I am making a terminal 4chan client.
Thoughts?

>>105711567 (OP)
cool, considering w3m doesn't come past 4chans Javascript

>>105711567 (OP)
My thoughts are that this is a fun and cool project and I wish you luck.

>>105711567 (OP)
do you got a github link?

>>105711567 (OP)
>imageboard client
>no images
Retarded tinker tranny ware. Useless.

>>105711604
>hey can i steal your work?
why are people like this

>>105711567 (OP)
How do you deal with captchas?

>>105711567 (OP)
it's called an imageboard for a reason, anonchan....

>>105711604
I can upload it if you want, but the text area widget is a little buggy (or I am using it wrong)
And also you will need your own program for posting, it is a minimal client and you have to specify external program to do the posting for you. Here is how I have it configured.

>>105711622
>>105711634
Images are bloat

>>105711632
I have a daemon running in the background. When it is started it opens a browser window, I click get captcha and solve cloudflare challenge, then I extract the cookies from the browser program and I hope that I never get a HCaptcha popup.
Then I have a small utility process that connects to the daemon and enqueues the post there.
Surely there are better solutions but it works for me

>>105711632
I haven't found an up-to-date captcha solver though and my GPU (1060) is probably not enough to train one myself. So I still have to do them manually. But as I said, there must be a better solution

>>105711622
>>105711634
this

>>105711567 (OP)
so it runs chrome in the background to get through cloudflare

>>105711567 (OP)
Sweet project anon. would love to use this.

use case?

>>105711567 (OP)
>Thoughts?
why are you geh?

>>105712204
none, just like all the other retarded ""altchans"" we see CS101 students spam here from time to time.

>>105711667
What about images? Would be fun if you were able to run image to ASCII converter and display asciified images.

Use-case?

>>105712256
tview can do this! If you think it would be useful, I can add it.
>>105712159
No, that is the daemon's job. The program merely runs an external program to connect to it. That way if you manage to build it, you can run a daemon on another machine or a server.

>>105711567 (OP)
neato

>>105711567 (OP)
looks cool

>>105711567 (OP)
ngl that's pretty cool.

I'm guessing this is only for passfags tho.

>>105712841
>I'm guessing this is only for passfags tho.
If you find me a working captcha solver ...

>>105711567 (OP)
>remove one-half of the entire point of an IMAGEBOARD
I think your RSS feed in disguise is nice and all, but it's not a worthwhile endeavor. Your efforts are better spent inventing something that doesn't contradict itself in core concept.

>>105712889
I am abroad and I don't have my main computer with me so I thought I'd do a simple project

>>105711567 (OP)
can I make the logo

>>105713359
yeah alright, for a quick hobby project it's fine

>>105711634
But I can trigger linuxtroons here just fine without images

>>105713404
How do you make a logo for something without a name?

>>105711634
>>105712256
>>105712889
>i am making
its not done yet

>>105714061
yes you are

>>105711567 (OP)
>interactive terminal program
The disadvantages of terminals with the disadvantages of GUIs, there's a reason these don't exist anon

>>105713569
Why do you have Linux Derangement Syndrome?

>>105714008
can I come up with a name?

>>105711567 (OP)
It's a fucking imageboard. Image. Board.

>>105715304
Just use sixel graphics retard

>>105715304
He could convert images to ASCII

Pretty cool. I'm not gonna use it, but I hope you have success with it.

>>105715304
On average about 10% of the posts on /g/ have had images in the last week. Now imagine what % of these images are actually useful

>>105715353
They already promoted him after making this thread.

>>105715374
FACT: 100% of the thread OPs have had images.

>>105715304
why do you think its done? its not done yet

>>105715412
>why do you think its done?
Read a thread about it on the intern et

>>105715304
and that's a problem because…?

>>105712297
>Use-case?
give op something to do and he is probably enjoying it
this does seem like a pretty enjoyable thing to do

Doesn't lynx already work with 4chan pretty well? Cool idea still.

>>105711567 (OP)
I think it's actually really cool.

>>105711567 (OP)
its called an IMAGEboard for a reason bro
other than that, based

>>105711622
>>105711634
>>105715304
>>105716362
Image-gods, you forgot to post images...

just plug an image recognition software to textually describe what each image is supposed to be

Looks cool and I would install this on my Linux dual-boot.

>>105711567 (OP)
I think this concept would work better with an anonymous text-based board or forum instead. As other anons already said, doing this removes half the point of an imageboard and you'll be more likely to attract users who are interested in a plaintext terminal-based website instead

>>105716459
You're acting as if images can't be displayed on a terminal.

