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Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by staringback »

yarg wrote: post #35
egeozcan wrote: post #27

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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…

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:...

I have wondered if this phenomenon had a name, thanks!

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by nmeofthestate »

iopq wrote: post #94
tazjin wrote: post #63

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Reddit is also on that list and has downtimes like that much more frequently than Twitter.

Yes, but Twitter used to be much more solid prior to you know, losing a lot of its work-force. Reddit, on the other hand, has improved since a few years ago

I've honestly not noticed a worsening of twitter's availability since the previous guys stopped being in charge. Perhaps many of the removed jobs were in non-technical areas of content moderation.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by kenjackson »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #88
Tepix wrote: post #68

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Seen on Techmeme: " Similarweb: in March 2023, Twitter's traffic fell 7.7% YoY, the third straight month of decline, web visitors fell 3.3% YoY, and Android app DAUs fell 9.8% YoY "

That's a small fall considering they removed more than 60% of their staff costs.

If they removed 99% of their staff I’d expect a relatively small decline in the short term. The question is in 3 years have they grown or are they down 20%?

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by nmeofthestate »

noelsusman wrote: post #249
dustedcodes wrote: post #57

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I don't know how it's possible to read Musk's twitter feed and conclude that Twitter is balanced now. The CEO exclusively interacts with and caters to right-wing accounts.

Just don't read his Twitter feed. I never followed the previous owners of Twitter either.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by stavros »

avereveard wrote: post #21
jwrallie wrote: post #19

I used Swiftkey until recently, but the delay on bringing up the keyboard was annoying me too much. I couldn't justify changing phones just because of SwiftKey so instead I just went back to the default Google keyboard. I'm still adapting weeks after changing, the most annoying issue is that the Japanese keyboard on Gboard has the key layout a bit different that the English one, so I cannot touch type on it like I di…

The features that kept me on swift key is that is multilanguage, Google keyboard you have to switch to the correct language beforehand. I'm pretty worried that SwiftKey is now doing big nonos like sending my data around, but Google keyboard is absolutely unfit for my usage.

You can block its network access from the settings on Android.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by mst »

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…

> I can clearly visualise where I'd go if I was driving around Bradford

Straight on at full speed and hope you manage to dodge the local nutters driving like maniacs en route.

(I did actually like Bradford in a bunch of ways but the drivers were still impressively aggressive, to the point where being a pedestrian in Italy was honestly quite a comfortable experience)

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by arbitrage »

Karawebnetwork wrote: post #221
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.

Using Swiftkey since it's first release, it's more than being angry at online changes. The keyboard works in such a way that it learns your typing style and then understands what you type without the requirement for actually hitting the right keys. I can type "ky nt gromf koe stw uoi" and it will become "hi my friend how are you". This makes typing on a phone extremely fast. The problem is that other keyboards that c…

Embrace, extend, extinguish. It's the Microsoft way.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by rvba »

iopq wrote: post #94
tazjin wrote: post #63

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Reddit is also on that list and has downtimes like that much more frequently than Twitter.

Yes, but Twitter used to be much more solid prior to you know, losing a lot of its work-force. Reddit, on the other hand, has improved since a few years ago

Reddit is not public yet.

But in the push to become public the site becomes worse and worse.

First they created the "new" reddit, which is picture and ad driven. This might bring in stupid people, but kills usability and long term harms quality discussion.

Then they started to not so subtly push the new reddit: you need to go there to setup cookies, the site "accidently" turns it on like once per month, things dont work in old reddit (e.g. polls).

Now they killed i.reddit (aka .compact reddit) what kills the smooth phone experience. When I open reddit on phone now, like every page takes 5 seconds to load, then nags me to install their app, then is unreadable mess.

Since Im ranting: oh how much I miss the reddit toolbar (top comments on one part of the screen and website on other). I wish there was an addon that could emulate it - perhaps by opening two separate windows somehow and gluing them.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by mst »

genera1 wrote: post #146
kergonath wrote: post #138

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

You don't drive in the Eurotunnel

I'd still call somewhere on the continent an 'N hour drive.' The 'drive' part indicates traveling by car the entire distance (I've never been on a eurotunnel trip where we bothered getting a cabin so we were sat in the car the entire time) and in any case it's pretty clear what you meant given the absence of pure land routes.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by muyuu »

rvba wrote: post #258
iopq wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, but Twitter used to be much more solid prior to you know, losing a lot of its work-force. Reddit, on the other hand, has improved since a few years ago

Reddit is not public yet. But in the push to become public the site becomes worse and worse. First they created the "new" reddit, which is picture and ad driven. This might bring in stupid people, but kills usability and long term harms quality discussion. Then they started to not so subtly push the new reddit: you need to go there to setup cookies, the site "accidently" turns it on like once per month, things dont w…

This is what lack of competition in a given niche makes even possible. They can afford many explicitly anti user patterns because for a bunch of usages, they have no real alternative.

When I can no longer use old.reddit I will stop giving them the little usage time I still spend there.

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