Woozle HypertwinHow is it that the search function on Tribler has gotten enshittified??
Naga (he/him)@woozle @signalapp I've just started to explore Signal, and the limited functionality using it fro desktop is why I probably won't pursue it further.
Biggest for me is that it's an accessibility problem.
My disabilities make it very challenging to type messages on my phone.
I just updated @signalapp and read the update message (from March 4, iirc).
I liked the first part:
Signal secure backups are here! Now you can choose to enable automatic end-to-end encrypted backups so you'll never lose a message when you get a new phone or reinstall Signal.
...but then...
You can back up all of your messages and the last 45 days of media for free, or you can pay a small monthly fee to get 100 GB of storage to back up every attachment. Tap on backups in your Signal settings to get started. Thanks to everyone who helped test this feature during the beta period!
...umm, where's the option to back it up locally, guys? This feels like extortion and customer lock-in, which should be antithetical to your mission. 
Worse, I clicked on the "learn more" link (buried elsewhere in the app) and found:
Signal Desktop does not support transferring message history to or from any device.
WTF. Just WTF. I am not okay with this. (Desktop should be where the most features are.)
(I'm using Kubuntu, for what it's worth. [insert ominous guitar-plucks] "There's something happening here...")
They always seem to assume:
- all of my music is on my main drive, probably under "Music" even if that folder doesn't exist
- any audio files in my home folder or under it should be added to the library by default
- any images found are probably album or single covers for something, use your best random guess
- any individual tracks found that have album information (or for which album information can be found) should be presented as an album of just that one track, rather than just showing them as individual tracks
- collections of music are best shown as thumbnail images (maybe with some abbreviated text), even when there is no image-file
- it's very important for every track to have an image, and for that image to be the first thing you see and to make it larger than the text describing the track
- all of my listening-music is under the same folder, with no other audio that I don't want to include
I just want it to wait until I tell it which folders to add, and only scan when I ask it to, and show the tracks to me in a grid with name and artist columns, and album if available, and let me add semantic data as the spirit moves me which can then also become columns (optionally)".
Why is that apparently not the way they think it should be?
(P.S. why can I still not put hashtags in the CW?)
I'm now wishing for the ability to search things I have boosted, specifically all media I've boosted.
The "media" feed under my profile seems to be only original media (a good default), but... it's not even in chrono order, as far as I can tell. :-P
It's kind of annoying that you can't just edit IP blocks. You have to delete them and then recreate them -- with no easy way to keep a record of the IP address/range involved, much less the notes. #mastodon #softwareGripe
Technical Note: When a site moderator deletes flagged posts in a report via the admin panel, that also deletes their content from the report.
This is bad design, because it means that deleting the posts to resolve a report also removes the record of what was in them That record is often necessary in order to:
- understand (later) why they were deleted
- notice if they're part of a pattern which the reported user is continuing
- share knowledge among multiple moderators
Does anyone know if there's a trouble-ticket for this?
You'd think disk-usage scanners would be smart enough not to scan mounted volumes when you scan the main filesystem, or at least offer to skip them as an option. #softwareGripe
(Edit: it's been pointed out to me that HTML works for both of those. I probably knew that but forgot. It still doesn't do <small>, but I guess eh whatevs.)
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I remain annoyed that MastoGlitch Markdown apparently only supports superscripts for connected characters (single words), and also does not appear to support subscripts.
...mainly because I'd like a way to make text smaller -- so I guess I'm actually annoyed that it doesn't support that, or at least let me fake it via the back-door of superscripts.
(Steve Martin as hacker / Ant Man: "Okay, I'm in -- now, let's get small.")
(UPDATE: I found a way to make the search work; see end.)
Someone made a bad UI design choice...
Just now I do a search/replace in kate (across multiple files) where the replacement string happens to include \t (it's part of a PHP namespace).
Kate replaces those two characters with a TAB, in all the matching files.
Searching for \t does not find the affected text.
Copying the tab from the document and searching for that does not find it either.
I can't even search for [space]t because it used a TAB character, not spaces, in the output -- even though I have editing configured to always use spaces.
ARRGGGH. There are probably about a HUNDRED FILES affected. Maybe more.
Update: apparently I needed to paste the tab into a longer string or something, and then it will find matches.
This is still bad UX, though: the "search" text and the "replace" text shouldn't follow different rules.