little_niggleJune 15 2023 - Daily Discussion Thread
I’m going to be honest, the whole blackout seemed pretty ineffective.
Also lmao at people complaining about the UI of Lemmy - did they fully expect a finished polished website to just be ready for us to migrate to?
sensiblepuffinA 2 day blackout was never going to do anything. I'm a little disappointed that we (r/gunners) aren't extending it indefinitely. But it seemed like there wasn't quite enough popular support for it.
And yeah, that's a bit of a pet peeve of mine. Turns out it costs time and money to build a site like reddit. Although honestly, most of the features that I personally miss are from apps like Reddit is fun or RES. Not so much from the main Reddit interface.
BabaDudaIt's interesting how c/gunners has turned out to be one of the more active communities I'm a part of in Lemmy, looks like there's been enough of us who jumped ship (or at least tested the waters)
I kind of wish we had made it a 4 day blackout, just so it would encompass the beginning of the transfer window. We'd beat out every other Lemmy community no problem with the Rice memes alone
MHPengwingzIt should've been indefinite. It's also laughable that people think the Lemmy instance is a power grab, it's merely an alternative. As if people don't like to have an alternative.
Yep. Setting a hard cutoff point of 48h limited the impact quite a bit. I’ve seen other subs go on “read-only” mode indefinitely and I wonder if r/Gunners would even entertain the thought, and should there be a vote for it I honestly doubt it’ll pass…
And yeah, Lemmy itself is just another platform like Reddit was before the little annoyances were added; most of what I liked wasn’t from Reddit but Apollo. Reckon Lemmy would do better once Mlem on iOS is out of beta or there’s a proper App around.
Mlem has promise, but it just needs to have more time and resources behind it.
Mijn_BergkampYeah RES is why I stay on old reddit and if it goes I'll seriously consider things simply because it allows me to tag users and keep track of people it's not worth engaging with, or if they're alts, or even just remembering who they are!
AstrealixYeah, I'm disappointed by the community not wanting to go indefinite ngl
I ended up getting a tildes.net invite too. The UI is a lot more polished over there. But the devs are being really cautious with managing user load, so it’s not public/open yet.
They're also dynamically adding communities (the idea is that people will post to, say, sports.gunners and then once that gets popular enough it would get split off into its own community), which is a good idea, but it's nice to be able to make your own from the get-go.
Fully agree. I prefer that we already have /c/gunners here.
I_am_the_grassI think it's a smart way to manage scaling your site but I think what made Reddit unique (and what Lemmy is replicating) is the ability to create your own little bubble in the world no matter how niche. I was aware of Tildes and still chose Lemmy instead for that reason.
Honestly, I'm starting to prefer the smaller community here on /c/gunners even compared to /r/gunners. Feels a little for personal.
I signed up for Tildes, Kbin, and Lemmy but that's just because I wanted to be on the trains early. I don't mind Tildes for general discussion (i.e. what video games are you playing or what's your opinion about this world event) but I don't think I'd enjoy talking about something that only affects us (Pepe being sold) on Tildes. I'm glad we have some semblance of options post-exodus.
From what I’ve read invited users can invite newer users themselves. Would you mind passing me an invite? I don’t know if there’s messaging here on Lemmy yet; guess you can DM on Reddit (same username)
I deleted my accounts on Reddit (in protest, I only used Reddit because of Apollo). I think I just sent you a message through Lemmy. If that didn’t work, I can send it to you another way if you can think of another way.
RoxamirI like Lemmy
There's definitely an 'old reddit' charm about it but like anything the users are the draw.
IronEagleBirdI feel like I am getting use to seeing the regular usernames that comment. It feels like we're a bit of a tighter knite community.
I like coming to this daily discussion a lot more than the Reddit one.
FramecodeThe amount of spez bootlickers on Reddit actually supporting what the company is doing is grotesque. Have fun seeing "promoted" posts all over your feed.
