Oh yeah? I’ve never used the main app/site

They’re turning it into a magazine - wonder when they’ll add personalisation algo

Yeah maybe - I imagine the tech debt is hard to manage when you fire 80% of your staff.

I’m on the latest version of the app and latest iOS version so I suspect I’m not alone

So many ways:

• frequent outages
• spaces drop out frequently
• blue membership gives credibility to fraudsters
• I haven’t been able to reply on mobile for the last 2 weeks
• blue features just stopped working a few weeks ago and nothings happened (dark mode, custom icons)
• analytics are inaccurate and have large gaps
• it’s awash with bots
• algo works against ux

I like the idea they think they can make an everything app when as a text app it’s so utterly broken

Oof, felt this right in the geriatric millennials.

Mfer I was doing assignments where I had to scroll through index cards to find the encyclopaedia, then hand write out the essay.

It’s weird when you go from being the disruptor demographic to realising that when your 5 yo kid jokes about the 80s it’s as far away in time to him as the 1940s we’re to me - for him it’s a 2d, pre-Alexa, analog dystopia.

And I’m only 42.

Can confirm, upvoted and feel better immediately

That fibrous look at the top of the image, is that what the universe looked like, or would sill look like from a sufficient distance?

1024 upvotes for you friend

He’s a shitposting Warhol - a genius, and a fool

Just checked it out from OPs post, it looks like it’s the infrastructure rather than the games themselves?

If that’s right, where’s the best place to source the games to import?

I’m not sure actually. I just tried to screen record and it wouldn’t let me. Then I tried to take a screenshot and it triggered a no screenshots pop-up

Welcome to life after 40 - I’ve been an early adopter all my life, but my network hasn’t moved with me.

As a result joining Snapchat has no value for me.

So I tend to use apps that are friend-agnostic like this and TIkTok.

Side note: my fave messaging app is Confide, it only reveals redacted words as you run your finger over them, and then deletes. So it’s impossible to screenshot.

Skip the blackjack and I’m in

I saw that function posted elsewhere, but I assume it’s from a desktop interface because I can’t see it in the app

Me too. Has more of a small town feel. Usually, because I’m in Australia, my comments are buried and never get replied to because the US is sleeping. Here, people are actually engaging. Loving it so far.

Wish the sorting worked a little better in wefwef so I’m not scrolling past the same posts each time, but otherwise feels like the reddit I joined 16 years ago (or slightly thereafter when comments were added)

Maybe I’m too cynical from working in marketing?

1. Yes, logic sells somethings, but it’s not the majority, or really a remarkable percentage in most categories.

I’d argue that generics are really a substitute purchase for a brand category that has been developed and promoted by brands. If logic was the basis of purchasing then brands probably wouldn’t exist - esp for commodities like flour and sugar. But they do. Like it or not the brands create demand by emotionally manipulating consumers into feeling incomplete, then offering their brand as a way to fill that hole.

Electric cars do have logical benefits, as do a lot of other products, but I’d argue that they’re also a status symbol. It means something to be a person that drives an electric car - it says something about who you are, and your values. There’s a reason Tesla launched as a luxury brand first.

2. Agree with you that reason should drive government. However politics is the art of persuasion, as is marketing, and as such there are three key factors: logos, pathos and ethos.

Like it or not your favourite candidate needs to be likeable, believable, and share your convictions to succeed. Or just slightly more so than the alternative.

I’ve always wished that instead of selecting a person or party, that when it came to vote the key campaign policies were what people voted for or against, and the candidate/party who’s positions gained the most support took government with a clear mandate on those policies.

Feel like this would go some way towards infusing more logic-based campaigning, and avoid the cut and thrust of, in the US context, having things like “swift boats” “47% of people” etc become the thing that crashed campaigns, and instead be substantive debates on ideas.

I remember watching a clip from “The Network” where Jeff Daniel’s is interviewing an expert on climate change. It was when it was too late - and the expert lore or less said so.

It struck me as prescient - that despite all the warnings we’d be shocked when it came and it was irreversible.

Tbh it came sooner than I expected.

Haha, oh really wow - I’ll have to give it a listen

Think it’d end up being astroturfing if anything - forum bombing positive sentiment, opinion etc