Threads Will Let You Hide Spoilers In Your Posts (theverge.com) 17
Threads is testing a new feature that lets users hide spoiler content by blurring images or text, which can then be revealed with a tap. The Verge reports: Meta spokesperson Alec Booker told The Verge that this is a "global test," though it's not clear how many people will gain access to it. Spoilers will also look a bit different depending on which device you're using. On desktop, spoilers are hidden by a gray block, but they appear behind a bunch of floating dots on mobile (which you can see in the GIF embedded [here]). "This feature is currently optimized for mobile, but we're working to improve the experience for desktop," Booker said.
Reinvention (Score:1)
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Re: Reinvention (Score:2)
We have a few start ups that are basically just IRC or Jabber with a desktop client that is a bundled Chrome browser. Some of these are billion dollar unicorns now. Amazing how much recycling goes on in the virtual world.
Slow News Day? (Score:3)
Not an outright Zuck hater here, but is this really news?
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I think the slashdot editors are just old. Facebook is for old people, so the age group makes sense. Back in their day, all they needed was ASCII, so slashdot only supports ASCII.
Reddit is more for middle aged people who still haven't grown out of their teenybopper phase. So they always get new shit, even when it doesn't work, like the so called "fancy pants" editor that often breaks when you copy/paste from or into it, or the "new" reddit design that's still broken after ten years. But it's hip because you
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Re: Slow News Day? (Score:2)
The invisible hand of the free market has decided there are a lot of customers that are into Nazi shit.
Yet another engagement tool (Score:2)
Always amusing to know what those dumb-ass phone users are suffering through.
If you have to hide your "spoiler" (Score:2)
It's probably not worth the click it takes to reveal it.
This technique is *literal* clickbait.
What the hell is "threads" ? (Score:1)
Anyone know?
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More underwhelming than legs in the metaverse (Score:1)
This feels barely noteworthy even if work there, much less for the rest of the world.
How many years after Mastodon? (Score:2)
ActivityPub had a spoiler field from the start.