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https://www.minds.com/ (Android > Developer (recommended) - on Google Play))
A social media platform.
Positioned as a "free as in beer and free as in freedom" alternative to platforms like Twitter, minds has significant potential.
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2017-05-29 - Does not have proper web compliance and does not work 100% with Pale Moon.
- 2023-02-25 - Minds Chat on Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra and Android 12
- 2023-02-25 - Minds on Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra and Android 12
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2020-08-06 - Minds on Umidigi Power 3 and Android 10
- I couldn't get it to download, it flashed the screen then nothing happened.
- 2018-03-27 with Pale Moon 27.6.2 (32-bit) on Devuan-1.0.0-jessie-i386-DVD
- 2017-05-31 (general)
- 2017-05-29 with Chromium 57.0.2987.98 Built on 8.7 on Devuan-1.0.0-jessie-i386-DVD
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2017-05-28 with Pale Moon 27.0.1 (x86) on Devuan-1.0.0-jessie-i386-DVD
2019-10-31 ∞
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I see no way to update my email address.
- I looked through all the settings.
- There is no mention in the FAQ.
2018-03-27 ∞
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They redid the website and now I can't even load it.
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The new token system is up and running, and references Brave with some new Ethereum thing.
- The extension thingy isn't available for Brave on Android.
- It's too bad cryptocurrencies are about to get shat all over because of upcoming changes in US law.
2017-06-01 ∞
- One can upvote one's own posts.
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Notifications of post-comments don't have a summary.
2017-05-31 ∞
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When commenting on a post, one is subscribed to it. Anyone else commenting on it adds a notification to one's feed.
- When clicking that notification, one is not usably taken to see that comment.
- There is no way to "unsubscribe" from, or mute a thread.
- There is no way to flag videos or pictures.
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Comments are not threaded.
2017-05-29 ∞
- (Pale Moon) - Visit the front page. Underneath "Take back your internet freedom" are links for Open Source, Encryption, Free speech, Community owned. They all appear to be links, but none can be clicked. Works as-expected in Chromium.
- (Pale Moon) - Commenting still doesn't work, but additionally I notice that typing a URL doesn't provide a summary. Works as-expected in Chromium.
- The line between blogs and posts is so blurred that blogs don't need to actually exist. Is that a communal thing? I don't get it.
- The blog browsing functionality is infinitely-scrolling, like vine or tumblrrrrr, and it sucks. It's like some sort of shared feed and not like a proper blog.
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When editing a blog post
- There is no way to cancel the edit.
- Its font is all thin and stupid. It is mainly for this reason that I would not use it.
- When viewing a blog post, there needs to be an upvote/downvote feature at it's bottom, and at the bottom of the comments.
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Thumbs-down are viewable on the recipient's activity feed.
- This will result in them being angered and randomly downvoting ones own posts. What the fuck are the developers thinking?
@should provide the same name-searching functionality that Twitter does.- It's possible for the notifications feed to have new subscribers appear, but they're not actually found in ones subscribers list. Did they unsubscribe? If so, that isn't appearing in the notifications feed.
- Do accounts with a lot of subscribers/comments/etc have some way of filtering this functionality, or will they just get one long string of useless "x subscribed" for pages and pages?
- There is no "sticky" feature.
- Why exactly are there separate features for blogs versus regular posts?
- Rich text functionality is provided in the blogs functionality but not the regular posting feature.
- Adding a new blog post isn't possible from one's main page.
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When referencing a URL in an entry, a summary appears. This is only sometimes nice, and sometimes it's ugly and awkward and not desirable.
2017-05-28 ∞
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Visit the front page. Underneath "Take back your internet freedom" are links for Open Source, Encryption, Free speech, Community owned. They all appear to be links, but none can be clicked.
- Works as-expected in Chromium.
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Cannot comment on items. After entering text, the reply arrow does not become clickable. Pressing
enterdoes nothing.- When commenting, typing a URL doesn't provide a summary.
- Works as-expected in Chromium.
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It doesn't work in Pale Moon.
A view when a post passes over the center of your screen. An impression is when a user clicks on a post.
2017-04-28 ∞
- I'm able to upvote my own posts. I shouldn't be able to.
- I expect quite a bit of Twitter-like functionality.
@doesn't have the same name-suggestion. - It's not obvious how to post a new item of my own, when browsing through the website. I have to go back to my profile. I suggest a "new post" at the top-right.
- When editing my page, the "Add Social Profile" feature is a bit odd with all the dropdown boxes. Maybe just have an edit box for each possibility, and then when saving the changes, the resulting list will be in a fixed-sorted order.
- I'd like to be able to pin a post.
- I'd like to be able to re-share someone else's post. Right now I have to begin my own post, and drop a link to them. A "re-tweet-like" feature would be nice.
- CRITICAL - Users seeing one-another's thumbs down in their notifications will result in thumbs-down warring.
- New subscribers can be seen in the notifications feed. For example, "You have a match! UserName subscribed to you" .. however, this person does not appear as an actual subscriber.
- High-activity accounts would definitely need a summary-feature for things like subscribers. I can see how the notifications feature is basically a debug log of activity, but it'll be largely useless for a regular user.
- It's so tempting to ask for basic rich text features when posting.
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Disabling the URL summary feature could sometimes be useful. This very post is an example of that.
I am unable to post replies/comments to posts.
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[edit3] Thanks for the comment John. I'll check back in when there's support or when I'm motivated to pursue the fix myself.
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[edit2] Pale Moon is using the Goanna engine. Firefox uses Gecko.
I see nothing listed by Pale Moon that pertains to minds.com
- github.com/MoonchildProductions/Pale-Moon/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20minds
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[edit] Corrected the Browser/OS I'm using (Firefox/Linux).
I think it's essentially a browser compatibility issue. Mine more strictly follows web standards, and Firefox/etc put up with technically-bad programming. I'll look into settings that'll relax the strictness.
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I am unable to post replies/comments to posts.
I am using Pale Moon 27.0.1 (x86) (Firefox-like but uses the Goanna engine), on Linux and with no special customization or addons/extensions.
The comment box appears, but mousing over the right-arrow for "reply" does not change its graphics (highlight it), and clicking on it does nothing.
At first I thought it was because I was blocked by the poster, but I'm able to post here but not reply to my own posts.
No, I'm not willing to switch browsers for this one website.
#bugs #support
Last updated 2023-03-18 at 08:07:20
I looked into using it again, but I can't update my email address.
found my initial notes (most of which I had also submitted to them)