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  1. Comment on As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google’s AI Overviews in ~tech

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    Yea I guess I missed all that cuz the question I wanted to ask was always already asked so I just had to Google properly. Perhaps I missed all that!

    Yea I guess I missed all that cuz the question I wanted to ask was always already asked so I just had to Google properly. Perhaps I missed all that!

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  2. Comment on As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google’s AI Overviews in ~tech

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    Wow thanks for doing all the research! Crazy. I think most users did find the site very helpful. Like I still lke its UI. There's always ways to improve the UX of course but look at how many...

    Wow thanks for doing all the research! Crazy. I think most users did find the site very helpful. Like I still lke its UI. There's always ways to improve the UX of course but look at how many terrible slop we have now with AI coded stuff. I did read the accessibility piece. Again I think most websites can't even get buttons and layout right, like accessibility is pretty much um rarely considered. Feels like the bar is somehow way higher for SE. Look at Reddit now, its decent but the design feels very dated. SE doesnt give me that feeling at all.
    I honestly hope SE stays even if its not very relevant. I own a lot of my early career to SE questions and answers.

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  3. Comment on As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google’s AI Overviews in ~tech

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    Hmm I think it might take a few villages to create and nudge people to try new alternatives for it to really die off though. A lot of times its just the people are different, not even the...

    Hmm I think it might take a few villages to create and nudge people to try new alternatives for it to really die off though.
    A lot of times its just the people are different, not even the platform. Like most people here, I am I woudl say 70% into discussion and making friends and 30% memes and 2-min videos. Reddit and most social media all optimizes for the latter cuz that's what most people prefer. So I'm creating a forum thing where hopefully I can find more people like me. /s

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  4. Comment on As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google’s AI Overviews in ~tech

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    But that's like all major social media no? The only way out of that is Tildes and encourage people to join other forums like Tildes.

    But that's like all major social media no? The only way out of that is Tildes and encourage people to join other forums like Tildes.

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  5. Comment on As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google’s AI Overviews in ~tech

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    Hey thanks for answering mate. Imma check out farmrpg now. :)

    Hey thanks for answering mate. Imma check out farmrpg now. :)

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  6. Comment on As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google’s AI Overviews in ~tech

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    For sure. I should clarify that I meant Reddit/forum like websites. Discord is chat-first so I kinda put it in a totally different category.

    For sure. I should clarify that I meant Reddit/forum like websites. Discord is chat-first so I kinda put it in a totally different category.

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  7. Comment on Game review - Vruknavar, local brawler to play with friends [free] in ~games

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    A small, fast-paced melee brawler a friend made. Thought I'd share it here since he's giving it away for free. It's pretty fun if you have roommates and needs something to kill 5-10 minutes sorta...

    A small, fast-paced melee brawler a friend made. Thought I'd share it here since he's giving it away for free. It's pretty fun if you have roommates and needs something to kill 5-10 minutes sorta thing.

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  9. Comment on As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google’s AI Overviews in ~tech

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    Lmao. I honestly haven't visited Stack Exchange for ages now, kinda a shame cuz I use to look up all sorts of stuff there for code. What's going on with them recently, you sound like you know stuff!

    Lmao. I honestly haven't visited Stack Exchange for ages now, kinda a shame cuz I use to look up all sorts of stuff there for code. What's going on with them recently, you sound like you know stuff!

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  10. Comment on As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google’s AI Overviews in ~tech

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    I like small subreddits. Any of the big ones there's a lot of spam and very little discussion. What niches are you into if you don't mind me asking? More rabbit hole questions if you are up for it...

    I like small subreddits. Any of the big ones there's a lot of spam and very little discussion. What niches are you into if you don't mind me asking?
    More rabbit hole questions if you are up for it (completely optional of course): If I asked you to redesign Reddit's UI, what would you change? Or maybe what is better from the old.reddit vs. the new.

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  11. Comment on As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google’s AI Overviews in ~tech

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    None of us likes Reddit or else we wouldn't be here but I think Reddit will be here for a long time. Unfortunately no one else has created a better forum yet. Don't get me wrong Tildes is better...

    None of us likes Reddit or else we wouldn't be here but I think Reddit will be here for a long time. Unfortunately no one else has created a better forum yet. Don't get me wrong Tildes is better for text-focused and long discussions or link aggregator + comments. Overall though doesn't look like Reddit has any competition which is a little well disappointing.
    PS: It's kinda funny how every new social media alternative I see now markets itself as the "new way to connect with humans" and as Reddit still does.

    33 votes

  12. Comment on The AI design aesthetic that is taking over the internet in ~comp

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    I took a quick look at your site, looks fine to me. Very few spots of obvious vibe coded tells. Re overall AI design - I think its one of the few things that can tell you if a human has actually...

    I took a quick look at your site, looks fine to me. Very few spots of obvious vibe coded tells.
    Re overall AI design - I think its one of the few things that can tell you if a human has actually put effort into a site, especially a simple one with simple backend. I hope AI never gets good at design but I guess if it does I do hope humans design it a lot better. For my forum (see profile if interested), I spent probably equal amount of time thinking about UX vs. how to scale the real-time backend because it matters. The average user won't really care but that doesn't bother me cuz its a passion project.
    These days, at least on Reddit, bad UI/UX is honestly everywhere. Most vibe coded projects only work on happy path, some slight edge case and its pretty broken or its completely obvious to the user that edge cases and negative states are completely not considered. On a positive note, it would seem like even regular consumers are very much vigilant on AI design slop now.

