OfficialThunderbolt

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. For instance, at this time, /r/nba is still blacked out even though the NBA season ended recently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't demand anything; I just made a criticism. There's a difference.

I'm fine with there being no central authority for servers; I just wish there was a central authority for subs, like there is with Usenet, which has no central authority for servers, but it has a central authority for groups carried by the servers. Without one, the user base gets fragmented pretty quickly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, because I'm talking about Universal Links/App Links, the feature of Android and iOS/macOS where you tap/click on an HTTP(S) link to some site, and the link opens & gets handled in the app. The feature was made with centralization in mind, so it won't work with federated servers, especially for users on small servers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Overall, I'm liking it, but I have some critiques:

  1. The apps won't follow hyperlinks to third-party servers. This is not Lemmy's fault; the Universal Links feature of Apple OSes and App Links feature of Android were not made with federation in mind. This will be a tricky problem for them to solve without getting seriously technical.
  2. I don't like how external links don't open in new windows/tabs by default, and there appears to be no preference to fix this.
  3. There appears to be some bugginess with the web interface and voting where, if I upvote something, the upvote may disappear a second or two later. But if I refresh and re-read the comment, my original upvote stuck.
  4. There needs to be more centralization of subs; as of now, there is so much duplication that it's worse than Reddit. Reddit has some forked subs, mainly on ideological grounds or because of mergers, but it's got nothing on Lemmy so far.
  5. When reading on the web, my view jumps around a lot. I'm guessing it's loading in new comments as they come in on the server. That's fine, but the abruptness of the whole thing causes me to sometimes lose my place. If it's going to continuously load new comments, I would prefer that they be animated, so at least I can observe the change in motion.
  6. While I was typing this, I noticed that the page top reloaded with a different topic. I'm guessing that's a bug.
  7. It's good to have rules to prevent conversations from descending into chaos. I just hope that the rules are not interpreted too broadly.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In addition to what others have said, I recommend The Legend of Heroes, which is a six game serialized series. Start with Trails from Zero (if you are on a PS4 or PS5 or Switch) or Trails in the Sky (if you are on Windows) and work your way forward from there. That will keep you busy for quite a while.