@darklightxi@lemmy.world, I see there’s an open issue for this, but wanted to add my details here to try to help pin the problem down.

Unlike Eager Eagle, I’ve run into this problem using HeliBoard as well (and checked with standard Gboard too to be sure, also OpenBoard). In my experience of the issue I suspect it may be related to the UI not responding to the display of the virtual keyboard, which is also an issue that appears when trying to search for posts in specific communities. In both instances UI elements, specifically text input fields, are partially or completely covered by the appearance of the keyboard.

I think some of the difficulty in replicating this may be related to running tests on higher display resolutions (and/or devices with higher display resolutions), and/or with some text/interface settings set to smaller scales instead of default or larger scales. Regardless, inasmuch as possible the UI would benefit from adjustments to be more responsive to the display of virtual keyboards as well as, to a lesser degree, the display of the bottom navigation bar/buttons (for those that don’t/can’t use gesture navigation depending on OS version).

All that said, really appreciate the app! It’s great for browsing, especially with the keyword filter without having to sign-in. Thanks a ton for all the effort from all of those involved!

Alongside others mentioned (tags/flairs, multi-communities, keyword filtering, etc.) another feature I’d like to see added/improved is notification settings.

Something like…

In account settings:

• Enable/disable all notifications.
• Enable/disable post reply notifications.
• Enable/disable comment reply notifications.

For others’ posts/comments and per posts/comments:

• Enable/disable post reply notifications.
• Enable/disable comment reply notifications.

With those settings you could more easily tune out all notifications or only opt into those you’d like to see, and opt out of those you’re done with (say your post/comment got popular and you’ve had your fill from the replies).

Unrelated to notification settings, it would also be nice to be able to block communities from the front page via the … More menu in the default web UI.

Ah, the vim part was me trying a little too much to express a short e sound lazily.

It will still raise eyebrows because that’s not how it’s said.

At least not yet, or by enough to recognize that it is (by some, somewhere!). There’s bound to be an accent somewhere that pronounces it like this to where the “normal” way sounds strange 😂

Without writing it out like this: (nō-vĕm′bər) or this (nəʊˈvɛmbə) I wasn’t sure how to write it and express the varying sounds of the e’s in it. Maybe “no-vim-ber” would have been better?

To add to this, I think as long as decentralization involves having to know how to and have the money to operate a server, it’s not going to reach the point some may hope for. The monetary costs may be lower than ever, but that doesn’t address the knowledge requirements (not to mention time for setup and upkeep).

Even one of the more user friendly attempts at this so far (AT Protocol) doesn’t address this in a meaningful way, as one still has to get into the weeds of server config, domain leasing, etc.

Yeah, keyword filtering isn’t a default feature (yet) @Varyk@sh.itjust.works. I’m not sure which apps/frontends enable keyword filtering, but I think Voyager on mobile does, not sure which web frontends do.

I think it may also be worthwhile to toss in Bonfire, if looking for some pieces designed to hack together into a fediverse app. As I was looking up software the other day, I also saw some developing their software with Fedify, so there may be some resources to pull from there.

Tossing a mention to ya OP so you may catch this as well: @sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works

For people finding you, it means having to interact more in ways that encourage them to follow/subscribe to you, similar to how it goes now. For you finding stuff, it’s also similar in that you’d want to follow/subscribe to those that introduce you to others to follow/subscribe to. It’s really more for those that don’t mind putting forth effort to have their own online social space, much like the setup involved in having any online space.

It shines when you want to host multiple users with multiple different domains and identities.

Emphasis added. It’s that last part that drew me to include it. A single individual can prefer to portray themselves in multiple ways, particularly for different fediverse software (or even just different projects), so that’s why I included it.

I find it hard to believe they’d tell an archeologist ‘no’ for some reason.

Depends on if enough of the team is superstitious, and fears their findings will lead to a greater disturbance unleashing a long forgotten ancient force that may devastate the region.

Buuut that’s highly unlikely, so yeah, weird they didn’t reach out. Unless they were the superstitious ones in a different way and wanted to be first to seize an ancient power (or less interestingly, they wanted the credit for the finding and didn’t want to let on what they were looking for).

Going to guess it’s one of the UrbanDictionary definitions, or in that vein…

Here I was thinking Ktistec was the most unfortunate, mainly as it’s awkward to remember & write.

Quick search surfaced the following for Linux:

k3b, where the source repo states bluray burning capabilities.
xfburn also mentions bluray burning capabilities.

For Windows, albeit old and unupdated, I know the following still works for other purposes (never tried bluray burning/writing though):

ImgBurn mentions bluray burning/writing capabilities, but never tried it.

Bonus: not capable of bluray burning/writing but just fun to mention for any still into ripping/writing to discs on Windows:

InfraRecorder, simply a classic, and it’s open source!

Friendly heads-up, link’s running into a lemmy quirk, has to have the https:// in there, so: [dbu](https://dbu-rpg.com). Without backslash: dbu.

Wasn’t aware of DBU RPG, so that’s cool to learn about!

Besides this, I’m still looking into & trying to decide whether I’d want to get more into writing. Last year around this time I wrote a few short stories for !lemmyscareyou@lemmy.world, but not as interested in that this time

Thinking I should take a break from thinking on that and maybe watch some stuff or play some games, but indecisive, so instead posting this. 😅

When preserving culture is criminal, or punishable, ya might want to reevaluate your laws

In the meantime, people are gonna do it anyway 'cause why ask permission to back up and preserve your own stuff? And when the law finally catches up, some will be grateful to those that did so despite the earlier wrongful laws that tried to discourage them.

Added a few new communities.

!poetry@lemmy.world has been added under creative communities>writing and humanities>literary arts

!patientgamers@sh.itjust.works has been added under entertainment>playing (not sure why I didn’t have this one to begin with tbh, sorry about that!)

!shortstories@literature.cafe has been added under creative communities>writing and entertainment>reading and listening

RSS would be an interesting route but like, it would need a feed for every creator wouldn’t it? unless the social media platform allows it built-in like BSky does

If I understand ya right yeah, with BSky/Mastodon you pull the individual feeds for each account if you go that route (or maybe someone has an .opml file of several already grouped by topic to import). To me it’s no worse than having to individually follow them on-platform, but I know I’m atypical in that respect

Once ya have’em it’s all in one feed in your reader so not too different than the following feed

What you describe is basically the flipside of what happened to RSS folks, so I know what you mean. It sucks to stop getting updates the way you’re used to, and more hassle making the transitions to whatever the different method is.

It’s basically the reason Twitter/X still has anyone there, except they have higher switching costs compared to an open following format.

Honestly I take the compromise approach where I can, which is social media that still generates RSS, like Bluesky/Mastodon/etc. and use that to avoid making additional accounts.

Fun ships!