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  • that’s a bit counter-cooperative since search engines spew so much bile and adversatorial articles constitute the majority of the corpus to be found online

    almost like me asking a person with experience for verified takes is called wrong, isolating into algorithms none of us have control over is called right

    not pointing any offense to your person here. this is a negative cultural trend i keep disdaining - the “just google it, stop asking people” lowkey condescending and sometimes disheartening culture is having negative impact on me and others. is what i kindly mean to enlighten

    edit: but thanks for sharing your knowledge of it with a link, i appreciate being able to establish that link & date atleast






  • bluemoon@piefed.socialOPtoEurope@feddit.orgfolkhögskolor
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    since you say this helps

    i would put uploading a plaintextfile at number one (1), because webapps (Blorp included) suffer from stuttering and slow keypresses with spotty autosaves in drafts. i mean to say typing can slow to a pace where virtual keyboard input is output into the textbox almost a second later (on my old ARM7 phone with LineageOS to let me continue do all the things without buying another phone every year.) so using an external texteditor of my choice to write a plaintext file, then i manually start Blorb, then i manually click post & a new button that says “read from plaintext file”; i figure this way is the least effort for devs, since i imagine programming a prompt to open external editors when publishing a post and then passing that data once the texteditor exits would be way too big of a detour to make. so nr1 request for me is: Blorb read a textfile to fill a post instead of me needing to type into the webapp.

    second would be my getting to manually add posts to the “do not show read posts” setting’s list. swipe away posts in the feed to the side, instead of as now needing to wonder what the automatic process for marking a post as read and no longer to be shown is. i’d dig manual way - me swiping the post to the side - being the event to exclude posts from my feed. to not go through all the posts… means less time & mental energy for me spent scrolling and clicking in on posts or voting then reloading voting reloading… reloading so often is like pulling a slot machine on the mind to me and it takes some suspenseful time. i’d rather just swipe away posts to exclude without having to, as typed above, reload after waiting for automatic marking of posts to somewhy happen. it’s a bit vague as is rn.

    third would be these links you already have a great thing planned out for!

    thanks for Blorb, take a calm day and be well





  • bluemoon@piefed.socialOPtoEurope@feddit.orgfolkhögskolor
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    you’re doing great and i appreciate Blorp as is! no pressure to fix this specific thing

    cool of you to reply! sorry for any negative emotions my public complaining caused, i wouldn’t have wanted to complain like this i realize after feeling how it felt to see that you’ve read this

    i think the idea of choosing whether or not to continue in the blorp webapp is cool but not a dealbreaker by any means. take care and have a good day, thanks for actually making a client for piefed & lemmy and sharing it at all

    sorry again! I’ll reconsider how i word my critique going forward, because i genuinely feel remorseful now



  • bluemoon@piefed.socialOPtoEurope@feddit.orgfolkhögskolor
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    yes it’s a comment i wrote out in a post that was more than a bit irrelevant to what i was writing out.

    wdym with the edit about an answer from me in no stupid questions?

    edit: oh i see now. yes the Blorp app for piefed is what i’m using and it’s links are a mess. i just clicked “share link to comment” !






    • StartPage, Mojeek, SearXNG, YaCy
    • hyperlink surfing “extranets”, as you would WikiMedia WikiPedia InternetArchive FediVerse posts etc.
    • webscrapers like Monolith etc. for offline PIR and just as you say convenience of having it all there

    i look forward to reading what you come up with, because i am still kinda at the theoretical stage with keeping such a knowledgebase.

    edit: i keep thinking a plaintext document of information is way simpler to deal with than webpages. at what point is information posted online preserved in it’s “original” form? just dumping this FediThread into a plaintext file or a folder of plaintext files with names being ‘hierarchy•postID•username’ or something so it is presented self-organized.

    OP is ¤, 1st rank comments are ¤a ¤b ¤c and 2nd rank comments attached to comment ¤a are ¤a-a ¤a-b ¤a-c and 3rd rank comments attached to ¤a-c are ¤a-c-a ¤a-c-b ¤a-c-c so on. this then lists itself in a self-organized way, given all ASCII & unicode characters are provided in order. not just a-Z… because that would limit size of posts to take on.

    ofcourse more difficult and complicated solutions like selfhosting webservers and managing ports and databases exist… not that i grasp the necessity for so many services.