Some of my old bands opened for fairly big acts at the time like Kittie, The Misfits, The Cruxshadows or at big festivals and such. And, for me at least, there was always this initial feeling of "oh shit" when you see a huge ass crowd and realize they expect you to go up on stage and be this larger than life performer who plays a flawless set despite everything you know can go wrong (I once had to improvise a guitar part on the fly to cover for our keyboardist who completely forgot half their solo in front of a crowd this big (not us btw just the same venue and crowd size) That moment of terror did not not suck). But every time anxiety like that hits just power through. When it's fight or flight almost always choose violence and choose it automatically because the hesitation can screw you over as well. Like if I'd been one beat later covering for my keyboardist the screw up would have been obvious and we'd have had to stop and restart the song which is just death.
So yeah that's how I handle anxiety over situations or courses of action. Just general anxiety where you're like chilling at home and it hits you? Well that's what weed is for. Unless weed makes you anxious then I dunno ketamine? Play with a puppy or something?
I'd need more details, is it just stay healthy and young but can die if traumatic injury hits me like getting hit by a truck or shot? Is it youth, health, invulnerability to physical damage or mental decay, etc. forever? Would I be able to die if I want to? I lean towards yeah take the pill but then I don't want to be around when the sun swallows the earth or have to suffocate in empty space waiting for the heat death of the universe or something.
At the loving, supporting and teaching absolutely. At the providing-for part definitely not considering providing for just myself has been a clusterfuck of mayhem.
Coolness. Welcome to the nuthouse <(@_@)> the orderlies here are friendly, don't mind the hallucinations that's just /u/Gaystation spiking our daily meds. Seriously tho, it's cool that you dig the site, you've been making some good posts as well which is awesome. How'd you find this place btw?
Mainchan is a free speech platform which is great but there's a hard truth that comes with that. We can filter out racists and gore but the fact that racism isn't banned or the hide-NSFL option isn't on by default even for guests means anyone with a public image to protect is likely to stay far away from here (unless they're a right winger or racist themselves, so maybe a Fox News or alt-right type celebrity). I couldn't budge Cicero's thinking on hiding NSFL by default a year ago when I asked about it so I can't imagine Mainchan's growth shaking out any other way despite most of the user base so far seemingly being center, center-left, and left (and not bigots).
Any celebrity who isn't a racist or righty that sets up shop here would have to be a free speech absolutist I think, otherwise they'd stick with the heavily censored platforms like Reddit. That or someone who's already a member here needs to become a celebrity. How about it Shorty, any plans to become like a movie star anytime soon?
The Mainchan App Issues thread here lists all the missing features between the site and the app as something to be addressed. The Subchan List is issue #9 and Cicero says it'll eventually be added under the Subchan Tab in the app.
Now that I think about it someone should make a thread that links to all the website only pages for the app-only folks. I'll prolly do that today if no one beats me to it.
I use Perplexity and Chat GPT (free versions). I'd like to try Claude and will definitely be diving into Cursor when I do whatever my next paid coding thing is.
What about you? Also do you use any image or video AI?
Lemmy has Reddit's political bias on roids and ever since the blackout migration Lemmy has many of Reddit's more power mad mods as active users. Those were what put a damper on it for me. Decentralization is great but Lemmy's version of it with Federation is more like a bunch of little fiefdoms run by admins that can be worse than some of the mods. It'a a fine enough place to have as like a side place to visit but I could not see it as a number one hangout.
But yeah there's a lot of Reddit Alternative folks who think just because Lemmy has decent user numbers it can be the Reddit killer but I don't see it happening.
For issues that require back-end coding are you using one of the various AI coding tools? If not you should. Could make some of these bug fixes a lot easier. Just paste in your current code, describe the bug and ask it the AI to fix it while you puff some of the Halfling's leaf.
1) It's hard for me to recreate this issue on my end. /u/Trucidare has this issue as well. It might end up getting fixed, idk.
Perfect use case for an AI assistant to fix for you.
2) I'd have to play around with the app more to replicate this.
Are you testing one multiple devices and OS versions? I know Samsung offers Device Lab and there are various other services that offer cross device/OS mobile app testing as well. I'm assuming you're already testing in an emulator so just throwing some other testing methods out there in case you haven't given them a shot. If you haven't tested with any such services they could probably be a big help in spotting issues you're having trouble replicating locally.
4) wtf why is the text so big on your device? What device are you using?
Samsung Galaxy Note 8. A pretty old model since I refuse to update to the newer models that lack a headphone jack. (The foldables are tempting but I'm holding out til Samsung solves the ugly screen crease).
