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So I installed a minor update to Idea and after it restarted a new tab "accidentally" opened with an ad for some generative AI bullshit (that I'm sure isn't even available in Russia to begin with, even if I wanted to use it).  What exactly is gained here by writing "last week" instead of the precise timestamp? It's not like there's a lack of space there either. I see this UX mistake very often. It's maddening. GitHub is one of the worst offenders. Instagram is also guilty of this with its "3214 weeks ago".  
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 @grishka I do like it though. For me getting sense of time with absolute dates can be a little tricky, and here it just says the thing happened past week, and provides ability to view the full date if necessary. I think it's actually great. Instagram example is not great, on the other hand. I think after a week it doesn't make much sense to have relative date, but where date is not important and UI is constrained, providing relative time is fine, but only AS LONG as there option to view date  @grishka Yeah this is super annoying. I think humanized timestamps are nice but clearly it should be "6 days ago", not "last week"  Speaking of out-of-network content, btw, it's also what shaped Bluesky's architecture to a substantial degree. It was built from the outset on the assumption that people need to see posts from outside of their network, that it's an essential non-negotiable property that this system must have. That's the fundamental difference between Bluesky and the fediverse. Bluesky tries very hard to emulate the current commercial television-like passive-consumption entertainment-ass social media. Fediverse, on the other hand, takes an old-school user-friendly approach where you see the posts from people you follow, in the order in which they were made, and nothing else at all. If you really insist on seeing random posts from people you don't know, there are local and federated timelines.  @grishka bro, this is iconic, can you check pixelfed.social/dansup and share that screenshot? I did find some bugs caused by scrollbars taking up space though, gonna fix those. For example, you can't scroll the photo viewer layer using the scrollbar because it's overlapped by the close overlay thing. This whole #Meta thing could actually be solved for the most part with one simple change that will be welcomed by a large number of users: stop forcefully exposing people to out-of-network content. But I guess Meta is too far into the "we're now doing entertainment" territory to do that. After all, this would totally tank some metrics that are involved in someone's KPIs. Random thought: there will be a time when someone makes a meme in ultra HDR. The only reason it's not happening yet is because none of image editing software supports that stuff. Back in the late 00s, people loved VKontakte so much, someone made this music video. I miss the old internet that produced artifacts like these. Which is why I made it my goal to bring it back. This time, such that for-profit entities couldn't take it away. "ого, нас уже больше пяти миллионов" (wow, there's already more than five million of us) 🥲 The profile picture thing is pretty much the same as what Facebook does. For users that have Smithereen-style profile pictures, it becomes clickable in the profile. Clicking it opens the album and lets you flip through older profile pictures of that person. Tags need approval because there's also a "photos of me" pseudo-album where all photos where this person is tagged live. There are new privacy settings for who can tag you and who sees your tagged photos (it doesn't affect the newsfeed tho). Why is it always the hugest corporations that use the most nauseatingly cutesy wording in their most user-hostile UIs? lmao. well yeah that's about right except the mechanical keyboard part, I bought one a while ago (not an IBM one tho) but I didn't like it so it's just collecting dust     Modern IT is hopelessly broken, episode I lost count which. How, exactly, could WhatsApp possibly be a valid search result for "file manager"? It seems to always show up in the first 20-30 results no matter what you search for, together with some other popular apps.  @grishka maybe it has file management somewhere in description? which is like- just clearing all the garbo cache that whatsapp can't stop downloading super cool to see that @Cochise set up a #Brazilian #Smithereen instance at https://plural.masdivago.cc/Cochise  ooh, an old-school-Facebook clone! interesting (side grumbling: some FOSS projects really don't spend a lot of time thinking about picking names that are easy to pronounce/understand for international audiences, right? Smithereen, SecureScuttleButt...) Fixed a bunch of concurrency issues in #Smithereen yesterday. Hopefully it won't deadlock any more. That was getting really annoying. |
@grishka I would boost, but I personally don't have fond memories of the sickle and hammer iconography.