Why does Kutt use so many google services?

[poeti8]

Hello everyone,
I'm the creator of Kutt and I just somehow stumbled across this forum post.
I wanted to let you know that everything related to Google was removed in the version 3 of the app, which was released a few days ago.
I also wanted to say that I'm happy to see you took interest in Kutt. I hope you like the new version too.

[humptydumpty]

@poeti8 I switched to Yourls because of the Google references and the higher resource requirement to run Kutt. I know the idle usage is probably the same, but any reason why the recommended RAM is 1GB vs 256 MB for Yourls?

[andreasdueren]

@humptydumpty @poeti8 Same here. Another big reason was the customizability. I need to be able to choose a favicon and control the design and content of the landing page.

[sponch]

Just in contact with @poeti8 because of customization. He released a developer built on GitHub and aksed me to test. As I am a total noob (that's why I am on cloudron maybe anyone of you can test. Here is the link https://github.com/thedevs-network/kutt/tree/develop?tab=readme-ov-file#themes-and-customizations

[poeti8]

Thanks @sponch, I added development build on Docker in case anyone wants to test. I'll publish this change soon, if you have any opinions let me know.

https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/kutt/kutt

[sponch]

Sounds great @poeti8 Thanks for your fast action While we have you here: are there any other trackers or measurement tools (Google was removed, after all) that we should point out in the privacy policy?

[poeti8]

@sponch Nope

[sponch]

https://github.com/thedevs-network/kutt Kutt 3.1 available. @girish @nebulon

[andreasdueren]

@poeti8 Shipping fast, I'm digging the customizability!

[sponch]

@andreasdueren any hint how to do it? just updated ..

[andreasdueren]

@sponch Updating didn't work, even if I manually created the custom folder. I had to reinstall unfortunately.

[sponch]

I had to manually add the custom files and it worked.

[andreasdueren]

@sponch Strange. But since it was a new install anyways this wasn't an issue for me.

[sponch]

@andreasdueren Hope the custom folder is not being overwritten during the next update ...

[sponch]

I think it would be easier if the custom folder would already contain example files. I had to get them from GitHub.

[andreasdueren]

@sponch the problem with that is though that those are automatically applied. I think the documentation is clear and easy enough to understand