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From the about section (emphasis added): >Subreply was created by Lucian Marin from the desire of a having a simple to use, English only, public forum that has
by blotter_paper 6y ago
From the about section (emphasis added):
>Subreply was created by Lucian Marin from the desire of a having a simple to use, English only, public forum that has nothing in common with ancient and untrustworthy social networks.
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>Limitations
>480 characters per reply
ASCII only because it works everywhere
I could see this being a xenophobic thing, but I could also see it being more about the limited character set (for minimalism). I'm not making a claim about the motivations, but either way your desire seems counter to his vision.
- unityByFreedom 6y agoWhere does Unicode not work? It’s been everywhere for years
- jchook 6y agoHe even has emojis for the "avatar"...
- aabbcc1241 6y agoBecause the content density varies in different languages. For example, each english word has ~7 ascii chars, but each chinese / japanese / korean words only has ~2 unicode chars
- unityByFreedom 6y agoThat doesn’t have anything to do with the tech being standard and easy to implement.
- jdck1326 6y agoIt could also be a moderation thing. If the people working on the website mostly just speak English, then it will be much easier for them to moderate an English-only website.
- alpb 6y agothat's xenophobic :)
- bugmen0t 6y agoNames of people, events, trends…