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Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by [deleted] »

pffft8888 wrote: post #13
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.

Says a person who is online...

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Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by NavinF »

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.

Yeah that was painful to read. I spend a good 15 hours a day on my PC but I can't imagine writing something like that about some website.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by tazjin »

iopq wrote: post #60
dustedcodes wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Other than multiple hour downtimes, you mean? That's not quickly for one of the most-visited websites in the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_visited_websites Also, it seems Ukraine war topics are down-ranked so people don't see as much about it anymore

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

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by black_puppydog »

Oh dear, I literally just had a dream last night about how MS was gonna build GPT into the keyboard and even in my dream I thought "what a complete lack of reflection that must have taken, to think this is a good idea."

Guess I'm on the search for a new keyboard as well then. le sigh...

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by jaggs »

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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A per pro of nothing, I believe strongly that all online identities created towards the end of 2022 should be subject to a 'human verification test'. Just in case. Not sure how it would work, but just suggesting it might be useful/valuable.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by Tepix »

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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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 "

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by silasdavis »

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?

Probably the gap between stock keyboards and SwiftKey has narrowed down over the last decade. The key differentiators are:

Mixed language model learning: ngram models learnt on phone span base language models so it's very good at Spanglish.

A probabilistic typing model is learnt on device to capture characteristic patterns of key presses/misses for your typing style.

Re: Microsoft deleted the public support forums for SwiftKey

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Post by werid »

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.

unlike you, getting upset about people caring about something they use a lot?

sounds very healthy.

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