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From the Verge review I get the impression you only see stuff your friends have placed. They're playing around with ideas on how to let other content in but are well aware of the dong & swastika problem.

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Slack on the other hand embraced that problem so much they made their logo a combination of the 2

I don't see the dong... but I'm too afraid to google "Slack dong".

Four of them. One in each color.

<Picard> There...are... four... dongs! </Picard>

Thank you, now I'll never unsee it.

I will never be able to look at their new logo the same way again. Thank you for that.

"the dong & swastika problem" -- not the future I had envisioned as a kid (where's my flying car?). Jokes aside, glad to see a company being proactive, rather than reactive, to the "dong & swastika problem". Hopefully that becomes more of a trend.

That solution leaves out kids without friends; I understand why they do it but it may be a price too high to pay.

Why is it everything has to be padded and safe and inclusive for everyone all the time now?

Do you people not remember your own childhoods?

Yeah - it was only padded, safe, and inclusive for people like me. Those where the days.

Ask Notch, he doesn’t favor being inclusive at all anymore.

Both Pokemon Go and Minecraft are lots of fun single-player even though they are primarily thought of as multi-player games. I suspect the collect-build-place mechanic of Minecraft Earth will also be fun single player.

You’ve never played a game online where you joined a lobby and none of the people playing were your friends? They probably mean a friends list. Restricting it to your actually friends is a good way to choke the game growth.

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