damn

In the "Incredible lazy quality control" section, it mentions about how "lazy reuploaded material" is not allowed. Despite this, most content back then and now are reuploads of pre-existing videos, ranging from kids out-right not even bothering to credit the creator (https://squarebracket.pw/watch.php?v=tDH6dUmoG7n) to "Guys! I Found This Funny Meme On Twitter!" (https://qobo.tv/watch.php?v=1XiWuJZrGtQ). The "GoAnimate/Gacha" and "logokids" bans were made in case if a kid were to upload anything related to that kind of material, since it would've indicated to me that they were "under 13", thus I could've banned them (even though the site had the time had no banning functionality).

wait i think it overwrote the high quality version with the original one from poktube LOL

rtest

also this was FUCKING PRIMITIVE.

also poktube used to not have precise dates and "Last modified" dates were all reset to February 15th/16th after they were migrated to the Linux server we still use today, so i'm just using fake bullshit unix values for this.

so, for anyone wondering. "What the fuck! How is this in 720p! I thought PokTube vids were in like 144p!". Well, most old made-by-me PokTube videos are still in my old hard drive in their complete raw mp4 format. So for those vids, I use the raw mp4s instead of the old converted mp4s.

squarebracket winter 2020 facts:

it was hosted on a asus laptop (that dad later took a week ago), simillarly to fulptube back when it was in early developement, people could access it with ngrok. it was later moved to a professional server because a laptop wasn't going to cut it.

before framebit's code went public, squarebracket's codebase was comprised of shit. it was a clone of december 2017 bitview, and the code comprised of a paritally working watch page, login/signup system (the only thing remaining today) and a very basic homepage that didn't even work. i was half-way through profiles when i ended up abandonning it in place of framebit's code.

if i remember correctly framebit's codebase dates all the way back to october 2020. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/799826048937099274/807098585044877332/image.png

hi so, this is from an early point in developement, this is from when i had ported like 80% of the framebit code because the older code from late-jan was utter shit. icantellyou joined around this time.

originally around this time i was going to redesign squarebracket to be some early-2000s KDE-esque website, but I dropped that idea. this site was originally called poktube until i got the squarebracket.me domain (which was intended for a ratelimited.me rebrand that went nowhere). i dropped the "poktube" name as it wasn't original plus i didn't come up with the name, someone else (who originally was going to work on squarebracket all the way back in november 2020, but quit shortly after) came up with it.

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