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Also, submit daily hourly progress reports providing a detailed accounting of the steps you are taking to work on this. But please, no more than half a sentence, bc I won't be reading them anyway.

It is good to start with something other than a daily driver, so that such problems don't hold you back as much - e.g. an older machine, or as others mentioned dual booting.

The close button is never gonna give it up, never gonna tell the ad to say goodbye, never gonna turn around, and help you...

Yeah, who would want to leave Vim? Reddit on the other hand... :-P

I get none at all - I wonder if someone signed you up to receive all of that. Make sure to "thank" them:-P.

firstworldproblems! :-)

Not true - where are the guns then!? Not to mention donuts... :-P

Edit: found them: https://media.tenor.com/0zEhnQBJoHkAAAAM/america-art.gif (the donuts 🍩 here have all been replaced by moar guns 🔫)

This guy Bat'leths:-)

Fortunately 🤞:-)

Yes, refreshing solves it - despite it being called the "login bug", you do not actually have to log in again - thanks for making sure that people know:-). It seems that after some time - a minute? - has passed, it has already forgotten who you are, and it needs to be reminded again. But it's annoying b/c who reads a post, all the comments on it, and writes out a response, all in under one minute!? (on a mobile screen no less, with those keyboards) And if you write a second comment, it will happen again. And again, and again, forever - at least it is predictable:-P.

The Notifications issue is pretty debilitating though - you must have managed to avoid ever running afoul of it (it does seem fairly rare), but it blocks your ENTIRE Notifications, from EVERYONE, from every instance, every post, every comment you've ever done, and permanently increases your Notification count, which can never be viewed and thus never go back down to zero. I even tried going back through every post and comment that I have ever made in the last several months, but I still have a "1" there that I cannot ever view (b/c once the moderator of another instance removes it - which btw Kbin lacks any moderation tools at all iirc - you cannot view the post anymore, hence you cannot view the comment of the person who replied to you, hence it is "unread"... forever). Eventually the situation that causes the error message will fall behind and you can view the newest page of results (but not the entire page on which the original comment occurs), but then the whole thing can happen again, and again, and again, each time burning your entire Notifications system all over again.

Not being able to receive Notifications almost defeats the point of a social media site?! And unlike the former issue, the latter still applies when accessing from a desktop computer. So I would not call that one a "minor" bug - it is more like a rarely occurring major one. I am glad that your own experience has been smoother than mine though:-).

Oooh, that is exciting! Yes I did not mention (my answer was already getting long-ish for social media) that the desktop experience is more or less perfectly fine, at least insofar as the first issue is concerned, but the notifications issue still applies (you must not have ever happened to comment on a post that was later removed by a mod on another instance? or else the issue could be sporadic, who knows:-D), and anyway a social media website that suffers such severe accessibility issues from a mobile device could definitely be a factor in causing a drop in number of active users... It will get better over time, but as it currently stands, it is far from perfect. (Though I'm still here:-P)

On my desktop I almost never have any issues at all. Same browser, different OS (Android vs. Mac) seems to make the difference. The first issue is often called the "login bug", and all of these issues are widely known and discussed. But yeah, ymmv:-).

I get that it was released too soon, which is why I would have liked to try Lemmy, except then I will not get notifications (specifically Messages) from my old account. There are a LOT of rough edges still, all around the Fediverse.

Which is my answer to the OP's question: fixing those should definitely help retain people:-).

"By viewing this image, you have consented to our privacy policy terms and conditions..."

Grr... arg.

Content ofc, but also I'm on Kbin, and the software here is atrocious. 100% of the time after like a minute goes by while I read a post and read the comments and then want to upvote/boost or write a comment, it asks me to re-login on a mobile Firefox. Also, if I comment on something and someone responds, but then a moderator removes the entire post on another instance, it breaks my entire Notifications - not just that singular one, but the entire process of receiving notifications for anything I say (the good news is that it only breaks the one page that it occurs on, so if I make enough other comments it will eventually fall behind the curve, but that's still a whole page of notifications that I will never be able to see, ever). Also there is no API at all. Also... well, you get the idea.

At this point, I would move to Lemmy except... account migration is a lie. I already asked people to follow me from Reddit to Kbin, and I'm not doing that again.

You will be baked, and then there will be cake.

https://kbin.social/m/anothereden - a JRPG nostalgia gacha game

"Only you"? More like all of us, or at least most.

Once bitten twice shy, basically.

Thank you for the link. I understand somewhat what you mean about security, but also I get the other side too - security for who, and for what purpose? Google seems to have decided that it wants security to deliver ads to your browser, and also to track you everywhere you go (while offering no paid options to surf the internet without ads or tracking afaik?). This may fall under the umbrella of "security", but not for the sake of the users, whose traffic is being monetized, and the only option is to go over to some other browser like Firefox, which now, conveniently for Google, seems to be doing the same? Or at least could, if anyone could spoof the service and pretending to be Firefox, ask for security adons to be disabled? Maybe I'm simply too jaded to easily trust anymore:-P.

It's not like Google would ever take over anything - like let's say oh I dunno, Android - and kill it from the inside. Remember how it said that its motto is don't be evil? Oh wait...

But resistance is fu...n? :-P