PeerTube is a fantastic project. But its UI is designed around people creating "channels" for publishing video regularly to an audience, as a lot of people do on ThemTube. A lot of the PeerTube UI assumptions don't make sense if what you want is a video library, more like Vimeo. A dedicated host for videos (and other bulky media files) to be embedded elsewhere, or just shared within a group.
Does anyone know an actively maintained free code project designed for that?
@strypey Sounds like you're asking for an alternate skin to PeerTube. It might be worth asking the dev for suggestions on how to implement that. They're on Mastodon.
@Chocobozzz
> What is missing in PeerTube do achieve such use case?
One-click downloads 😁
Seriously though, it's not a case of missing features so much as a different approach to UI. Something more like a photo gallery app, or the kind of media library apps we use for managing our music or movie collections on desktops.
@Chocobozzz
I don't expect PeerTube to be all things to all people. It's something that could be done by building a new app on top of the PT back-end.
But if you are keen to add this to PT, perhaps you could have two video repository types to choose from when creating a new account? A "channel" or a "library". A channel would use the existing UI. A library would have its own UI.
Perhaps an account could have one of each, but I'm guessing that's a much bigger change.
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