What are you on about?

Unless you’re the admin, using nextcloud involves nothing more complicated than google drive or dropbox.

I have half a dozen “normies” on my instance as users, and they figure it out just fine.

Sure, but if they keep trying to go bigger, they WILL hit a ceiling. And they have yet to show a willingness to go smaller with a subsequent project when one ends up too big to pay for itself.

Squenix does not seem to know how to match a budget to the size of the market that actually exists, and only ever goes smaller in scope when something is a “side project” adjacent to a main product.

And the signs that they are finally starting to make the same mistake with FF are beginning to show.

Intergrade was not as big as main FF installments, but it was well received by a lot of players. As a result they immediately scaled up Rebirth to be as big, or bigger, than anything they’ve done. And lo and behold, players coming from Intergrade love it, but it didn’t magically mean a bunch more people bought it.

I’m referring to Squenix’s habit of overspending on a franchise the moment it gets traction, and then not selling enough games to recoup cost, because there was never that much demand to begin with.

If they make money on this cross-over, then ok. But as someone with zero interest in MtG, but plenty in the new Final Fantasy games, this just feels like yet another expensive marketing stunt that will not get an actual return.

They lost money on Tomb Raider and Deus Ex, because they couldn’t stop themselves spending almost as much on marketing as they did development, expecting a fan base orders of magnitude larger to materialize out of thin air.

And then, instead of reducing scope to match the number of fans and thereby sales they could actually expect, they just axed the franchises.

I like the remakes, but I really wish Squenix would just stop making things weird.

Whenever they get a taste of success they immediately blow up the budget, overspend, and then blame the market for not showing interest to match.

I realize you’re making a joke, but it’s a false dichotomy.

It’s not one or the other. We absolutely can, and should, move people around to where they need to go both safely and on schedule.

!deadlock@sopuli.xyz

Websites don’t typically use the device location services.

I’m assuming that if you open up google maps, the GPS triangulated location shown there is correct?

Websites will determine where you are, typically, based of IP, but this is not always reliable. And especially on cellular, your IP will change every now and then.

Oh that’s new for me. I’ve been using alternativeto.com

Communities cannot be fully “deleted”.

They can only be “deleted” in the sense that they disappear for everyone.

You, as a mod, can still see and restore the community. To get rid of it from your list, you’d have to be unassigned as a mod. I don’t think that’s possible if you’re the only mod in a community.

And if they’ll eat it.

Mine slurps up half of the gravy, and then shows absolutely no interest in the solid food.

He was a rescue, so I didn’t get decide what he got used to eating.

Edit: I was not asking for advice. You are not giving me new ideas. The boy is over 10 years old at this point, the transition to wet food has been attempted a couple times, with veterinary advice.

He was diagnosed with chronic kidney failure in december, when he stopped eating even dry food. He is now on a veterinary diet to extend and make the remainder of his life comfortable. As such even fewer options are available. The wet versions of the special foods were tried, but especially considering his condition, he must eat, and do so regularly.

Stalk active users and see where they post.

My pleasure!

I’m very happy to have stuck with it. Many communities now have contributors other than me, which has allowed me to discover artists that are new to me in turn.

I do the same thing, but with anime girls.

Nextcloud Office (aka Collabora) has been the nicest in my experience.

I came from google drive. I did a google takeout of my drive contents, dumped it into nextcloud, and every document so far has opened without trouble.

Oh man! You just put to words why I couldn’t stand Breaking Bad, and Boardwalk Empire.

I watched the first simply because a lot of people love it, and I try to watch everything that seems worth seeing. The second I saw some clips from that I really liked, but then I just didn’t stick with the actual show.

In both cases, the series left me on constant edge, in a really bad way.

Now I realize that I kept waiting for the shows to grant me some kind of catharsis, but it just never happened. Or it happened rarely and in ways that quickly gets brushed away as inconsequential.

Nodeed.

It’s a good come-back.

But laughing at someone and making them feel unimaginably belitteled, over something like whether they’ve gotten laid, wouldn’t have been cool in any scenario.

“I was molested” just jolts everyone into reconsidering what just happened.

Used to be: “the code is compiling”

Now it is: “the AI model is training”

Either of those are only options for someone who runs an instance.

I agree running things the other way around would be better, but monitoring about a dozen communities, I get away with a call every 5 minutes, and it almost never needs to load a second page. That is not significant afaik.

How would it miss stuff? You’d always use “new” sort and load pages until you run into content from the last update. Stuff from the last page appearing again because new content moved the content along, shouldn’t stop you from loading another page, and any new content will be caught in the next update.

Only way I know to do this, is to just regularly check the comment and post feeds, loading more pages until you get content you’ve already ingested.

This is how @saucechan@ani.social works. It also responds to mentions using notifications, but mentions in post bodies don’t create notifications, so the work-around was necessary.

If you didn’t know, there is a comment feed endpoint, which will contain new comments from all posts, without requiring you to check every post for new comments. It’s not used by most clients, but it’s available in the default webUI, and hence the API.

You can make it a little simpler, by only loading the subscribed feed, and making sure you sub to the relevant communities on the bot account.