>>105716481
true but terminals are mostly text-based, putting lots of images in them kinda defeats the purpose

>>105711567 (OP)
Are you scraping, or having to beg the JSON API for the threads?

>>105716424
One of those didn't, you DENSE motherfucker.

>>105716661
it's not an image it's a picture

>Thoughts?
Europe Lost. Your client sucks. American website.

imageboard
where are the images?

cool project tho

>>105716424
I don't contribute

>>105711567 (OP)
I like it. Fuck images. All I see is gay ass frogs now. Frogniggers ruined feelsgoodman frog and this website. TFrogniggerD.

>>105717539
Kek true

You can already use tui browsers. I recommend this one https://chawan.net/

>>105716446
I don't think one can self host this and even if, it probably requires an insanely powerful GPU.
But I could do OCR, given that most images in OP are PNGs and have clearly visible text.

>>105711622
>>105711771
>>105711634
>>105715304
>>105717485
Oh no how am i EVER gonna use 4chan if i dont get blasted by multiple twitter and reddit screencaps every minute?

>>105719793
>You can already use tui browsers. I recommend this one https://chawan.net/
Yes, but I am not sure how well they work on 4chan. Here for example I have shortcuts to jump to next and previous posts, and jump to the end (I also plan to add more)
And I can quote posts by selecting text too. That is why I made it. Also using tui you cannot post and I just figured out that it is, at least for me, more efficient to post like this.

>>105719883
Right, not to mention you probably can't extract cookies and import them in the browser I mentioned.
Would you consider adding sixel support ?

>>105715331
This is easily done. I watched Stars Wars this way.

>>105719916
>Would you consider adding sixel support ?
Of course, just know that the most mainstream DE (Gnome)'s terminal doesn't support it apparently
https://www.arewesixelyet.com/
Although funnily enough, xterm supports it

>>105711721
>Niggers really go through all this effort to save a few cents per day
grim

>>105719992
Ok paypig

>>105719976
>Gnome's terminal doesn't support it
usecase?

>>105711567 (OP)
Make it flag threads that are:
-1pbtid
-Op is a meme flag
-Op is Israeli, Indian, or Canadian
Filter them out

>>105711567 (OP)
Very nice anon :>

>>105720276
What do you have against Canada?

>>105711567 (OP)
>Thoughts?
utterly pointless

>>105711622
unironically this

>>105713359
perhaps you make something that is simple and useful next time

Actual AIshit code, a human wouldn't build it this way

>>105721433
What way would a human build it?

>>105721342
It is useful, for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>105721233
They're either Indian, French, or gibbering socialists
A raking, that's all you deserve

>>105711604
>do you got a github link?
I have time now so I uploaded the project
https://codeberg.org/ivanovich29/chan-tui

>>105711567 (OP)
You should write it in rust

>>105711567 (OP)
Is it blazing fast?

>>105711684
pixels are energy inefficient and overstimulating when consuming information. Nothing will beat printed media.

>>105713404
Sorry babe, Stable Diffusion has been invented. We don't need your kind anymore.

Forget about ASCII image suggestions. Kitty Graphics Protocol can be used to display images and is supported by multiple terminals

>>105722111
>Kitty Graphics Protocol can be used to display images and is supported by multiple terminals
What can it do that Sixel cannot?

>ITT newfags dont know there are text only boards too

>>105711567 (OP)
Based, but how does the capture work?

>>105721864
e-ink probably beats printed media hands down in almost all situations when it comes to ecological footprint

>>105722326
>e-ink
This still exists?

>>105722264
Because all of them have 50 users combined

>>105722253
>Kitty Graphics Protocol
Sounds like some degenerate shit

>>105721864
>overstimulating when consuming information.
This

>>105711567 (OP)
interesting project anon

>>105711567 (OP)
really really cool and i might use but yeah, gotta have those images mang

>>105711567 (OP)
>an image board
>in terminal
i've seen a few and never understood.

>>105721813
>https://codeberg.org/ivanovich29
>Oleg Ivanovich

>>105711567 (OP)
that's cool anon, keep at it and you'll have something other people might actually use, it's nice to see you're already able to use it yourself

>>105711567 (OP)
This is cool. But I wouldn't specifically design it for terminals with image display capabilities.

And if it can't display images, its useless and retarded

>>105725234
Sixel is supported by pretty much everyone except GNOME

>>105724964
Hopefully I manage to get it to such state that others will be willing to contribute to it?

>>105711567 (OP)
if you need utility functions, you can check

https://github.com/sky-cake/ayase-quart

https://ayasequart.org

>>105711567 (OP)
Nevermind it seems like even i.4cdn.org has cloudflare checks. this will delay the whole thing ...

