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Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by musicale »

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.

I hope this forum was better than the typical

"Welcome to the Microsoft Support Community! Thank you for your excellent question. As a Microsoft MVP (Mostly Vacuous Pinhead) I am more than happy to help with your problem. I am sure this will help:
Should you need additional assistance, you may also wish to

    1. Set fire to your PC
    2. Give up on life
Have a great day!"

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by tourmalinetaco »

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

Improved is a very relative term, just so you know. Reddit has experienced over 10 hours of downtime just this past month.

And, again, Reddit hasn’t had an 80% workforce cut (though it sorely needs it).

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by tourmalinetaco »

themitigating wrote: post #193
explorer83 wrote: post #80

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Thanks for sharing. I think of it like a messy divorce or a business deal gone wrong. Sure some issues may be clear cut but most of the time you're never going to get the full story without listening to both sides. And even then you're not guaranteed the truth.

You're making the assumption that you need both complete sides of a story before you make a judgement.

Well-adjusted people do, at least.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by dmix »

coldpie wrote: post #225
dmix wrote: post #223

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It never really left. It got removed from the app store briefly but they reversed that decesion pretty quickly afterwards. I've also never had any issues with it on iOS so I'm curious why OP thinks it's a broken mess.

OK, well, I guess I'll try it. I'm not looking forward to 6 months from now when they do an internal product review and decide to kill it, again.

They just added ChatGPT? That's the last thing they would do in 6 months is kill a new potential interface for it.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by Toutouxc »

pepa65 wrote: post #215
Toutouxc wrote: post #58

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Swiping is a blessing on iPhone Mini, but it's not available in my language for some reason. Multilingual input, I can just start typing in English or Czech and two words in, the keyboard knows. And even for normal tap-typing, the accuracy is a bit better because the keyboard apparently learns from your mistakes and basically builds a virtual keyboard with shifted letters underneath the visible one. (to be clear I'm…

I don't stare at my keyboards, so I never noticed the Bing key, but I just checked, and indeed, it's there. (Now I'm wondering if I will now keep seeing it..!?)

Tbh I have to stare at my smartphone keyboard or else I make a lot of typos. And about the button, it's not even that it takes up space or looks that bad, it's about the principles. In my world, you just don't put useless crap on someone's keyboard.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by Closi »

nashashmi wrote: post #213
Closi wrote: post #43

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Worth noting that they did announce they were discontinuing it and removed it from the app store in October, then brought it back quickly after.

Just to put the Bing button on? Not smart. But I'm glad they updated. (I'm using edge with bing button and SwiftKey with Bing button.)

Smart - they are currently trialling GPT/AI features so the keyboard will help you rewrite text.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by atraac »

frantathefranta wrote: post #243
dmix wrote: post #223

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It never really left. It got removed from the app store briefly but they reversed that decesion pretty quickly afterwards. I've also never had any issues with it on iOS so I'm curious why OP thinks it's a broken mess.

Only broken mess I'm experiencing seems to do with iOS integration of 3rd party keyboards. I think the apps are supposed to remember which keyboard you want to use with them, but the SwiftKey regularly persists even in apps in which I didn't switch to it. I wish I didn't have to use it, but until Apple rolls out swipe and autocorrect support to my native language, I'll have to suffer.

For me SwiftKey is far superior to either native Apple keyboard or Gboard. Native keyboard has insane issues with autocorrect with multiple languages, to the point where it's not usable for me. My native (Polish) language also has fairly bad dictionaries. It's really bad overall.

Gboard is much better in that, but it has a lot of minor bugs that annoy me constantly and they refuse to fix them. Gboard will randomly show up with weird scaling issues until you hide and reopen keyboard, sometimes it will just randomly crash and restart while typing, often has layouting issues when switching orientation. Google clearly just doesn't care enough to support it.

SwiftKey fixed most of those annoyances for me. I dropped it when they said they won't support it anymore but I'm actually happy they reversed that decision and I just installed it again.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by themitigating »

tourmalinetaco wrote: post #323
themitigating wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're making the assumption that you need both complete sides of a story before you make a judgement.

Well-adjusted people do, at least.

Why? What's well adjusted mean?

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by KingMob »

zaroth wrote: post #313
KingMob wrote: post #297

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Andy Ngo is a neo-nazi-friendly liar that claims everyone who criticizes him is antifa, and selectively edits his videos to distort the truth. Twitter threads of Ngo using selective video editing to make it seems like up is down: https://twitter.com/RespectableLaw/status/116496174509978828... General summary: https://www.salon.com/2019/08/28/right-wing-journalist-andy-... Ngo lying about leftist critics being violent…

I get that there’s strong vested interests trying to discredit him. But “selective editing” doesn’t describe the dozens (hundreds?) of videos he filmed when the Federal courthouse in Portland was under siege and he was routinely attacked by the masked terrorists trying to burn down the building. Does it surprise me that his detractors would claim he is “neo-nazi-friendly”? Not in the slightest. The “anti-fascists” ro…

Your argument is to gloss over his doctored videos in favor of the ones you think aren't?

Oh well, if being neo-nazi-friendly is OK, will you still defend him hanging out with pedophiles?

Here's pics of Ngo hanging out with Amos Yew, a year after Yew's tweets (also in pic) that children should be able to have sex, and that child porn should be legal: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FidcvHsX0AI1ncI?format=jpg&name=...

Feel free to admit that Ngo is a colossal liar and a horrible person any time now.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by explorigin »

nitrammm wrote: post #307
explorigin wrote: post #218

As soon as Microsoft bought Swiftkey, I switched off of it. Microsoft has such a bad privacy reputation that I couldn't trust it anymore.

Which do you use instead?

Samsung keyboard on my phone (because I'm already forced to trust that software). SimpleKeyboard on the kids' tablets because it's OSS. Neither is as good as Swiftkey but security is not binary.
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