Basically, the big circle is what you think of them, and the small circle is what you believe they think of you.

Except they are missing voice calls on Android, and don’t (as far as I have seen) have video or screen sharing yet.

Those two alone make it a poor replacement at the moment for my friend group. I appreciate the simple setup and all the 1:1 features they have so far, but video and voice are the main things we use discord for.

I have it set up and will try to get some techy friends on board to play with it, but it’s not really there yet to move everybody over. Hopefully the eventually self destruction of Discord will give Revolt the push it needs to finally be a suitable replacement.

Skype is dead, sites like ooVoo are long gone, TeamSpeak seems to be held up in part by game clans.

While I can’t say they actively killed the competition, they certainly gave plenty of services little reason to exist. Discord created such a good and new service, that there wasn’t any reason to leave it for a different service.

I don’t see why you can’t chill it. I would have to guess they say that so you don’t ruin the temper. Maybe chilling it speeds up the white film and they had lots of people complaining?

Animated version :)

Don’t like it either. The way I browse, I often click on images directly which doesn’t show the title text.

I see Farside comics and I expect to either see the caption under the drawing, or see the lack of a caption and know the joke is in the image. I thought this one didn’t have a caption, and was frankly confused a little.

I’ll give it a look. I’m still in the early stages of the project, so it’ll be a bit before I get to the point where I work on the database side of things.

Looked it up, we’re about 10,000 years too late

That’s an interesting read. I’ll definitely give json a try too.

Glad I could brighten up your day!

That’s good to know.

WhAt’S a CoMpUtEr?

Gonna be honest, I’ll need to research a bit more what validating against a schema is, but I get the general idea, and I like it.

For initial testing and prototypes, I probably won’t worry about validation, but once I get to the point of refining the system, validation like that would be a good idea.

One concern I’m seeing from other comments is that I may have more data than SQLite is ideal for. I have thousands of stories (My estimate is between 10 and 40 thousand), and many of the stories can be several pages long.

Gotcha. I think I’m aiming for something that runs off a single program. I want to be able to start it up whenever or even transfer it to a drive and use it on something like my laptop. Your idea sounds like it may work, but I’ll have to give it a deeper look.

I’m not entirely sure yet, but probably yes to both. The story text will likely stay unchanged, but I’ll likely experiment with various ways to analyze the stories.

The main idea I want to try is assigning stories “likely tags” based on the frequency of keywords. So castle and sword could indicate fantasy while robot and ship could indicate sci-fi. There are a lot of stories missing tags, so something like this would be helpful.

What’s your reasoning for that?

At this point, I think I’ll only use yaml as the scraper output and then create a database tool to convert that into whatever data format I end up using.

A few keywords in there I’ll have to look up, but I get the majority of it.

Yeah, I’m not too sure yet how complex the tags will be in the end. They are basically genres at the start, but I may make them more complex as I go.

After reading some of the other comments, I doubt I’ll use yaml as the main storage method. I do like the idea of using yaml for the scraper output though. Would give me a nice way to organize the data elements for each story in a way that can be easily read when needed.

Is this something that can be run locally without a server? I’m aiming for something as simple as opening the notes app on your phone and selecting a story.