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8 votes
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My Father’s Stack of Books
7 votes -
New Zealand prime minister on mosque shooter: “You will never hear me mention his name”
12 votes -
The Lighting Budget of Thomas Jefferson
5 votes -
The fertility doctor’s secret children - Donald Cline used his own sperm to inseminate over fifty of his patients without their knowledge
9 votes -
What have you been listening to this week?
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as...
What have you been listening to this week? You don't need to do a 6000 word review if you don't want to, but please write something! If you've just picked up some music, please update on that as well, we'd love to see your hauls :)
Feel free to give recs or discuss anything about each others' listening habits.
You can make a chart if you use last.fm:
http://www.tapmusic.net/lastfm/
Remember that linking directly to your image will update with your future listening, make sure to reupload to somewhere like imgur if you'd like it to remain what you have at the time of posting.
14 votes -
Engineers still studying problem with InSight heat flow probe
6 votes -
Group suggestion: ~socialmedia
Hereby I suggest that there be a dedicated Tildes group for social media–related topics. Current State The (recent) number of topics tagged social media exceeds the number of topics in several...
Hereby I suggest that there be a dedicated Tildes group for social media–related topics.
Current State
The (recent) number of topics tagged
social media
exceeds the number of topics in several existing groups:
https://tildes.net/?tag=social_media
In addition, there are more topics without thesocial media
tag but with tags related to individual social media, e.g.,
https://tildes.net/?tag=reddit
https://tildes.net/?tag=facebook
https://tildes.net/?tag=twitterThese topics are quite scattered across the site (many of them are in ~tech, and some were moved to ~tech from places like ~talk and ~misc).
Why Not Just ~tech?
The topics are often focused on non-technical aspects of social media, and the mentioned moves from more general groups might suggest that social media are perceived as a general rather than a purely techn(olog)ical phenomenon. In addition, ~tech is already the biggest Tildes group.
Special Relevance
Tildes is itself a social medium site, and many of the above topics are thus specifically relevant for Tildes. For this reason, I suggest ~socialmedia as a top-level group rather than a subgroup (of ~tech, apparently).
6 votes -
Death of the calorie
19 votes -
Captain Marvel has made $760 million worldwide. $1 billion is in its sights.
18 votes -
After thirty years in power, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev is resigning
7 votes -
"What the hell is going on?" A thoughtful and thorough overview of the rising entropy in society by David Perell
20 votes -
What causes rare rainbow arcs?
3 votes -
Here is where HPC is headed, according to developers and computer scientists in top supercomputing centers
4 votes -
Riding a BMX bike again!
5 votes -
Abandoned
17 votes -
How parents are robbing their children of adulthood
18 votes -
Coyote fur is a booming fashion trend. But is it ethical?
4 votes -
Vivian Cherry: A lifetime photographing New York's streets – in pictures
3 votes -
How secure and private is Firefox?
I was browsing r/privacy today and I came across this guy going on about how Mozilla was just pretending to be privacy focused. Here's his comment. Now I don't really know what to think of this,...
I was browsing r/privacy today and I came across this guy going on about how Mozilla was just pretending to be privacy focused. Here's his comment. Now I don't really know what to think of this, and frankly, I'm getting really exhausted of hearing about how all the things I'm using aren't actually trustworthy. So can so someone put my mind to rest? Does this guy's claims have any truth to them? Thanks.
20 votes -
How did/do you fund your graduate education?
If you're doing a master's or a PhD, how do you pay for it? Or if you will be doing in near future, how do you plan to pay for it?
7 votes -
Why your newsfeed sucks
5 votes -
Native File System API
6 votes -
Nvidia announces Jetson Nano Dev Kit and board: X1 for $99
5 votes -
Tildes mobile app
I wasn’t able to find a discussion on this, though I’m sure there has been, and for that, I apologize. Is there any kind of timeframe on the release of a mobile app for tildes? I would guess that...
I wasn’t able to find a discussion on this, though I’m sure there has been, and for that, I apologize.
Is there any kind of timeframe on the release of a mobile app for tildes?
I would guess that on Reddit most of their traffic comes from people accessing the site on their phones at this point, but I could be wrong. In any case, it certainly is a large portion of the users that access the site in this way.
With that in mind, it would be nice to be able to access tildes from a mobile app to do away with the clunkiness that comes with using the site through a mobile browser. I don’t mean to sound like it’s terrible. The site functions well enough through a mobile browser, but it would certainly have me using tildes a lot more if the convenience of a mobile app was available.
I’m sure the developers are very busy, and I don’t want to sound demanding, I’m just curious.
And once again, I apologize if this has been discussed recently.
