Had no idea Newpipe was that much more stable, responsive, and faster than it’s fork. Wasn’t hard to decide to uninstall the fork. Don’t even miss sponsorblock.

  • @[email protected]
    9•11 months ago

    I have only used new pipe with sponsor block I haven’t noticed that many issues other than background play on Android getting confused. What issues were you having?

  • CorrodedEnglish
    5•11 months ago

    What exactly is sponsorblock? Is it like NewPipe but skips ads in videos?

      • CorrodedEnglish
        3•11 months ago

        Can NewPipe do something similar? Sorry I’m a bit confused what the two have to do with each other

        • @[email protected]
          9•11 months ago

          There is a fork of NewPipe which includes Sponsorblock integration. It’s maintained by different people because the main dev of the official NewPipe wanted to keep it simple.

          Sponsorblock can be used in various addons. They’re talking about the newpipe that has sponsorblock built in vs the stock one.

          • CorrodedEnglish
            3•11 months ago

            Thanks for dumbing it down for me. Appreciate it!

            • @[email protected]
              3•11 months ago

              Happy to help. If you’re on android you can get YouTube ReVanced to block ads and get Sponsorblock integration in something like the official YouTube app too.

              • CorrodedEnglish
                2•11 months ago

                Can you upload your subscription list to ReVanced like you can with NewPipe and Invidious?

                • @oxf
                  2•11 months ago

                  You sign in with your actual account, so everything is being kept in sync automatically. Even watch history.

  • Ephera
    3•11 months ago

    The official NewPipe just had the 0.26 release, which the Sponsorblock-version hasn’t been rebased on yet.

    So, yeah, if you’re already using the 0.26 version, you might just have to wait a week or two for similar improvements to land in the fork.

      • Ephera
        1•11 months ago

        Hmm, that is the repo linked from F-Droid, yes.

        The README does say “Development has stopped” and they put that text into there last week.

        They also linked to their discussion of “Tubular”, which seems like an idea for an enhanced NewPipe x Sponsorblock. An idea from a year ago, but I guess, if they refer to it now, that’s planned.

        I could imagine that they decided to wait where the NewPipe rewrite is going and then implement Tubular on top, so it may be paused in that sense.

        There appear to be multiple forks of NewPipe x Sponsorblock which have successfully updated on top of NewPipe 0.26.1, but yeah, no idea if any of these have aspirations to be the official repository where IzzyOnDroid pulls from…