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Their first mistake was being an American.

Your advice is applicable to your own original comment, so it seems you do agree with what I said, at least to some degree.

Anyway, in the interests of constructive discussion, let me ask you specifically. Do you think this WEI proposal is good for and why? Does the proposal mention at all what the downsides of this feature might be, or how it could be abused? Is it proposed in such a way that the dominant implementors can't deviate later from the terms suggested in the proposal?

Seeing as you're having such trouble with people's reactions to this, maybe you should be the one in this thread to point out the specific reasons why individuals should be in favour of this.

Can you just run a cronjob to delete files in that directory every day?

(Maybe there's a reason you can't do this, I don't know how Lemmy instance works)

You're looking at it from the perspective of somebody who disagrees with Twitter as a company and a product.

I just hate their shitty UI.

As an American, surely you should be much more concerned about what the US government can do with your information than what the Chinese government can do with your information.

Is it an option I have to turn on? "Always trust domains" seemed like it could be it, but toggling doesn't seem to make a difference for me.

Is it buymeacoffee or their payment processor, Stripe you have a problem with? They're both very well known, I don't know how you could see them as "unknown"...

Is there a planned feature list somewhere public?

Two things I'd like from RiF are :

1. markdown links opening in a little popup that shows you where they really go.
2. Draft comments, so if you're writing a message to someone, you can go off in the middle and check something else on Lemmy using Connect without losing what you've already written.

And one other thing is an option to customise how code blocks look, though maybe I'm just missing that in the options.

So, don't learn to code? If you don't have any reason to and can't find any motivation, maybe it's just not for you.

The user experience is nicer as a native app, if done right. With a PWA, you have to deal with anything crappy that the browser inflicts on you, and the developer largely can't do anything about it. For example, Chrome sometimes just crashes or freezes entirely on me, which means Voyager can too.

See elsewhere in this thread for examples of little things that stem solely from being a PWA .

Don't get me wrong, I think Voyager is great for a PWA and it probably gets a lot of value out of being a PWA making it easier for people to contribute. But it's just not as good as native for me.

Isn't that "include instance tags in names?"

But then you'll have to learn the syntax of this instead.

I suspect that if you actually start using Melody you won't find it as helpful as you think you might. Maybe I'm wrong. Let's see in a year's time.

But you can do that already in many languages using extended Regex syntax.This doesn't add anything except more verbosity and another syntax to learn.

Who is this for? People who write lots of regular expressions won't need it because they know what they're doing and people who don't write lots of regular expressions probably won't find it anyway.

It just seems like a weird type of user who actually wants this.

My favorite password is the string "a", but I never get to use it anywhere due to these ridiculous restrictions 😔 Can you tell me which online services you administer so I can sign up for them and enjoy unfettered use of my favorite password?

You mean like this?

Lemmy already has image hosting; your instance may or may not support it.

Voyager doesn't show the inline image above, but it's there. Check out how this thread looks in a browser on a Lemmy instance and you'll see it. You can even reply and attach your own image, just like I did.

I suspect there is a better solution for thumbnails, but not sure if it's you or Lemmy devs who would have to fix it.

This is how thumbnails look on my device, basically anything with text is completely unreadable:

This image, for example, is 109KB https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7fd7eeaa-f466-4697-8ea9-2f16e4372adc.jpeg

This is what Lemmy generates for it at thumbnail=128: https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7fd7eeaa-f466-4697-8ea9-2f16e4372adc.jpeg?format=jpg&thumbnail=128

And this is what my local imagemagick makes when asked to resize the original to 128w at 50% quality: https://ibb.co/ZgT35p4

Lemmy image is 4906 bytes and unreadable and the Imagemagick is 1398 bytes and you can make out the text.

And that's before getting into cropping etc. Basically, there's room for improvement, somewhere.

Edit: seems like pict-rs (the library Lemmy uses for image hosting) uses imagemagick to compress images, so it's probably just to do with the selection of filters/options they've chosen.

Sorry, I see that now! All the Sync comments in your screenshot must have confused me.

I think this is not really inline with the philosophy of the main Lemmy devs. For this to happen, I think someone else would have to do the work of creating the random selection service. If it was popular enough, maybe they'd put a link on join-lemmy.org