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Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by emirhan »

merijnv wrote: post #104
Daneel_ wrote: post #29

Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly does swiftkey offer over the usual keyboard? A quick google seems to bring up "better predictive text" and "better multi-language support" - is that it?

I mean, you say "is this it?", but the multi-language support of literally all other Android keyboards I've used are basically unusable. Take Google's default keyboard, it requires you manually switch languages for swiping and predictive text to work. But that's completely unworkable for the way multi-lingual people end up actually typing texting. I swap back and forth across languages, even if just for 1 or 2 words…

Maybe Google updated the Gboard since the last time you used it, but it definitely predicts from multiple languages in the same sentence for the last couple of months at least.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by spoiler »

alwyn wrote: post #72
Daneel_ wrote: post #29

Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly does swiftkey offer over the usual keyboard? A quick google seems to bring up "better predictive text" and "better multi-language support" - is that it?

Swiping and the features you mentioned are amongst the best I've tried. So yes, it's a "better" "usual" keyboard that makes me type more efficiently than other keyboards. E.g. Gboard doesn't come close and feels like a big downgrade. Fast edit: it's Monday morning, I didn't realise there were so many other replies already.

I'm someone who switched from SwiftKey (paid plan) to GBoard, and never looked back. I much prefer GBoard to SwiftKey. So it might be a matter of preference

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by hocuspocus »

jimsimmons wrote: post #99
Daneel_ wrote: post #29

Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly does swiftkey offer over the usual keyboard? A quick google seems to bring up "better predictive text" and "better multi-language support" - is that it?

They had swiping first

Not at all. Swype existed already in the pre-iOS/Android era. Even Flesky copied the feature before SwiftKey.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by emberfiend »

merijnv wrote: post #104
Daneel_ wrote: post #29

Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly does swiftkey offer over the usual keyboard? A quick google seems to bring up "better predictive text" and "better multi-language support" - is that it?

I mean, you say "is this it?", but the multi-language support of literally all other Android keyboards I've used are basically unusable. Take Google's default keyboard, it requires you manually switch languages for swiping and predictive text to work. But that's completely unworkable for the way multi-lingual people end up actually typing texting. I swap back and forth across languages, even if just for 1 or 2 words…

What do you mean when you say "Google's keyboard"? I use Gboard and frequently swipe sentences which mix Spanish and English just fine. You enable "Multilingual typing" on the specific keyboard and then tick off languages from other installed keyboards to enable them. Maybe you haven't tried gboard for a long time?

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by muyuu »

egeozcan wrote: post #27
unpopularopp wrote: post #10

> This one hurts, it really hurts. I think this hurts worse than Musk buying/poisoning/killing Twitter. I've mentioned this before but a keyboard feels like an extension of your body People need to take a break. Being terminally online and complaining about everything is not a healthy way of life.

If a keyboard app feels like an extension of your body, it means you write a lot. It doesn't mean that you are "terminally online", and even if you were online all the time, that's a personal choice and not being online all the time doesn't even solve the problem shared here. I'd even say, perhaps it's best not to tell people that their problems aren't problems to begin with. I'm not saying one should care, it'd be e…

why would you develop such dependency on a proprietary piece of code?

> I'd even say, perhaps it's best not to tell people that their problems aren't problems to begin with. I'm not saying one should care, it'd be enough just not to explicitly dismiss on their face.

generally speaking, the opposite is true - people need to take some accountability for their problems, thanks to the disintegration of conversation people have had it too easy to simply mute or block opinions they found uncomfortable, helping them to avoid facing problems much more than it's sane to do

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by genera1 »

kergonath wrote: post #138
rkachowski wrote: post #115

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I mean, "4 hour drive to get to England" also puts quite a limit on the search space.

A lot of France and Belgium is about one 4 hour drive away from England ;)

You don't drive in the Eurotunnel

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by zaroth »

KingMob wrote: post #125
dustedcodes wrote: post #57

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Pretty sure Musk doing right-wing grifter Andy Ngo's bidding and kicking off Ngo's targets counts as "suppressing balanced debate", only it's happening for real: https://theintercept.com/2022/11/29/elon-musk-twitter-andy-n...

One of the best decisions he made. Antifa accounts calling for violence and terrorism should never have been tolerated on Twitter.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by eitland »

Daneel_ wrote: post #29

Forgive my ignorance, but what exactly does swiftkey offer over the usual keyboard? A quick google seems to bring up "better predictive text" and "better multi-language support" - is that it?

It offers adaptive, predictive input without the "auto-embarrass" and "change my prescription" feature of certain other keyboards with predictive input.

It also lets me write multiple languages, with working autocomplete in each, without changing keyboard.

Finally, for many of us who needs non-English input, the obvious other choice of iOS keyboard doesn't offer any predictions at all. I guess setting up embarrassing word swaps for Norwegian isn't a priority.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by michaelt »

AndriyKunitsyn wrote: post #106
dustedcodes wrote: post #57

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That's interesting. "Support for the war" is not an expression that makes a lot of sense to me. Nobody in their right mind wakes up in the morning and tells themselves "yes, I am going to fight in the war just for the sake of it, I love wars", those who fight usually believe that although war is gruesome (which it is), they will be in a better shape if they continue fighting than if they just surrender to the mercy o…

In this context "support for the war" means, in a world where there are several awful conflicts going on at any given time, supporting active intervention in a particular conflict by giving support to one side.

For example, I support the west providing weapons to Ukraine - but I would not support a US return to Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban, or an intervention in Mexico to wipe out drug cartels, or an invasion of China because of the internment of Uyghurs - even though those are all awful.

Politicians will often go as far as explicitly announcing the criteria by which they'll decide which wars to involve their country in - for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinberger_Doctrine

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by devnullbrain »

Gordonjcp wrote: post #83
yarg wrote: post #35

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The same shit happens when driving. Our internal understanding of our own bodies seems to adapt to take the tools we're using into account. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_schema https://scholar.google.co.nz/scholar?q=related:5uSissKo6EgJ:...

> The same shit happens when driving. In a broader sense, it never fails to amaze me that a kilo and a half of goopy cells that evolved to work out where the plants that won't kill you and where to trap rabbits in the next valley are - things that are, generally speaking, not much further than you can see - can visualise every step and turn of a journey of hundreds of miles, while being shoved through space at roughl…

Mentally, we seem to be able to adapt well to things that we can relate to what we 'should' know about. So roads are similar to naturally occurring tracks with landmarks.

This seems to break down when we deal with things without easily appreciated analogues e.g. black holes and quantum physics.

OTOH I don't know why we can pick up driving and cycling so easily. Some people instinctively know how to countersteer an oversteering car.

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