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I wish I had the general background knowledge necessary to understand this article 😅

It feels better to me, on my feed I'm seeing a couple loops bunched together, and then a fair number of other posts in between those bunches, so it feels much less like my feed is being drowned out

I think the real solution to this problem would be some sort algorithms that do a better job of prioritizing small communities, and that don't allow one comm to drown out others if it's really active, but short of that, your change seems to have helped :)

Thank you so much for being receptive to my thoughts! I really appreciate the work you do that contributes to lemmy being a place worth going ❤️

Personally, I both agree and disagree with this.

1. I do think changes should be more carefully weighed than they sometimes are
2. I definitely don't think that's why. The biggest (but not only) reason we don't handle UI in this same way is that if changes happen the computer isn't capable of relearning how to do things in that moment, and people 100% are. We should provide affordances, communicate how things can still be accomplished effectively, and more carefully weigh the cost of making changes, AND ALSO people are capable of learning how to do a thing again when presented with changes

I'd also add, my perspective as a more-design-than-technical person is there's way more material benefit to making those changes with people than with APIs. If the api provides the needed functionality, a computer can access that functionality. But people aren't robots, they have to learn, rather than be taught to interact with the interface that we give them, and making it more organized, more visually clear, creating better affordances, etc, has much greater immediate benefit than I'd assume refactoring or updating an api in some way

(I also think there may be an interesting conversation to be had about whether UIs are better conceptualized as being akin to tools, or storefronts. Both are interactive, but some interfaces are obviously tools one masters (creative/productive software), and other interfaces are more like places we visit that we might reasonably expect to change sinage, reorganize, optimize how things work, etc (which would be true of many websites) or any mix of the two!)

Man, that's gorgeous. I appreciate the switchup going back and forth between technique/process and finished result

Thanks :)

The synth parts of Gimme gimmie gimmie are a fucking BOP, theres a particular flourish that really reminds me of the triumphant sound of zelda. There's a goofy "parody" that Brian David Gilbert (a silly youtuber I like) did where it's Victor Frankenstein singing about lonliness not in needing a lover, but in creating a living companion for himself out of body parts- "gimmie gimmie gimmie a maaan after midnight, won't some bodyhelp me come and dig up a graaaave 🎵"

Its amazing, highly recommend. It's part of a super fun series where he interprets Abba songs as being sung by classic horror villain

I've actually never heard hung up, I'll have to go give it a listen!

Edit: https://youtu.be/sABdtEaKMYE?si=BhTYrLxjKMPkxkcw it starts out slow and moody and slowly builds into a wonderfully silly jam-of-a-song, highly recommend

I think it's internet nonsense devoid of any meaning or reason beyond "lol, random nonsense words, such non-sequitur"

Crossflashing sounds like if you dress up in clothes traditionally associated with the opposite sex and then show of the goods for people's amusement and gratification

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So like... Psych meds and hormones don't count right...?

Is the bottom right the royal British army?

Who wants to fight!? 😡

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