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@sodapopcanprofilefollowMillenial/Xenial who used to be really excited about programming.replied to@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlog:
I was obsessed with Greece as a kid because of The Chipmunk's Adventure movie where they were dancing on the statues, ha. I was more into he statues (even if cartoon) than the dancing, and yet I have still never been there (I'm 45).
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@procyonprofilefollowlate is the hour in which this conjuror chooses to appearreplied to@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlog:
Another use-case for timestamps - showing how often someone posts, and how recently they were active. I want to be able to send my friends a link to my user page and say "follow me here for random thoughts". Odds are they're not going to create an account, but they might bookmark it and check for updates from time to time. Timestamps will tell them whether it's worthwhile to do this.
@pcprofilefollowcontinued:
Why not replace them with humanized time periods: "Just now" "A little while ago" "A long time ago" etc.
@sodapopcanprofilefollowMillenial/Xenial who used to be really excited about programming.replied to@pcprofilefollow:
Yes! I made a similar suggestion on HN, though like your labels better. I was thinking a bit more on it that after "just now" and a hypothetical "new" that the timestamp could disappear so long as there has been a response within X amount of time, for example, after 2 months. After this time period it could start saying things like, "a while ago," "quite a while ago," and "a long time ago" based on (for example) 1 years ago, 2 years ago, > 2 years ago.
@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlogreplied to@sodapopcanprofilefollowMillenial/Xenial who used to be really excited about programming.:
Thatโ€™s what we do now. In the post pages there is approximate time with more precise hover informtaion for older posts, so there is context. Also when a post is unread it will show these approximate times so again you can tell when they were written roughly.
@jgprofilefollowNew herewrote:
Quebec City is pretty amazing. Excellent food, tons to see and do, surrounded by nature, mountains, islands. My kind of place.
@sodapopcanprofilefollowMillenial/Xenial who used to be really excited about programming.replied to@jgprofilefollowNew here:
Do you live there or are just visiting? I remember feeling so at home there as a kid. I never kept my French up so I don't think I could ever move there.
@jgprofilefollowNew herereplied to@sodapopcanprofilefollowMillenial/Xenial who used to be really excited about programming.:
Visiting, for the first time. It's about a 9 hour drive from home so we've never made the trip, but so worth it. Went to Ile d'Orleans yesterday, just... so quiet and beautiful. Seems a bit of a paradise, haven't even made it up to the natl park(s) yet. My French is coming back a little each day, made it all the way through the coffee order just now :)
@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlogwrote:
Implemented #whisper modifier tag. Keeps that note and every reply beneath it out of /latest and /hot. If used on a reply, only its direct parent starts in the conversation; people who reply or are mentioned inside the whisper branch join it. Followers of tags in the whisper branch also receive it in for you. The conversation remains public on profiles, tag pages, threads, and permalinks. Not for private messages. Itโ€™s simply a way to keep a conversation out of peopleโ€™s normal feeds. #metanotesfollow
@sodapopcanprofilefollowMillenial/Xenial who used to be really excited about programming.replied to@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlog:
Very interesting and cool idea! This means that tags now serve a dual purpose, which is not a bad thing. It's useful that people can follow #whispernotesfollow, but perhaps special tags (of which there is currently only one to my knowledge) will eventually need to be called out visually or otherwise #bikesheddingnotesfollow #yakshavingnotesfollow #justparticipatingnotesfollow
@pcprofilefollowwrote:
When I was 10, I thought I'd be a scientist I wanted to tinker in a lab, doing something with beakers and bunsen burners Making a difference. As an adult, I sit in meetings and discuss who to fire next I tinker with spreadsheets, doing something with LLMs and JIRA Be enthusiastic #poemnotesfollow #aifearnotesfollow
@sodapopcanprofilefollowMillenial/Xenial who used to be really excited about programming.replied to@pcprofilefollow:
As young kid I dreamed of working with reel-to-reel machines Cutting/splicing tape, happy accidents As a teen I couldn't afford reel-to-reel but got decent with multi-track cassettes Everyone was telling me digital was The Way (tm) In my 30s, I finally learned how to use a DAW properly In my 40s, I'm back to playing around with multi-tracks cassettes There is no money in it, but I'm enthusiastic as I can be (this is not so much as direct response as simply a response) #musicnotesfollow #aifearnotesfollow
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@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlogwrote:
Made another important decision to remove all counters โ€” notes, replies, following, followers โ€” from both people and hashtags, so you focus on the content not the numbers. It was creating competition which feeds the dopamine system, which we have exhausted and try to avoid. #metanotesfollow
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@sodapopcanprofilefollowMillenial/Xenial who used to be really excited about programming.replied to@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlog:
As others have said, this made me join (textlog has been open in a tab for weeks now without my creating an account). I'm on the fence about timestamps but everything else is great. The lack of dopamine from not being able to like or get liked is both painful and incredibly freeing. Also, I LOVE the design of this site.
@sicilicaprofilefollowreplied to@sodapopcanprofilefollowMillenial/Xenial who used to be really excited about programming.:
The lack of dopamine from not being able to like or get liked is both painful and incredibly freeing. It feels impressively like actually just talking to people.
@tel๐Ÿ˜ดprofilefollowI really enjoy learning, I really enjoy making. I'm learning to be less guarded.replied to@stagas๐Ÿคธprofilefollowcreative technologist creator of textlog:
numbers In a past life, when I was a statistician, I often though that the primary goal of statistics was to communicate numerical ideas without actually using any numbers. Numbers make people anxious, manufacture false certainty, project false confidence. They invariably appear to say something that's related to but not quite exactly the truth. I love the experiment of just not having them. I also wonder about the experiment of: could something fuzzier, less fraught replace them?
@austorprofilefollowwrote:
Team vim, team emacs, or team โ€œmy editor doesnโ€™t start warsโ€? One line, no essays. Go!
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@sodapopcanprofilefollowMillenial/Xenial who used to be really excited about programming.replied to@austorprofilefollow:
Vim over here, though I'm not into editor wars, use what makes sense to you. Though if I were to start a war, I would be on Team Learn One Editor Extremely Deeply and Use it For Life. Although I guess "AI" has made that irrelevant for most people.
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