5) Yeah this is happening because the text is so big for your device. Would really like to know what device you have. Do you have some kind of accessibility settings that makes text bigger?
It's not the text size. I just set the text to the smallest size my phone allows and you can see in the attached image the formatting still breaks sometimes (and also, confusingly, still doesn't break sometimes). Besides if the formatting is reliant on the font size being medium-small to work that's just setting yourself up for issues when font sizes vary so wildly across mobile devices. Gotta make sure even big ass elderly people fonts don't gunk up the works (as someone who's made government websites where I had to account for the unknown font sizes on unknown screen sizes I know the PITA of this requirement but it's worth it just in terms of bullet-proofing your layout).
6) I think this is an option on reddit. Either way you can just click on the comments button.
This one's a user experience issue. I guarantee it will be a pain point for most new users since clicking a small, unlabeled icon UNDER the link/title they think they're supposed to click is highly unintuitive. Smoothing out such UX pain points will help in acquiring new users and making they stick around.
8) I was going to get rid of the "Loading..." text, it's just for me really.
Just giving that page the dark mode bg color and a centered Mainchan logo would bring it in line with most every major social app's loading splash.
9) Yeah I'll expand on the subchans screen. For now it's pretty basic.
Cool. cool.
10) Suggestions for an "OC" icon?
Best AI suggested idea "Light Bulb: A classic symbol of ideas and creativity, a light bulb can represent innovative thoughts and original concepts." Second best was a writing quill.
11 and 12) Yeah a lot of things are missing. Some on purpose, some I don't know if I'll ever implement in the app. The app wasn't designed to have all the same stuff the website has, it's just supposed to be a convenient way to use mainchan on a mobile device.
In pro-dev speak you've described an MVP (Minimum Viable Product). The least product possible to give a working something to users so you can start generating returns. That's all well and good. I'd advise you to plan on getting all of the features of the website into the app though. Especially the Content Creator Program (CCP) since that it will be a major driver of users and revenue once it's actually rolling. BTW while I'm on the subject you should definitely roll out Reddit-style ad posts ASAP, not big ass images, just regular posts that are slightly highlighted to show they're ads. Y'know tasteful. Not a whole lot of em, just enough to keep the lights on and maybe start funding the CCP.
17) neither does the reddit app
The Reddit app does obey the phone's back button in those instance though, Mainchain app doesn't.
19) I'm not adding mod support at the moment to the app.
I get your logic there. The user ban appeal should definitely be in the app tho.
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That said...
Feature Request: Increase the character limit and include a character count down near the text input box. I had to battle with it to post this and I had no indication why I suddenly couldn't type anything anymore.
Power through.
Some of my old bands opened for fairly big acts at the time like Kittie, The Misfits, The Cruxshadows or at big festivals and such. And, for me at least, there was always this initial feeling of "oh shit" when you see a huge ass crowd and realize they expect you to go up on stage and be this larger than life performer who plays a flawless set despite everything you know can go wrong (I once had to improvise a guitar part on the fly to cover for our keyboardist who completely forgot half their solo in front of a crowd this big (not us btw just the same venue and crowd size) That moment of terror did not not suck). But every time anxiety like that hits just power through. When it's fight or flight almost always choose violence and choose it automatically because the hesitation can screw you over as well. Like if I'd been one beat later covering for my keyboardist the screw up would have been obvious and we'd have had to stop and restart the song which is just death.
So yeah that's how I handle anxiety over situations or courses of action. Just general anxiety where you're like chilling at home and it hits you? Well that's what weed is for. Unless weed makes you anxious then I dunno ketamine? Play with a puppy or something?
I'd need more details, is it just stay healthy and young but can die if traumatic injury hits me like getting hit by a truck or shot? Is it youth, health, invulnerability to physical damage or mental decay, etc. forever? Would I be able to die if I want to? I lean towards yeah take the pill but then I don't want to be around when the sun swallows the earth or have to suffocate in empty space waiting for the heat death of the universe or something.
At the loving, supporting and teaching absolutely. At the providing-for part definitely not considering providing for just myself has been a clusterfuck of mayhem.
Coolness. Welcome to the nuthouse <(@_@)> the orderlies here are friendly, don't mind the hallucinations that's just /u/Gaystation spiking our daily meds. Seriously tho, it's cool that you dig the site, you've been making some good posts as well which is awesome. How'd you find this place btw?
Mainchan is a free speech platform which is great but there's a hard truth that comes with that. We can filter out racists and gore but the fact that racism isn't banned or the hide-NSFL option isn't on by default even for guests means anyone with a public image to protect is likely to stay far away from here (unless they're a right winger or racist themselves, so maybe a Fox News or alt-right type celebrity). I couldn't budge Cicero's thinking on hiding NSFL by default a year ago when I asked about it so I can't imagine Mainchan's growth shaking out any other way despite most of the user base so far seemingly being center, center-left, and left (and not bigots).
