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Why is no one using CSS to make their magazine's visual appearances more unique? That was the main draw of old Reddit for me.

(I mean I am, but that is why I asked)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

ChatGTP can be pretty useful for this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Hmm what about Google bard ?

Okay, so why am I being reduced just because I mentioned Bard?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Saturdaycat That's only available from 18 years old+ (you have to give google your age/credit card data) and is otherwise tracked by Google. Is not so much better than the comparatively unrestricted Bing Chat

@wjrii @Jaysyn

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah unfortunately I'm already invested in the Google system so that's why I have Bard, not sure why you'd reduce my comment just because I mentioned bard

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do people care about reduces at all

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Because it would make my comment appear to be unreliable or controversial, but it doesn't allow me to express any sort of argument for or against any avenue of disagreement. Simple as that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Imagine every guy of 1000 downvotes would have to explain why they disagree. This wouldn't work well. And also there are platforms without downvotes — twitter, https://squabbles.io/ etc.

Anonymous downvotes are good thing imo - if I want to express disagreement with crazy antivax person, without him starting trolling me, I would be able to just downvote him and go away.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't sweat it my guy, some people are passive aggressive and/or won't bother defending a position for character reasons. Most people reading your comment can recognize it as reasonable

Also many people don't realize they aren't anonymous since they are new here, so people are still acting like they were in reddit. Give it time and ignore it regardless

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I've not used it personally.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Following :) I know nothing about code and if Bard is helpful, it would be amazing!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll test it out with bard!

Another reduce - just because I have Bard access and am going to use it to test CSS doesn't mean I'm telling anyone else to use bard. Reducing my comment for nothing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's very useful for this. I have a moderately good understanding of CSS styling after spending 2 weeks on a work side project using GPT 3.5 and 4.0. Had absolutely 0 prior coding experience.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Codecademy can be good if you are just starting out like the first time trying CSS. Probably would wanna do the lessons on html and then CSS but ya. I took already computer science course in school (only intro course yet bc is summer now) and there can teach more stuff, but before then i already did some lessons on codecademy and it helped to have context for the beginning parts of the class.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's gonna be difficult. Lol I want to do it, but it's a tall ask to work full-time, take care of my own personal stuff, hobbies, and then also learn basic HTML and CSS just do decorate a landing page for a forum.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to do it. It's just far down on the priority list and will probably be there for the foreseeable future. Would absolutely welcome anyone to help with it though! Currently best I can do is an icon lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Come on folks, where's that MySpace/Xanga/Geocities spirit‽ Maybe younger folks here weren't active online at that time. Sad we've lost that a bit online. Lots of people learned lots of stuff to make their pages look cool.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I absolutely LOVED GeoCities and totally miss that everyone-is-an-indie vibe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh jeebus my first website online was Xanga, and I copied the shit out of code back then to bling it up

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha, definitely! Had to have that autoplaying music when people came to your page!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah! Custom everything and just blast your favorite music lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I know some CSS. But that just makes me think very hard whether I really want to know more CSS.