@I_am_the_grass @EFG Could one of you sticky this post and unsticky the last daily discussion thread?
I try to do so as soon as I come online but you know timezone and shit.
Hope it didn't come across as demanding. Just trying to give a friendly reminder.
So how much of this Havertz thing is just smoke?
Starting to think there's something there but I doubt it will be quick. We don't really need him and Chelsea are going to try and hold ou for another buyer/more money so could see this one going to the wire.
Which as he's not going to be starting isn't necessarily a bad thing, either way you think we're going for Rice/Caicedo first as they will be starting.
I mean having him won't be a bad thing, but for that price I'm surprised we are actually in for him. If we do get him, I'm curious how Mikel is going to cook him.
The interesting thing about the quotes I've seen is '£60m "all in"'. Which suggests this is press fuckery to add more to the valu than they normally would when reporting a transfer (basically th opposite of how Haaland was done)
So assuming you remove bonuses for winning and who knows what else it could be considerably lower.
I'd take him at Jesus costs as he's not on his last year of contract.
I remember being gutted that Chelsea had landed him, thought he was a real baller from Leverkusen. If we can get a "fire-sale" type deal, then I think he can be good for us.
To be fair, he did win them a Champions Legue final.
Hopefully he can for us too.
Forest at home to start the season, should be kicking about at the top for quite a while. Decent run of fixtures up until Man U at home, which we should feel confident about. Getting hyped for the new season!
Are we legit more active than the /c/football community?
It wouldn't surprise me. All I did was subscribe to the football community. I'm more motivated to comment and post here because I really want this gunners community to succeed and grow.
Exwhu info (via Doc on twitter)
Since there multiple people have leaked it but not told the full story sharing it.
Exwhu already posted 2 hours before Ornstein that Arsenal made a 80m+10m pound offer for Rice and has been rejected but normal since it's an opening bid
Also mention City keen but Rice prefers Arsenal
Updated it by saying next bid from Arsenal with increased offer likely today or tomorrow.
https://twitter.com/karthikadhaigal/status/1669272846101790720
AlfonsRice preferring us to City is huge if true, let's hope
This City news about wanting Rice seems like it smoke and mirrors. I think West Ham want a bidding war, but City generally don't get into one. This seems like an effort on West Ham's front to get us to pay their asking price.
Apparently Kulusevski isn't as tied down to the shithole as we might have imagined. Are we still interested in having him? Could probably get him for pretty cheap if Newcastle pass on him. (and if he's willing, he seemed pretty happy swimming around there)
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/newcastle-united-buy-dejan-kulusesvski-27123897
JK@sensiblepuffin @little_niggle I’d take him; good rotational back up for Saka
If we did it, we could move Reiss to the left as Martinelli backup maybe?
@sensiblepuffin agreed. Seems reiss plays on the left when he comes in as it is. Would also boil the blood of that lot.
thatdosbox@WorldcupCSR @sensiblepuffin @little_niggle I'm not gonna lie, the saltiness from them would be highly entertaining
Since I am clearly not able to post this, from Romano (on Rice) https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1669348425530478593?s=20
You still having issues posting?
yeah its still hanging when trying to post on lemmy.world, infinity loading.
Rumours in Spain that Barca are moving on to Amrabat for €25-30m because Zubimendi is too expensive.
I wonder if that has played a part in us pulling out of the Caicedo deal. We've always preferred Zubimendi, and he'd even be cheaper. The only issue was that he always preferred Barca to us.
Probably a good idea to switch up our target early with Chelsea having apparently no limits to keep raising the price with a crazy salary.
Anyone else find it cringe that the Real press are telling Jude welcome home at his press conference? Didn't know the Bernabeu was in Birmingham.
Afcamden saying second bid has already been submitted today
Confirmed by team news and tix, also saying there's been a lot of nonsense in the press today. Hopefully he's right!
Yeah, the fact that there has been no news afterwards is good news. If we put in a second bid and it wasn't good enough it would have been loudly rejected.