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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • From my digging on alternatives the main contenders are (in no particular order)

    • Stoat
      • Essentially 1:1 on discords format
      • UK based, so its future there is uncertain
      • Infrastructure is lacking, was crippled by the initial influx after discord’s announcement.
      • Missing some minor UI and UX features, feels unpolished.
    • Spacebar
      • Reverse engineered discord
      • Greatest potential, IMO, but as of a few days ago all it has is potential.
      • lacks significant client development, relying on an external client named Fermi, which feels quite amateurish.
    • XMPP
      • Highly mature, looks very promising, but lacks any kind of guild/nested channel grouping support which makes it unsuitable for my group, so I didn’t look too deep at it.
    • Matrix
      • IMO the most likely discord successor.
      • Minor functional hiccups, that vary from client to client
      • Of the clients I tested, Cinny is the most discord like, but I hear commet is closer.
      • Nested spaces provides the minimum format equivalence.
    • Fluxer
      • Slightly sus vibes
      • Lacks self hosting instructions
      • Media is non-permanent, which is I guess fair to keep infra costs down, but its unsuitable for my groups media usage habits.
      • Looks promising, but I’ve not actually tried it given the lack of self hosting instructions.

    One thing that’s wormed its way onto the to do list that haunts the back of my mind, is I’d like to see if I could abuse the matrix or XMPP protocols to get some of the nicer discord-like features lime invite links, server side channel ordering, and space membership over channel membership. But that’s unlikely to happen any time soon.

    EDIT: Forgot Fluxer. Added.







  • Agree it disagree with them, but don’t the payment processors get a say in what they do or do not want to process?

    Absolutely not. Power companies don’t get a say in what the power they supply their users with is used for, same for water companies and even ISPs. If they really, really want to enforce rules on what they will and will not process payments for, they can accept legal responsibility when they process a payment on a gun someone uses to shoot up a school or what have you. But they cant have it both ways.







  • Tabs let you define how big you want each indent to be, and spaces do not.

    Spaces can too: Simply use more or less of them, to taste.

    I have ADHD. Two spaces per indent makes it damn near impossible for me to scan code.

    Then use four, or six, or eight, or 20. Hell, most code I’ve seen uses four spaces per indent anyway.

    [Re: braille]

    Surely there’s an editor out there that will automatically display indent spaces as a tab character. Or failing that it seems like it would be rather trivial create a program to convert n spaces to tabs, and vice versa.