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The amount of busywork app stores create for developers in this day and age is absolutely insane. The bureaucracy has long surpassed government agencies. You used to be able to check two boxes, pay 25$ and publish any apps. Now you get this crap several times a year with nothing changing from your side. They must have dedicated departments that keep inventing new ways to fuck with you.  And from the user side, the search is basically unusable. It's almost like they forgot that the whole idea behind app stores was to be slightly more convenient than installing apps by downloading them from the developer's website. Same as Netflix forgot that its main selling point was to be slightly more convenient than piracy.   @grishka OpenAI is in panic because actual open AI came out. Actually, I think that only OpenAI is not completely outblown by Deepseek yet as they are still the only company that is capable of innovating and they still have ChatGPT-o3 up their sleeve, and they'll probably release it in coming weeks #Smithereen 0.9 is out! Photo albums are, of course, the headline feature of this release. In addition to that, there's the groups newsfeed and redesigned mobile profiles. Also, Smithereen is now available on Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/grishkaa/smithereen   So I installed a minor update to Idea and after it restarted a new tab "accidentally" opened with an ad for some generative AI bullshit (that I'm sure isn't even available in Russia to begin with, even if I wanted to use it).  What exactly is gained here by writing "last week" instead of the precise timestamp? It's not like there's a lack of space there either. I see this UX mistake very often. It's maddening. GitHub is one of the worst offenders. Instagram is also guilty of this with its "3214 weeks ago".  
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 @grishka I do like it though. For me getting sense of time with absolute dates can be a little tricky, and here it just says the thing happened past week, and provides ability to view the full date if necessary. I think it's actually great. Instagram example is not great, on the other hand. I think after a week it doesn't make much sense to have relative date, but where date is not important and UI is constrained, providing relative time is fine, but only AS LONG as there option to view date  Most of time I don't need exact timestamp, but an approximate time when a post (or something else) was made. A hour, a day, a week, etc. And if I need an exact time, I usually can just hover this message. Presenting exact timestamp requires more space and, most important, my attention to parse it. Speaking of out-of-network content, btw, it's also what shaped Bluesky's architecture to a substantial degree. It was built from the outset on the assumption that people need to see posts from outside of their network, that it's an essential non-negotiable property that this system must have. That's the fundamental difference between Bluesky and the fediverse. Bluesky tries very hard to emulate the current commercial television-like passive-consumption entertainment-ass social media. Fediverse, on the other hand, takes an old-school user-friendly approach where you see the posts from people you follow, in the order in which they were made, and nothing else at all. If you really insist on seeing random posts from people you don't know, there are local and federated timelines.
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I did find some bugs caused by scrollbars taking up space though, gonna fix those. For example, you can't scroll the photo viewer layer using the scrollbar because it's overlapped by the close overlay thing. This whole #Meta thing could actually be solved for the most part with one simple change that will be welcomed by a large number of users: stop forcefully exposing people to out-of-network content. But I guess Meta is too far into the "we're now doing entertainment" territory to do that. After all, this would totally tank some metrics that are involved in someone's KPIs. Random thought: there will be a time when someone makes a meme in ultra HDR. The only reason it's not happening yet is because none of image editing software supports that stuff. Back in the late 00s, people loved VKontakte so much, someone made this music video. I miss the old internet that produced artifacts like these. Which is why I made it my goal to bring it back. This time, such that for-profit entities couldn't take it away. "ого, нас уже больше пяти миллионов" (wow, there's already more than five million of us) 🥲 The profile picture thing is pretty much the same as what Facebook does. For users that have Smithereen-style profile pictures, it becomes clickable in the profile. Clicking it opens the album and lets you flip through older profile pictures of that person. Tags need approval because there's also a "photos of me" pseudo-album where all photos where this person is tagged live. There are new privacy settings for who can tag you and who sees your tagged photos (it doesn't affect the newsfeed tho). Why is it always the hugest corporations that use the most nauseatingly cutesy wording in their most user-hostile UIs? |
@grishka I wonder why...