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the follower · 8mo
can you remove the character limit i wanna send people the best book of all time
This is even more of a reason not to.
A curious cat · 8mo
Can there be a more obvious indicator for when a user doesn't have anonymous questions enabled?
Rn there's only the absence of the "Hide my name" tickbox, but an absence a UI element isn't as clear as it could be.
Hmm, what would you suggest? The ability to not set yourself anonymous in a question is the most obvious indication, isn't it?
A curious cat · 8mo
can,,, can you please add,,,,. the cconfession ban to the terms of service,,,, i didn't know,,,, i'm sorry,,, ,
We'll do that! And no need to be sorry really. We only posted about that on our Twitter account so it wasn't really transparent.
A curious cat · 10mo
I know there's a feature where you can upload bug reports but I just wanted to say how if you try to put a profile picture and crop it to what you want, sometimes it'll instead do the entire image very stretched and squashed to fit the pfp size. Very odd!
That bug should be fixed with the last update we rolled out.
inhahe · 10mo
Notifications failed me today in a way I've never seen before. It said I had 4 notifications, and when I clicked it showed me something like this: https://imgur.com/a/hYoFoHz
That's a bit of a tricky situation we are working on still. But this can happen if notifications are not properly cleared when an account is deleted, leaving "empty" notifications.
A curious cat · 10mo
Does Retrospring have an API?
Not yet! We really want to have one ourselves, but we're focussing on improving core parts of the site before adding the same things into an API!
A curious cat · 10mo
i think. you should. include an update tab in the. website. because i. don't have. twitter
Not sure if people would want that, but we could post updates on here as questions (almost to also get some feedback on them)
But, if you have any other socials, we also can be found pretty much everywhere:
* Twitter
* Fediverse (Mastodon, etc....)
* Bluesky
And if you really don't have any socials, you could check our GitHub releases page every now and then for something new:
https://github.com/Retrospring/retrospring/releases
dytamic · 10mo
the suggestions box keeps breaking for me so ill ask here
can you make it so that when you tag an account in an answer, they receive a notification for the tag? i recently claimed the account @coolmathgames because i thought it was funny and when i tagged myself, no noti
That's weird. Do you get any specific errors we could forward to Canny? Because that shouldn't happen (and we still get suggestions from other users).
And we might do mentioning notifications at some point, but considering people often mention Twitter usernames using @ this might be a bit confusing. And it also opens a potential for spam so we want to be careful with the way we implement it.
kuruel · 10mo
Do you plan on adding a switch accounts feature? I think it'd be useful for some, like people with DiD
Potentially, but it's not really a priority at the moment.
A curious cat · 10mo
Interesting.. anyway high five!
New UI? It's. Certainly interesting (I have no idea how to feel about it) but I don't think it's bad
Well, people dislike change (don't we all) so a reaction like this isn't unexpected.
And not like I wouldn't tweak it some more if there's something really bad that I universally get feedback for. And I myself think there's some areas of improvement. I want to change the date format so it actually says the date after a week (1min, 1h, 1d, etc. seems fine, but months as mo are a stretch), I just wanted to get the entire set of changes out instead of this small thing blocking the entire release.
I mainly made adjustments to the icon for the actions because I feel like a bunch of people miss that you can report questions too, so switching the triangle to the three dots (which a lot of other apps use too) made sense.
Thank you for your feedback!
dytamic · 10mo
Nuh Uh you guys Never Showed Up Before
We did...like a year ago or something. I should use this account more.
A curious cat · 10mo
you jumpscared me in the replies to that one all ask but hi. is it one person managing this or some more?
Actively, one person! There's another person working on this, but not actively, and not interacting with the public!
dytamic · 10mo
you guys have an account?
You didn't know? Well, now you do!
🦈 Defective Enderman 🐋 · 10mo
What size is a header? As in like, the size border thing you have to choose from the image you pick?
The largest size we use in the desktop site is 1500x350px!
A curious cat · 2y
Hi, what is the difference between muting versus blocking someone here?
Blocking someone cuts all relationships between them (they get unfollowed) and they cannot interact with your questions/answers anymore.
If you mute someone, it will keep following/follower relationships intact, but you will not receive questions from them, nor any notifications if they interact with your questions/answers.
Not currently implemented, but definitely planned: Content of someone you blocked/muted shouldn't show up in timelines.
We're still thinking about how to best approach this, because there's multiple "levels" of content. Hiding answers would be obvious, but if you blocked someone, you can't follow them, so you don't even have their answers in your feed. But should we also hide all answers to questions from that blocked user?
Aside the functional considerations we also are thinking about how to best deal with this technically so it doesn't impact performance too much.