Introducing Crackpipe - your decentralized, self-hosted gaming solution!

3 years ago by alfagun74 to c/selfhosted

the self-hosted gaming platform for alternatively obtained games

Hey folks,

our team has worked tirelessly for a year to bring you Crackpipe, the open-source, decentralized, and liberal alternative to conventional cloud-based game platforms like Steam and Origin. We're thrilled to announce that Crackpipe is now available for everyone, and we're delighted to share it with the community as an open-source project.

With Crackpipe, you and your friends can enjoy playing and tracking games on a shared file server, free from the restrictions of traditional platforms. Embracing "alternatively obtained" games, including DRM-free titles, Crackpipe offers a flexible and open approach to gaming - think Jellyfin, but for Videogames.

Take full control of your gaming experience with Crackpipe's self-hosted approach. Explore your server's game collection, securely download, launch, and play games, and monitor your playtimes and progress - all even when the server is offline. Compare stats and play states with other users on the server for added fun.

Our server features include automatic indexing of games, metadata enrichment with RAWG API, multi-user authentication, configurable logging, health monitoring, full-text search, filters, sorting, pagination, and a fully documented API. Crackpipe's high configurability ensures it fits your specific needs.

Join us on this journey to embrace a more open, flexible, and enjoyable gaming experience for all. Try Crackpipe today and share your contributions, feedback, bug reports, and feature requests.

Link: https://crackpipe.de

You can also check out our launch at producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/crackpipe

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lordcommander 116 points 3 years ago

Cool idea, problematic name. Have you considered any others? There’s a ton of racist/problematic connotations in the US with this name that probably wouldn’t be well understood in DE/EU…

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lemmy 44 points 3 years ago

Crack pipe isn't racist. People of all Skin tones can enjoy that sweet sweet crack.

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lordcommander 28 points 3 years ago

In the US specifically there’s some historical connotations back to the 80’s and how the US government fucked over black communities by flooding them with crack. I’m sure you all didn’t mean anything racist/negative with this, but wanted to flag this to y’all since you were based in the EU and likely wouldn’t have the same connotations with the term :)

Anyways, best of luck with this! It’s a cool idea.

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Neato 10 points 3 years ago

Agreed. Not doing the least bit of research and choosing an edgy name makes this seem extremely amateurish.

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MonkCanatella 3 points 3 years ago

tthat's why it's always best to say fuck the fascist pigs that poured crack into the streets of minority populations as a form of cynical political maneuvering at the end of every comment, just in case.

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lemmy 0 points 3 years ago

Crack is smoked regardless of skin tone. As a US resident even the backwoods hicks around here smoke crack. Just because something happened to a certain race in the past doesn't make that thing racist.

Crack is bad regardless

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stappern -2 points 3 years ago
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stappern 7 points 3 years ago
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MonkCanatella 2 points 3 years ago

i'll take one please

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hexachrome -18 points 3 years ago

Exactly. Probably the most famous crack user is the white son of the current US president.

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MonkCanatella 4 points 3 years ago

HAHAHA They didn't like that one

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