The first thing I did was click ⇩ on a post and it prompted me to log-in. This is confusing because I thought I could train the recommender without having to log-in. It took me a minute to find the "Like/Dislike" buttons because they require an extra click to open the post menu. Maybe make the Like/Dislike a bit more prominent and accessible, and find a way to differentiate between the controls for training the recommender and the upvote/downvote actions on the post itself. Or even better, make them the same thing so there's only one pair of controls and if you're not logged-in then upvoting just boosts the recommendation but doesn't actually send the upvote action to the post.
Please use actual links (<a href=""></a>) for post navigation so that I can tell my browser to open a link in a new tab. Usually I middle-click to do this (in Firefox) but since the post title and content only respond to javascript events, I can't middle click to open in a new tab. Clicking the post opens it in the same window.
Add text content of posts, or at least a button to expand the text content. Right now text posts are just the post title and I have to click through to read the content.
Add alt-text (tooltips) to your buttons. I know what the standard share/bookmark icons look like but it helps to have tooltips to be sure.
Add a link to open the original post (on the origin server). Every fediverse UI has this. If you have it too, I couldn't find it.
Allow me to see (and drag) the scrollbar of the main content frame.
Add a refresh button (maybe at the top of the feed) so that I can generate more recommended content without having to actually reload the page in the browser.
When clicking a community name, I get the community page but I can't press the back button to go back to the feed.
If I "dislike" a post, I don't expect to see it again after a refresh, or ever.
Also, it's a bit late to change it now, but the name is very 2009-internet-startup.
I lost my earbuds in a remote town in Chile, so tried buying a new pair at the airport before flying out.
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True Apple lightning devices are more expensive to make.
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I wish @Apple would devote an employee or two to cracking down on such a technological, psychological abomination as this.
He wants to take away a budget option from developing countries where people can't afford the expensive version of the proprietary technology, and he wants Apple to be the one to do it?
Hello! I recently listened to a podcast that talked about how storing media files in .av1 format is very efficient and storage-friendly. I've been storing my files in .mkv format, but now I'm considering using Handbrake or a similar service to convert all my video files to .av1 if it's more compressed than .mkv. So;...
What bust? What do you think cloud providers are using for long term storage? SSDs in datacentres are for databases and hot data-sets. Anything that is written for archival purposes or only read infrequently goes to HDDs.
HDDs are still the most cost-effective way of storing data and probably still will be for some time yet.
Bandwagon — a federated Bandcamp alternative ( bandwagon.fm )
No conflict of interest, I only saw the poject via Mastodon....
I built the first 100% private, on-device "For You" feed on the fediverse
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The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple Headphones ( x.com )
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[QUESTION] What is the most realistic-looking game that can also run on Linux distros?
What file format do you store your media in?
Hello! I recently listened to a podcast that talked about how storing media files in .av1 format is very efficient and storage-friendly. I've been storing my files in .mkv format, but now I'm considering using Handbrake or a similar service to convert all my video files to .av1 if it's more compressed than .mkv. So;...
The Birth, Boom and Bust of the Hard Disk Drive ( www.youtube.com )
Full local/open source lawnmower?
Anyone have any current recommendations for an open source (or one that works without internet) robot lawnmower?...