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Besides the complaints of the author, I noticed recently that:

- They stopped displaying the name of the account under the stories circles at the top, so you don't know who's story you're clicking on unless you memorized their profile photo. Since I only want to click on stories of people I know closely, I now choose not to watch any stories at all.

- They moved the activity (heart) from the main bottom icon navigation and up to the top right next to the dm icon, signifying they're giving it less relevance than it's new replacement, the shopping icon!

- They're pushing shopping in seemingly half the posts showing up in the newsfeed now.

The combination of shopping and forced watching of video reels has me ready to cancel my account entirely. I don't use instagram to watch videos or shop, but even if I did decide to do one of those, which I never would, I don't want it forced on me.

working on a hybrid https://sqwok.im

Ah yes, reminds me of this video "everything is a remix": https://vimeo.com/563833916

Really cool! I went to try the translate feature but each time I left-click to open the nav menu (macOs) it deselects the text? I know it says right-click but for me it's left-click to open the menu.

ok thank you! It looks solid, great friend! You may want to add your contact info to your HN profile. Good luck!

Congrats on launching! Social media consumption is a hot idea. Did you make that intro video yourself or pay someone to make it? If yourself, curious what you used to make it? Good luck!

worked, tried to figure out why my elasticsearch cluster went bye bye

Pied Piper?

Agree, but I don't think it necessarily has to be that way.

All of these social sites have a core competency/use case, but once they start tacking on features as an effect of the profit motive, it starts to dilute the experience.

Working on my own site and planning to keep it strictly focused on the core value prop.

Currently building https://sqwok.im after years of using Reddit but seeking a better experience for live conversation.

Def not perfect and long way to go but so far it's been fun!

https://sqwok.im (but disclaimer it's probably because I'm working on it!)

It's a new open discussion site where each post is a live chatroom.

my thought exactly, sometimes I wonder when reading about tailwind... naming css classes has been a problem exactly 0 times in recent memory...

I can't push commit to AWS so possibly related?

Just went to push a commit to codecommit and it was rejected which startled me, guess I'm not alone!

https://sqwok.im has old school forum feel mixed with new age chat, with both tech and non-tech ppl.

I live in Seattle too, feel free to reach out or cross post on Sqwok

Have you looked anywhere? Spoken to anyone? Networking is really key to finding good roles imo.

There are a ton of jobs out there you just have to find the right one!

Many people have asked for Dark Mode so we added it, and are also going to add a few community-made themes to the site. https://github.com/sqwok/web-theme-js

Disclosure I'm building a topical chat site at https://sqwok.im

One thing I've noticed is many conversations will start out on-topic but eventually the active participants will exhaust whatever they have to say and it will pivot to more casual conversation. It isn't necessarily bad, but it creates the problem where new/arriving users see a conversation that appears unconnected from the topic. I recently received a bunch of feedback to that affect.

Another factor that someone else already mentioned is simply that many people like to lurk and don't want to engage in live discussion. Also not a problem if the previous issue is solved.

Appreciate your thoughts on this topic. What are some things that would help keep your interest in a topical chat app? Is it strictly that you're uninterested in the content and so the discussion is boring? Or is the asynchronous/disjointed conversation more of an issue?

> My reaction is always kind of, well, we're here in this reddit where there is already a community

I think that misses the different ways people seek to interact online. Reddit/HN style threaded comments have played a traditional role in social/aggregation sites, whereas live chat-based platforms are newer and facilitate a different kind of experience.

Both have value but they are different, and it could be that the latter is simply less interesting to some people.

Really enjoyed reading this!

I have a good friend who had grand mal seizures about once per month for 6months+ after coming off them... Very scary.

In San Diego around late August / early Sept you can find some really warm water relatively speaking. Particularly I used to enjoy going down to La Jolla cove and snorkeling around that time, with temps reaching up to 75f, which feels like bath water for the Pacific Ocean. Fairly certain I've experienced warmer than that a few times growing up.

I walk around with a t-shirt in December in Seattle, but then I grew up in San Diego...

Hey nice job building this, who's your target demographic? I've seen it posted a few times throughout the last year and working on my own discussion project so thought I'd say hello!

I just did a Show HN for an anonymous public chat social site in dev https://sqwok.im

Join Sqwok instead! (https://sqwok.im)

Awesome. I'm on mbp osx 11.6.5. I tried again and it seems that scrolling feels a bit lagged/jumpy, but otherwise the site looks great.

Curious what a realtime chat app w/stateful backend might look like!

Unrelated but I clicked your name and noticed you joined in 2007 the year HN started, that's pretty cool! How did you hear about it back then?

Also drift.space/jamsocket seem pretty interesting (the jamsocket site seemed to lag when scrolling).

Have you considered simply putting a feedback button or link to a survey?

It's interesting I have no problem communicating with all of my users because my project is a live chat app.

But one thing I noticed is there are countless things people want, so much that it can become challenging to filter them down and choose which ones are valid or should have priority.

Another issue is the conversations can be dispersed, so really it makes me think having a dedicated feedback button is still the best option even in my case.