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You mind showing me an example of a "power user".

I've never really paid attention to usernames. Like I'll notice someone's name, out of familiarity.

But if I noticed you, it's because I liked what you've written in the past.

If I hated someone's writing... I wouldn't think about them at all.

It was inevitable given it's a top 7 most popular site.

The reality is, the masses, the real world, the average person. Is an asshole.

It doesn't reflect in the real world, because people learn to hide their assholeness at a very early age (Or they learn how to get punched in the face).

On an anonymous forum. You don't have to hide your assholeness.

Frankly it's amazing the site never devolved into 4chan. I attribute that to all the people doing free labor --> mods.

It may not be a, in denial, hiding their heads in the sand situation.

Sometimes a topic gets too popular, it drowns out all the other topics. At that point, aren't they just a glorified version of r/llm?

I'll give you one personal example:

The year Caitlin Clark was drafted to the wnba.

r/wnba went from a subreddit of 9000, to eventually 200k subs.

We were bombarded with CC posts every hour.

- Some of it was trolls staging a race war (this was during US elections).

- Some of it was genuine CC fans, who wanted to talk about CC.

- Some of it was bball nerds, who you know... wanted to talk about a bball player in a bball forum (regardless of who that bball player happens to be).

So what happened was, at any given day, 80% of the front page was CC content.

At that point, we might as well have been r/caitlinclark.

So the mods did something drastic and controversial. They banned all "low effort" CC content.

WTF does "low effort" mean? It pretty much meant 99% of CC posts got removed.

The forum went back to something that resembled a bball forum. That talked about other players. And other teams. Not just Caitlin Clark.

It's a horrendous example.

Bears are the same thing as bulls. Just the opposite.

You can look like a degenerate wallstreetbets gambler, being a bull, buying puts.

You can equally look like a degenerate wallstreetbets gambler, being a gay bear, shorting the stock.

The "beauty" of our modern stock market, is it provides both sides the avenue to lose stupid amounts of money.

This is cool. Could there be a way to sort by newest?

Interesting novel concept.

With something like subreddits, people congregate because of a common interest. There's a clear topic on what people should be chatting about.

I don't know how far you'll get slotting a bunch of strangers with no clear direction on the topic.

How does the island hoping work? I don't see a "Change island" button. I'm assuming it's because there's only 1 island right now?

May I provide feedback. The underline on every post, makes it hard to read.

"I’m Niki. Here I write about programming and UI design"

I'd imagine he thought the blog was mostly going to be about UI. "Haha, a blog talking about UI, with bad UI. Isn't that funny!"

Like there's no way the flashlight UI was done for usability purposes. It has to be a joke.

Once you try the dark mode, you'll realize the irony is done on purpose.

Edit: I'm not implying it's a good thing.

It's a joke that did not drop. Given the audience is trying to read text. And he's making it annoying to read text.

It's like a stand-up comedian telling a joke, in a wild accent; where the audience cannot discern what he's saying.

Oh wow TIL. Thanks, that is amazing.

I just looked it up. 2023 was when it started. I'm surprised Android even allows something like this.

I'm genuinely curious. What does FireFox mobile have over it's competition?

You can't install UBlock Origin on mobile.

Like I still use FireFox on mobile, just purely out of habit. I don't really see anything better about it (I am quite inexperienced when it comes to phones).

This 3% number is deceptive.

The whole desktop market is cratering.

I was talking to a reddit mod a few months ago. He was looking at the subreddit stats. 95% of his users were on mobile.

Think about that. We desktop users are dinosaurs.

So FireFox having a 3% market share might actually mean more than half of desktop users are on FireFox.

Please enlighten me. How does one make a browser "better" these days?

- They were ahead of the game with extensions. Then everyone copied them.

- They were ahead of the game with tabs. Then everyone copied them.

- They were ahead of the game with containers. Then everyone copied them.

- They are still the best browser to use for an ad free internet experience.

- The only flaw I can think of, is they are not leaders in performance. Chrome loads faster. But that's because Chrome cheats by stealing your memory on startup.

How would you make FireFox better? When you say they should be making FireFox better, what should they be doing? Maybe they should hire you for ideas.

Because to me, they seem to be constantly trying to make FireFox better. It's just hit or miss.

Extensions was a hit. Tabs was a hit. Containers was a hit. They had a shit tonne of misses over the decades. We just don't remember them.

The crypto and ai stuff just happens to be a miss.

It's not that deep lol.

Half the readers here work for the FANGS.

"Don't talk shit about the hand that feeds you" and all that.

You bought up a lot of points. And I think they are all negligible, compared to the gigantic elephant in the room.

Which is, in order for some rando to fix the bug; a company would need to give access to their codebase to some rando.

And they don't wanna do that.