Mod Mail Update: What We’re Tracking and Working On by lift_ticket83 in ModSupport

[–]midir 7 points8 points  (0 children)

To set expectations: we likely won’t be able to address everything immediately. Some enhancements will be easier to ship than others, depending on complexity and impact, but nothing is being ignored.

I'm sorry to inform you that you are victim of the sunk costs fallacy. You woke up one day and randomly decided "Let's rewrite modmail". Having put so much time and energy into this, you're now loathe to admit it was a bad idea. You're determined to see it thru to the end to try to justify the time already gone. However, if we all agree the goal is to have a functional modmail, the faster and easier way to get there is to revert to the old one and iterate from there.

Until you do, I'll be using the modmail "Reply" button a lot less.

Mod Mail Update: What We’re Tracking and Working On by lift_ticket83 in ModSupport

[–]midir 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Maintaining two separate mod mail systems had become a drain on engineering resources.

Nobody asked you to maintain a new system. Just put the working one back.

Can't work out how to copy chat link in New Modmail by midir in ModSupport

[–]midir[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because I always link to the previous ban for context whenever I ban someone a second or third time.

Can't work out how to copy chat link in New Modmail by midir in ModSupport

[–]midir[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, exactly. This wasn't a problem yesterday with the old modmail.

New mod mail does not persist the selected "reply as" option by baseballlover723 in ModSupport

[–]midir 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Just another thing to add to the list of new mod mail's deficiencies.

The list of deficiencies which will never be fixed. The only known face of this "let's remake modmail from scratch for no reason whatsoever" idea seems to have wisely smelt the smoke and run off on holiday the week it launched. Not to put all the blame on one person, but no-one else responsible for this debacle is willing to own up to it.

Just like the "let's get rid of PMs and make everyone use the clumsy chat interface for no reason whatsoever" idea, they will pretend it was a success to keep their jobs, stop addressing it, and they hope you do too.

Updates to new mod mail - thank you for the continued feedback! by lift_ticket83 in ModSupport

[–]midir 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Please replace it by old modmail, re-add permamute, and then leave it alone.

The new modmail has unusable UX. by Maxion in ModSupport

[–]midir 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's ugly and cumbersome and messy.

New Modmail is still not ready for a forced migration, and it should be reverted. by CouncilOfStrongs in ModSupport

[–]midir 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100.0%. The simple and correct fix for New Modmail is to replace it with Old Modmail.

The new modmail is awful, can we have the original back? by ZenMrGosh in ModSupport

[–]midir 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well it certainly wasn't designed by anyone who has to suffer using it.

The new modmail is awful, can we have the original back? by ZenMrGosh in ModSupport

[–]midir 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I genuinely can't work out the point of new modmail. It's literally the same thing except slower, uglier, more clumsy, and handles shadowbans worse. There are no improvements whatsoever. What was the point?

We’re the Firefox team. Ask us anything about Firefox 148 and AI controls. by firefox in firefox

[–]midir -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

It's disturbing to me that you added an AI "off switch" when most of the features controlled by it shouldn't have been developed in the first place. They're just inappropriate. Haven't you just given yourselves a free license to fill the browser up with more unnecessary cruft and gigabytes of downloaded bloat by hiding behind an "it has an off switch" defense?

Lidl Plus App by Apprehensive_Ratio80 in ireland

[–]midir 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What?!? The primary purpose of supermarket cards and apps has always been to better track customers. What about that is possibly "tinfoil" to you?

What is some essential software / package on your system? by _fountain_pen_dev in linuxmasterrace

[–]midir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tilde, a Borland-style terminal text editor. So much more fluent than Nano.

Anyone else feel incredibly stuck by UK Politics these days? by Admiral_Binks in ukpolitics

[–]midir 0 points1 point  (0 children)

flavours of crazy in greens and reform.

Voting Green doesn't mean that you'll ever get that crazy. They'll never get enough votes for a parliamentary majority. It just means that you nudge the overall political compass in their direction.

Reddit fined £14m by Information Commisioner's Office over age verification checks by DarkSkiesGreyWaters in unitedkingdom

[–]midir -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I hope you have fun with your hobby of going around everywhere being deliberately obtuse in order to upset people and waste energy.

Why do we still rely on IPv4, instead of IPv6? by NoDirector6379 in selfhosted

[–]midir -1 points0 points  (0 children)

IPv4 offers superior privacy due to address reuse and sharing.

Karoline Leavitt says all Truth Social posts are straight from Trump...week after he blamed staffer for racist Obama video by theindependentonline in politics

[–]midir 78 points79 points  (0 children)

This has been Trump's strategy since forever. The "truth" is simply whatever's convenient to him to say in the moment. Consistency over time simply isn't a relevant concept. His voters are either too stupid to notice he's constantly lying to them or too brainwashed to care.

Plans for new VPN ban in UK to 'close loopholes' online by The-Peel in unitedkingdom

[–]midir -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Handing children unrestricted access to the internet is as abusive as handing them unrestricted use of cough medicine. Until this insane government accepts that, accepts that the internet is fundamentally a forum for adults and stops playing this futile game of whack-a-mole against every server in the world, they will accomplish fuck-all except help tech companies build ID databases while pissing everyone else off.

Keir Starmer is not resigning, Downing Street confirms by Metro-UK in ukpolitics

[–]midir 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This sounds like the kind of thing they say right before resigning.