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  13. Comment on The AI design aesthetic that is taking over the internet in ~comp

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    Meh I'm not sure about taking over the internet, rather I think it just makes current top apps better cuz most AI vibe coded apps suck and they're immediately called out for slop. I know there are...

    Meh I'm not sure about taking over the internet, rather I think it just makes current top apps better cuz most AI vibe coded apps suck and they're immediately called out for slop. I know there are decent apps out there that are AI assisted but I don't see anyone even promoting them. The only apps I see promoted are vibe coded apps by their own founders ugh.
    Ironically, hopefully this eventually creates a higher bar for better designed and uniquely designed apps.

    3 votes

  14. Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative

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    I've never heard of Homebrewery or Game UI Databases - thank you for both, super useful! For my forum I've decided just to not do mobile cuz its way too much work but it is hyper responsive on...

    I've never heard of Homebrewery or Game UI Databases - thank you for both, super useful!
    For my forum I've decided just to not do mobile cuz its way too much work but it is hyper responsive on desktop. I really like how Homebrewery looks and I think I want to study it a bit deeper to see if I can thank some design cues. For example currently I have just regular headings 1, 2, 3 and maybe for style its more fun do the tall first letter capital style + a line. I want to optimize both for a great reading experience but also fit a lot of words on the screen. Should add that my editor is not mark down its node-based so gotta consider how to design new inline blocks well so they stay performant for serialization and rendering.

  15. Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative

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    I'm not sure if this counts but I've been trying to figure out how to add brushes of art and fantasy to my forum and blending that fantasy flavor into modern web design. An example would be here...

    I'm not sure if this counts but I've been trying to figure out how to add brushes of art and fantasy to my forum and blending that fantasy flavor into modern web design. An example would be here where I'm using a custom frame for a hover profile avatar: https://imgur.com/a/silenced-MpGx135.
    It's very tricky to do well because modern design has a certain preference for functional UX, bigger fonts, less crowding, and flexible layout while art doesn't easily fit into that.
    If anyone has ideas, I'm all ears.

    3 votes

  16. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    This week at IndieGamesCafe I'm working on adding emoji support to chat. I thought it should be very simple cuz its all unicode. However styling it properly to fit the text is not easy on web, not...

    This week at IndieGamesCafe I'm working on adding emoji support to chat. I thought it should be very simple cuz its all unicode. However styling it properly to fit the text is not easy on web, not to mention encryption and adding emoji reactions to messages. The scope creep continues and I ended up supporting most popular languages for autocomplete and emoji search even if your browser language is English. /s

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  17. Comment on What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all in ~tech

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    Oh my comment is a lot more general, maybe I should have added that. I meant overall any site with valuable info. Re prediction markets yes, regulation is 100% required. So many people just lose...

    Oh my comment is a lot more general, maybe I should have added that. I meant overall any site with valuable info. Re prediction markets yes, regulation is 100% required. So many people just lose their fortunes in that stuff and there's a ton of cheating involved, idk why people do it but its a popular thing.

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  18. Comment on What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all in ~tech

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    The only saving grace is private and niche communities that is hard to craw or not designed for SEO. Back in the day, every website was designed to be indexed by Google but with today's tech we...

    The only saving grace is private and niche communities that is hard to craw or not designed for SEO. Back in the day, every website was designed to be indexed by Google but with today's tech we can actually do the opposite and make it as hard as possible for AI bots to crawl your site. Cloudflare is already working on this.
    Any website with great content will eventually wall up. It just makes sense cuz otherwise you'd be giving it free to OpenAI and Anthropic and basically let them make money while you suffer.
    Funny how the internet started to be as open as possible but actually now the best way to build a community is to make it as close and as niche as possible.

    4 votes

  19. Comment on I don't really like the "Human-made" badging trend in ~tech

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    Lmao well just like in American politics, most of those discussions are again as you correctly pointed out, shallow, binary, and cringe AF. I dont pay much attention to politics for the same...

    Lmao well just like in American politics, most of those discussions are again as you correctly pointed out, shallow, binary, and cringe AF. I dont pay much attention to politics for the same reason cuz all the discussion is just taking an ideology and pinning it on 1 side. That's simply never true. 150M people on each side, you're telling me 1 side hates nature the other side doesn't? Or 1 side hates capitalism and the other side is 100% pure ownership capitalism? Lmao. Idk to me those are just absolutely insane and crazy takes. Sure there is a lot of crazy leaders but most people are normal and love nature and probably believes in regular market economics.
    So as I said, so much adult education is due. /s

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  20. Comment on I don't really like the "Human-made" badging trend in ~tech

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    I think people especially non-tech consumers who are directly affected by this like writers (just an example, there's a bunch of these poeple on Reddit and X) are leaning heavily into this false...

    I think people especially non-tech consumers who are directly affected by this like writers (just an example, there's a bunch of these poeple on Reddit and X) are leaning heavily into this false binary distinction when the real choice is just quality. Quality has many dimensions (some may argue almost infinite if you go really deep).
    IMO, we should all help educate people about quality software and how to spot AI slop. A lot of the rage may be intentionally good but misguided.

    10 votes