Time to complain about Discord now.

Much easier to create an account than Hubzilla, but once in? Lolnope.

Default is dark mode, wide mode. Dark mode is a dark gray screen with light gray text and kind of not ideal, but well, I tried light mode, and it was eye-searingly bright and illegible. Ok, fine. Wide mode means scrolling forever because the posts are, well, wide, and maybe six fit on the screen at once. Ok, let's try narrow mode, see if I can't reduce the amount of scrolling. Nope. Narrow mode removes icons and smashes everything together until it's well illegible.

Fine. If it works, I can deal with ugly. I can deal with scrolling.

Did it work? No. Every time I opened the website, something different was malfunctioning. And maybe I was the only one having these issues because I was using it in my internet browser, but honestly? A service that can't make their website work and "The desktop app works better" does not inspire confidence. It feels like they don't care about users and only want our money, because when I signed up, it asked me to connect my account to their store. Nope. And I know different browsers do different things differently, but if they're gonna (apparently) focus on the apps, both desktop and mobile, and "eh, the website kinda works, it's not what we want you using but if you have to," then I don't want to work with them. Why try to funnel us onto an app other than they have more complete control over our usage once we're on it? People can install browser mods. I'm assuming app mods are more difficult to do.

Hubzilla, to clarify

My anger was with the sign-up part, not the sandbox part. I never made it to the sandbox. I don't mind poking. I may not be great at it, but I don't mind it as a thing. My problem was the opaque wall between me and the sandbox.

I clicked on the instance link, it gave me an error message, and told me to create an account. They asked for my email and for me to create a password. Ok, I can do that. Then it have me a different screen that told me to create a channel and a nickname. And that page was where I had problems, because I was under the impression that a channel was an instance, not an account, because they didn't have any kind of clarification. Just simple language changes would be suuuuper helpful. And explaining what a channel vs a nickname is. In other websites, nickname is more close to "account" and for it to ask for both and not clarify is ... difficult. It sounded like they were asking me to create multiple things and there was nowhere I could go to find out what it was actually asking me to do.

I recommend more consistent language if they want to make things more friendly for non-neurotypical users.

Enchiladas

I just heated up a Saffron Road brand frozen microwave meal, the enchiladas al chipotle. And Gosh, I am confused. The enchilada part was flavorful and amazing, I love it, but the beans and rice were just... so bland? How?




I think I need a food icon.