jSnively

StrangeDays said:

jSnively said:

Relax, it's very obviously a bug. We're in the middle of upgrading our stack on a bunch of servers, launching native Apple News support, doing a full HTTPS roll-out, updating our backend APIs, plus a whole bunch of other stuff I can't talk about. I just haven't had time to fix it yet.

Edit: Fixed it.

That all sounds great, congrats. But it was not obviously a bug -- not with some of the forum policies of late such as editing mild posts, holding an umbrella for newbie trolls, disabling comments on anything related to the government, removing Dislike, removing Funny, etc.. There's just no way to know what you guys think is a feature and what is a bug. Glad you fixed it tho!

(oh some time you should consider fixing the login process -- after authentication is fails to redirect back to the referring page, instead forcing you to use the browser's Back button twice, followed by a browser refresh in order to load the new state.)

What forum policy have we implemented that I haven't openly talked about?

firelock said:

I'm a big fan of Apple News. Glad to hear it is working out better than Newstand.

As someone who works at an independent publisher (especially this one) my feelings on Apple News are... complex. We've run afoul of them a couple times already just due to the nature of our content. I worry greatly about the balance of power there, should it become a significant slice of traffic. Thankfully? Right now we're not seeing anything like the numbers the Telegraph does.

To be honest, all these non-interoperable closed gardens make me really nervous. Though as of right now, by the numbers at least, AMP scares me a lot more than Apple News does. That's a whole separate topic though.

That's not to say AN is a bad platform or app or user experience, because I don't think it is, but it's far from a perfect solution too. That's my ramble.

AppleInsider said:

Chief product officer Neil Hunt told The Verge the company is looking into using a different or reframed shots for content due to the increased usage of mobile devices to view the platform's shows and films.

I know it's probably not, but this better not be marketing speak for vertical video! 😰

patchythepirate said:

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Jsnively: Do you consider this calling him out personally? Honestly asking to gauge what the boundaries are. Also, just a casual observation, it seems like the forums are being slightly over-moderated. However, they are SO MUCH BETTER than before. I MUCH prefer over to under-moderated (especially when it comes to politically charged topics). So thank you.

No, not at all. Your post is perfectly fine. It's more when people start calling each other names (or that's the slope we're careening towards) that kind of thing we tend to step in. In this case one of the posts in question was actually flagged by a user, and I happened to agree. Live and learn I guess. I did restore everything. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We've let up on the moderation a lot. There were a few months where i was reading literally every single post that went up here, but that just lead to me spending way too much time on the forums and not getting other stuff done. Plus that way leads madness -- it was not good for my mental health. These days we (mostly) only act on reports, with a few exceptions. I always check-in a few times a day just to make sure nothing has gotten too out of control.

ireland said:

Can't believe you guys deleted my asthma grief post. I've lots of experience about this. Nothing can be 'proven' in science so I won't be able to convince you, but it was totally relative and interesting to readers in my personal opinion. The least I could be given after 16,000 posts around here is a pinch of benefit of the doubt, even allowing others go disagree amicably. Or allowing the invitation to research the matter themselves. The human race cannot change otherwise. Wishing you all a pleasant year. Much respect.

Honestly thought it was a troll post. You signed it "Peace out - Ireland" and it was a ridiculous post. If that's something you truly believe then you are either willfully ignorant on the subject, or you are so limited by whatever 'experience' you have on the matter that you can't see the forest for the trees. Honestly, I more removed it to stop the other posters from calling you out personally (I took two of those along with the OP). But OK, sure, I can bring it back.