Hey folks,
our team has worked tirelessly for a year to bring you Crackpipe, the open-source, decentralized, and liberal alternative to conventional cloud-based game platforms like Steam and Origin. We’re thrilled to announce that Crackpipe is now available for everyone, and we’re delighted to share it with the community as an open-source project.
With Crackpipe, you and your friends can enjoy playing and tracking games on a shared file server, free from the restrictions of traditional platforms. Embracing “alternatively obtained” games, including DRM-free titles, Crackpipe offers a flexible and open approach to gaming - think Jellyfin, but for Videogames.
Take full control of your gaming experience with Crackpipe’s self-hosted approach. Explore your server’s game collection, securely download, launch, and play games, and monitor your playtimes and progress - all even when the server is offline. Compare stats and play states with other users on the server for added fun.
Our server features include automatic indexing of games, metadata enrichment with RAWG API, multi-user authentication, configurable logging, health monitoring, full-text search, filters, sorting, pagination, and a fully documented API. Crackpipe’s high configurability ensures it fits your specific needs.
Join us on this journey to embrace a more open, flexible, and enjoyable gaming experience for all. Try Crackpipe today and share your contributions, feedback, bug reports, and feature requests.
Link: https://crackpipe.de
You can also check out our launch at producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/crackpipe
UPDATE: here
It’s absolutely hilarious, for me as a European the first image that comes to mind when i hear crackpipe is some skeletal looking white dude with half his teeth missing jittering in a bush somewhere.
really shows how internalized racism is for them, and it’s sad - rather than try and use Lemmy to break that pattern they just move it over from reddit…
I’m from the US and have never heard crackpipe used as a racial term…certainly doesn’t immediately bring black people to mind.
Are you trolling? If you think of a white person, why would an American, with an entirely different set of experiences and culture not think of something else? How is acknowledging an atrocity by our own government against poor blacks a bad thing? Is the goal of this project to have people use it? If so, they should reconsider the name.
Ok? acknowledge it to yourself all you want, don’t impose it on others who have nothing to do with it, and ESPECIALLY do not try to guilt trip them, what do you not understand?
It’s this kind of shit that killed reddit, assholes just scanning their feeds all day long trying to find some word or sentence they might find offensive hoping someone else will care too and join their “grand crusade”.
Meanwhile actual content got drowned out in the noise.
Like holy fuck this thread is a prime example of this, instead of discussing the featureset, functionalities or tips&tricks it turned into a shitty ass redditlike offtopic racism rant arena.
Dude, We’re trying to be helpful. Calling your program CrackPipe is just going to smother it in the crib. Words and phrases have connotations and associations. We’re just saying that naming your program this particular name is going to turn people off to it before they even see what it is. I know, I’ve seen it happen. It’s literally happening right now.
Reddit isnt dead, and what “killed” it was API changes and a greedy CEO. Astounding that you think “Hey this name could be offensive in a large english speaking market” is a crusade when it is in fact a discussion about the actual content lol.
Except it’s literally not, the “content” in question is the title crackpipe - a crack is a modified binary/library permitting the execution of software without authorization, a pipe is terminology used to describe communication between programs on a surface level - yet you and others instead saw “black dude smoking crack”. So you’re discussing “actual content” which doesn’t exist anywhere but some misplaced idea.
I know what cracked software is. Surely the creators did not mean the name as a double-entendre right? They surely wouldn’t like to know that it alienates a portion of the user base… Open source software is not inclusive… right?
You’re the only one outraged and on a crusade. Pipe down. ;)
Outraged nah, just annoyed at seeing the garbage start here too, let’s just stop and let’s focus on the content aight, no “what if’s” or “what coulds” if someone doesn’t outright come and state something then there’s nothing to discuss, just like we (or at least i) used to in the good 2000 before the quality of online communities went to shit (:
Personally I don’t see anything wrong with being considerate. There’s no “what if” here. The name blows. Even ignoring the racial history in the US, who the fuck wants to be heard talking about their crack pipe? It’s a comical name at BEST. Who is typing that into Google? lol. Idk surely they can think of something better. Gamepipe was a good suggestion even as boring as it is. It’s not just cracked games anyway, it’s DRM free too etc.
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Even as an american, my mind went to cracked (as in /c/crackwatch, cracked games, etc) as the piracy term, and pipe, as in pipeline (like newpipe, etc)