I suspect it's traffic. One of the maintainers just made a post about lemmy.ml getting a shit ton of visitors.
CannotSleep420
joined 2 years ago
I would like to be able to expand text or images without going all the way into the post.
You can expand the text of a post by clicking on the book option. Posts with image urls can be expanded by clicking on the thumbnail. I'll take a crack at the whitespace stuff when I get the chance.
Proper PWA support isn't in v0.17.3 (although mobile browsers will let you add it as an app). However, PWA support was merged into the main branch. I'm not sure which release it will be a part of though.
I foresee struggle sessions in our future.
Those will be a thing to watch. Hexbear is notorious for their struggle sessions.
They don't call it going postal for nothing.
One thing I've seen people bring up a lot is too much whitespace on large screens. I'm not sure what the preferred new layout would be though.
FYI your profile is marked as a bot account. I'm assuming that's unintentional. You can change that in your account settings.
Would you be willing to describe your ideological relationship to your industry and your job?
Completely mercenary. I started working there before I was class conscious, and pretty much the only thing keeping me from changing jobs sooner is because I'm also doing a masters degree on the side and I don't want an unexpected change in workload to completely drown me.
How do you reconcile the contradiction of directly developing the economic base of capitalism while presumably being a communist?
By using up as much as my employer's resources for as little work as possible. If I play my cards right, I can work six hours or even less when eight hours is expected without management knowing or caring. It's not quite as absurd as those "day in the life of a tech worker" videos that were popular not long ago, but there is a kernel of truth in them. On a slow day, I might even sneak in work on something that isn't for my employer.
I think its also easier for me to justify because most of the stuff I've worked on there never reached production because upper management shit canned it several months into development.
Finally, I think the software my employer sells is more useless societally than outright harmful. It's wealth management software used by porkies and their financial advisors. Still not great, but at least it's not making drones better at killing or doing spooky behavior manipulation shit for a big tech company.
I believe they're talking about Xinjiang.
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