DrQuint

I don't agree with this network access take. A lot of endangered cultures are simply being assimilated.

I was in a casual quiz in Hong Kong recently and one of the questions required us to know a language with less than 100 speakers. The default answer the quizzers had expected was Macanese Patuá. That sort of regional dialect existed in such a restricted set of conditions and between two different pressures to remove it (between Cantonese and Portuguese), that globalization simply drowned it out.

Hmmmm....

Nothing wrong here.

Ah! I get it. So it's a valid metric in theory. It's shit for everyone in practice.

They did market it. A lot.

It's just that the game's trailers were wildly forgettable.

Nah, I've seen hate. But mostly from people who hate Wesdon-Like quip writting and, well, women-haters who can't handle the characters being ugly (and they are ugly, admittedly), so I just dismissed the hate.

Yeah, this headline reads "disappointing single player game somehow stopped selling all that much after 6 months"

Like... Yeah???

That one is a special case. Yes, it got completely annihilated in numbers by even the goose goose duck clone, but, the thing is, the majority of its userbase just started playing on Mobile (where the game is free) well before the game left its popularity peak. So, the steam numbers are hardly representative of its playerbase, and the app's download count shows it.

PUBG did not have a similar story at the time of its release, but does right now. It's one of the most played games in the world... On chinese phones, so, uh, kind of invisible depending where we're looking for. To put it into perspective: PUBG straight up dethroned the biggest, most profitable shooter in the world Crossfire, by splitting the population, and the takeaway there most people would have is "What the hell is a Crossfire????".

then just go inside?

Ladies and gentlemen of the Linux community: A guy telling you to step inside the walled garden. Unironically.

I rest my case.

I don't have the time for this.

That is absolutely not true unless if you have exact word matches, and anyone with half a brain knows it's not about searching within discord, but about searching outside of it.

Discord is a black hole of information. What happens inside is unknown from the outside. This is why every single FOSS project using discord loses the right to call themselves FOSS - an issues page is equally free, has way, way better features to relate an issue to patches and releases, and is actually indexable.

If only there was something called an Issues page attached to every code repository. Oh well, that is an idea that is probably impossible or whatever.

Greatly improved usability, while still greatly hurting searchability, in that common bugs are still hidden away from indexable sight.

I've seen this exact same post years ago but from the other perspective and the guy was watching Colombo.