Loops isn't much more expensive than other projects to run.

Object storage is cheap, and we do two stage video optimization, with the first stage being on the webUI or mobile app.

$200/month for a server Loops.video sized with a premium intel cpu, that's 34k users with 5k MAU and 1K+ DAU.

You could do it for a fraction of that price, but performance may suffer.

AND that includes 1 year of content, 28k+ videos and more.

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I'm so happy to see such positive feedback regarding the Loops iOS app.

I know the first two TestFlight versions were pretty janky.

But I took your feedback to heart and focused on creating a fast, fresh and stable experience when I rewrote it from scratch late last year.

Most people won't be able to tell its a React Native app, thanks to near native performance improvements.

It's only going to get better, feature packed and more stable 🚀

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Btw, when I was setting up Loops in the App Store, it suggested a default age limit of 9+ but I manually raised it to 16+ to match our backend age check.

I believe that Loops should be restricted to 16+, unless you run your own closed server, you can set the age limit in the backend to whatever you want, say if you want to run a family-only server.

We will be adding a lockdown mode to allow you to restrict all access behind login.

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I am working on plenty of features and improvements for Loops, including:

- Better comment controls
- Comment sorting
- Push Notifications
- Federated Reposts (aka boosts)
- Image/gif comments
- "Not interested" For You Feed button
- "Hide creator" For You Feed button
- Longer bios
- Friend invite links (they auto-follow you)
- Multi-Account support (app)
- Creator Analytics Dashboard

and much more!

Stay tuned friends ✨

https://joinloops.org/roadmap

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Edit: Fixed! https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server/commit/b4f26f77557c4a4ed3f45046130e9274c059dfe9

Starting to see performance issues in Loops when multiple people upload at the same time, so I'm adding a new job queue to process one video at a time.

Not a bad problem to have 😅

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I'm seeing a pattern of people reporting AI content on Loops, now while AI content is technically allowed, you do need to mark "Contains AI content" when uploading.

I think Loops should hide AI content from the For You Feed by default, but also have a setting to manually allow it if desired.

It's quite tricky to find balance sometimes, but in this situation, it's pretty easy, by supporting both sides with sensible defaults.

Shipping soon!

(We don't delete AI content btw)

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