App crowdfunding campaign — First goal reached!
We are thrilled to announce you that thanks to your contributions we've reached our first crowdfunding goal! 🥳
On the behalf of the whole team, thank you a thousand times!
This goal is a very important first step to allow PeerTube to reach a wider adoption! Indeed, this goal was focused on enhancing the user experience and unlocking a YouTube Premium-like experience... but free and available to everyone!
Here are the details of what your donations will make possible this year.
📱Play your videos in the background
That's common use to have to move the video in background. Whether you want to read the rest of a recipe or simply because you only need the audio because you're just listening to a podcast, it can be frustrating to have your video paused each time you leave the app or when you turn off your screen.
To solve that, we will develop an update that will allow you to play your video in the background.
And, unlike some other apps (You know who we mean... 😏), this feature will be free for everyone, thanks to your surge of solidarity! 🫶
🔔 Be notified of new content
Thanks to the notifications we will add to the app, you will be able to be notified when your favorite videomakers publish new videos!
These notifications will be able to occur even if you didn't start the app.
Of course, we will add a dedicated area to the app to manage these notifications, allowing you to customize their behavior.
⚙️ Change your videos resolution
For now, the app doesn't let you change the video resolution. However, this feature helps to enjoy a better experience, especially on mobile devices where connections could be unstable!
So, we will add the ability to choose the video resolution as well as an "auto" mode that automatically switches to the most suitable resolution regarding your connection, following what is already available in the Web version!
📺 Cast your videos to your TV!
Very popular on social medias and on our platform dedicated to feedback, we are really happy to announce that we will add support for casting your videos to your TV, using Chromecast! Apple devices will follow as soon as possible.
We already imagine fun times you will be able to share with your friends thanks to this enhancement!
💖 You are amazing!
Adding to all major features listed above, we will continue to enhance the interface and to fix different issues you report!
All these improvements are possible thanks to your support and the spirit of solidarity you have shown us!
Thank you very much for letting us reach this first goal! 🥰
However, the crowdfunding has just started and we hope that even more of you will support us in reaching our next goal: Manage your videos directly from the app!
To help us to reach this next collective goal, you can:
- Follow our social media and share our posts: Mastodon, Bluesky, Reddit & Lemmy
- Subscribe to our newsletter and share the latest PeerTube news!
- Share the crowdfunding campaign with your friends and family or on your social medias
- And indeed, if you can so, support us by making a donation!
Thank you and see you very soon for the next blog post!👋
