[Meta] Suggest issues deserving bounties

[TheFrenchGhosty]

This is a meta issue where organizations members, and users in general can suggest issues that deserve to have bounties added to them.

[syeopite]

• Any issues that involves a massive rewrite or overhaul should have an bounty imo.
• Any major features of Invidious that are broken should also have one. Like [Bug] Community section is broken #1979 or the whole lsquic fiasco.
• Any major features that needs or should be added and would be difficult to implement should also have one. Add Livechat on Livestreams #438, Circumventing geo-restrictions #92, How does decentralization / federation work and how to improve it? #879 etc.

And maybe we should also bump the existing bounties since no one is tackling them.

[SamantazFox]

What @syeopite said, plus #2098, #1762 and #1561, maybe?

[TheFrenchGhosty]

@syeopite

Any major features of Invidious that are broken should also have one. Like #1979 or the whole lsquic fiasco.

Bounty added on #1979. Thank you :)

About lsquic I really don't know what has to be done, so I will let you guys handle it to be sure it's "complete".

Any major features that needs or should be added and would be difficult to implement should also have one. Add Livechat on Livestreams #438, Circumventing geo-restrictions #92, How does decentralization / federation work and how to improve it? #879 etc.

Waiting for @Perflyst

Since we started adding bounties Perflyst wanted us to only add them on bugs (and not enhancements/feature requests). Back then it was mainly because there was so much problems with Invidious, but now I guess it's time to add some bounties to enhancements/feature requests.

[TheFrenchGhosty]

@SamantazFox

#2098

We have to discuss if we really want Google SSO on Invidious, in my opinion it's a pretty bad thing to have on a service mainly made to avoid Google.

#1762

If it's only an issue when decrypt_polling is enabled... is it really a problem? According to the description you added on your config.example.yml rewrite it allows access to "secured videos", I really don't understand what this mean, can you please explain?

#1561

I know what PubSub is however I'm wondering... is it really useful to have? I think we had this discussion before and if I remember correctly the answer was yes, but I would just like to be sure.

[Perflyst]

or the whole lsquic fiasco

If someone can define what needs to be done I guess we can add a bounty. I can't estimate how much work this will be.

Add Livechat on Livestreams #438

Even though it is my own feature request I still think this feature is not very important compared to other bugs / improvements left
We can put some bounties on most wanted feature requests I guess

Circumventing geo-restrictions #92

Sounds good to me, go for it

How does decentralization / federation work and how to improve it? #879

This looks more like a discussion to me than some feature request

[SamantazFox]

We have to discuss if we really want Google SSO on Invidious, in my opinion it's a pretty bad thing to have on a service mainly made to avoid Google.

Some people want to use their G-account to continue to interact with the content creators/community (comments/likes) without being too much tracked and annoyed by Youtube itself. And if we work better on accessibly, it could be another reason (than privacy) why people choose us.

If it's only an issue when decrypt_polling is enabled... is it really a problem? According to the description you added on your config.example.yml rewrite it allows access to "secured videos", I really don't understand what this mean, can you please explain?

Some videos, mostly music, contain a form of DRM that requires a small algorithm to run on the client side to "verify" that they can play the video. decrypt_polling is a "job" (a function ran periodically by crystal) that extracts this algorithm. Because this function is currently broken, issues like #1947 happen.

I know what PubSub is however I'm wondering... is it really useful to have? I think we had this discussion before and if I remember correctly the answer was yes, but I would just like to be sure.

I honnestly have no clue about what PubSub is, lol. But from what I remember from "hovering the code", it's required for subscriptions or something?

[unixfox]

I know what PubSub is however I'm wondering... is it really useful to have? I think we had this discussion before and if I remember correctly the answer was yes, but I would just like to be sure.

Yes it is very important, for big instances it allows to instantly get notified once a new video comes out instead of waiting 5 days that Invidious refresh all the 100 000 channels in the database.

[jtagcat]

If the budget is not all booked, allocating it to items in to-dos might be of interest. Though, where is the limit — 2$ bounties for minor bugs, paper cuts, feels wrong.

[SapeurPonpier]

I think #2236 deserves a bounty. Using invidious on iOS has become tedious.

[TheFrenchGhosty]

@SapeurPonpier Thank you for the suggestion, bounty added!

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[ChunkyProgrammer]

I think the automatic db migration could be a good candidate for a bounty. It's blocking a few PRs #2254 (comment)

[syeopite]

I think we should consider putting up bounties for whoever can discover the source(s) of the memory leaks in Invidious

[TheFrenchGhosty]

@syeopite

I think we should consider putting up bounties for whoever can discover the source(s) of the memory leaks in Invidious

Sure, we should discuss it