What helped me was, from the Switch menu, holding power down until the screen and console shut off (ignoring the onscreen pop up), waiting a few seconds, then holding volume up, inserting the jig, and pressing power once. After that it should appear as "APX", and nothing visually happens on screen.

If you open device manager, and it says "Nintendo Switch", then it isn't fully powered off. If it says nothing, then it's off, and if it says APX, then it's in RCM correctly.

You might also need to try another USB cable, but using Device Manager helps figure out if your jig is working, if you're fully shut down, cable working, etc.

Yeah, the last update to the petition talked about this site, and supposedly emailed all past signers,

@schoolgeek Videos don't work in this applet, check the original topic for more info. The petition is likely the only real way to get a fully featured browser that's easy to use.

For technical info on this, see here.

This is a limitation of how the browser displays. More info here: https://browsedns.net/topic/359/browser-applets-and-why-videos-don-t-work

You click here: https://wikipedia.org

This channel (ClayKramer) has a bunch of KK Slider covers of popular songs, which I keep listening to lately:

The original and lite Nintendo DS had an Internet Browser on a cartridge in 2007. It came with an extra game pak that gave it additional memory to load web pages, that went into the GBA slot of the DS.

The game case:

Picture of the cartridges:

2007 was before smart phones were popular, and as a kid there weren't many options for going on the Internet, outside of stuff like a family computer or school. So in a lot of ways this browser was the only connection to the outside world. There was also stuff like: seeing friends online in Animal Crossing / other Wifi games, or basic SMS texting, but nothing like portable "real" Internet.

The browser itself had two modes, it could either work as displaying the full website on the bottom screen, with a zoom window that you could move around to read text on the top screen:

Or a more mobile-friendly mode (kind of like Reader view) where the page spanned both screens. This was better for reading text, but did break a lot of web pages.

The browser itself was a version of Opera, which at the time was pretty good at handling most web pages. This is similar to the Wii's browser, except it did not support Flash player (whereas the Wii did!). So stuff like videos and sound didn't work.

In particular one site that worked very well on it was the Smash Bros Dojo, where updates about Brawl were posted by Sakurai every week day.

It is kind of disappointing that the limitations of this 14 year old browser are not too dissimilar from the limitations of the Switch browser. But I've already talked about that a lot in the change.org petition, and how it compares to the 3DS/Wii U browsers.

Anyone else use this browser? Heard of this? There was a newer revision built into the DSi as well, but by the time the 3DS rolled around the browser switched over to WebKit (which is still used in the Switch).

Can you try it? I think it works but would just suck if the timeout happens and kicks you out.

This category is going to be a list of different sub-categories for different game series's. I grew up in the Gamecube era though, so I might be out of touch with what's popular these days.

Some sub-categories I was picturing:
Minecraft
Fortnite
Animal Crossing
Pokémon
Indie Games

But it really depends on if they make sense. Anything else you'd like to see?

this is not good

the bbc news is kind of a downer @pwsincd

@iggy1337 I posted a new topic here about video playback: https://browsedns.net/topic/359/browser-applets-and-why-videos-don-t-work

Webm likely falls under the same boat, although I haven't tested it explicitly. There might be something clever that's doable with GIFs or HTML canvases, but there would still be no way to produce sound.

When using BrowseDNS or Switchbru DNS to access the browser, video playback is unavailable with the following message: "Support Code: 2809-1212 This feature is not available".

However, videos do work elsewhere on the system (eg. the eShop, News app, or even YouTube app). The Switch has several different browser web applets on it, each with different permissions. Here's a table from the Switchbrew Wiki:

Custom DNS settings can allow the last one, WifiWebAuthApplet, to allow the user to browse the Internet. This applet has no whitelist, and allows any URL to be visited. However, it does not allow video playback. This is done intentionally by Nintendo to limit the usefulness of playing videos when using a custom DNS. (For more on how BrowseDNS works, see this this post, or this one for self hosting).

Unfortunately, that means video playback only works if you can serve it from an Applet that only allows a short list of whitelisted domains. As all of these domains are https, there is no chance to bypass this using a custom DNS server.

As of v13.2.0, the whitelisted domains include: nintendo.com, twitter.com, facebook.com and google.com. You would have to have control over a domain or subdomain from one of these to allow video content to play. Previously, sites.google.com could be used (aka SwitchTube), however this is now explicitly blacklisted as well.

The only real hope to get this functionality working is to publicly let Nintendo know that there is user demand for a standalone web browser (like on Wii, Wii U, DS, and 3DS) that supports these features.

If you have a homebrewed Switch, the app BrowseNX also allows browser video playback, but that is becoming increasingly rarer and unfortunately does not match the ease of use of an officially available browser.

I need to make my site more mobile friendly, it's got a very "2015" design.

Wow! That was fast, I need to re-read myself... How did it hold up for 2022 standards?

There's two more sequels but I haven't checked out the most recent one.

For now the closest you can do is make a group and then manually create a group chat with members in that group, or announce something on a thread in the RP section and add the people that show interest to a chat.

But it's a double edged sword: making a public thread to start something will show people how it's done and hook more potential interest beyond just doing everything privately in a chat.

Previously, all new topics in all categories were watched by default for all users. This is now changed so that you will only see "Unread" new topics if you watch category manually. Any posts you make will automatically be watched for new replies. This is more how a normal forum behaves, but it does mean that you should go more "out of your way" to find new topics.

You can manually watch a category for new topics by using the button above. Also, the Recents page will still show everything (unless you also change those settings).