21 votes -
America's Cup breakthrough as US make flying start towards Auckland 2021
6 votes -
Remembering Atta Elayyan, CS:S pro and victim of Christchurch Shooting
9 votes -
Inside YouTube’s struggles to shut down video of the New Zealand shooting
11 votes -
Guild Wars 2 developer ArenaNet plans for mass layoffs
7 votes -
'Arrested Development' finishes with a whimper, not a bang
12 votes -
Anti-Muslim hate speech is absolutely relentless on social media even as platforms crack down on other extremist groups
6 votes -
500 million years of climate history pinned on plate tectonics
9 votes -
What re-recording or variation of a classic song do you believe beats the original?
Did a lot of comparisons tonight, and I have to say I feel the variation of “Why Don’t You Do Right” sung by Amy Irving in Who Framed Roger Rabbit holds far more impact than the original...
Did a lot of comparisons tonight, and I have to say I feel the variation of “Why Don’t You Do Right” sung by Amy Irving in Who Framed Roger Rabbit holds far more impact than the original recordings done by Peggy Lee, or even many artists after.
What redo/variation of a classic still holds you speechless?
26 votes -
Apple announces new iPad Air and iPad mini
9 votes -
Who are some interesting people or organisations to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse?
I created a Mastodon account today, and am interested in filling my timeline with interesting people and ideas.
10 votes -
Human body might be able to pick up on Earth's magnetic field
9 votes -
"It’s a constant battle just to survive”: Many California wildfire survivors are still homeless months after a historic blaze
8 votes -
Whats the most important alias or function in your bashrc file?
Hello new member here to Tildes! I just wanted to see what all people are putting in their bashrc file that makes them more productive?
40 votes -
President Filipe Nyusi says more than 100,000 are at risk after storm hit Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe
4 votes -
Kurzgesagt's "Trust" video may have been a preemptive move to avoid criticism
16 votes -
What have you been watching/reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
12 votes -
Dick Dale, surf rock icon, dead at 81
9 votes -
Co-founder of Mode 7 (developer of Frozen Synapse) is leaving - Mode 7 will no longer develop large-scale games
4 votes -
Something has changed, and, thankfully, those trying to manipulate us haven't recognized it yet.
The one thing people didn't learn regarding Trump and is repeating itself with AOC. When you consider a politician stupid, it actually empowers them to be crafty. I think Trump would love for you...
The one thing people didn't learn regarding Trump and is repeating itself with AOC.
When you consider a politician stupid, it actually empowers them to be crafty. I think Trump would love for you to think he is stupid.
When you constantly attack a politician, you actually give them more followers. It's strange, but the Streisand Effect is real, especially in this Internet era.
The biggest weapon in someone's arsenal is to actually just talk about what they are for. Not attack their opponent and give them press. The rules have changed.
5 votes -
How Boeing, US FAA certified the suspect 737 MAX flight control system
3 votes -
Does a new genetic analysis finally reveal the identity of Jack the Ripper?
3 votes -
Astronomers discover eighty-three supermassive black holes in the early universe
6 votes -
Dutch shooting: Utrecht police arrest suspect after three killed
6 votes -
Santana - Soul Sacrifice 1969 "Woodstock" Live Video HQ
4 votes -
Comments, bumping, trees. Helping user discovering newer comments.
Suppose you want to participate in an old post with hundreds of comments. You made your fresh new comment, injecting your thoughts and effort into it and hit the post button with hopes and dreams....
Suppose you want to participate in an old post with hundreds of comments. You made your fresh new comment, injecting your thoughts and effort into it and hit the post button with hopes and dreams.
The post is bumped to the top under Activity. Other tilders saw the old post on the top, they are intrigued, perhaps as much as you are and wonder what you can add to the discussion, but they couldn't find your comment.
Why is that?
You replied to a thread with a very old top-level comment.
As Tildes is still relatively new, this isn't much of a issue now, but one that I feel needed to be addressed eventually as the site grows. It is certainly a low priority issue for the time being.
Sort by new only sorts comments by the time when top-level comment is posted, which is an inherent characteristic of comment threads. If my last years of memeing on redditting has taught me anything, it is that a new post gathers the most views in the first few minutes when it was posted (This might be a few days on Tildes).
Bumping helps extend the longevity of a given post if the thread gathers enough attention and discussion value to warrant a comment, but that alone would not alleviate the fact that new comments is seen by less and less people as the post gets older (as indicated by votes). If we want to make high-quality comments seen by more people, we need to make comment age a less limiting factor.
Tildes needs to help its users to discover new comments.
A few solutions come to my mind.
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By presenting comments in a linear fashion like the good old bulletin board does without any hierarchy such that sort by new would truly be sort by new.
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By highlighting ( or whichever other means ) comments that meet certain criteria (Comments that are among the latest 10 or comments that were posted within the last hour, this can vary depending on the activities of the comments)
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I would like to propose a novel solution to this problem by compacting the comment threads to a forest of trees with navigable nodes. This sounds totally outlandish, it might very well be, but its an idea that I think worth sharing.
The editing is rudimentary but I hope the idea is communicated well.
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