For the last years I've been using Fleksy, which now appears to have been removed from Google Play for quite a while. For me, it's become the perfect typing interface and my brain wired itself to it, but recently it started crashing and restarting mid-typing at times, which is very distracting. I tried some alternative keyboards before, but they lack features or don't seem to be able to be configured to feel quite the right way. Does anybody have any suggestions?

These are the features I rely on daily:

• Support for LTR and RTL languages. Fleksy doesn't support Chinese, but if the new app supports that too, it's a serious upgrade for me because I'll be able to drop Gboard and just use one app with 5 languages.
• Swiping left and right on the spacebar scrolls through configured languages. This is common enough to be found in most keyboard apps though.
• Swiping left elsewhere deletes a word; holding after that makes it delete more with increasing speed.
• Gesture punctuation input. Pressing space twice after a word places a period, after that swiping up and down changes the punctuation to other symbols if needed.
• Typing correction integrated with gestures. After you press space once after a word, swiping up and down scrolls through suggestions or saves/deletes the word as is in the user dictionary.
• A customisable bar above the keyboard. I use the following widgets: select all, copy, paste, cut; a widget where swiping moves the cursor along the text (long-pressing the spacebar also does that, but I don't use it as often); several custom buttons with Unicode diacritics that I defined myself.
• The keyboard uses some neural network for word correction that learns to be more accurate with time. If you type the same new word many times, it also automatically adds it to the user dictionary instead of trying to correct it until the end of times. Though after years of use it seems it overlearned and some sort of collapse is happening, e.g. it always wants to change "wow" to "woe" now.
• Emoji. If the emoji font can be picked, it's an upgrade over Fleksy. If the emoji list doesn't lag for years behind Unicode, it's an upgrade over Fleksy.
• Very smooth and minimalistic UI. Haptic feedback that doesn't feel too weak or too strong. Keys don't feel like buttons with borders. This might seem like something minor, but it's extremely important to me because the keyboard app is one of the main Android interfaces for me.

A couple of screenshots to illustrate the last point:

Things I don't use / don't care about:

• Voice input.
• Glide input.
• Undo/redo.
• Word prediction before you finish typing.
• Rich content copy/paste, including GIFs/stickers.
• Clipboard history is a no. It's ok if it can be turned off.
• While I usually prefer FOSS, it doesn't have to be FOSS - the list of features is already a biteen ambitious for the FOSS projects I'm aware of. But I'd prefer it to have some reputation & not send my private data anywhere.

Some things I've tried and what didn't work for me:

• Gboard:
  • doesn't seem to have functioning post-input correction, or I couldn't configure it so.
  • theme customisation is basically nonexistent.
  • text selection mode is a separate clunky view.
  • lack of gestures.
• Heliboard:
  • only does automatic blind post-input correction without showing what options were even considered.
  • it's either corrected word options or buttons with extra functionality, not both at once.
  • swipe-to-delete only works from backspace. I'm used to it working from any key except the spacebar.
  • horizontal swiping on the spacebar either moves the cursor or changes the language, there's no way to have both. And there's no separate widget for moving the cursor.
  • the visual spacebar height is small and can't be increased.
  • there's no way to add custom Unicode symbols as toolbar buttons.
• FlorisBoard (less jarring to use overall):
  • doesn't currently have functioning correction.
  • doesn't have any swipe-to-move-cursor functionality anywhere.
  • theme editing appears to be very powerful (CSS rules) and possibly powerful enough to replicate the impression I'm getting with Fleksy, but also too difficult; I haven't been able to configure some basic things yet, there were some obscure issues with some rules that silently decided not to work. Perhaps I just need to spend more time on this.

Hope it isn't considered offtopic here; I don't know of any better places to ask.

It's from a wonderful film by Jim Jarmusch, The Limits of Control. This character is frequently seen to practice something that might be yoga (or maybe not?) and in the end of his sessions he places his hands in this configuration and bows slightly.

I want to read about the precise significance/context behind the gesture, but first I need to know its name.

I've searched among various yoga mudras for a little while and I couldn't identify any exact matches so far (at least a couple of details differ from what I see). ChatGPT couldn't do it either. At the same time it seems to me that it isn't the first time I see it.

It turned out not much harder than 3 challenges:

• Hostile Champions doesn't even annoy too much.
• Badder Bosses is an easy one.
• Barren Land is very manageable. You can't bless Ankhs, but you don't have to rely on them if you don't make major mistakes.
• Was worried a bit about Swarm Intelligence, but it wasn't too bad.
• Into Darkness was basically negated by the Eye of Newt. And then I got lucky with a projecting bow.
• Chose huntress because of Forbidden Runes.

The armour ability is most useful for running for cover from disintegration beams.

Saved 5 health potions for depth 25 (Evil Eyes were a massive headache), spent them all and eventually had to resort to a scroll of retribution to finish Yog-Dzewa (was partially surrounded with <10hp and had no means to avoid the gaze attack, it had 33hp thanks to a well-timed bee). Alchemy and a projecting bow combined made the fists much easier to deal with, but I didn't have enough breathing windows to use more than 50% of the potions I had. Then I decided against ascending (and I don't like spending the time on that when the run is purely for an achievement and doesn't require it).

The only badge with non-trivial requirements remaining is the 1000000 score one, which would be easier with an additional challenge added (I don't feel confident enough to do another Doom Slayer with so many challenges). Which should I do?

• On Diet: not sure if I'd make it, I had to use potions of cleansing for food 2-3 times even without the challenge this run (+a few more times on depth 25).
• Faith Is My Armor: don't know how I'd handle the effective lack of armour with Swarm Intelligence on. On the other hand, nothing needs SoUs and they could be invested in rings...
• Pharmacophobia: no.

There are some subreddits which may never happen to come online again. There are also some subreddits which are very valuable because of the old posts and responses. Alas, the intersection isn't empty (I personally am anxious about r/suggestmeabook and r/TrueLit).

Naturally, one would like to download all posts and comments to an offline storage. Naturally, the usual methods are useless when the subreddit is private.

Are there any good options for the pessimistic scenario? Scraping the web archive? Filtering ML datasets? Anything else?