I did piss in the ice. Naturally.

The last time we tried to get the internet to seriously decide on something we got Boaty McBoatface.

And lo, the Internet looked down upon it’s handiwork, and verily, t’was awesome.

All posts in these (business) subs can be advertisements, perfect.

And nobody will ever go there. And, two years down the track, u/spaz will hoik up the pricing or cut them off entirely because they’re making money off of a non-profitable Reddit. “We want to work with the business subs but they’re not interested in talking to us and have all thrown their toys out of the pram and shut down”.

Well done you. Take my updoot (do we call them updoots on here?).

Any time I try to go the Kbin web site as a regular end user, it routes through a Cloudflare “are you human?” Captcha. I wonder if this is causing the issue. If I try a similar URL on my instance I get “404: couldn’t find community”, but if my instance is getting the same Cloudflare nonsense back, it would probably explain it.

Ah, now you’re reminding me of the Woolies quandary back in the day. Buy pick and mix or save up for a 1.99 Mastertronic Speccy game. Which were, with one or two exceptions, invariably utter shit. Should have gone for the sugar fix.

The doughnut of despair.

Absolutely. The frustrating thing is that there was no need for it to be like this. If they’d have just said “look, there’s no easy way to cut this, but the third party apps cut into our bottom line and we’ve got to a place where we can’t let that slide any more”, I think people would have grumbled but understood. Have a decent period of transition time (I’m talking 6-12 months) during which they have a big push to bring the official app at least close to feature parity with the third party apps. I wouldn’t call that “everyone’s a winner”, but it would have been something everyone could have lived with, I think.

This is the way.

I’ll bite.

It’s a “skone”. Clue is in the fact it’s spelt “scone”, ie just substitute the K for a C. It it was a skon it would be called a scon.

/thread

Maybe we should be a bit more, well, casual?

I occasionally got frustrated with how trigger happy the mods over at the Place That Shall Not Be Named were on CasualUK. Posts that promoted some fun discussion and were upvoted after the first couple of minutes of them going up were still deleted and deemed as “moaning” or “low effort”.

Perhaps a clearer definition of “low effort” might be “it took you 10 seconds and everyone ignored it”, and rather than a ban against moaning, perhaps we might ban “boring moaning”. If the moan is entertaining, satirical, prompts engagement it should be left alone.

Just my 2p’s worth.