I can’t find a suitable word in English, but I’m shocked and dismayed that German doesn’t have anything we could steal.

There’s a lot of smaller communities that are only kept going by one dedicated poster, or never got the critical mass to keep going, which is a shame.

The Dublin-NYC one’s reopened now with automated blurring out of a bunch of stuff.

Huh, so it is! Growing up in the UK, the US version seemed to be on more, and I’d assumed that that was the original.

You’ve missed off the ! so Voyager thinks it’s an email address.

[email protected]

I doubt that you can get your skin hot enough to denature those proteins without damaging yourself. I’ve given myself a blister before trying.

Over many years, I’ve settled on hydrocortisone cream followed by an ice cube. Those little buggers love me.

I’m not a regular there any more, but I feel like there’s more “natural” spam posts nowadays. They’re not natural enough that they haven’t prompted me to check the account’s post history (all mention product x, of course).

Edit: e.g. this one

If this is an example of the AI, it’s not very good.

I’ve had that before and I’m very confident the password was correct - my theory is that they’d changed how non-ASCII characters like £ were handled and their code only half recognised my password.

I don’t find that, but when I do you can often find the page on https://archive.today/ or https://web.archive.org/. You should be able to set it so that you can pass them a url from the address bar using your browser (e.g. Firefox’s quicksearches smart keywords) or search engine (Bangs on DDG, Kagi, searx), if it’s not already linked from the post text.

Some people are insane/brave enough to regularly view all/new. The bottom of the barrel must be broad and terrible.

I just accidentally stumbled across some proof for my looks-over-usability statement:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30019307

In addition, the “Search Bar” settings in Settings > Search, which let you choose between using the address bar for search and navigation or add the search bar in the toolbar, is also gone in Firefox 122.

This doesn’t affect me, but I’m sure there’s going to be a vocal tiny percent that absolutely hate this news.

Something I missed first time was

The data was collected from 2011–2015

Hopefully, it’s better now (based on nothing).

I know most people don’t seem to have the ability to look through menus and identify the thing closest to what they want to do. I think software might be more difficult to use now, too - the trend for “clean” design means that usability and discoverability goes out the window.

I have an uncle who will assume anything that takes over 20 minutes has crashed so managed to break his Windows box by continually hard resetting as it was trying to apply a large upgrade.

That’s sobering reading.

One of the difficult tasks was to schedule a meeting room in a scheduling application, using information contained in several email messages.

95% are below this level. Wow.

I don’t think you can count the sites that just mirror Reddit comments.

Searching on lemmy.ml shows the top being several [email protected] megathreads with comments in the thousands, then that [email protected] post you highlighted, more [email protected] threads, then a [email protected] megathread about Hexbear’s federation. I guess we can see who comments the most.

I liked this [email protected] post Your username is the prompt, what did you get? which has 1618 comments.

Deycan’t believe it’s true.

Gonna have to disagree here. Messy beds are healthier because they get to air and so cool down and dry out. This is good because bacteria, fungi and dust mites like it warm and damp, and they can cause illness, asthma and allergies.

Yeah, that got old very quickly, although things like the old Reddit switcharoo* always got an upvote, but the original comment needed creativity and the stock reply needed to link the the previous example. It was cool that it was a different experience each time and that the network grew, occasionally branching, and had maintainers that made sure you could follow without hitting a deleted part dead end.

* after half a year I had to use a search engine to get the name

But here I wrote all of this, instead of just the word “This”