I was thinking of changing them to random word salad if I can to screw with the AI scrapers too.
It's bloated, unintuitaive, not optimized for tablets and foldable, and a million other things rif had solved 13 years ago.
Reddit is actively hostile towards design that allows users to dive deep or customize their experience because they need us to keep scrolling through more and more ads.
This is the company that bought the best app on iOS (Alien Blue) - not so they could make it the official app, but to force users to stop using it.
Already have an account. It's my new home starting tomorrow.
They didn't HAVE an app or a mobile site when I paid for rif. Or for years afterwards.
And the rif app back in 2010 worked better than the official app does today.
I don't use my PC much these days. If I'm at a desk, I'm generally working on something.
I may visit occasionally with ad blockers turned up to 11 if a Google search points at a reddit thread, but it definitely won't be my default downtime activity like it is now.
There is a very famous BBQ restaurant near me that people travel hundreds of miles to visit. I think it's mediocre, but whatever.
Their number one menu item is all-you-can-eat BBQ, and until Covid they were cash-only. Also, only members of the family who owned the restaurant were allowed to count the cash at close. There were rumors forever that they were hiding their true income from the tax man.
I recently spoke with some of the city staff, and when they started doing electronic payments, they suddenly were paying WAY more sales tax to the City.
Not for me. If my favorite restaurant locks the doors, I'm not crawling through a window of broken glass to get in.
I will not be installing the official app.
The problem with that is that someone's comments may contain PII, so unless someone is manually verifying that every remaining comment can't be traced to an individual, keeping the comments in place after deletion is risky.
If someone really wanted to screw reddit, they could replace some random old comments with their name and former address, then request their data be wiped. Then they could use the undeleted comments against reddit.
And her iconic line is her peak moment of being an action hero badass AND being maternal.
In the sequel, her famous "Get away from her you bitch!" line is so iconic because in that moment she is being both the baddest of badass action heroes while being 100% feminine. She is all action hero and all woman.
Last time we made progress, the backlash gave us what we've been dealing with for the last decade...
Problem with Messiah from a Hollywood perspective is that it doesn't have big action setpieces like the first book.
Android is different than iOS in how it handles different screen sizes. Since there's a hundred different Android devices for every Apple device, there aren't separate apps for phones and tablets.
Android apps should be designed to adapt to changes in screen sizes and aspect ratio on the fly.
For instance, I have a folding phone (Z Fold 3). When the phone is folded and it's the usual phone form factor, rif has a phone interface. When I unfold it changes the aspect ratio. When I change to portrait mode while unfolded, it changes the UI to more of a tablet interface where I can navigate on the left while having a thread open on the right.
The rif app has had this functionality for over a decade. There's zero excuse for the official app not to have it.
They plan to short it immediately.
Well that ruins any hope that the IPO will fail.
That just tells admins they should force subs back open.
Annoying users to the point they visit less often will absolutely affect reddit.
It isn't optimized for tablets or foldable devices. There's zero excuse for that given reddit's size.
RiF worked great on my Asus Transformer running Android Honeycomb back in 2011.
I would absolutely use that line with my boss and she would love it.
My ex's apartment signed her up for one automatically, and getting out of it was a real PITA.
That's increasingly impossible. I live in a rapidly growing area and work in the development department of the city.
100% of the upcoming single-family housing developments are build-to-rent. They're even suing us for saying they can't master meter entire neighborhoods for utilities. Our position is that we want the houses to be individually platted and metered so they can be sold in the future without requiring tens of millions of dollars of utility work.
Their position is "fuck you we want people to pay rent forever."
I work at City Hall in a city not too dissimilar from Uvalde in terms of location and size.
After Uvalde we had all- hands meeting with the police department that was crystal clear about their policy on mass-shootings.
Stop the killing first. If there's one officer on scene, that officer goes in and at least slows down the shooter while backup comes in.
Chief was also roosting that the police resounding would be frightened and amped up in adrenaline, so gtfo of the way because they ain't gonna be gentle with anyone between them and the target.
I work in municipal government in the Development department.
We have 7 fiber companies trying to come to our small-ish town, but they're all so bitchy about working with the competition that they all want to build exclusive fiber lines, and there's no way in hell we're allowing 7 different street cuts at every intersection in town, so it's gonna end up being first come, first served for every permit, and they're all freaking out and we're gonna end up with zero fiber companies.
It's so damn frustrating.
One issue is we hit a point where we need to go all-in.
Coal plants take time to start up, so they can't really be used as backup power. So solar and wind are mostly used to offset peak demand. If you drive by a wind farm, you'll find that most of the turbines aren't running most of the time.
That makes installing more difficult to justify unless you replace ALL coal all at once, which is a massive financial, technical, and political hurdle to jump.
You probably are faster than a few cars I've owned.
TIL that Japanese actor Bandō Mitsugorō VIII claimed to be immune to fugu kimo, naturally toxic pufferfish liver. He ate 4 portions in a restaurant with his friends in Kyoto and died 8 hours later.
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