There is a bunch of stuff that can become an alternative, if the users will come.

By now it’s kind of getting clear that fundamentally it’s the best version of the thing that we get. This is a primetime.
For some time, there was a legit question of “if we give it enough data, will there be a qualitative jump”, and as far as we can see right now, we’re way past this jump. Predictive algorithm can form grammatically correct sentences that are related to the context. That’s it, that’s the jump.
Now a bunch of salespeople are trying to convince us that if there was one jump, there necessarily will be others, while there is no real indication of that.

You’re failing into the same trap. When the letters on the screen tell you something, it’s not necessarily the truth. When there is “I’m reasoning” written in a chatbot window, it doesn’t mean that there is a something that’s reasoning.

Your deep insecurity is too on the nose

Oh boy, so this is what you think resistance is? I’m afraid you’re even more fucked than I was afraid of.

At some point, when you’re combing through archives looking for the exact version of a closed forum post that contains exact info you have, you understand that this system also sucks.

For me it started crashing when I open an instance on another device

Popular vote reflects how people who actually vote think. Candidates aren’t appearing out of thin air, they’re nominated as the result of political campaigns.
You can’t shift the blame for candidates to ambiguous “them” if you didn’t get your ass to try to affect it in any way. The delegates represent pretty nicely the opinion of people who actually vote in Primaries, with almost perfect track record. They don’t represent your opinion because you don’t vote therefore don’t have an opinion. So you don’t get to complain about what party that you’re not in is doing. Want it to change? Use the ways to change it. Those ways aren’t hidden from you, aren’t secret, aren’t gatekeeped by a shadow cabal, you just need to do politics about it. People who get their candidates elected do that.

In the history of Democratic party, there was exactly one time where the candidate that the DNC chose, actually lost a popular vote. Exactly one.
It was in 2008, when a young, generational candidate actually lost the popular vote by 1% to the (kinda boring) establishment choice, but was chosen anyway.
It’s nice to have this simplistic worldview, when “they” control everything anyway so you don’t have to do anything and just complain when “they” don’t do what you want. It’s harder to confront the reality when “they” actually consist of all the people around you, and the only reason you don’t get what you want is because you don’t do shit.

Hey, you’re not a criminal and have nothing to hide. Mind sharing your address and banking details here? Put a key under the mat, I’ll come check out what’s in your cupboards, you have nothing to hide right?

Google didn’t remove site:something from their search functionality. Yet.

If the old service is less convenient that fucking Discord, it’s not better.
The information is as inaccessible now, just in different ways.
We never had a good solution. We had different bad solutions, each bad in it’s unique way.

Not denying that it’s shit, I don’t know anyone who’s actually happy with it. But old forums also weren’t built nicely.
You say search indexable as if it’s a panacea, but you find whatever you want to find with your search engine, click the link, and it is:

• moved somewhere
• renamed, so now the link is dead
• was actually a part of badly implemented endless scroll so it now points to nothing
• was edited to remove crucial information
• was put in private and now you need to have 25 karma across three boards to open it
• someone got butthurt so it’s now defaced
• all of the above and more.

So you know that the info was there at some point, but you can’t access it.

The whole of IT is different levels of shit all the time

I hope you’re not implying an old forum search was any good

copy the Discord UI EXAXTLY

Please don’t. Please for the love of god don’t

EU doesn’t require age verification (yet). It’s exclusively British thing for now, and we fight hard to keep it this way

It was so great, people ditched it immediately the second any alternative arrived.

I also use 100% of whatever I have. It’s just I don’t get how reducing it by less than 1% is a dealbreaker. It’s weird to me how sometimes people are hung up on some minor issue

I mean, I don’t know what they will come up with in the end, if anything, it’s just talks at this point, I’m basing it on all the other fintech solutions that European market has to offer.

This means no “saving for payment information” on your favorite online store.

Nothing stops them from saving your public token or number or whatever they’ll come up with, or even using the current Wero system. My favourite online store can save like twenty different payment system credentials, what’s another one.

it seems this is heavily tied to your bank account

No more than visa and mastercard currently. You need a bank to create you your one time debit card. With payment system one time debit card is not needed, because your public facing token isn’t enough to make a transaction, so there is no problem here. Which also makes it trivial to implement multiple “wallets” inside the account, or multiple public tokens with different “wallets” associated with it.