This looks so cool! And I love the feel of basic server rendered pages!
It's also so much more responsive and predictable than most of today's crap
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#42I've been on Spacehey since 2021 and it's remarkable how fun and cozy the place has stayed over the years.
How often do you login? What makes it sticky for you?
I stay logged in almost all the time. I wanted some place where I felt like I could blog freely, and one that _felt_ like a blog instead of some ad-ridden mess. It was partially the customisation aspect that drew me in at the beginning, having that much control over my profile (even if it was just basic HTML and CSS with some JS) reminded me of what I loved about being online. I have a personal website and don't really pay much heed to the 'social' aspect of SpaceHey but having a little corner where I can just go and blog/post bulletins about things I'm thinking about, especially because it has a straightforward interface, feels really nice. The lack of ads and algorithms and general 'social media' paradigms of the modern age do a lot to make sure I keep going back.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Discord always had a unique way of making me feel old I avoided it because when when a ding occurred there is no indication which channel had just donged, just left me confused as to what was happening
Likewise - a notification history feature would help, the confusion really cripples the real-time experience.
it has a notification history feature (at least on PC), it's just impossible to find and deleted messages disappear from it. Upper-right corner is your "inbox" which is totally worthless, and tabbed behind that is your notification history. I use it to find totally buried @Mods pings that I missed by thousands of messages and that's about it, it's not good.
You can usually get most of your notifications with Ctrl+[T or K] and then going through the menu here, but for reasons I've yet to figure out sometimes DMs don't show up here even when they have unread messages. I think there is some incorrect logic that kicks in when you have a high number of unread channels and it can't show as many "previous channels" as it wants to.
None of this is to defend Discord, I think their UI is bad and I've hated the way DMs function since day 1, and every single part of their app that relies on frecency (or doesn't but should) is abysmal (reaction autocomplete, the reaction pop-up menu, ctrl+T when you start typing something, the mention autocomplete behavior in any channel)
But once you learn the poorly-documented navigation flow of ctrl+T and then using @, #, or * to filter users/channels/servers it gets easier to use. My current biggest complaint is lack of a "previous channel within this server" hotkey, "previous channel that you visited globally" exists but you can't restrict it within one server, and it makes navigating some of my servers an absolute nightmare.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Discord always had a unique way of making me feel old I avoided it because when when a ding occurred there is no indication which channel had just donged, just left me confused as to what was happening
Likewise - a notification history feature would help, the confusion really cripples the real-time experience.
It's there. Top right corner. "Inbox" then select mentions.
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#45Presumably that is 1M people in the database, I'm curious to know how many active users who sign in once a day, once a week. In essence, how big is the community versus how many people have stepped in the front door once.
I did a quick check on the Online Users [0] via the Browse functionality and found there is a filter for online users. Currently it's 9:19 AM in the Netherlands. And there is about 7 pages filled with Online users. 45 users per page. About 7 pages filled with users [1].
So that's around 315 Online users in Europe during the day. My guess is that during US daytime numbers will be higher. Maybe someone in the US can do a check in a few hours? :)
[0] https://spacehey.com/browse?view=online [1] https://spacehey.com/browse?page=7&view=online
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#46Great, but will the powers-that-be allow it to grow beyond that?
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#47No MFA?
It's funny, normally I would say "MFA? for this??" But actually I used to curate a MySpace for punk shows/bands in the city I lived in. I found every local band's page and added them as friends. Reposted flyers for upcoming shows. Posted pictures from shows. Had a blog. And one day a girl I broke up with found my password (or reset it, not sure), logged in, and deleted everything. Years of work down the tubes. So even for a MySpace clone, I'd say MFA is pretty handy, in those few cases that you need it.
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#50Presumably that is 1M people in the database, I'm curious to know how many active users who sign in once a day, once a week. In essence, how big is the community versus how many people have stepped in the front door once.
I did a quick check on the Online Users [0] via the Browse functionality and found there is a filter for online users. Currently it's 9:19 AM in the Netherlands. And there is about 7 pages filled with Online users. 45 users per page. About 7 pages filled with users [1]. So that's around 315 Online users in Europe during the day. My guess is that during US daytime numbers will be higher. Maybe someone in the US can do…
That's pretty active, assuming the system somehow pulls them all together in some way.