cley_faye
If they’re deep down, it’s unlikely. A good outcome would be something failed, but they could get up and are now lost on the surface, but from everything we’ve read about this it doesn’t seem likely either.
Form over function, it’s been all over the place for the last few years.
Right now I can see buttons I may not use immediately in the interface… to me it’s fine. To modern designer these must be hidden and only show up contextually or with an hover, and keep the space empty otherwise.
I don’t really like modern design, but it is true that a lot of people (mainly younger people or old people that never really looked at internet much before) really enjoy the “simplicity and lean look”. These people also enjoy interfaces that requires a lot of waiting and moving around to do simple thing, so…
As far as matrix is concerned, “direct messages” are treated as regular room. You can check if encryption is enabled the same way you would do other rooms if you want to make sure. Actually enabling encryption depends on the client, but I believe most “official” clients nowadays enables it by default.
Score the posts, not the individuals. Attaching imaginary points to any kind of activity instantly turns it into a competition.
Instead, any scoring should focus on actual content, which is basically what the up/down vote is.
Too much salespeople see complaints like “your application is bad” and answer with “we’re going to force it on you even more then”.
it’s pretty likely that instance owners will want to monetize as much as possible, and then what happens?
why is that “pretty likely”? People have been running services 24/7 for years, sometimes out of pocket, sometimes with basic community support. It does not have to be profitable, as you said, it has to be sustainable, which is vastly different.