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Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by TwoFerMaggie »

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?

On android it's the only keyboard I could find whose position (not size of the keys) you can adjust without setting it to floating.

With the bezel-less smartphones, I found that if the keyboard sits at the bottom of the screen, one-handed typing is impossible for my thumb. With swiftkey I can basically add a bezel at the bottom to bring the keyboard up to where I can comfortably type with one hand.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by jen20 »

dustedcodes wrote: post #57
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.

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> remains a far left echo chamber

This is an incredible characterisation of a site that was full of right-wingers before the sale.

Perhaps it's just a case of maximum engagement generation instead...

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by red_admiral »

rishav_sharan wrote: post #120
red_admiral wrote: post #112

It feels to me like there is a market opportunity for a new keyboard app manufacturer here. Possibly along similar ethical lines as Mozilla/Firefox (there's bundled stuff because someone has to pay the bills, but it's only so much effort to turn it off).

Pretty much no revenue opportunities. I was the PM for a keyboard app with millions of downloads and was the most downloaded keyboard app in India. But there is no way to monetize it. Early on, the OEMs would pay us to have our keyboards in their images as it would give them more customizability, better local language support and end-to-end localization. The rev share on each device sold, was enough to keep the produ…

I'm afraid I must agree with your experience on the revenue opportunities angle.

I wish we were in a world where several good keyboards on mobile, like shells/terminals on desktop, existed just for the sake of making the world a better place and none of them needed integrating with Ads/Search Engines/AI etc. for the sake of generating revenue.

Even better, I wish we lived in a world where the programmers of such tools were well paid for their services, whether through philanthropy or government grants or something else.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by yarg »

jprete wrote: post #156
toyg wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being Scottish technically makes you British, at least until independence comes. I'd argue that, even then, it will remain the case - as long as we accept that Scotland will continue to be part of the British Isles, and in particular of the island of Britain.

Scotland and Britain are separate countries in the UK with separate histories. No-one means the island when they talk about being British, they mean the descendants of the Britons.

> The term "Great Britain" can also refer to the political territory of England, Scotland and Wales, which includes their offshore islands.[12] This territory and Northern Ireland constitute the United Kingdom.[13] The single Kingdom of Great Britain resulted from the 1707 Acts of Union between the kingdoms of England (which at the time incorporated Wales) and Scotland.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by maven29 »

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.

Car-dependent societies and a complete lack of third places will do that to you, with children being the hardest-hit.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by hwntw »

jprete wrote: post #156
toyg wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Being Scottish technically makes you British, at least until independence comes. I'd argue that, even then, it will remain the case - as long as we accept that Scotland will continue to be part of the British Isles, and in particular of the island of Britain.

Scotland and Britain are separate countries in the UK with separate histories. No-one means the island when they talk about being British, they mean the descendants of the Britons.

Would be a nice thought, but literally nobody means the descendants of the Britons where talking about being British.

If they did, depending upon what that encompasses, then either large swathes of Scotland would be included (Glasgow is a Brythonic name!), or you'd be excluding England from the discussion.

Largely without fail, someone talking about Britain is talking of the island itself, or the current inhabitants.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by themitigating »

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.

The person is commenting on this and twitter. That's not everything, they aren't everyone, and you don't know the amount of time they spend online.

What you are doing is an overly simplistic deflection

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by aembleton »

ro_bit wrote: post #98

Damn, the auto update got to me before I read this. Is there a way to rollback the update that bingifies swiftkey on Android?

Just don't accept the TOS that are presented to you when you click the Bing button. Also, you can just hide that whole bar with the >< button on the left

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by jevgeni »

DoItToMe81 wrote: post #164
jevgeni wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Bucha is ethnic eradication. Irpen is ethnic eradication. Prigozhin saying that they have "eradicated most of the active male population of Ukraine and therefore achieved the goals of the war" is a straight up confession.

Just because russia's strategy is ethnic eradication through assimilation does not make it less ethnic eradication.

Pretending that it's not is lying.

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