BrowseDNS is hosted by us as a helpful service to browse the Internet, but there may be scenarios where you would prefer or need to self-host the DNS, without relying on an external server.

CaptiveDNS allows you to effectively run the same DNS redirection service as BrowseDNS, but on your local computer! To use it, run the app and enter the IP that it shows on your Switch.

Download and more info: https://github.com/browseDNS/CaptiveDNS

The interface:

The name CaptiveDNS is due to the fact that it creates a Captive Portal redirect on the network (similarly to how BrowseDNS works).

The app itself is a fork of YourFriendlyDNS with less configuration options. For more advanced DNS use cases, YourFriendlyDNS should be used instead of CaptiveDNS.

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/152ajlf/reddit_nukes_everyones_pre2023_chats_and_messages/

Yikes, I can't imagine having the like ~5th top website and just throwing out important user data like this.

Still working on some bugs with @BrowseGPT, but it's going down less frequently now.

If you get an error, you can type "reset" (with no quotes, all alone on one line) to reset the chat history. Or it will reset after around 30 minutes of no messages.

Also, I'm removing these fake mod and fake banned groups, under the impersonation rules!

thanks lol

This is an old video but awesome!

The petition has been around for so long, it doesn't really seem like it's going anywhere unfortunately, is why recently I've been saying to complain/leave feedback to Nintendo directly.

As we know, the browser is already built-in and there, it's just hard to use– which is the frustrating part! The official name of the browser is Netfront and it's made by a company called Access which presumably has a partnership with Nintendo and other companies. They also made the Wii U and 3DS browsers. So Nintendo is already paying real money to Access for the browser, only to ultimately lock it down!

For bdns/switchbru, if they introduce a real browser, we would continue to just operate as normal websites, and likely be able to be bookmarked within the Switch browser. There were a lot of for-DS, for-Wii, etc sites like this, so It would be a win-win!

https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/a4dzl5/contact_nintendo_and_give_feedback_and_complaints/

Tell Nintendo!

that info is about the SSL certificate and is specific to each website. Most sites will automatically renew the cert before it expires (including this one).

But! even if it expires, you can still override and ignore the expiration warning, and visit the site anyway.

@mr-cat the sidebar, header, and footer homepage widgets are missing right now, is all that message meant. Changing some stuff around and they broke temporarily.

for #1, #4, and #6, I agree! I'll look at them, in that order. (@ing in profile, accurate online/offline info, and some for-fun spammable areas)

the others:

• #2 (editing messages) seems unlikely to return, it has too much potential for misuse
• just changed #3 (downvote limit) to 20/day (same as upvotes, don't abuse it!)
• for #5 (poll editing) it needs to be fixed here: https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-poll/issues/42

For the Flatly Cookies notice that pops up at the bottom of the screen (and an issue on Switch, as it would appear on every visit):

.cookie-consent {
    position: relative;
}

The sidebar is also missing for now, making some changes and I'll have it back soon™

On my 3DS, I get a warning at the beginning about the HTTPS certificate being bad which could break some of the images from loading.

The other issues look like JS errors are happening behind the scenes (probably from the JS being too new), which prevents clicks on certain buttons. I'll keep looking, it should be fixable!

This should be fixed now!

The below CSS has been added to this site to stop the navbar from overlapping everything. Before these changes, the it would hang around and get in the way while scrolling and zooming around on the Switch browser.

The changes in the custom CSS section, and are for the Persona theme:

.navbar-fixed-bottom, .navbar-fixed-top, .topic-list-header, .topic .topic-header {
    position: relative;
    top: 0;
}

#panel {
    padding-top: 0;
}

It affects three separate things (the top bar, the topic title, and the "new topic" bar). Just documenting for posterity or if someone else on the Internet tries to search how to do this!

Try this direct link for now: https://browsedns.net/shoutbox