jSnively

apple4thewin said:

jSnively said:

Crazy how the dislike button just came back like that. Some posts were reported and removed. Reminder that this is NOT a political forum. Try and stay somewhat on topic and refrain from direct attakcs on each other.

@jSnively ; On the topic of the addition of a dislike button will there be an article about the improvements/changes to AI between the additions of summary at the beginning of articles, the ability to read a couple of comments without clicking to the forum page, and future updates to the site?

I hadn't planned on it, but I can throw something together here real quick.

1) The summary isn't actually new that's how we've always tried to use the article lede. We just colored it different and made it a little bigger so it stands out (seems like that worked?)

2) As for the comments, I assume you mean turning them on for mobile? Yeah. I don't remember why we ever disabled them there (I think it was a layout thing), so we turned them back on. As for viewing more comments inline on an article's page ... yeah. It may have to wait until we can do something about the forum software though, that is on the roadmap for this year. I don't have an ETA I sitll have to sit down and do a full transition plan for that. We have decades of legacy posts and hundres of thousands of users that need to be migrated. It also intersects with another poject we have in the works

3) The Dislike button was because, honsetly, most of the problem people that caused us to remove it in the first place are gone these days. I don't like having to delete posts, nor do i want to write a disseration to tell someone they're being dumb. Frankly, I am too old for that #$&*#$. We'll see if it gets abused, and if not we will maybe expand on it.

You will see a reorganization of the website nav around product hubs (mac, iphone, ipad, etc.) along with some additoinal filtering options on a bunch of sub pages (reviwes, how-tos, etc.) One of our main goals for the year is to impove user flows and better surface stuff where people would logically be looking for it. Right now a lot of it just gets lost in rivers, which is standard website stuff, but also kinda dumb. We'll probably start linking to tags as a way to group content again as well (see the current CES 2025 banner.)

Crazy how the dislike button just came back like that. Some posts were reported and removed. Reminder that this is NOT a political forum. Try and stay somewhat on topic and refrain from direct attakcs on each other.

9secondkox2 said:

AppleZulu said:

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In your world, fact = whatever your opinion is. 

Pot, meet kettle. 

Trump is a controversal figure. I think leaving it at that was actually pretty generous considering *emphatically gestures at everything.* Like him or hate him, he certainly doesn't need you to go to bat on his behalf. He just won an election after all. However, If you're going to argue please at least try and do so in good faith  

Luis.A.Masanti said:

How far is… publishing an unreliable leaker's news… from a… fake news?
(Well… other than advise the reader that the news is… almost fake?)

You hit the nail on the head. Usually we do this when we see the things like this start to creep up on social media a little too frequently... because truth and common sense just go to die out there. Obviously we can't cover every dumb thing that comes up, but the endeavor feels exceptionally worthwhile in the age of platforms whose algorithms exist to encourage attention and interaction over truth or quality... to make no to mention of how AI will continue to pour gasoline on that particular fire.

We give something people can link directly to and go "Experts say it's trash." Been doing it solidly for a year or so. Consider it our small way of combatting misinformation. 

ranson said:

Come on, Mike. The company tried their hardest to make a great product for autistic kids. That's far more than most companies put into this area of care. They went bankrupt because some funders pulled out. But sure, lay into the company (whose employees no longer have a job right before Christmas, BTW) over a product that YOU NEVER BOUGHT. Maybe if people like you had actually bought it, they'd have had more runway due to more encouraging success metrics? Good grief. The problem with the internet in 2024 is everyone wants to be a virtual shame+rage machine for clicks. This "article" fits that bill.

You could not be more incorrect. The impetus for this article was that I actually shared the situation in slack because I thought it was funny from a dystopian perspective (yes, I can be an ass.) It wasn't until I read that it was a toy designed primiarly for Autistic children that I stopped laughing. That fundamentally changes things. Since Mike has personal experience in this area, I urged him to put his thoughts down. It is not rage bait. It is an honest perspective from an extremely frustrated parent who has directly dealt with issues like these. Whether or not he purchased the toy has absolutely zero bearing on his assessment or the situation. This is not a review of the product, it's informed commentary around the end result of the company imploding. He is also just flatly not responsible for the failure(s) of the product, and to imply otherwise is just silly. There is nothing hypocritical about the position he takes here.

You're free to disagree with his perspective, it's the internet after all. Startups are hard. Funding is hard. Hell, we've been around nearly 30 years and we're hard. The difference being we're not a bunch of autistic children (despite what comments may say 🙂) who cannot process the landscape we find ourselves in. That's the key factor that makes his anger valid here. They caused harm. Perhaps there should be more oversight around these things when they're designed and targeted towards a certain subset of people?