Every time I go to San Francisco I wonder if I can call myself a San Franciscan in any way. I was born there, I'm 6th generation, I've always lived right outside it and always spent lots of time in it but...
I'm the first generation in my family since we came here for the Gold Rush* to not be able to afford living IN the city.
So does that mean I don't get to? I want to be a 6th generation San Franciscan but... stupid housing prices and stupid losing of generational wealth.
*my great-great-great grandfather didn't come to mine, but came to sell overpriced supplies to miners, which I think is where the real money was made.
Until now, development has proceeded pretty loosely - we work on whatever seems cool at the time. This is fine but if we collaborate on a decision about priorities then perhaps we'll all be pulling in the same direction a bit more often. If the decision is made in public with all stakeholders, perhaps we'll get some buy-in....
I don't know which issues are urgent, I guess the ones preventing people from using the platform, but I don't know about any of those. These are just the ones I care about sorted by the importance I give them:
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The markdown area where the posts are made seems a bit small.
Subscribe to anything. I believe that many users appreciate the ability to follow other users, similar to Twitter or Mastodon, and have a feed of new posts for the things they follow instead of an inbox. However, I don't like this approach because if you follow a few people with diverse interests, you'll end up with a mix of many topics in your feed. When you want to see something specific, it can be difficult to find. I think a better solution is to use content tagging and custom feeds. This way, users can have multiple feeds and follow different topics in each of the feeds. While this may make things more complex, the simplest thing for people might be to just follow and see it in one feed. A possible compromise could be to have a custom feed as the default for everything followed, and provide a way to select a custom feed other than the default one when subscribing to something.
Saved posts I think it could be better with collections of posts to have different saved lists for different topics. There could be a dropdown menu or popup to search or select a collection on a combobox with existing ones to add the post or comment to an existing collection or create it if it doesn't already exist. There could be a default collection to save things with a single click, like people are used to. This also gives the option to make some collections public and follow other users' collections.
I find my experience here has been mostly solid, so I think you mostly have your priorities right. It's also fun to see experimentation with new features every now and then, so I'm not sure I would even like to see a shift towards focusing only on important stuff.
Better handling of video content #147 (I am also interested if PieFed can integrate better with PeerTube, for example an option to browse PeerTube channels)
"Announce does not federate properly with Lemmy" #22
I think there's a lot of potential in better integration with services outside of the Threadiverse, and this is something Lemmy has been notoriously bad at (and its developers seemingly uninterested in). Not that PieFed should become like Kbin and serve two separate functions, but there's a lot to be achieved in both ends by making the services more interoperable. There might be some sort of place for both boosts and hashtags, while leading @mentions might sometimes be justifiably hidden. More than important I guess I would find it fun.
As for what's urgent, ensuring core functionality and GDPR compliance seems like a fair priority.
Oh yes, day #147 of #Godot games using #GodotSteam! Today is Terra Ventura by @LogicalProgres3! A very slick, classic RPG that reminds me of Arcanum or Ultima a little but packed full of cool features and a huge, handcrafted world. Seriously, check it out!
Grey has found a fellow Greycation enthusiast. Also, there are new iPhones and Apple Watches, offering more discussion topics than anticipated. A conversation about browser tabs takes place, and Myke is grappling with 'The Fear'.
I got a speeding ticket ,driving to visit my girlfriend in 1976, listening to this song
Heardle Rock #157
🔊🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ https://rock.heardledecades.com/
Let's decide on some development priorities
Until now, development has proceeded pretty loosely - we work on whatever seems cool at the time. This is fine but if we collaborate on a decision about priorities then perhaps we'll all be pulling in the same direction a bit more often. If the decision is made in public with all stakeholders, perhaps we'll get some buy-in....
Connections #147 Sunday 05 November 2023
Link to Connections: www.nytimes.com/games/connections...