{
  "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1",
  "title": "Yoober Updates",
  "home_page_url": "https://yoober.app/",
  "feed_url": "https://yoober.app/feed.json",
  "description": "Yoober is a free, MIT-licensed desktop app that downloads online video and audio, builds a local caption library, and plays media with better-than-site captions — using site subtitles or OpenAI Whisper (local GPU or API). Bundles yt-dlp and ffmpeg. No account required.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Jay Simons",
      "url": "https://yaa.bz/"
    }
  ],
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "https://yoober.app/updates/yoober-1-0-3",
      "url": "https://yoober.app/updates/yoober-1-0-3",
      "title": "Yoober 1.0.3: auto-update, library preview, and sturdier downloads",
      "summary": "Packaged macOS and Windows builds can update in-app, the library gains thumbnails and a detail preview, and YouTube downloads are more reliable.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-17T17:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-08-17T17:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "release",
        "library",
        "updates",
        "download"
      ],
      "content_html": "<p>Yoober 1.0.3 is the current desktop release. Signed installers are on update.yoober.app; this site remains the canonical place for project news.</p><h2>App updates</h2><p>Signed macOS and Windows builds check for updates on launch (Settings → Updates). Linux stays a website download. The feed lives on update.yoober.app.</p><h2>Library</h2><ul><li>Thumbnails in the list and a large detail preview with Play</li><li>Whisper for items without captions, including multi-select Whisper (N)</li><li>Copy transcript on the detail pane</li><li>Settings → Data → Delete all data… to wipe local SQLite (optional library-folder delete)</li></ul><h2>Transcription</h2><p>“Get transcript after download” is now Transcribe after download: on by default, always Whisper. YouTube captions remain a manual job-card action. Queue and history status show the engine — CPU, CUDA, Apple Silicon, or OpenAI API.</p><h2>Downloads</h2><ul><li>Jobs no longer sit on “starting…” forever — extraction logs surface on the card</li><li>YouTube HTTP 403 around 30% progress auto-retries once</li><li>WebM writes a sidecar thumbnail instead of failing on embed-thumbnail</li></ul><p>On the development branch, Yoober can also keep yt-dlp current from GitHub stable releases, with rollback to the bundled copy.</p><p><a href=\"https://yoober.app/#download\">Get macOS and Windows builds →</a></p>"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://yoober.app/updates/site-indieweb-revamp",
      "url": "https://yoober.app/updates/site-indieweb-revamp",
      "title": "Yoober site IndieWeb revamp (in progress)",
      "summary": "The yoober.app site is becoming a content-first IndieWeb presence with first-party updates, feeds, and moderated Webmention support.",
      "date_published": "2026-08-13T02:00:00.000Z",
      "date_modified": "2026-08-13T02:00:00.000Z",
      "tags": [
        "site",
        "indieweb",
        "meta"
      ],
      "content_html": "<p>This site is intended to be the canonical home for Yoober project news. Signed installers live on update.yoober.app; durable announcements are published here first.</p><h2>What is landing</h2><ul><li>First-party /updates archive with Atom and JSON Feed discovery</li><li>microformats2 h-card and h-entry markup for project and author identity</li><li>Webmention receive, verify, and moderated display on update permalinks</li><li>Editorial visual refresh — less SaaS template, more maintained project homepage</li></ul><p>Feeds, Webmention discovery, and the receiver endpoint will appear in HTML once the Cloudflare Worker deployment with D1 and Queue bindings is live. Yoober itself is unchanged: a free, local-first desktop app for downloads, library management, and captions.</p><p><a href=\"https://yoober.app/#download\">Get macOS and Windows builds →</a></p>"
    }
  ]
}