I got an invite to join last year and signed up to test it out.
Felt like there was a lot less people and a lot less content on it than Mastadon.
Unless the users/content now really starts to take off, there’s not enough on there to make it interesting.
Yeah, it seems to work now. Didn’t used to work reliably a few years ago. Now, text within any document I save seems to come up in search shortly afterwards.
An interesting read. Yeah, it’s complicated.
I think sound has been a bit under-appreciated compared to visual effects/quality in recent years.
It’s things like this that make me glad that my email service defaults to not loading any images/links/html. There’s a small button at the top to load them if I want.
Yes, I remember that! I recall thinking, imagine how good this will get in the future. Sadly it didn’t.
This.
I use Adguard, if a site blocks me for it, then it goes on a black list of “never visit” sites.
In a few cases, if I use and like/support a specific site a lot and that site is ad supported with no other ad-free option, then I white list it.
But to read the odd crappy article? No I’m not disabling my ad blocker.
Yes, they are less prevalent due to Reddit and other social media sucking up a lot of the users.
They are still around though. One Australian forum that I’ve been on for years which is still very active is Whirlpool. Started as a tech forum and expanded. It’s very useful as source of info as it’s been around over 20 years and a lot of questions have been asked and answered there.
Nice! Took me to a site full of movie themes in midi format👌🏻
Got stuck in hospital for a few weeks recently and used the opportunity to finally learn Affinity.
I’m now really liking it. Takes a few tries to get into it though.
I particularly like it on the iPad with the Apple pencil. A bit less so on my windows laptop.
I thought Mass Effect had a great soundtrack that really fit the game perfectly. Moody in parts and rousing in others.
I wondered the same thing.
It’s definitely the best one after Sync.
Connect is awesome. The fact that it is only a month old and that good is honestly mind blowing and it’s totally free with no premium options or ads. I have really enjoyed using it up until now.
I’m a previous Sync for Reddit user though and I do love the app. The customisation options are insane. I can literally make it look and act exactly how I want, even down to things like specifying download locations for pictures, whether they go into subfolders by community, whether pictures show up as media files in your gallery or are hidden, the spacing between comment lines, etc… It’s also customisable by account if you have multiple accounts, so all of this can be different or the same for each account.
So once you spend some time setting it up, it almost feels like you’ve designed your own interface/app.
It’s hard to beat.
Thanks a lot to the awesome user who messaged me a DrunkenSlug invite.
Have signed up and look forward to trying it out :)
Wow, do both sound great.
I also mostly just search manually, but am looking at setting up something more automated soon.
I used to use all of this stuff many years ago, but less so in recent years.
But the fragmentation and rising costs of paid services and the way every single thing is becoming a subscription is annoying the hell out of me. It’s like they are trying to do their best to push me back to this stuff!
Anyway, I see both of the above services are invite only, if anyone can spare one I’d be really grateful!
I got sick of subscriptions, so I got Affinity Photo 2 for iPad as it was a reasonably priced one time purchase.
I cannot recommend it highly enough. I made a post about it here:
Most things I do on it can be done as well or better elsewhere.
However, I really like Photo editing on my iPad Pro using the Apple pencil.
It’s now my preferred platform for that.
Nice. I’ll participate whenever I have some time.
I’m spending way more time!
I didn’t really like the community in Reddit that much. I used it more like a news feed. So I never read ‘all’, I just read my subs for a few minutes here and there, but I didn’t post and comment much.
Since coming here I post and comment a lot more. There seems to be more proper discussion here, despite being much smaller and quieter.
Agreed, it’s so good.