Five years ago, a open-source project I worked on moved to Zulip (from Slack) and it was a small hurdle. But after a month, I really like it!

So much that I’ve pushed a few other open source projects (who lived on Discord).

I was really surprised when I started a new job two years ago and THEY used a self-hosted Zulip. It’s everything Im used to on Slack.

Discord has team speak/video sharing, which I don’t think Zulip has. But then again, we use something else for video calls.

For e2ee, neither does Discord, nor Stoat, which is what most of these comments are pushing people towards.

What was the problem with Zulip on mobile did you have?

I only use it for text chat, so I’m curious.

It does lead to slippery slopes. First, it’s to block “adult content”.

Then, they’ll consider certain topics “adult”. News about current events? LGBT content? Video games with some violence in it?

Facebook is an example of this slippery slope. And for parts of the country, they do need to scan an ID.

What reason do they have to have offices in Canada?

And what’s stopping a patriotic Canadian from going in there and proclaiming Canadian freedom all over it?

Always has been.

Remember when Elon had to buy Twitter?

Prior to that, he was manipulating the market through Twitter causing a lot of uncertainty.

My brother in arms, my heart goes to you. I know it sucks.

Never fall in love with your work, ever. Metaverse and VR has always been a neat niche piece of tech.

As a dev, make the thing for that money, and always be ready to jump ship.

I want cloud gamified LLM GenAI NFT Cryptocurrency Neural network IoT Web3 Metaverse!

I remember when Amazon went all-in on gaming. Everyone was skeptical, and they partnered up with so many Asian companies.

Then they pulled out. Then they pulled back in. And now they’re kinda in a weird place.

Microsoft too.

They flip flop over if gaming is important to them all the time.

I’m actually kinda angry. There was a lot of money being thrown at this metaverse thing, and I wanted to milk that sweet Facebook money for as long as I can building products nobody use. Now I’ll never get that chance.

Meta is now SLOP:

• Social media
• Large Learning Models
• Online Engagement
• Pedo support

I’m Mark Zuckerfuck and I suck.

I don’t think we played the game because Anthem was boring. I enjoyed being Iron Man but after an hour. But after that, it was kinda same ol’ for the next few hours.

I had more fun with Suicide Squad, because the city was awesome and the story was at least passable.

I did like the first hour - no question. But I think Anthem needed to cook some more. A lot more.

Agreed!

NMS kept listening to feedback for years before it turned around, slowly building up good faith with each free release.

But let’s say Anthem Next magically turned it around. All that good faith will be gone when EA will try to shoehorn more looter shooter microtransaction BS and fuck everything up over and over again.

But this one really stings.

“Half baked skills and items for the existing classes have never been fixed, tooltips LITERALLY LIE TO YOU in some cases”,

Text is the easiest thing to fix in a game. And that just reeks of shotty work, especially in a MMO.

Ooof, yeah reading their comments, I agree.

OP, if you’re reading this, start even smaller. Not everything has to be right in your house.

I been deploying web apps since 2010, and I jumped right into self hosting during the pandemic and it was a massive headache or challenges I wasn’t prepared to face or maintain.

I gave up (for now) and just used open-source apps and AWS, because I needed availability. And every few months, I do a bit more to one day move everything to pure self hosting.

You aren’t kidding. I played Kingdom Come Deliverance last year, when I learned about the second one. Was like wow.

Then read how they originally were courting the anti-woke crowd. Who later turned on them because the sequel has “woke” material.

Its great to not be a part of those GAMERS.

Assume all of the big ones.

Theres been a lot of positive GTA6 posts across a bunch of the internet, like how they’re “releasing it when theyre ready”.

Which is funny because a few days ago, they fired 30+ people who tried to unionize.

Elden Ring DLC for me.

At least the main game, the world was kind of flat.

The land of Shadow’s map was kind of difficult to read. There was too many layers. Some things were underground. Some were above ground.

If the world wasn’t connected but broken by portals or something, it would have been fine. But condensed like that made it feel too big and I overwhelming.

This is it.

GTA 5 was boring when it came to exploring, much of it was pretty empty unless there was a mission. Elder Scrolls Arena was just random generated repeated stuff - miles of it. Assassin’s Creed Odyssey was a lot of copy and paste.