Ok, I’ve got some utility/usability comments:

Exercise Creation:

• Both options (manually creating and json import) work without issue
• It may be handy to create some kind of per-exercise export specifically to be shared to others. I’m thinking since its just json it could live in a repo on a per exercise basis, right next to the app itself (not necessarily the same repo).
• It would be good to have an option to either add your own equipment type or allow a searchable tag. I sometimes make a workout on the fly based on whats available at the gym (like if I’m traveling), and this would help for quick searches. I also have some equipment here at home that I use that would be handy to include or exclude (like if my kids are using the slackboard).

Workout:

• The overall timer is good, but a per exercise timer inside that would be great along with a settable rest time. If I’m doing 2 minutes of weighted carries for example, I’d want to start the timer, get a countdown, then get a beep or something when the timer hits. That should be settable for the exercise.
• For a settable rest timer, if the exercise itself has a timer, then a “rest” could just be an exercise with a custom timer. This would be per rest settable, not overall. For example, if I’m doing an HIIT circuit I may want a 20s rest between exercises, but then at the end I may want a 2 minute timer to run before starting another round.
• Ideally I’d want to also grab HR data off my chest strap sensor, whether I’m getting it in-app during the session or after. I’ve made a couple of apps to pull that data in (entirely different purpose btw), its not too bad for devices like polar with a clean api, but you could also do something with an import possibly. It would be that or the other way around, allow the session data to be available for export, which would be drastically easier as a PWA. Since this is more structured indoor training/logging, a timestamped csv is probably best, though json would be fine too.

I know you’re not looking to add features in when you’re at RC, just some general feedback on what I like to see/do

I like the differentiation, but yeah it is going to make things much more complicated. Maybe icon color/theme color set per category for the same (but much easier) level of visible differentiation?

To be clear the add button and count are present, just hidden by the svg in the banner.

Right now creating some json of exercises I do to test import, manual creation after that, and (as long as the kids cooperate) I’ll get a workout in for a test too

I have put in zero effort to figure out the issues btw, just first run stuff that I’m seeing:

From the logs:

lifttrace  | [2026-06-26T19:30:58.039Z] [INFO ] [seed] Seeded 3 starter program templates  
lifttrace  | [2026-06-26T19:30:58.040Z] [INFO ] [exercise-sources] Library is empty — auto-seeding: wger, free-db  
lifttrace  | [2026-06-26T19:30:58.040Z] [INFO ] [exercise-sources] Importing from wger…  
lifttrace  | [2026-06-26T19:30:58.107Z] [INFO ] [scheduler] Starting 15-minute tick loop  
lifttrace  | [2026-06-26T19:30:58.111Z] [INFO ] LiftTrace running on port 3003  
lifttrace  | [2026-06-26T19:31:00.419Z] [INFO ] [exercise-sources] wger: imported 858  
lifttrace  | [2026-06-26T19:31:00.419Z] [INFO ] [exercise-sources] Importing from free-db…  
lifttrace  | [2026-06-26T19:31:00.606Z] [INFO ] [free-db] processed 873, inserted 873  
lifttrace  | [2026-06-26T19:31:00.606Z] [INFO ] [exercise-sources] free-db: imported 873  

I then opened and ran through the initial config, setting my username up as the first account, and logged in.

Once there, every time I switch a context to exercises, settings, etc, I see a “Not Authenticated” popup despite showing as logged in, and having just logged in with the newly created user moments before. Also, the exercise database is empty, along with no programs. I would assume this has to do with the authentication issue, but again I haven’t dug into it at all.

Edit: Odd, I shut it down, checked the configs (but made no changes), and logged back in - exercises were loading and the “Not Authorized” toast stopped appearing.

Local DNS redirects to local NPM for my test vlan, which is pointing to the container host - to share the setup.

Edit 2: Also the Exercises graphic draws on top of the Exercises text, and becomes unreadbale on mobile. It just reads as “rcises”.

Apparently my last edit didnt stick around - I also didnt see the add button or the qty of exercises until I looked on the desktop.

I’m just going to note I’ve done this with an instagram recipe with good results - not with cooktrace, but my local llm to generate json for mealie.

I’ll have to spin your trio up this weekend!

Singular for now, the others on the list either haven’t existed for 3 years or haven’t done anything here, but part of that is my fault. A few folks have stepped up to help in my off hours, but I haven’t had a chance to check them out fully yet with the rest of the shenanigans going on lately. Hopefully something I’ll be addressing on Saturday…

Pretty much nothing aside from checking for brigading and blocking accounts, which I’d rather not get into, we’ll see how this goes

1-Day minimum account age

30-Day minimum account age

7-Day minimum account age

No minimum account age

So the one thing I think that may be good about it is preventing the same day join and post something blatantly vibe coded but not disclosing type posts.

It may have a negative impact on new-to-lemmy devs, but we need to find some sort of balance.

I’m just going to say that from my quick look across the site and code I would have a hard time believing that, for a variety of reasons. I suspect others will have a similar take.

This is why there is a new discussion incoming for this - we’re kind of threading the needle here to find the right fit. Previously this wasn’t an issue because everything (including a bunch of entirely valid posts) was getting removed by the prior mod under rule 3, which caused a whole other problem (and led to me modding - which is your latest problem! :) )

AI disclosure discussion will be up over the weekend for community comment/discussion/planning.

Normally I would suggest to just moderate it based off of “you know it when you see it”, but in this case it’s difficult since it’s very similar to legitimate posts.

Precisely the problem.

The community has been really good about down voting the more troublesome ones, but a clean solution to this really isn’t easy.

I’m hoping this can be where disclosures/tagging can really help, but this has a lot of roots in how the prior mod was handling things. Anything they didn’t like was a rule 3 removal, so appropriate rules I don’t think were made, and as a popular community… Yeah.

I’m doing what I can starting with the most problematic that I can see (first the removals that didnt quite fit, now the promos in general, next ai/ai disclosures, and then we’ll have to see.

Part of it too is that the community is not necessarily full of anti-ai folks (though there is one who has been following me around and downvoting), but against irresponsible ai use. I think a few posts have shown that (ai for translation, documentation, a snippet here and there that got reviewed and refined after by a human, etc).

I’m of the same mind that its some kind of SEO or maybe telemetry they want to sell, but I’m not sure.

That said, I’m all ears on options / discussions.

I got mine a few years back for some iOS builds, don’t need to do them that often so it became the model host for me

Apple silicon is pretty good at it as long as you’ve got the ram for it. I wouldn’t do less than 16GB.

A few seconds for most of the tasks

On the list but haven’t gotten to it yet, but I know I should. I could probably get a bit more out of that box with it, expand the context windows a bit…

Just an m2 w/ 16gb I repurposed.

Can’t really do a lot at once, and the context is limited, but it does the trick. I’d buy a few more if I saw them at the right price.