You forgot the best part.

Eh?

Awesome stuff, man.

I could be far more tolerant of this if they had at least a FAQ section somewhere. Most times they don’t even pin the important or repeated messages.

Us the 90s kids grew up with the idea of ‘internet as a library’, which means websites are treated as books or magazines inside the shelves, that serve as repositories. We still have to read, but we were also used to it.

Perhaps it’s a generational shift, but nowadays ‘internet as an assistant’ approach is gaining over, which means the search bar (whichever it happens to be from) is treated as a search engine, and user directly inputs a semantic question expecting it to be answered. Users don’t expect to read, and aren’t expected to. Advertisement space is far more important.

When you think of that way, the idea of having a chatroom instead of proper support forum start making sense, even if I dread this idea and prefer proper text.

Being too confident or lazy gets them caught. Good for us.

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It looks so dark and edgy tacky.

Also a potential for spam, unfortunately. Some of the newer TLDs are blocked by a lot of sysadmins due to spam and fraud.

I used to browse reddit through alternate frontends on desktop and 3rd party apps on mobile precisely because of that. I never liked the new flashy design.

Interesting, will definitely check out. Is fitness tracking done independently of smartphone apps?

Soon SD will run on smartphones just like a live camera filter would.

The analogy is just an attempt at explaining, no need to argue about them. The main point is about giving preference to the original copy, not the lossy and inefficient copy. No matter how image to text conversion tools get better there always be a gap.

How hard is it to read a font from a text?

My man, you just don’t know how crappy OCR can be with non-latin alphabet writing systems, especially Chinese characters.

If the source is already in text (perfectly accessible), why should we make an image out of it? That’s like saying let’s email a document, but instead of the original doc file, let’s print them out, scan, and then send the pdf of those images instead.