The phonetic alphabet is so cool!

Assuming statements posted to reddit aren’t accurate is a weird bias.

I thought he retired.

Just connect USB-C headphones, or use a USB-C to 3.5mm audio dongle.

The audio jack isn’t needed anymore. The only real downsides of USB-C are that you can’t charge while listening, less wirelessly, and it’s more wear and tear for the port, but that’s unlikely to matter.

I don’t expect it to bring change, but that wasn’t a rant. Neither was the OP.

And, besides, a responsible developer wouldn’t be on ‘unpopularopinion’ policing the language of the complaints made by their basic apps users either.

So I suppose we’re going to remain at this expected impass indefinitely. Because…

I’ve been in customer service my whole adult life. Every product, whether service, or app, or device, will see mostly complaints as their primary feedback.

It is simply human nature for a person to not mention a thing that works well vs actually act or speak out in response to issues that they encounter.

A lot of the time the customer is going to be frustrated while doing that, and that will be reflected in their tone and language. And that should be expected, and thus allowed.

It is in the best interest of manufacturers and producers and service providers to look to those complaints intentionally for resources to improve their products or services. And to do so with the knowledge and acceptance that their customers are possibly pissed off, frustrated, drunk, speakers of another language, or, and this is the most important one, not professionals in the relevant field.

Are you a professional developer? If so maybe you know how to use GitHub, or even what it is. Not everyone downloading a social media app on Play is going to know any of that, nor should they have to learn about it to complain when they have an issue.

This is a small platform made of primarily open source tools as a service to humanity by mostly good meaning folk. Inclusivity is important. And that means being accepting and welcoming to the less tech savvy. And understanding of their frustration when they have tech issues.

So, if you or any dev or service provider or manufacturer of any sort wants to thrive, I suggest learning to listen more, and police your customers less. They don’t tend to respond well to that, especially if they are already frustrated or disappointed because of something you are responsible for.

It’s a topsy tervy world where a customer has to concern themselves with a business opinion of them rather than the other way around.

And even if the service provided is free, or just a pet project, it’s still being produced and provided in a world where these things are true.

Regardless, I’ve migrated away from Blorp and will no longer be recommending it’s use. I’m actually going to be recommending against it. And who knows, maybe I am somebody, maybe me recommending a app tends to lead to mass adoption? It’s hard to tell.

I agree, Blorp sucks. I used it, and really wanted to love it. I thought it had great potential despite the issues I’ve had, and how definitely mid it is ATM. But thanks to you posted about it here, OP, and their subsequent comments, I now know that the developer doesn’t deserve my support or recommendation, so thanks for that.

I’m now commenting from a different app.

Bye bye Blorp!

Yeah, stop with that BS and pretend you’re a developer and not an emotionally immature grade school student.

In their complaint they mention specific issues, be an adult and identify those for yourself.

If they are problems you can resolve add them to your own to-do list, cause that’s what responsible adults do, if they aren’t problems you can solve then dismiss the complaint, cause they aren’t relevant to you.

You aren’t gonna come off like some rock star developer disregarding complaints about bugs in your software by getting defensive and specifically choosing to ignore an issue cause you don’t like the person presenting it or the service they are using to do so.

Grow the fuck up!

Honestly, I’d just create a new account/alias and carry on as normal. Maybe bounce around between a couple accounts on different instances, retiring any and replacing it if it gets too much negative heat.

Could always keep your icon or part of an alias name if you want them to be recognizable, but I wouldn’t bother personally.

Fresh starts are nice.

Projection for cars?

That’s not going to be enough. And please stockpile some at other secure locations.

I got into a fight in a bar, and some guy showed up, intervened, then hung out and kinda insisted I follow in my father’s footsteps. I was like, meh, but I had nothing better to do, so I signed up.

Not for me either, just a photo.

*The current US Administration…

I am also the US, as is my spouse, my neighbors, and my goofy artist father, amongst many others.

E pluribus unem

I do not support the core of the current administration. There are however plenty of good folks in office too–nationally and more locally, depending on the area.

The world is not so black & white.

CEOs are scum, but they aren’t the top of the food chain. They’re usually 1 or 2 steps down. And it’s really the corporations themselves we should be killing!

Take away their tools.

If you can’t manage that, you can usurp there power by providing any of the same products or services as non-profits or non-profit co-ops.

Joining credit unions, food co-ops, housing or power/water co-ops, CSAs, are all good ways to hit corps where it hurts the most, without relying on the gov to revoke their charters.

For-profit co-ops and B-Corps are a half-measure, but also a step in the right direction.

Woah buddy, the USA is an evolving entity with many parts, some are cancer, yes, some are beautiful and healthy and loving and caring and charitable and ethical and strong.

The world is not black & white.

That said, I did upvote your comment : )

You haven’t seen muppet porn yet…

It’d actually be cool if I could verify age with one service and receive an anonymous auth token and create a pin or password, then just use those everywhere to verify age.

Or put it in my password manager and auto fill the BS on request.

All without sharing any private or identifying info with the service.

Currently I either just don’t use web services that require age verification, or I use a VPN to bypass them.

Join or support a co-op or credit union today.

Preferably a non-profit, but even most for-profit co-ops are a huge step in the right direction where W+ is concerned.

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