>>105711567 (OP)

>>105726757
I got the sixel working at least, not I need to integrate it with tview

>>105711567 (OP)
Looks good. Just remember to add support for either kitty graphics protocol, sixel, or imgcat (depending on terminal) so that it can truly be an imageboard viewer.

Looks pretty cool OP. Post progress every once in a while.

good luck op, ignore the seething tards!

>>105730036
I have sixel now, (primitive) but I cannot get images over Tor because it triggers cloud flare. Any suggestions? I can take images from desuarchive although they use different filenames.

>>105711567 (OP)
Pretty cool. I started writing my own about two years ago, got it to the read-only stage and abandoned it.

>>105720293
What is this??

>>105711567 (OP)
terminal is nice but no image
maybe add like an image link or something like that idk

>>105711567 (OP)
I'd use it.

90% of the images here are twitter screenshots or worthless tranime or pepes or wojaks and can be parsed and ignored
all you need is to identify and classify them, maybe you want to identify this as apu ausatja and he's annoyed and suspicious that's all you need basically just the cartoon base character and some emotion or some shit that's 90% of the fucking Images
Go look at the most reposted on the archives if you don't believe me
and if it's text you just extract it and render it somehow
I'm sure Twitter could be converted to nested text pretty easily

Also I guess identifying what racist or other hateful tropes are in an image helps too along with flags

[An array of mocking laughing pepes]
Just run the images through whatever that image to tag thing stable diffusion had was or a newer one

We really don't use images here except for a few basic things is what I'm saying [thinking pepe - glasses]
some generals on /int/

I assume you get my point

>>105731519
I do

>>105731500
This is just western sites in general. You rarely get shit like this in Russia

>>105711567 (OP)
Allow people to hide all posts except for posts that:
- an answer to op-post
- not an answer to anything
- have an image
So it basically hides bots, shills, and arguing with bots and shills and overall lazy bot posts.
If you do that, it's easily the best client that beats any 4chan client or userscript or extension.
The most fundamental problem on the internet today is content filtering, and it's easily solvable when the thread page and catalog are static. Twitter or Youtube will never be able to achieve convenience of an imageboard(unless the imageboard engine in question is too gae).

Three letter agencies would hate you for making browsing a breeze here though, your program will allow like 0.01% of anons to enjoy 4chan for probably years to come, because the overall percentage of users is too small to bother with upgrading bots, besides they are targeting newfags anyway not people.

>>105734119
This is highly flawed heuristics. You'll still get all the frogposters that way, and might miss interesting chains.

>>105734203
almost no chain is interesting today unless you are new friend or a federal agent, or a shill, or a bot. glowniggers will allow you to filter threads, but they wont allow you to get the actual information out of a thread easily.
besides since posts that contain images within the chain wont get hidden, you will quickly see for yourself thats its a part of some boring read in at least 99% of the cases, not something you ever needed to read.
like 3 and a half anons will use op client in this case anyway, so why bother about your interesting chains
using llm to evaluate is what a federal agent would lobby for

Make a checkbox to hide all the comments without an attached image/webm so it filters all the seething retards on /gif/ that don't contribute but take up 90% of the posts.

>>105734344
>>105734119
Noted. Since there is so many different filter ideas, how do you suggest to go about it? I can do a bunch of checkboxes

>>105722760
This, I instantly picture a troon when reading that sentence. /g/ has mindbroken me

>>105735174
Lmao

>>105711567 (OP)
Needs text wrap and reply background

Regarding filters: if you go with filtering chains, maybe make an exception for posts with more than 1000 characters for the rare effort post without an image that may be buried in it. The vast majority of impulsive trash and other clutter doesn't even get past a singular line. Obviously with an extra checkbox in case AI shitposts become too prolific.

I'd much appreciate if you drop a project git or another rallying point before the thread 404s because monitoring /g/ is incredibly tedious and I might miss follow-ups.

>>105735309
It already has text wrap

>>105735474
>I'd much appreciate if you drop a project git or another rallying point before the thread 404s because monitoring /g/ is incredibly tedious and I might miss follow-ups.
I already did, anon
>>105721813
>https://codeberg.org/ivanovich29/chan-tui

>>105711567 (OP)
good fun have luck anon

>>105735496
Grand, bookmarked for better times in my personal attention economy. Thanks for pointing me to it.
A resulting further thought on filters: hyperlinks could be another item to preserve in post chains regardless of image/reply state.
Cool project, hope you keep enjoying it.