Any celebrity who isn't a racist or righty that sets up shop here would have to be a free speech absolutist I think, otherwise they'd stick with the heavily censored platforms like Reddit. That or someone who's already a member here needs to become a celebrity. How about it Shorty, any plans to become like a movie star anytime soon?
And the casting news: https://comicbook.com/anime/news/avatar-the-last-airbender-season-2-toph-actress-clip/
So last night I posted 3 death metal videos and then this. I'm hilarious.
Squashed like a tube of toothpaste... if the paste was made of people.
The Mainchan App Issues thread here lists all the missing features between the site and the app as something to be addressed. The Subchan List is issue #9 and Cicero says it'll eventually be added under the Subchan Tab in the app.
Now that I think about it someone should make a thread that links to all the website only pages for the app-only folks. I'll prolly do that today if no one beats me to it.
I use Perplexity and Chat GPT (free versions). I'd like to try Claude and will definitely be diving into Cursor when I do whatever my next paid coding thing is.
What about you? Also do you use any image or video AI?
Lemmy has Reddit's political bias on roids and ever since the blackout migration Lemmy has many of Reddit's more power mad mods as active users. Those were what put a damper on it for me. Decentralization is great but Lemmy's version of it with Federation is more like a bunch of little fiefdoms run by admins that can be worse than some of the mods. It'a a fine enough place to have as like a side place to visit but I could not see it as a number one hangout.
But yeah there's a lot of Reddit Alternative folks who think just because Lemmy has decent user numbers it can be the Reddit killer but I don't see it happening.
Party time!
Forgot to ask, are we going to be able to open videos the same way we can preview images with the +/- toggle?
Niceness. What are the allowed video stats? Just the 10mb size limit? No other restrictions?
For issues that require back-end coding are you using one of the various AI coding tools? If not you should. Could make some of these bug fixes a lot easier. Just paste in your current code, describe the bug and ask it the AI to fix it while you puff some of the Halfling's leaf.
Perfect use case for an AI assistant to fix for you.
Are you testing one multiple devices and OS versions? I know Samsung offers Device Lab and there are various other services that offer cross device/OS mobile app testing as well. I'm assuming you're already testing in an emulator so just throwing some other testing methods out there in case you haven't given them a shot. If you haven't tested with any such services they could probably be a big help in spotting issues you're having trouble replicating locally.
Samsung Galaxy Note 8. A pretty old model since I refuse to update to the newer models that lack a headphone jack. (The foldables are tempting but I'm holding out til Samsung solves the ugly screen crease).
It's not the text size. I just set the text to the smallest size my phone allows and you can see in the attached image the formatting still breaks sometimes (and also, confusingly, still doesn't break sometimes). Besides if the formatting is reliant on the font size being medium-small to work that's just setting yourself up for issues when font sizes vary so wildly across mobile devices. Gotta make sure even big ass elderly people fonts don't gunk up the works (as someone who's made government websites where I had to account for the unknown font sizes on unknown screen sizes I know the PITA of this requirement but it's worth it just in terms of bullet-proofing your layout).
This one's a user experience issue. I guarantee it will be a pain point for most new users since clicking a small, unlabeled icon UNDER the link/title they think they're supposed to click is highly unintuitive. Smoothing out such UX pain points will help in acquiring new users and making they stick around.
Just giving that page the dark mode bg color and a centered Mainchan logo would bring it in line with most every major social app's loading splash.
Cool. cool.
Best AI suggested idea "Light Bulb: A classic symbol of ideas and creativity, a light bulb can represent innovative thoughts and original concepts." Second best was a writing quill.
In pro-dev speak you've described an MVP (Minimum Viable Product). The least product possible to give a working something to users so you can start generating returns. That's all well and good. I'd advise you to plan on getting all of the features of the website into the app though. Especially the Content Creator Program (CCP) since that it will be a major driver of users and revenue once it's actually rolling. BTW while I'm on the subject you should definitely roll out Reddit-style ad posts ASAP, not big ass images, just regular posts that are slightly highlighted to show they're ads. Y'know tasteful. Not a whole lot of em, just enough to keep the lights on and maybe start funding the CCP.
The Reddit app does obey the phone's back button in those instance though, Mainchain app doesn't.
I get your logic there. The user ban appeal should definitely be in the app tho.
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That said...
Feature Request: Increase the character limit and include a character count down near the text input box. I had to battle with it to post this and I had no indication why I suddenly couldn't type anything anymore.