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  1. Comment on Why did you choose this username for your Tildes account? in ~talk

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    I tried admin and administrator to test whether or not they were allowed and both were taken. I wanted to try user and see if it was a valid option and registration went through!

    I tried admin and administrator to test whether or not they were allowed and both were taken.

    I wanted to try user and see if it was a valid option and registration went through!

    18 votes

  2. Comment on Why the lack of love for mobile apps? in ~tildes

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    Yeah I wasn’t sure the best metric to track downloads/users but if you look at ratings (which I believe is a better proxy than [short term?] category rankings), then Apollo has 43k reviews and the...

    Yeah I wasn’t sure the best metric to track downloads/users but if you look at ratings (which I believe is a better proxy than [short term?] category rankings), then Apollo has 43k reviews and the official Reddit app only has 16k. Neither is perfect but I do think that they’re both used by hundreds of thousands.

    The 4 years of development time is a good measure of time required to create such a solid app though.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on How does Tildes feel about bots? in ~tildes

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    There are some novel bots that are neat but they have invaded every subreddit and are as invasive as mobile ads at this point, breaking up discussions and then having good bot or bad bot...

    There are some novel bots that are neat but they have invaded every subreddit and are as invasive as mobile ads at this point, breaking up discussions and then having good bot or bad bot responses.

    Having bot accounts with bot in the name and a setting to turn them on or off would be ideal, and probably disabled by default if it was up to me!

    20 votes

  4. Comment on Why the lack of love for mobile apps? in ~tildes

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    I think that this is a totally valid response, but as a counterpoint the most popular iOS reddit client is Apollo, with a dev team of 1, and not the official reddit app AFAIK. I also think that a...

    I think that this is a totally valid response, but as a counterpoint the most popular iOS reddit client is Apollo, with a dev team of 1, and not the official reddit app AFAIK.

    I also think that a tip jar or option to donate through a mobile app would be extremely convenient and increase donations significantly over current offerings. The ability to tap a $5 donation button from settings and authenticate with touchID/faceID or an Android IAP would be a welcome addition to the current donation options in my opinion.

    7 votes

  5. Comment on Daily Tildes discussion - more growth, more groups in ~tildes.official

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    It might be a little bit too early but having a ~language top level tilde would add a lot of possibilities for either foreign language news/discussion or translation and language learning requests.

    It might be a little bit too early but having a ~language top level tilde would add a lot of possibilities for either foreign language news/discussion or translation and language learning requests.

    7 votes