I like the premise of sort of simplifying things a bit..but nowadays I'm not signing up for any centralized system/network if i can avoid it. For me, an important criteria would be if it can federate (that is, not be centralized), and additionally, ideally if i can self-host my own instance. Gone are the days where i blindly sign up for systems that are centralized. I should clarify that i'm by no means bashing the people behind this effort - kudos to them for trying new stuff! With no offense to them, I'm merely noting that if this effort were combined with the fediverse efforts, then it would interest me.
Text-Only Social Network
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#212This is the only JavaScript file they use [0]. It's a pure joy. [0] https://subreply.com/static/script.js?v=6
It is really a work of art. There are some things that could be shorter but it would be slightly slower.
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#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree with the overall sentiment of your comment but.. > It's exclusionary and for zero good technical reason. For every reasonable programming language, there are functions to do everything in UTF-8 that you can do in ASCII, with about the same complexity. At minimum, unicode does come with a lot of complexity in implementation, and a lot of potential vulnerabilities due to that complexity. Not saying that excuses…
Unicode includes a lot of features that aren't universally desirable in applications that handle text. "Zalgo" text (many stacked combining subscript and superscript characters) can break out of the box it's contained in. Emoji characters render as distracting full-color icons that are easily confused for UI. Directional overrides let you plop an "everything after this should be printed backwards" control character i…
Thank you
I was in a camp with many other comments here, that this is 21st century and supporting UTF-8 should be a default.
But that malware example makes me almost do a 180. Who in their right mind thought that full Unicode should be allowed in file names?
Is there a middle ground? Text-only bits of Unicode?
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#214No report button. Already seeing racist usernames.
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#215I wanted to see how it would handle non-ascii text so I typed 안녕하세요 and it romanized it to annyeonghaseyo. (This is "hello" in Korean). I did not expect that. I really like the idea of a text-only social network, so I hope this takes off. I think the author should consider supporting other languages though. Seeing romanized text isn't very helpful to people that actually want to read or write in other character sets.…
> I think the author should consider supporting other languages though
Looks simple enough that someone could clone it to run "Subreply for Korean."
IMO: I find mixed language social networks and threads difficult because I usually don't understand the other language.
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#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where does Unicode not work? It’s been everywhere for years
Because the content density varies in different languages. For example, each english word has ~7 ascii chars, but each chinese / japanese / korean words only has ~2 unicode chars
That doesn’t have anything to do with the tech being standard and easy to implement.
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#217It’s nice that people are trying different things but the N word is plastered all over the site and when I emailed Lucian about it, he was curt and dismissive and told me to use a “delete” button that doesn’t work. Subreply has no guards against abuse.
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#218It’s nice that people are trying different things but the N word is plastered all over the site and when I emailed Lucian about it, he was curt and dismissive and told me to use a “delete” button that doesn’t work. Subreply has no guards against abuse.
Further yet, there is one guy who chose the N word as their username and they are just bitching about censorship. I don't get it.
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#219We can't embed media but we can still link to it? I welcome efforts to encourage higher-quality discussion on social media, but I don't see how this gets us there. https://subreply.com/about "Subreply was created by Lucian Marin from the desire of a having a simple to use, English only, public forum that has nothing in common with ancient and untrustworthy social networks." What does "untrustworthy" mean in this cont…
And as with most moderation, how explicit can "I" be when advocating for genocide before getting booted? Do I have to just not spout slurs, or do I have to hide it even better? I think moderators would do nicely to consider that not all negativity manifests as "niceness". If I were to say "trans women are just gay men trying to score straight men" (a real opinion of some) there's nothing contained just within that st…
So far, your username _can_ be a racist slur and they’re not intending to stop it. It’s a no-go for me.
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#220Clicked through and the username of someone who'd replied in the thread on the front page was a racial slur. That's enough to turn me away. I'm no prude, but allowing someone to drop a bomb like that in their handle is a big broken window. Doesn't instill hope that I'd have a lot of positive interactions with the folks in this community.