaScript, nor does it have any ads (not now, and not in the future). Teddit supports videos too, so it uses native browser video players. I wanted to make the site as minimalistic and lightweight as possible. You can clone the repo and self-host your own (public or private) teddit instance on your own server.