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Missing things is another one I noticed yeah. In my case it's gigs from local places I actually follow.

Why show an event that happened last Friday? They even know it's time sensitive because it's an event with a date and time attached!

Oh wow I actually forgot about this.

I used to have a bookmark that took me directly to the friends feed but it would seem it just redirects to the homepage now, and the navigating to the feeds fresh just loads within the page rather than via URL (at least on mobile web, m.facebook.com, not checked desktop)

I thought it was being insulting for a while but I guess I did pause on it to screenshot and make a witty post but I'm constantly getting Dull Men's Club, and more recently the knockoff versions haha

Facebook, I'm not into these, and I've told you so! It was just that "Suggested for you: Dull Men's Club" was funny the first time!

Haha of course. I was probably just one of a mere few hundred million people using it in a way that brought me back to the algorithm so it got scrapped for underutilisation :(

Ooh speaking of birthday reminders - if Facebook is browsing this thread looking for things to fix: bring back the birthday iCal feed!

You literally had notifications via my calendar bringing me back to your site every few days/weeks to say happy birthday and maybe have a bit of a browse. Now the reminders are in my todo list and I say happy birthday via text or call instead. Path of least pain in the backside.

Absolutely bizarre they ditched the birthdays and events iCal feeds.

Visiting friends' profiles, they still seem to be posting but I rarely see them on my feed.

No I haven't got them muted or anything haha, and I can't speak for why the algorithm thinks I don't want to see the content. Maybe it's broken.

I've just loaded my Facebook home page. 6 'pages' (I know it's infinite scroll but you know what I mean) before I saw an actual friend's post, and it was from 2 weeks ago.

Jeez Zucky, I wonder why social is dying. Is it because there's no bloody social between the ads and random algorithm shite anymore?

E: haha, the rest of the comments say likewise. Redundant comment but +1 anecdata.

Also for what it's worth I've checked a few profiles and yeah friends are still posting, I'm just not seeing it. I guess I scrolled past some post about something too quickly and now Facebook thinks I don't care? Maybe the algorithm is just broken lol.

Because I don't want to publish the millions of draft posts I'm procrastinating on right now

If we're going to nitpick that far they'd need to start an ISP and lay their own fibre too

Personally I feel if you can quickly pull out of a provider and host elsewhere with maybe just a config change - aye the data is fully owned, close enough.

Maybe we need a new dismissive shorthand for this? Something like tf;dr

Turing (test) failed; didn't read

All these voices are too good these days. I want my home assistant to sound like Auto from Wall-E, dammit!

Anyone out there doing any nice robotic robot voices?

Best I've got so far is a blend of Ralph and Zarvox from MacOS' `say`, haha

  say -v zarvox -r 180 "[[volm 0.8]] ${message}" &
  say -v ralph -r 180 "${message}"

You mean like an additional tax on tobacco, alcohol, and sugar?

You're behind the times lol -- UK

Used to be able to add friends birthdays and events you'd rsvp'd "Going" to your calendar via iCal URLs too. That was so damn useful.

Yeah but the IT bod looking into it would see the rest of the site as context

If they check on a site and it's heavy on the NSFW maybe things get looked into with a bit more of a "... is this person browsing porn at work?" attitude

> where you put a wad of hair in your cigarettes

Oh god I almost gagged just thinking about it. If negative reinforcement works, that'd do it haha

If you're building a dinosaur sanctuary sure

Real HN in a nutshell: People who don't build stuff telling people who do build stuff that the thing they built is useless :P

It's a hacker forum, let people hack!

If anything have a dig at OP for posting the thread too soon before the parent commenter has had the chance to gather any data, haha

Isn't that literally what copyright is?

You have bought the text so you have the readright, but you do not the copyright.

Man that's gonna be some prime real estate for adverts

"Sols, the lion" is all I'm getting out of my mind meat :(

I wish I had more to add, but I do not. This proper tickled me, thank you. lmao

It's quite possible the communities I'm active in are using the forums feature wrong if it works well for a QnA/helpdesk scenario haha

Thinking about it that use case makes far more sense than what the communities I'm in are using it for (basically just dynamic #channels that anyone can create) - especially with how nobody is a part of the discussion by default. That does make way more sense for a helpdesk kinda setup rather than misc discussion threads.

Being knowingly throwaway meant that any long term knowledge got turned into a blog post, documentation, a forum thread, or a search engine indexable logs-to-html site in the worst case.

With discord the message might get pinned if a mod thinks it was useful and remains undiscoverable for the majority of people

Unfortunately it's worse than that now. It used to be that everything got siloed into channels, now things get siloed into the new forum system.

These forum channels don't automatically appear in the sidebar and you get no indication of anything new added unless you specifically follow the thread.

Moving into forum threads is a great way to kill a conversation, perfect even, honestly I wouldn't be surprised if the feature was added just so Discord could appear in "forum" searches. There's no way the feature was planned when it's so bad for conversations.

In any case the discord mod quirk of stomping on discussion inertia plus this horrible new forum system guarantees a conversation fizzles out immediately.

> 404 - Page Not Found

Uh oh

If we're talking about the app: if you go to settings (top right hamburger, then cog icon) you can set your language preferences

I almost tripped over "welp this is all in French, I got nothing to watch" too

Probably closer to "We don't want to be the network where people's thoughts are called farts"

Similarly Bluesky did its best to get rid of "skeet" before blowing up haha

Downvotes are fair, in my defence I was tired haha

Dumbass comment lmao

I don't remember this being on the transport tycoon soundtrack

https://youtu.be/l_bTTUihfx0?t=20

At that level of funding and the amount of time it's taken I wonder what percent of their backers are dying waiting on this

In another 10 years I'll add "of old age" to the wonder

I can no longer remember a time where the internet wasn't waiting for Star Citizen haha