The app Krita is a nice alternative to Photoshop for making digital art. It can be downloaded here for Mac/Windows/Linux.

Image of how the interface looks:

I started learning how to use Photoshop in school, but it was always frustrating to come home and be unable to use it for other stuff, and being stuck with MS Paint or Preview. The school had a license deal, and I would've had to pay for it for my own use. Later I did pay for Photoshop for a while, but now I just use this instead!

A starting tutorial is here: https://docs.krita.org/en/tutorials.html But a fair amount of basic Photoshop-style stuff works, such as dealing with layers and blending options.

We got to 15k signatures!... And change.org accordingly updated the goal:

I knew they'd give us another goal (really, the goal is "always" just "more" signatures...) but it still just says "becomes one of the top signed", which I guess will never stop being false.

Thanks anyway everyone! I may post an update to the petition within the week. I'm hoping to get to the point where other sites start covering the petition to increase the public pressure on Nintendo to add a real browser.

I should also note that the browser is powered by NetFront, which is maintained by Access Co Ltd. Maybe it's worth sending some love / attention their way as well.

I don't know what kind of deal they have with Nintendo, but it seems straightforward enough to imagine that there's potential revenue they're missing out on by not being a fully fledged browser app.

@LTempral oats n water and sometimes little dinosaur eggs, i believe

I'd love for automation to come in and save everyone. How many of our jobs can machines just do instead? Give people more time to focus on their own endeavors! (Creative, family, a fulfilling job, etc).

Stephen Hawking said this on robots/automation:

“If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality."

For some shoutbox loading issues, you can try visiting this page directly: https://browsedns.net/shoutbox

let's go on record: whatever most people decide we should do in this thread, is what we'll do to such accounts

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).

What is it?

BrowseDNS is a public DNS server that enables devices with hidden or restricted built-in web browsers to browse the open Internet.

This currently only applies to the Nintendo Switch. For other devices, see this list. PS5 will be supported in the near future.

How to Use

Enter one of the following addresses under your console's manual DNS settings:

Address: 45.55.112.11
Address: 46.101.65.164

You should choose the one that is closest to your region, for fastest speeds. Only one for the primary DNS is required.

The network settings can be found under: Settings -> Internet -> Internet Settings -> [your network] -> Change Settings -> DNS Settings -> Manual -> Primary. See screen shots here.

Terms of Use

This service is provided free of charge with no warranty whatsoever. The service does not collect, store, or retain any user data. Your usage of these DNS servers is at-will and at your own risk.

BrowseDNS's predecessor (Switchbru DNS) has been running successfully since March 10th, 2017. Our users have not reported negative side-effects from using the service, however the above disclaimer still applies.

Troubleshooting

If using the above addresses do not result in the browser appearing, you may need to check your network stack, as the DNS could be getting overridden by your router or your Internet Service Provider.

For more info, see the ForTheUsers FAQ for assistance, or drop by the 4TU Discord server.

If you'd like to access the browser but not these servers, you can check out YourFriendlyDNS to self-host.

Disappears Randomly? No Videos? Cookies?

This browser is intentionally limited on the Switch by Nintendo. We have an open petition to them, check it out here!

The petition has almost 15,000 signatures. Please share it and let others know! The ideal best-case scenario for BrowseDNS is that manufacturers like Nintendo and Sony allow the user to just access the browser directly like any other app, and then this DNS workaround no longer needs to exist.

How it Works

The Domain Name System lookup results returned by this service employ DNS spoofing when your console attempts to reach Nintendo and Sony connection test domains.

This is the same technique used by Hotel, University, and Airline Wi-Fi hotspots to force the user to visit a Captive Portal (often to pay or authenticate for Internet access). When the Switch or PS5 are unable to connect, they display their built-in hard-to-access web browser, which then takes the user to a landing page where they can reach the open Internet.

The redirected domains are as follows:

• conntest.nintendowifi.net
• ctest.cdn.nintendo.net

Every other domain name request outside of these connection domains is returned properly, using either Google DNS or Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 (Depending on system load).

The spoofed domains are re-routed to a LaneChange instance, which then redirects further to another page based on the incoming user IP. The default of these possible redirects is this forum itself.

Here are some popular websites. If you're on a device with no address bar, these links can act as quick shortcuts:

Social

Reddit
Tumblr
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram

Information

Gmail
Wikipedia
YouTube
ZeldaDungeon

Search

Google
DuckDuckGo
Brave Search
Bing
Yahoo

Creative

DeviantArt
GitHub
Pixiv

Shopping

Amazon
Ebay
Micro Center

It's true, I haven't actually used any of the more drawing focused features, just as a Photoshop replacement. For tablet drawing I usually use Procreate on an old iPad with a stylus.

Are you still having this issue?

greetings

hbd!!!

For a serious answer, this Iwata Asks interview about the Wii U goes over many reasons for a browser on the console, and the Switch web browser is built by the same company.

Depending on your situation, the Switch might be one of the main ways to access the Internet, which is a very useful resource in [current year]!

As for the forums, they're to ask and answer questions about the service (like this thread) or to talk about games/websites/etc with others that use it.

I started looking into it more and it was harder than I described above... Maybe there are some people that are better at modding discord but right now it's not looking too optimistic.

It would also still be nice to be able to get a web inspector somehow, potentially through homebrew, to debug the specific issue further. I'm sure there's a way to do this but it's not known or understood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia–Ukraine_relations

wow this one is great too!

You can't watch videos on the DNS browser on any website, however you can on Twitter via the Social applet: https://browsedns.net/topic/558/videos-sent-through-twitter-somehow-work-on-the-switch-browser?_=1653066005506 via DMs. That's a pretty specific use case, but could work if absolutely needed.