This is a great idea, Voyager’s mobile experience is super polished.
Long shot, but would it be possible to get Mlmym installed at old.lemmy.world? Would be a fun throwback!
Disagree — while the larger communities tended to get kind of lame, Reddit’s smaller communities were quite worthwhile. I want that to continue, just not on Reddit.
Literally a Unicode character:
Remember that Android is Linux-based -- so keeping that in mind, a massive amount of normal users use Linux on a daily basis.
I think the key is, operating systems are meant to exist in the background. If it's working well, you don't think about it at all.
The problem typically isn't that the community doesn't exist -- the problem is that it does exist but is empty or mostly empty.
Honestly I feel like this attitude is the reason GIMP’s UX suffers. They’re so determined to be “not like photoshop” that they’re unwilling to fix some of their more boneheaded UI decisions out of fear that they’d be seen as copying photoshop.
In short, open source APIs for everything.
Why not everything? Honestly even 25 years seems too long, make it 10.
Wow, the level of detail on this theme is really impressive!
As as aside, I didn't realize that GTK had officially banned theming. That seems...dumb.
they have full control over the app
Yup, this is also my problem with Signal; you're stuck with whatever boneheaded decisions the devs make and there's nothing you can do about it. Personally, my pet peeve is their refusal to add any kind of data export. As someone who likes backing up chat history, this is a dealbreaker for me.
While all that is true, you actually shouldn’t do that in your review, as that will often get it flagged/removed. (They’ll think it’s not a “real” review and instead part of a review bombing effort.)
This is actually why I’m excited for ActivityPub in Threads. I’m hoping that it can function as a gateway drug to the Fediverse.
“Like Threads? Then continue to follow all your friends there while moving to an ad-free Mastodon client!”
Not sure if you mean "engineers in general" or "engineers who specifically work on Lemmy.world", but assuming it's the former, I'm working on building a self-generating webcomic.
It's always been my dream to create a website that can completely self-populate with pointless content, and soon my dream shall be a reality.
Well, to quote a classic film:
"Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."
I still haven't quite forgiven Google for abandoning owners of the Nexus 5X the second the Pixel came out...
Attitudes like this are much worse for the health of the Fediverse, IMO.
A popular instance with users and content? Kill it immediately, we can't risk people actually using the Fediverse.
Someone released a successor! Wish they'd move it to Lemmy: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/
Seems about the same?
Anyway, I wasn’t aware that GIMP UX suffers, I’ve never used anything else and am happy with it.
My argument here is that by never having used anything else, you wouldn't necessarily realize how much better other UX choices could have been.
That said, I do have to give the devs some credit, as they have fixed two major issues, by adding single-window-mode and unifying the transform tools. Having each transform be its own separate tool was just awful UX IMO.
The biggest remaining UX problem, in my opinion, is the way GIMP forces layers to have fixed boundaries. Literally no other layer-based image editor has fixed layer boundaries, because it makes very little sense as a concept. Layers should solely be defined by their content, not by arbitrary layer properties set in a dialog box.
I like the new compact themes! I'm hoping someone contributes an old-reddit-lookalike theme soon 🤞
When there's a subreddit about something you're interested in, but it's run by mods who enforce a extensive collection of esoteric posting rules.
We're sorry, but you've posted about Topic C on a Wednesday, which is strictly prohibited. Discussion of Topic C is only allowed in the megathread which is only open for comments on the first Saturday of odd numbered months. Didn't you read our rules?
Agreed, most of the characters in the book are so flat, and only do things because the plot needed them to do that thing.
The Netflix series managed to make the character’s motivations seem more believable which I appreciated.
I definitely recommend Dracula — not only is it good, but it’s also the prototype for basically every subsequent vampire book/movie:
As fun as it is to watch Musk do dumb stuff, giving him credit for killing HSR is a reach. There’s a really great article about it here — even Epstein was involved for some reason!
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/us/california-high-speed-rail-politics.html
Yup, and this is a good thing IMO. Ad supported instances, subscription based instances, and donation based ones all can coexist, and users can pick whichever they prefer.
Much better than the alternative of “you get stuck with whatever the current CEO thinks is the best strategy”.
Google stopped supporting XMPP, which sucked, but did it have any effects beyond that?
Google’s actions just restored XMPP to the same status it would have been if they’d never supported it in the first place.
Not OP, but personally I found their level of micromanagement a bit offputting, such as their deletion of every support-adjacent post.
That’s the tragedy of the commons, and you’ll find it’s true for basically every possible societal organization.
I miss AskScienceFiction; it was always fun reading those in-universe answers.
There's one here on LemmyWorld, but it's pretty dead: !AskScienceFiction@lemmy.world
Yup. Lest we forget, Android is Linux-based, and it's the most popular consumer operating system in the world.
It seemed to work fine at first, but starting today I'm noticing a huge number of async failures; I've had to refresh the page in order to get almost anything (comments, posts, communities, list of communities, profiles, etc) to load.
You actually did it! Amazing! Thank you so much!
Depends on the platform.
If you're on an Apple device at least, the built-in Books app works great for reading ePub files.
I think so, I believe you can open them in Books via the Files app on iOS.
If Lemmy ends up with enough interesting content that it supplants Reddit as a source for vapid YouTube channels’ content, I see that as a win for Lemmy.
That's also my favorite name
It's another frontend -- specifically, it's this: https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym
New Coke was the 80s, not 70s — they actually briefly brought it back as part of a Stranger Things tie-in. Super interesting to actually taste it.
Exactly. Personally, I like the idea of the Fediverse going mainstream, even if it has to be via a questionable company like Meta.
But, if you don’t like that idea, that’s fine too — there will be instances with both policies.
I love the idea of this, but the only reason I check Instagram is to see what my friends are posting, which I couldn’t do on an alternative, sadly.