I have added sixel support, here is the video. It is like this for now.
It doesn't work over tor however, anyone has any ideas? Is there any site that proxies i.4cdn.org?

>>105734304
>almost no chain is interesting
Source?

>>105731510
Yeah, most posts are text

>>105735474
>monitoring /g/ is incredibly tedious and I might miss follow-ups.
How so?

>>105731506
>[An array of mocking laughing pepes]
>Just run the images through whatever that image to tag thing stable diffusion had was or a newer one
Link? Is it feasible to run on consumer computers without a GPU?

>>105737337
iirc it was CLIP or something and integrated in https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui

>>105711567 (OP)
why

>>105711622
usecase for images?

This seems dumb. It'd be infinitely more functional to just stylize 4chan to look shitty

>>105736078
It'd be more useful to just present all images at once alongside the text. You can implement some kind of paging feature to only show initially what fits in the terminal and then give options to page more or return

>>105738492
Would take too long to load. And also on tui I cannot really update images as they are loaded like Firefox can

>>105738577
Would it though? If you load the thumbnails one terminal page at a time, that can't be too demanding.

make it display images or pointless

>>105738577
No need to update them, just print a new page each time you need to change the view. The previous content you can turn scroll back even, if needed.

>>105738601
I'd have to test it, but I either case it would require me to write a custom widget for posts (currently I am using text area which allows moving cursor around and selecting text for quoting, the whole widget is 1500LoC so it would take time to rewrite this

>>105738625
Consider it. Probably worth it in the end.

>>105711622
It should ASCII art the images

>>105738703
no. convert the image to pixels and render it on the terminal.

>>105711667
how are you able to post on 4chins throguh tor?

>>105711624
White people aren't like this, saar. I'd be keen to contribute to this, or at least build it and use it

>>105738714
*how are you able to post on 4chan through tor? Doesnt the site block proxies?

>>105738714
Tor is just for reading. Posting is done by external program

>>105711567 (OP)
it's gay, 4chan is an imageboard

>>105741436
It already supports images

>>105711567 (OP)
>>105711622
>>105711634
banner 190

>>105711590
It just works

>>105711567 (OP)
Haven't found a comfier way to consume 4chan yet, don't think I will.

>https://github.com/Infinitifall/4chv
>downloads boards and builds local html pages
>sorts threads and posts by quality

>>105743192
ok cool

>>105739698
Seriously, how do I remove indian post like this >>105711624? Can I hide posts based on ip?

>>105711567 (OP)
An actual quality thread. OP I would help you but all I know is vibe coding and desktop ricing sorry

>>105711590
Lol

>>105711567 (OP)
based but you'll never make one that can captcha solve the Cloudflare one

>>105711710
What is chanpost?

>>105738714
I think the only way to post from Tor is using the pass.
But that's only useful if you can somehow pay for said pass with a payment method that can't be traced back to you.
I don't know how you would do that though. I know crypto can be anonymous, but I don't know how to use that safely

>>105749164
effectively you'd have to launder it through something that is secure, and only in particularly large blocks of untraceable amounts.
btw doing this is illegal because dog bess israel :^)

>>105749655
That's ridiculous. That sounds like too much for anonymous posting on basket weaving forums.
Also sounds like too much stuff to go through to buy stuff anonymously.
dog bless juices

>>105749655
Yeah

>>105711567 (OP)
check out ytfzf to get see how to get images in the terminal

>>105751151
I already got images, i just need to integrate them into ui library

>>105711567 (OP)
haven't found a comfier way to consume 4chan yet
https://github.com/Infinitifall/4chv

>downloads threads
>builds local html pages
>posts threaded and sorted by "quality"

>>105751271
pdcurses

>>105751579
cool

>>105751617
What is that??

>>105711622
fucking this

>>105752724
This. So much this. Up voted just SO MUCH

>>105748060
>What is chanpost?
A python script that connects to a daemon which will post on 4chan.

>>105721813
Why no rust?

>anon makes something for once
>a bunch of fags start to tell him why it is bad based on nothing
Keep it up OP. Don't listen to those indians that only know how to cheat bootcamp exams.,

>>105753219
Kek

>>105715331
Could I use a c64 or 128 ?

biz idea: a board where you can only post images, no text

>>105738713
you write that part

>>105754777
It is already written. Why nobody reads the thread?

>>105754809

>>105711567 (OP)
nice. hope it's usable in the future.
would love to have it show the catalog with preview images. and still give it mouse interaction like tmux. filter options would be nice as well.

>>105735099
Run the posts through grep maybe? It will only display results including a filename. I'm not sure how to do that, I'm not a SWE.

>>105755086
I can do regex filters without grep