I'm pretty content with KBin. As time goes on the content level will increase and hopefully remain at a level which makes it easy to curate my feed and reduce noise. Truth be told Reddit has been getting worse for a long time and being here reflects that. This feels a lot like what Reddit felt like 10 years ago.

The harshness is intentional because Reddit is gearing up to aim themselves at a new audience. They know that they are going to lose a big chunk of their users - they want that. Those of us who were using third party apps were probably the least convertible in terms of profit.

The mentality is our way or the highway, and in this case they win no matter what because for every one of us they lose, they are going to gain 20x. They want those TikTok numbers, and this is how they plan to get there

Damn they won't make me magnetic? That would be useful, I could avoid dropping screws and bits every time I do a project.

Did you read the article? "MCU" appears nowhere in it and Sony is mentioned 10+ times. This has nothing to do with the MCU whatsoever.

I'm into 3D printing, so for me right now the piece of kit I'm drooling over is the X1 Carbon by Bambu Lab. It has a lot of fancy features but what I most want is the 16-color mixer. It would be great because it would significantly reduce the painting overhead. I'm hoping to have it before the end of the year, if there's not something fancier out by then.

This is tech journalism now? Might as well have had ChatGPT write the article too...what a waste of time

Speaking to its "relevancy", PHP is still by far the most widely used web language (see: WordPress).

There could be many reasons why KBin uses PHP, from general support across the widest range of platforms to accessibility of the language to facilitate extensibility, or even just because that's what they felt most comfortable developing in.

Generally speaking if code is behaving poorly, it's the code writer rather than the coding language itself.

Source: professional web developer with more than 15 years of experience

They should absolutely exist. Negative feedback is feedback, and expression of only one side of the emotional spectrum is a strange and unrealistic facsimile of actual life.

Does it? I hadn't noticed, I haven't been over there in quite a while.

It's hilarious to me that people are willing to accept that technology can come as far as producing an LLM of the caliber of ChatGPT, but they can't fathom that it will continue to iterate and get better. It may be "bad" at certain writing styles right now, but give it some time. Think about how far it's already come for us to even be having this conversation.

We're currently in the "learning curve" and will be for the next 2 - 3 years. This is a strange, new idea for most people, and it's expected that that will come with some confusion.

I hope not - or at least not for a long time. There are too many core features and functions missing to spend time on stuff like that right now, IMO.

Yeah, this is something I thought about as soon as the blackout started. I am in the IT world and as soon as it happened, it got really difficult to find certain bits of crucial information, because those bits of info were stored within Reddit comments.

Anyone in the tech world can tell you that besides Stack Overflow and Github, Reddit is right up there among the most leaned-on tech resources these days. Never before was there a bigger forum of tech people discussing their work. Those results were suddenly, instantly no longer valid, and I'm sure I wasn't the only one who noticed that. This is part of why Reddit was scrambling to open subs back up - if more than 2 or 3 weeks went by, Google would have removed those listings from the search.

I personally don't mind seeing a link to the artist's patreon or website or whatever on a post, as long as it's not over the top or inserted clearly as an ad for whatever is being sold. I feel like it's OK for that to be there for the people who want to see more of your work or purchase something. What I don't like to see is my feed getting filled with what I perceive as advertisements. So I think there is a happy middle ground.

Of course it won't shut down.

Reddit can remove the mods of any sub at any time and simply open the subs back up. They are allowing them to remain shut now as a PR move because it's a worse look if they take them back by force. But make no mistake - that's what will happen in the long run.

The thing that is really going to hurt Reddit in the long run is that all of the Reddit links on Google are "breaking" - if someone searches something and a Reddit post comes up as a result, there is about a 7/10 chance that the sub is private and the post isn't visible. This will hurt Reddit badly in the long run because Google will remove these results if they stay that way for, say 2 - 3 weeks. Then Reddit loses the ad revenue and new user capture they were getting from organic Google traffic. They can't simply get that back by reopening the subs, either - once those pages are downranked on Google, it will be difficult for them to rebuild the traction to get a high listing. Some have been there for 10+ years.

And it didn't matter anyway, because the folks at Disney were going to fuck it up no matter how she did.

Yep, used the Chrome "Install App" feature from day 1 and it's been my primary means of accessing KBin. Shoutout to whoever did the mobile CSS, it's not bad at all especially this early on.

It scratches my scrolling itch. I haven't really been back to Reddit other than when Google lists Reddit as the best choice for some info I need. But I've really enjoyed KBin and the communities that are popping up here. I hope it continues to grow.

What a weird take. There's nothing to suggest that life extension isn't possible to a significant degree. Just because we "all die someday" doesn't mean there isn't merit in trying to prolong our time alive.

Personally, I'm working on a script to scrape certain subs every few days and display them in a page I'm self-hosting. Who needs their API? All I really care about over there anymore is tech related info I need for my job.