To be fair, I should have stopped drinking coffee 10 years ago for my blood pressure.

Once again, something that is absolutely not needed to explain what a forum software is and thus, should degrade gracefully. To a static png or something.

The era of not judging the means ended in, like, 1066 or smth. Vibe-coded stuff for example means burning down a couple of forests just so the AI can propose where to place a semicolon, long before a “result” is even visible.

It’s 2026, being vibecoded is a self-explanatory problem.

This is the fediverse. You are FREE to use swear words! Shitshow! Cuntwad! Shitter!

As for

Why do they have to convert any nice product into a s.itshow?

Money, dear boy. Those VC shekels don’t pump up in value to support genocide by themselves!

Oh, so it is, hadn’t noticed it at first.

And, sure enough, disabling webgl in about:config causes the page to throw the error, instead of degrading gracefully. An animation of random dots is not at all necessary to expose about a product that is a web forum.

You mean why does the site for a forum software need webgl, by which the only reason I can think of is tracking visitors somehow. It’s not like the background landscape on the site is dynamic or something.

Mind, seems to be vibecoded.

That’s because it aims to replace one of the wrong use cases that projects (FOSS or not) weirdly decide to use Discord for, such as replacement for a “contact forum” or “support forum”.

Gonna say it aloud for the unweaned masses in the back.

The main problematic issue with most “we need an alternative for Yplatform in the Fediverse!” speech is the use of the singular. We are never going to get a good thing going if we push for “everything-app” platforms because they’ll be everything-apps, and the push of power is irresistible. Also, everything apps are much harder to develop for the same base feature set (“share a message” is easy in text, quadratically much harder on video), which is why VC-funded capital can do it.

We have to accept that what we need is alternatives, plural, to the various things that Discord and other platforms centralize. Because half the point here is we are against centralization. And allowing each project to focus on each problem separately allows them to take advantage of their own strengths, up to and including funding and provisioning (“get storage for a million items” is trivial on text; quadratically much harder on video).

We need a text messaging platform? XMPP already exists. Let’s go help.

We need audio chats? Mumble already exists. Let’s go help.

We need instant notifications? Surely something already exists. Let’s go help.

We don’t need “a walled garden but on the Fediverse”.

I have seen lots of people. Mostly not here, but that’s because we here know better (I’d hope). Runs along with usual complaints such that they can’t move from a platform with 9trillion captive users to a new budding platform, conveniently forgetting that when they began Shitter and stuff also had like 0 users yet people did move.

Exactly!

people act entitled as if all that you mention was trivial and that somehow FOSS devs “owe” people, but we only see those big corpos make it happen because… well, they’re big corpos, burning VC money on makint it happen and making it happen in a controlled jail.

To my not up-to-date knowledge (2021-ish) audio calls work but they require an extension (on both participants) and are limited to 1:1, no “audio conference” support.

I do think there’s bridging for Mumble? If so that should at least cover the “audio chat” use case.

Good luck! Report results.

This whole “FOSS names are bad” sounds like a Mccarthyism sysop by this point. Like, really, who is pushing that crap?

XMPP aka Jabber.

Geez, I was willing to bet some coins that this was about cryptography either.

Honestly it could be worse. Moving from Xitter to Bullshitsky is at least taking some (temporary) steps of progress towards moving to the Fediverse.

The trick is to support them to do more than that before the cycle repeats.

Finally,

Fediverse Keyparties

(like back in the '80s)

Hmm it’s fortunate that this only applies to the sidebars, but that also makes me highly question that it is

very much unintentional

given it happens only there and not everywhere.

I unfortunately have worked with programming filters before (paid for it; still not worth it). The first thing you test about a filter in a development environment is that it filters out what you want. The second thing you test about a filter in a development environment is that it does not filter out what you don’t want. All that comes long before pushing to production (let alone on a Friday). That sounds like at least negligence, so it’s debatable if it’s actually unintentional.

Regarding an issue filed for this… well, issue, I can’t find any. Can’t file one either, since I don’t use a Microslop account anylonger. Kudos to whoever files the issue.