Self host Blorp, your personal Lemmy/PieFed frontend
Self host Blorp, your personal Lemmy/PieFed frontend
I've been working on a Threadiverse frontend for almost a year called Blorp. Originally it was Lemmy only, but now it also includes PieFed. (source code) (try web version)
I just Dockerized the frontend and started publishing the Docker image, and I would love your feedback!
REACT_APP_DEFAULT_INSTANCE
(e.g.https: //lemmy.zip
no trailing slash)- Changes the default instance
REACT_APP_LOCK_TO_DEFAULT_INSTANCE
set this to "true" or "false"- When true, this prevents the frontend from logging into other instances. Perfect if you host your own Lemmy instance and want this frontend to exclusively be used with your instance. You can still log into multiple accounts on the locked instance
- When false, you can log into as many accounts across as many instances as you want. You can even mix and mach Lemmy and PieFed
bash
# pull the latest Blorp image docker pull christianjuth/blorp:latest # run it on port 8080 (host → container), passing any runtime env‑vars you need docker run -d \ --name blorp \ -p 8080:80 \ -e REACT_APP_DEFAULT_INSTANCE="https://lemmy.zip/" \ # BUT without the trailing slash! -e REACT_APP_NAME="Blorp" \ -e REACT_APP_LOCK_TO_DEFAULT_INSTANCE="false" \ christianjuth/blorp:latest
Edit: I cannot get the trailing slash in https://lemmy.zip/ to go away, but make sure you exclude it. Idk what sorcery is going on with Lemmy, but it seems impossible to link a domain without a trailing slash. I'll make the docker image more forgiving in the next update.
I was today years old when I learned Lemmy doesn't let you have links without a trailing slash
POST https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/comment
It get's even weirder. I'm now writing this from PieFed. If you view this comment from PieFed it won't have the trailing slash, but from Lemmy it will. https://piefed.social/
Thank you for coming on this journey with me.
Very interesting I wonder what happens if I post both trailing and non-trailing options, do they both get canonized into the same format?
https://piefed.ca/ -- has a trailing slash https://piefed.ca/ -- does not
Thank you for having me along on this journey. I don't really know where it's leading, but maybe it's about the weird software behaviors we discover on the way.
Aren't trailing slashes completely useless?
Trailing slashes actually serve an important purpose in URLs - they indicate you're requesting a directory rather than a file, which affects how servers route reqeusts and can impact caching, redirects, and SEO.
No, not at all.
They are a shorthand for "give me the index of this directory" rather than "give me the first file you find named this." In some configurations, the presence of absence of a trailing slash dramatically reduces the amount of computation an HTTP server must execute before responding to the request.