hahaha no problem. I had a feeling something like that was up, but the thing that made me really want to join was that the conversations I saw were people actually communicating and not being giant dickbags so I intend to keep that going 👍

I’ve been a heavy forum user for well beyond half my life, and the social media boom ruined that whole world such that all I really have now is reddit, so I’m pretty upset about it honestly. I’m sure it’ll eventually be fine, but the uncertainty sucks right now.

I’m used to the shit I do online eventually being replaced by something else that’s better, as I eventually forget the old thing exists for a while. This is a much more harsh ending to Reddit, so I’m really hoping Lemmy becomes all it can be with a healthy community.

ooooh I forgot about windows 8, gross

They’re not gonna repeal anything. The only thing that will stop this is by Reddit dying and becoming a part of web history, which is hopefully on its way to happening.

To the surprise of literally nobody. Oh well. Enjoy the mass exodus when people stop using reddit because it no longer props up google. Maybe it’ll hurt Reddit and Google 😍

If Linus is good for anything, it’s being a perfect example of the average moron who thinks they know everything so they actively refuse new information.

The worst part is their excuse for not doing it. They’re under the impression that not enough people care about it, so it’s not worth implementing, and in explaining that they make it sound like it’s some great effort to make taskbar-related context menus pop up from the top instead of the bottom. Literally just having the volume or whatever menu pop up in relation to the top instead of the bottom. It’s the craziest fucking thing I’ve ever seen, especially since like five different free apps and a couple paid ones already have done it. A few hours worth of coding and testing is apparently too expensive time and money-wise for literally Microsoft to bother spending.

Tali Roth then explains that “when it comes to actually being able to move the taskbar to different locations on the screen, there are a number of challenges with that. When you think about having the taskbar on the right, or the left, all of a sudden the reflow and the work all of the apps have to do to have a wonderful experience is just huge.”
https://www.howtogeek.com/114501/microsoft-explains-why-you-cant-move-the-windows-11-taskbar/

A wonderful experience they say. Jesus fucking christ. I haven’t had a “wonderful experience” since Windows 98 and that was largely because I was 12 and didn’t know any better.

I think this is honestly the biggest issue. Web search has been garbage for years, with legit the only saving grace being Reddit users sharing their knowledge. This is gonna have a horrible effect on producing good search results.

It’s normal if you have dylsexia/ADHD <3

We are making content…we’re just also talking about reddit sometimes. Sort by All.