The anti🚫-derailment🚃 & thread🧵 hijacking🔫 thread🧵 ⁉

This is an admin choice, not a default. I chose it because “it’s a bit of fun” is all

​ this might help you a little bit

Step 1: Start the “New User Tutorial”
​There are two ways to kick this off:

​The Automatic Way: When you first join, check your Inbox (click your profile icon in the top right, then the envelope icon). You should have a message from discobot titled “Greetings!”

​The Manual Way: If you deleted the message or it didn’t arrive, you can start it by sending a private message to the bot.
​Click your Profile Icon \to Envelope Icon \to New Message.

​In the “Add User” box, type @discobot.
​In the body of the message, type: @discobot start tutorial

Whenever I try to scroll back for long enough on mobile I invariably end up scroll-refreshing the browser page rather than scrolling through content

Although, that’s just me being impatient and trying to go fast

And also

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This is relatively “new”, but also

I have seen that too, I assumed it was a caching limitation rather than a break. It will freeze refresh and then carry on. I guess you could call that broken, I would call it a feature

I actually don’t think that is broken, If that’s what you’re referring to.

Nah, I just thought it was funny

How and when on earth did I make it to the top of that leaderboard thing!?

Ah, it’s just for today… That makes more sense but I had a long day and didn’t have as much time to be online.

Having to go through a tutorial in order to use a web site is my definition of ‘this product sucks’.

I’ve used several forum platforms over the years, and the only two that I can tolerate long term are phpBB and Discourse.

Discourse is pretty nice IMHO. Although specific forums will be configured differently, etc…

The tutorial isn’t particularly groundbreaking and if you’re tech-savvy, it should be a bit superfluous. But still, you get a nice badge and reading the manual is always a good idea.

In this case, the problems with discourse are well documented and the complaints are consistent. Yes, you can overcome them by acclimating yourself to the interface. No, I don’t think that is acceptable when the design decisions are not actually helpful to the user. Infinite scroll does nothing that users want, it is an sort of an ideological position held by the creator based on the fact that infinite scrolling increases engagement according to their data. Which I find stupid, because I don’t want to be more engaged, I want to get what I want from the thing I am using, which is not having it suck my attention from me, but providing a result as a tool I use. If you read the linked discussion you can see this is all mentioned and not disputed by the creators of the platform.

How do you feel knowing you have been manipulated to go against your own intuitive sense in order to get a badge

I hate the leaderboard. It triggers my OCD and I have to check it everyday! Lol

Some of you know my past, and my understanding of manipulation… That was the explosive container that broke the camel’s back so I’m following the AI’s advice.

Only of your barrel isn’t rated for 5.56.

I’m trying to nominate a post for Best of 25, but too many gemstones to choose from

How 'bout this one?

You can nominate as many as you like

Also, Nice to see you back

TL;DR
I really enjoyed the longer ones

I really enjoyed the depth of the longer storytelling and the humor in your previous videos. It is a shame that ShitTok has influenced attention spans to the point where formats must be shortened.
I’ll miss the old style, but I wish you the best of luck with the new videos.

Same. But you all know how much I hate youtube shorts and I’m not going to let shittock anywhere near my attention span.

“Evolve into an AI browser”…

Or you could.. Just be a good browser…