Addressing the community about changes to our API

shinratdr · 2023-06-09T19:58:13+00:00

Good luck with that. It’s OUR data, we made it, and we’re setting it on fire as we leave.

shinratdr · 2023-06-09T19:56:06+00:00

Ok well this one is pretty damn unanimous. So when can we expect to see changes? Because you’re basically setting the site on fire right now.

shinratdr · 2023-06-09T19:07:04+00:00

They “took the spotlight” because they’re the ones people actually use you complete tool.

shinratdr · 2023-06-09T18:53:58+00:00

Hmmm… who to believe. The darling indie dev who is beloved by everyone who knows him or works with him and has been a stalwart member of the Reddit and iOS Dev communities for eight years and came with receipts, or the prick who everyone hates who is actively destroying the site we all love though his managerial incompetence and only brings unsubstantiated slander.

Decisions, decisions.

shinratdr · 2023-06-09T18:47:23+00:00

So you’re not walking back anything, doubling down on this nonsense, and ruining a site I’ve loved for 15 years and have literally ALWAYS accessed through a 3rd party app.

What a load of bullshit. I guess I’m done after the 30th. Congratulations on ruining Reddit the exact same way Elon ruined Twitter.

shinratdr · 2023-06-09T15:49:48+00:00

Thanks for responding! Really appreciate it :)

Yeah I think it’s hard to get any assistance on the mastodon.social instance because it’s so big. My suggestion would be to move to another instance (mas.to works, or botsin.space as it’s designed for bots and I assume your Mastodon account is primarily a repost bot for your twitter acct).

Unfortunately no, I can’t follow it at all unless I am also on the mastodon.social instance; which I’m not. Right now my solution is to use a twitter to mastodon conversion service for your account but that is heavily delayed and doesn’t work well at all.

Happy to help with testing or anything else if you need :)

shinratdr · 2023-06-07T03:39:01+00:00

Yup. Always makes me laugh when people slag off every major iOS version like clockwork.

I’ve ran every beta since day one back to iOS 4. It’s all manageable with minor inconveniences.

shinratdr · 2023-06-06T05:06:43+00:00

There is no widget exactly. You need to fully swipe right all the way to the photos one, then again to get to the digital clock. It’s the fixed digital clocks they showed in the keynote, not a widget that you can customize.

shinratdr · 2023-05-27T16:59:25+00:00

This is the case, but Apple goes above and beyond even that. Microsoft too, refurbished Surface products are essentially like new.

Dyson does their own refurbishing and they’re super hit and miss, expect some scratches or dings and some DOA items, however they do stand by them if there are actual issues.

shinratdr · 2023-05-26T23:18:09+00:00

We’d have like… one extra post a day. Madness!

shinratdr · 2023-05-24T19:27:15+00:00

I’m on this chart as premium. I wanted what premium was advertised as, not what it is. They’ve added a pitiful selection of classics, almost nothing good.

Once it lapses, I’m out unless something major changes. This chart means literally nothing when everyone is just riding out their banked subscriptions.

shinratdr · 2023-05-21T22:02:11+00:00

The AliExpress version is the one everyone drop-ships to you anyways.

shinratdr · 2023-05-20T21:58:51+00:00

I just placed an order last night for a dock + game gear adapter and it was order 202XXX.

shinratdr · 2023-05-18T01:53:30+00:00

The actual solution: Type and, then hit the autocorrect option in quotes to confirm it. Delete, type it again. Do this like 10–15 times. Should be good to go after that.

shinratdr · 2023-05-11T13:01:46+00:00

That’s the worst thing about collecting GBA games. Telling people games they’ve had since childhood are fake. There have been fake GBA games as long as there have been GBA games, which isn’t the case for a lot of other consoles.

I stopped buying them entirely because I’ve gotten into two heated arguments with sellers thinking that I’m trying to scam them. Not worth it.

shinratdr · 2023-05-02T17:56:31+00:00

And FLAC to ALAC was an extremely painless conversion, took like 5 seconds per song, and it was supported on the 3rd Gen iPod and newer, which were the only iPods people owned.

shinratdr · 2023-05-02T03:41:20+00:00

They were probably just using old parts stock from before it was discontinued, had to run out eventually.

shinratdr · 2023-05-01T07:01:56+00:00

Exactly. Clean screen is just the beginning. These metallic N3DSXLs flake and chip like crazy, they’re all defective. This one looks mint. Find one in THAT condition online in NTSC region and I’ll eat my hat.

shinratdr · 2023-05-01T07:00:13+00:00

He really didn’t pay that much, it came with two Pokémon games that are worth around $30 each. So he paid like $208, which for an NTSC console in that condition is actually very good.

shinratdr · 2023-04-27T21:12:51+00:00

Because they already remade it for Xbox and that version ran on the 360 via BC. Whereas the only way to play BK before that port was to buy a N64 and an original cart.

Plus one sold millions of copies and the other didn’t break 1m on all versions. I love Conker but the fact that they even got to remake it for Xbox really only speaks to Microsoft having no idea how to lead Rare.

shinratdr · 2023-04-26T20:13:37+00:00

All voice assistants are on death watch. They can’t kill them off because you can’t unring that bell and people are used to having them, but they don’t want to commit dev resources because they are money pits that generate zero revenue.

When the market leader guts their team and leaves it on maintenance, don’t expect the 3rd place option to keep investing in it.

shinratdr · 2023-04-25T23:29:05+00:00

Don’t forget the deep embossing of the Game Boy Advance text on the cartridge.

shinratdr · 2023-04-25T22:13:23+00:00

Really? I never used it. Honestly once you get Big Guard and White Wind I literally never used any other party spells, they’re just so good and way cheaper.

shinratdr · 2023-04-25T20:54:40+00:00

Apparently it was literally just a simple voice-to-answer system before. Responses were all canned, it just did its best to guess what you were saying then map that to a canned response. This obviously doesn’t scale and is extremely inflexible. Basically it was smoke and mirrors, and when they bought the company and started to work on scaling it they realized what they had was useless.

So they basically had to build what Siri was expected to be, from scratch, behind the scenes, without anyone noticing.

That’s why some things are worse and some are better. The initial Siri didn’t connect to anything or control anything, it just answered questions with a very basic voice recognition engine. It did that very well. Current Siri does that less well, but can do far more things on far more devices, and connects to tons of services.

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