Try looking up Ben Cloward on YouTube. He's quite concise and thorough.

The "don't show this channel" feature also feels like there is some kind of expiry because I've blocked a few channels multiple times now via that method.

Totally a theory but sometimes YouTube has a button that says roughly "show me something new". I think that may be the source of those channels returning.

Agreed. I've told YT about a thousand times I have zero friggin interest in YouTube Shorts and lo and behold a few weeks later they guiltily try to sneak back into the home page.

Not a game but the impressive VFX software embergen is written in Odin iirc.

That would be my God. In parts of the gaming industry working there can make you a pariah though. Not a huge portion but I've seen people get rejected based on working there and a couple other choice companies.

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Thank you for sharing this. This is really interesting.

Kind of and I've certainly used systems like that before but in practice it's not really a massive improvement. Sometimes it's even a tad annoying having another layer of indirection.

I'm pretty ashamed of my country

Queued it at my local library and already there is a huge queue. Hopefully will be able to read it this year

It's been going that way for at least 2 years now. Maybe it will accelerate though.

In what way has it been getting worse? As a casual user I've noticed very little change in the last few years.

Did you know Discord has a "store" that sells games?

I didn't, until my Discord account was compromised and the attacker was able to make $35 in purchases in the <60s it took me to realize it had happened and revoke all login sessions.

I'd say that's getting worse. Why does a communications app have a store at all? Why is it set up to pull from the credit card I use for Nitro without additional confirmation?

Just an update. Discord now shows a modal dialog trying to get me to sign up for nitro about every other time I bring up the app.

I'm really going to have to start looking into self hosted alternatives soon

Even as a discord user I get annoying ads for game events called quests. So far I haven't had a quest for a game I actually play or want to play

I'm a casual user (I feel like "casual" overstates it, even), and I don't think I've noticed much either. But I think that's the point; most casual users of something will miss a lot of the changes, both good and bad, that come down.

Years ago I didn't have to manually kill the app 2-3 times a day to get messages synced (frequently on Android, occasionally on Windows)

Honestly besides the poor UI changes on mobile, my main complaint is the constant seasonal animations on buttons that try to get you to click the gift button especially and buy nitro for yourself or friends.

Most of the more annoying added features like TTS, Super-Reactions, and other animated non-sense can at least be moderated in server settings/ user accessibility settings.

The hostility to third party applications is a little annoying but I've only used those on edge cases (Armcord for WinARM laptops, Discord-Lite for PPC Macs)

Didn't get the new desktop "design" yet huh

I grew up being taught to urinate on our rhubarb patches.