A little OT but why do flatpaks take so much size? I have a small partition for linux and last time I ran out of disk space it was because these flatpaks were taking nearly 1GB for simple programs that I reckon should not be more than 10MB executables.
Is this like iTunes on windows where it downloads the whole apple operating system to run the software? I know disk space is cheap but it's not always the case especially with these new laptops with fixed and small nvme drives.
edit: just found out this too requires 2.4GB disk space :/
This idea is good, design is awesome. Here is a little feedback
1. It needs categories. I don't feel motivated to read most of the conversations but if those were related to my interest i definitely would.
2. users should be able to add some bios, who are these people.
3. where it says you can start a conversation there could be a list of experts in my category i can send the question to, not popular people but people who have posted a lot in that category. this can be quora without the spam!
My personal opinion here. We (NodeBB) decided to go with categories from the get go because it was a form of hierarchy that worked well for YEARS, and you don't go breaking things that work fine.
IIRC Discourse started without categories. The whole "bucket of messages" shebang. It did not go well, in the sense that I believe people kept asking for categories.
There's something special about a curated list of folders to slot messages into, that tags and labels don't quite capture.
Currently, the user is being presented with most things, so I think my framing matches the actual user perspective with better accuracy than a cheerier wording. ;)
Gmail has become very aggressive with spam filtering and it's understandable with the amount of emails being sent. But this whole thing about spam filtering, dkim, spf, feel like band-aids over band-aids all the way down.
A customer recently filed a PP dispute that she never got the software she ordered. She didn't get my emails as all support and welcome emails were going to spam.
There has got to be better way to communicate without so many closed-source gatekeepers deciding your fate. It's been decades since the internet was invented yet we still use such a fragile non-deterministic approach for handing basic communication.
Yes, that's just me, Renato Casutt. From a small town in Switzerland.
I discovered BR in my studies as a typographic designer.
And I think it's time to show that typography is not just well-designed text pages. There are also ways to make reading easier for other people with reading difficulties (e.g. dyslexia sufferers).
Yeah i was thinking the same thing. Sure it a cute little feature if it works, but to say that "it breaks your brain." is taking hyperbole to a whole new level. Either this person is very easily amused or has been drinking the apple kool aid for a very long time.
It will completely break my brain if it actually works.
I have used Synergy, Mouse Without Border, Multiplicity, and more. They all suck. They. ALL. Suck.
Every single one of them needs to be reconnected multiple times a day. I fix this by using a schedule task that restarts them. lol
They ALL have clipboard issues where the clipboard stops working at some random point in the day.
Some of them have system breaking issues like the Synergy login screen issue. Where if you are at the lock screen (as happens throughout the day) and you move your mouse to another screen, your mouse is 100% stuck on the other screen. The only way to recover your client computer is via the power button. So take all that work you left when you got up to go to the bathroom, take it all and flush it down the toilet. Thanks Synergy. Fuck you Synergy.
They all have issues with more than two machines. Sometimes you can only access the left 100 pixels of a certain machine. Who knows!? It's fun isn't it!? Sometimes a specific screen will just... stop working. Who knows!? You were just sitting there. And now your workday has stopped.
Fuck you Synergy. Fuck you Mouse Without Borders. Fuck you Multiplicity. You all suck. You are all half-ass attempts at something that very much needs to "just work".
Maybe this is a legitimately cool feature, and you’re just used to it by now from other ecosystems and products. Then both your and the author’s reactions can valid.
> While with most of them you get what I would call "vanity metrics" (so not really actionable, more or less just "numbers go up or down")
This comment couldn't have come at a better time for me. I was just trying to compare the free analytics available and plausible looked okay to me. But since I haven't done anything actionable yet I think I'll research a little more.
> so not really actionable
What would you define as actionable metrics? Are you talking about the custom page triggers like scroll depth, click on obl, etc? Can you recommend what are the biggest actionable events for a saas site since you have experience with it?
My source of knowledge on this is sadly a few youtube tutorials but if there is any resource you would recommend I'd highly appreciate the link.
Actionable depends on your needs. As always the typical answer you receive from an analyst is: It depends.
Sorry, couldn't resist the in joke of the team I am part of.
But let me try an example. Visits as a global metric don't tell you much. They go up, they go down. And even if you do different marketing things (like SEA, newsletters, social media marketing, organic social and so on) and only look at visits from NY of these channels that doesn't tell you much (except for the volume).
