I ran gvid some years back and the dead end I ran into was copyright issues, so I don't want to intentionally facilitate ripping from youtube in a way that directly targets them.

Ah I see. I didn't anticipate that.

Well the good news is notabug and saidit are partnered already, notabug currently hosts a mirror of saidit here: https://notabug.io/t/saidit.all/firehose

And go1dfish is working on a way to port that code here to saidit, so we can mirror notabug. I've been calling it our "post-reddit federation".

Anyway, I guess my dream with a video site partnering with saidit would be something like this: Any time a user posts a video link (from youtube, but maybe also from other big video sites too, so it's not targeted just at youtube) the video is copied and mirrored on gvid. Maybe we can have a checkbox during submission that says "Change my video link to mirror on gvid" and then when the user posts it, the link goes to the gvid mirror instead of the original video. Or maybe the gvid link is generated in the comments and the original video post link is unchanged, that's another idea.

If we could get this working, it'd be great for gvid because it'd drive tons of traffic. And it'd be great for saidit because it'd give us a legitimate video mirroring and hosting solution.

Anyway, that's the rough idea. Not sure how technically difficult such a thing would be from your end, but if we could make it work that'd be some next-level stuff, and it would help both our sites grow quite a lot. Then if you get it working on saidit you might be able to branch it over to notabug too without having to code too much extra.

I honestly don't care about the traffic to your site right now, I just care if it functions properly or not. If it functions and is scalable, then I think we can work something out. Anyway, just some ideas, let me know if you're interested.