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by groffee 4y ago
Watching Musk "move fast and break things" at Twitter is fascinating, it's not like a small site with a few users, he's getting instant feedback from thousands (millions?) of users at once.
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by groffee 4y ago
Exactly. Imagine 2,000 years from now "archaeologists" thinking "rinse, repeat as required" is some kind of ritual incantation on a shampoo bottle.
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by groffee 4y ago
Funnily enough this was mentioned on Twitter yesterday [0] So much time and thought is given to 'doing things at scale' but zero thought to the user experience as their notifications scale. [0] https://twitter.com/
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by groffee 4y ago
A lot of times search is intentionally broken on websites to get you looking at more things.
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by groffee 4y ago
All the "journalists" would need to do real work instead of just copy/pasting tweets all day.
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by groffee 4y ago
> A week later she posted on Facebook and Instagram that she would be leaving the platforms. And now we're reading about her on BBC News. These people need to stop talking and actually get offline.
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by groffee 4y ago
Should probably point out that the trending tag is targeted to you personally. Like when people obliviously complain about seeing ads for 'gay sex' on Google not knowing it's targeted specifically at them because of their bro
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by groffee 4y ago
Consistent but disingenuous.
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by groffee 4y ago
This is why Mastodon is garbage, 1, links at the bottom of an endless scroll so they can never actually be reached, and 2, the design is complete garbage, there's no ux/ui there at all. I'm sure the content is great but no-on
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by groffee 4y ago
You can' do anything but soft delete your data, not just Twitter but everyone will keep everything you post forever.
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by groffee 4y ago
Everything old is new again! Nice job!
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by groffee 4y ago
> They also posted memes from Avengers. Comparing the layoffs to the Infinity War installment of the franchise, in which the super villain Thanos wipes out half of all life by snapping his fingers, employees began posting memes from the
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by groffee 4y ago
It's not about the severance. It's about the empty platitudes they and all people like them spew. "they take responsibility" what does that even mean? It's meaningless. Are they taking a paycut themselves? Letting t
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by groffee 4y ago
So hyped for this, day one purchase for me.
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by groffee 4y ago
So normalise the data first? Your comment literally makes no sense at all.
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by groffee 4y ago
I think the fundamental issue with Mastodon is the user experience is non-existent, it's actively painful to use. Everyone focuses on the 'tech stack', but when it comes to actually using a product no-one cares about that, no
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by groffee 4y ago
> what technological choices would I make to get it quickly off the ground but allow for scale? Wrong question. End users don't give a shit about your tech stack. You should be thinking of requirements and features.
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by groffee 4y ago
Just tell them to move your account or you'll take your business over to Azure or GCP.
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by groffee 4y ago
Let's Encrypt? https://letsencrypt.org/
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by groffee 4y ago
A complete guess but maybe it's to hide the solder smell with some incense?
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by groffee 4y ago
Tauri is meant to be good https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri
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by groffee 4y ago
Tell that to the victim(s) and their families.
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by groffee 4y ago
When you never move you don't notice your chains.
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by groffee 4y ago
You can't seriously think this is something you can sell? lmao
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by groffee 4y ago
Back in the day snake oil was actually beneficial. https://www.amusingplanet.com/2022/08/clark-stanley-first-sn...
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by groffee 4y ago
Of course it's still bribery. The definition doesn't change just because you happen to agree with what they're getting bribed for.
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by groffee 4y ago
Probably because it's another Google project they killed before anyone had even heard of it.
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by groffee 4y ago
When you play to win don't complain about shuffling the deck. Same as don't complain about breaking eggs when you're making an omelette.
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Ask HN: You just bought Twitter, not Elon. What changes are you making?
9 points by groffee 4y ago|16 comments
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by groffee 4y ago
There's a pizza hut across the road as well lol

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