But if you look at what a visit from every one of these channels costs you on average we are getting somewhere. Add into the mix the conversion rate for every one of these channels (depending on your goals it could be e-commerce conversions, newsletter sign-ups, sign-ups for a platform and so on). Now you can already see cost per acquisition/visit and cost per conversion.
So now you can answer the question about what marketing efforts bring more bang for the buck.
That is one example of how I define actionable metrics. Metrics that help you/enable you to make better business decisions.
How I would structure and report things depends on the business. But maybe this gives you an idea already.
Wow that's such an insightful comment. Never really thought about that. Puts my whole thinking about website analytics in a new light.
Really appreciate you taking the time to write this. After some initial research I see not using UTM tracking tags(1) in all my URLs (or redirects) is a big mistake. So duly noted. You're right about one thing though that since there is no direct integration with Adwords / GWM you're losing out on a lot of info using anything else other than GA.
In the end you are not loosing this data. It is just one step removed. So you need to think about extracting it from Google Ads into Excel/Google Sheets (or an external dashboarding solution) and combining it with a data extract from your analytics solution.
And if you do more, like social media advertising, Microsoft Ads (think Bing) or Twitter they all don't easily integrate into Google Analytics. For all of them you would need to look ad the marketing performance in the platform specific tool and combine this with your on site metrics as described above.
Additionally you would want to take the consent rate into account (if serving European customers). Many of the consent solutions provide this number so that you can use it to adjust things like CPO (cost per order) or cost per visit (CPV) as you are probably not seeing 20 to 60 percent of your traffic due to consent not given. This depends massively on your target audience and the countries you are serving. I have seen this range at multiple international clients of mine for different brands and markets.
So GA having this integration is nice but definitely not sufficient for marketing.
Even when thinking about the integrations for the (quite expensive) paid offerings of GA and DV360 and the likes.
I think there should be term like suffering from open-source fatigue.
Being an active open source dev myself I can relate to this but at the same time I also have been on the other side of the fence when my oss projects didn't get a lot of traction and any mention from anyone, even if it was an issue, got me really excited and it also kinda validated my efforts.
It's like being a mini celebrity feeling happy when somebody asks for your first autograph but as you become more successful more people want your time and attention and then you don't want it anymore. Also unlike being a celebrity you may get some fame but rarely any fortune, so that makes it all the more easy to get annoyed when people try to eat your attention for their own benefit.
> Also unlike being a celebrity you may get some fame but rarely any fortune
I know this isn't your main point, but afaik most low-level celebrities barely make money from it either. So it's actually even more similar than you thought.
This! Open source can make your career, just as much as the Op says; it can break your back.
From the outset i would say that most people releasing OSS stuff wants it to be used in production. thats until you get the hungry corps looking for free support. IMO at that stage an OSS maintainer needs to start a consulting company and funnel everything into it to avoid the burn. if this guy was making 6 figures consulting for those same companies, i think the conversation was different.
Unfortunately knowing how to write software is not always compatible with self-marketing and has a keen business acumen.
You're absolutely right. I don't know what OP is going on about but no there were 0 taxis with apps at least in Birmingham.
I just checked with my friends too and not one person remembers using an app to call a cab before uber. It is possible that some company possibly offered it but it certainly wasn't a popular option before Uber and it was just awful using the taxis here.
> There is no way you can hide ads and sponsored posts on Facebook
Why is that? How come it's possible to block tweets but not FB posts? Is FB using some vastly different technology than Twitter/Reddit/etc that makes it impossible? If so then what's stopping Twitter/Reddit from doing the same?
Anybody who knows about adblocking care to explain this?
The real experts or people who create great content just for the sake of sharing information never care about backlinks and whatever else Google requires for SEO.. OTOH the SEO scammers like Pinterest create little content and give the search engine exactly what it wants (backlinks, social signals, etc) which is why the good content is so hard to find.
But at the end of the day it's the search engine's job to separate the wheat from the chaff and google has been doing a very poor job of it lately. Like the article right said, the best is to prioritise websites that are about sharing knowledge not affiliate marketing, paid ads, marketing, etc.
Is this like iTunes on windows where it downloads the whole apple operating system to run the software? I know disk space is cheap but it's not always the case especially with these new laptops with fixed and small nvme drives.
edit: just found out this too requires 2.4GB disk space :/