Discord moment

“Hmm, we need to make a communications app. Communicating is important, it’ll keep millions of people in contact with eachother. We’ll have to make it as lightweight as possible.”

“OH! I KNOW! ELECTRON!!”

Good question! We get asked this a lot. Hope this helps!

I’ll test the “no-shaming” rule a bit here by admitting some sins:

• Once, I got a normal oven cheese pizza and added a different sauce per quadrant. Keep in mind, this is on a pizza that already has frozen pizza sauce. IIRC, the quadrants were BBQ sauce, Alfredo, Buffalo, and a fourth which I’ve forgotten. I ate the whole thing without a complaint.

• A month or so ago, I was hungry in the middle of the night and wanted to eat a pizza. Unfortunately, the oven in our house is next to a room with people sleeping, so I couldn’t use it. Instead, I ate the frozen pizza unthawed like a goblin in my bed. Didn’t finish it, and regretted the experience after.

Gotcha. I’ll carve off the edges of my steak, freeze dry those, and use meat glue to reattach them to the main, non-dried steak after.

I believe the Dev said it isn’t an acronym, it’s just where he found his hands placed on his keyboard one day, the WEF keys.

I did ask GPT-4 to make an acronym for it anyways, and got:

W- Web

E- Enhanced

F- Fediverse

W- Webapp

E- Explorer

F- Framework

Understood: I will freeze dry all meat before cooking it to remove all moisture.

Try breaking both of your arms, I’ve heard that works.

Can’t wait for someone to run an instance on a homebrewed DS and see people asking why “lemmy.ds is down all the time??”

I just want to see the gay anthros have sex

5 Reggies…

True and fair. Definitely agree with your third-party app thing (man, where have I seen the benefits of having third party apps before?)

I do remember trying out a (TOS breaking) third party app I found on GitHub, but it lacked a lot of features like voice calls and whatnot and crashed frequently. That’s to be expected, though.

I did let it thaw a bit first. I was in the same boat as you for a bit. Felt like I was eating a bread-flavored popsicle.

Voyager? I hardly knew ‘er!

Would be a good name change, but I’m fine with the current one too.

I started with the official app for the longest time, but then it just got worse and worse.

Constant A/B tests, godawful changes, the video player, etc.. There was a subreddit made to complain submit bug reports and discuss the app, r/redditmobile. At first, the devs were quite receptive with the community, even apologizing for removing a swipe gesture that they thought no one used and re-introducing it, but eventually they just stopped caring. Cries from users went unheard, and the app just felt worse and worse to use.

I kept hearing people say “I’m moving to Apollo” in the comments, which caused me to look in to whatever an “Apollo” is. Boy, was I glad I did.

A consistent UI, changes and additions that were commonly disabled by default when added, and zero ads. It was exactly what I wanted.

Aaaand then Reddit killed it.

At least wefwef is helping me stay in denial here on lemmy.

I remember Apollo had a similar feature added when a user complained about how a long username would screw with the buttons. It just changed the bottom text to say “Account” when a setting was toggled.

Ronald Reagan

Government quote

Is that a Lermon demon reference?11???

Oooooo

I very much am, thank you for this!

Definitely want this to be built-in. Until then, I found a workaround for downloading images from the app.

Video

Unsolicited options? What, are they asking you to consider increasing your line thickness or something?

Here’s the relevant thread:

https://sh.itjust.works/post/2881638