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    • vaguerant@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Bit of a downer, but it is an Android news site. kbin currently doesn’t really merit much of a mention in that context. The PWA is nice, but by its nature barely related to Android, since it also runs on Windows, MacOS and everything else under the sun.

  • limecool@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    If you are using hacker news on mobile. I would recommend Glider. It’s a smooth hacker news client. Unfortunately, the dev had his app removed from the play store for reasons but you can access it from its github or fdroid.

      • limecool@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Play Store has strict rules for apps with user generated content. You have to provide ways to block and report users/content to stay on the play store. Glider didn’t provide a way to automatically report things by the user as hacker news doesn’t provide one. So, google suspended it. Here’s the github issue if you are interested: https://github.com/Mosc/Glider/issues/83

        • sarsaparilyptus@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Yeah I’ve seen a few things get messed up by that idiotic rule. When you euphemistically say “reasons” in italics, it sounds worse than it is. I assumed you were trying to gently tell people “Google suspended the dev for being racist” or something.

          • limecool@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            It had been a while since i last remembered it, but i knew the reason was stupid. So, I had written reasons in italic. But, I guess that was up for open interpretation and that included questionable stuff.

    • hardypart@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t know man. I still don’t understand how Discord became so popular in the first place and I will never ever understand how some people are fine with Discord being their only online presence or way of interaction (I’m looking at you, midjourney!) It’s a walled garden with a fucking horrible UI and UX. Just look at the screenshot in the article:

      What a steaming pile of dog poop, lol

      • Tricky_Nerd@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        I take it you don’t remember the old internets chatrooms, that’s why Discord is popular. It scratches a very specific itch, Live Chat. Social Media scratches a very similar itch, but with a platform that is forum based, not chat based.

        Throw in the old Social Media, like ICQ, MSN Messenger, AOL Messenger, etc. and you begin to see that live chat is absolutely a feature that people want. Sometimes they want a “room” where a bunch of like minded people are, sometimes they want to talk to specific people.

        Social Media as a concept has gone through a lot of iterations.

        • IceQuest@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Not only do I not have the “live chat itch”, I actively get very stressed on live chat platforms and do my best to avoid it. Afaik I never had communication difficulties my entire life, but being on discord makes me feel like I do. I just have zero idea how to approach any topic, which I assume is because I cannot read facial expressions. I’ll much rather approach strangers on the street than chat on discord.

          I’d like to know if anyone shares this experience it too. Live chat seems like a better option for most people.

      • rDrDr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I tried to make Discord work for a couple niche interests I had. Holy shit is it awful. I genuinely don’t understand why people think it’s okay. Maybe it’s kids who have never experienced forums?

        • Ducks@ducks.devEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          It’s okay for very small groups of people in my experience. I use two servers with like ~10 active users in total. We use the server as a way to keep group text-like conversations more organized in different channels based on topic and the added benefit of voice calls and chat bots.

          Large communities for it are awful, it becomes an even harder to read Twitch chat in active channels.

      • AnonTwo@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        That picture is incredibly bias…

        1. It’s using light mode, and not dark mode. I think everyone can already see the issue there

        2. They’re on the event page. Keep in mind this is Chat room software . The Chat rooms are the ones with the #.

        3. Again, it’s a chat room/Instant message software. This page doesn’t represent the main purpose of the software.

        4. It’s no more a walled garden than Reddit or twitter were. It’s just closed source software.

        5. I do agree it doesn’t make sense to make it the new source of reddit communities, because the information is incredibly volatile…like I said earlier, it was made to compete with Chat room/instant messaging software…It’s an instant messaging client, not a forum client. The information can be freely deleted, you lose access to it if you leave the server or get banned, and of course if the server is banned or deleted all the information is lost.

        So I do think this is a really unfair take on Discord, but also I think Discord is a terrible replacement for reddit. It was made for conversations, not for discussion.

        • atocci@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          I feel like it’s an issue of bloat more than anything. Discord was much easier to use back when I first joined, but now it’s gotten to the point where where you have the ability to make twitter/reddit-style posts inside what is supposed to be a chat room.

  • ChristianWS@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Really wish the RIF is Fun would migrate to Lemmy, but it appears he’s going to move to another service