I’m surprised to see Alya in the top spot. I really didn’t like it. It felt extremely shallow, and relied on fanservice and lewd “accidents” to entertain.

I thought it might have been a show about the cultures of Japanese and Russian mixing and clashing, while being an otherwise nice slice of life or romance show. But in reality it’s much more shallow than that.

I know shows like this (fanservice, romance, lewd interactions, etc) are popular but I rarely see one get to the top spot like this.

No its a WWIII German weapon.

That would be great, but I also do like having chat channels in addition to forum channels. And voice chat is one of the most important parts of the whole thing, but I didn’t mention those because matrix does text and voice chat just as well as discord. And I agree discord is popular among younger people. Though all of the active people in my community are in their 20’s through 40’s, I think we have maybe 1 or 2 people under 18 which we technically do not allow but we have exceptions for them.

Most of our members we met through online gaming, and it’s a lot easier to get a gamer to join discord than it is a website based forum or a platform they have never joined (matrix, etc).

Doxxed.

Mostly to do with the permissions system. I want a hierarchical set of categories and channels, and I want to be able to set one user as a privileged user, and instantly get access to all of those channels, or some of them, depending on the permissions settings. I also want some users to be able to see some channels, but not all, with only a single join action. In discord you join the “server” and you get all channels unless permissions specify otherwise. Then when you get a role, you may be able to instantly see and use several other channels. Some servers let you choose your own roles, and manually give you others, to customize what you can see and interact with.

With matrix there are… permissions. But they can’t be inherited by a room from some sort of category, it’s hard or impossible to automatically hide some rooms from users who join a space, with an option to instantly give them access to those rooms with an easily configurable toggle. Rooms tend to act like their own space sometimes, and each can have their own invite which is annoying. I want them to act as a collection under a single membership, just like you can join a single discord server, and whether or not you see them, all channels are contained in that server and getting access to those channels is a matter of role permissions. I also vaguely remember having trouble with the admin stuff and adding other admins/moderators to my matrix space, but I can’t remember what problems I had with that.

Basically it’s hard to make a large matrix space with many many rooms that have different purposes. Not to mention the lack of forum channels, those are required for my type of large community.

I have a few hundred people in my community. I imagine it’s much worse with larger communities.

Edit: now that I think about it, my moderator team even looked up some of the missing features, and the matrix devs had stated that they are not planned, and that is not the direction they want to take matrix in. Which is fine, but that means it has a completely different use case than something like discord for communities.

Thank you for this post. I was reading by and wouldn’t have understood those comments unless I saw your post.

Oh damn, I was not expecting that.

On the bright side, at least you went to one of the most trustworthy medical institutions there is.

Thank you Mr skeltal

My job is also an IT job with big responsibility. I wouldn’t have compared the 2 jobs otherwise. Not sure where you got filling grocery store shelves from.

My job didn’t even require a video interview, this unpaid role has more strict requirements than half the jobs in the US haha.

I haven’t had it in quite a while as the niche soda shop in my city closed down during the pandemic. I used to occasionally order a few cases of it once or twice a year, you could probably do that too. A bit expensive, but nice as a treat if you can’t get it any other way. I don’t remember where I used to get it, it was some novelty soda site, but it looks like there are some on amazon for a bit of an upcharge. https://www.amazon.com/Moxie-Soda-12-12oz-Cans/dp/B079G3P558

I am moving soon though, I’m hoping I can find a soda shop nearby so I can get them cheap. Next time I have one I’ll drink it with you in spirit.

I love moxie. It has a very divisive taste though, everyone I’ve had try it either hates or loves it.

Never seen that one, does ublock origin not block it?

Go better, get a sarsaparilla. Many different root sodas to try, go to the nearest novelty soda shop or check online for small brand, real ingredient, glass bottle, root-based soda.

Edit: I don’t know the availability of this stuff outside of the us, but it won’t be hard to find in your closest large city worst case scenario. Ace hardware even has a small selection of “real” soda at checkout.

The exciting conclusion to the rug arc at last.

Not originally. It was a trade show.

Can you explain why?

You’re out here single handedly keeping anime communities active.

It was a player. They can insurance claim it and be back in it before I was even done scrapping it most likely. Or they might have been able to track it down and attack me to get it back, and I wouldn’t have been able to defend myself in the scrapping ship which is basically a big space barge not made for combat, which would have been cool as hell.