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I thought that was catchier than "Private Browsing/Incognito/InPrivate/gift shopping mode".

False dichotomy (or is your logical fallacy the slippery slope? Anyway...) Someone saying that what's happening to Palestinians is wrong does not mean they're saying they want all Israelis killed.

It's not paywalled here, try using porn mode, clearing that site's cookies or something like archive.today.

I was going to suggest War for the Overworld but at eight years old perhaps that doesn't qualify.

Ah, I just posted about this in !books@lemmy.ml (I forgot what this community was called). My Halloween history:

• 2023: Perfectly Preventable Deaths by Deirdre Sullivan
• 2022: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• 2021: Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
• 2020: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
• 2019: Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
• 2018: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders & Something Wicked this Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
• 2017: Carrie by Stephen King
• 2016: Jekyll and Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 2015: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
• 2014: The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H. P. Lovecraft
• 2012: The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft
• 2009: Dracula by Bram Stoker
• 2008: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

I'd agree that you can't binge on them - best to just read one in between longer books.

I'm another Kagi fan - after customising it a little it's just so good, and I haven't even played with features like lenses.

I really like the custom bang searches (e.g. I could make !ks gravity search on simple Wikipedia), especially on mobile since Firefox Android doesn't support the normal browser quicksearches (where you set a keyword for each search).

That's interesting. The flaw with that logic seems to that there'll always be new users, and they'll be playing on hard mode since those vital clues have been removed.

Online it's even more annoying (to me, anyway), because we have the time element specifically for this kind of thing and no-one bothers to use it.

After a glance at others' answers, it's the same thing: the trend away from skeuomorphism.

I always think about the time I discovered an Android area was horizontally scrollable - with no scrollbars to clue me in, it was only the fact that the icon I wanted wasn't there that prompted me to discover the secret. I'm a software dev, if it's unintuitive even to me, how do non-technical people stand a chance?

This is a neat little idea, although I'm surprised you found the motivation to finish what seems like a niche need. Was this something that you wanted for yourself?

The niche interest groups are what I miss from reddit - I'm out of the loop for several things now I don't lurk in the respective subs any more. I think I'll start using their RSS feeds so I don't miss out too much.

Memes are just easy to consume and upvote, so I understand them becoming popular. I've got multiple duplicate accounts with different communities added/blocked so can get the memes only when I choose.

I'd rather see the second option - having a JavaScript-free solution is definitely more resilient than trying to detect and whitelist every archive service. As long as it works for wget/curl then it works for almost everyone.

Lovely stuff - and, looking at all the detail, this must have taken quite a while. Are you planning to do the full alphabet?

No, it's just that @warboyziri@kbin.social didn't give the full link. It's happy and healthy at https://letterboxd.com

TL;DR: the code/servers could be changed to use SSR, but that's more expensive to run.

Lemmy is written more as a web app than as a traditional webpage. This means that the website sends a partial page plus the code+resources needed to finish building the page and the browser builds ("renders") the final page.

This has advantages in that the server can send less data over time, cache more of that data, and overall has to do less work, plus also makes the site feel more snappy for the user, because their browser only needs to download the data that's changed (instead of a whole new page).

The disadvantage is that the browser needs to be more powerful, and older/simpler browsers (like IE6, some text-only browsers and some web spiders) won't apply the extra work to finish the page off.

The normal solution is called "server-side rendering" (SSR) where the server renders the full page, sends that over, then also sends over the code+data needed to run things more dynamically ("hydrating" the static site into an app-like experience). This means the server has to do a lot of work, but is often the best of both worlds; search engines see the proper page (good for SEO) but users get to have a nice experience (once that longer initial load is complete, anyway).

You can add a title and description to images, folders, albums (what we've been calling folders), sub-albums, etc. You can search on those, but it's not a structured thing like tags. I guess you could just store some JSON in there but you might need to get smart with your queries to search. Afraid I have no idea if there's plugins, or even if what I've been using is a recent and/or unmodified codebase.

I think it's more designed for photo uploads, as there's an option to keep exif data, and it automatically makes images of different sizes (including your original, maybe massive upload).

What features are you looking for? As others have said, if you just want somewhere you can store images yourself, you don't even need software aside from a webserver and something to upload with.

But there's also things like user accounts, tagging, browsing/discovery, plus whatever else gfycay does/did.

Anyway, just to actually give you a suggestion, chevereto is used by a friend and it's a lovely user experience (can't tell you about the admin side, though). [edit: This uses folders to organise - no tagging - so it might not meet your needs, which is why I was asking]

Not a fan at all.

I forget the details, but one established company who I foolishly backed on Kickstarter used the stretch goals to offload some old stock on us backers.

You can interact here from other ActivityPub-supporting codebases so you could just run one of the minimal microblogging sites. You wouldn't get the same experience as being a Lemmy instance though.