hisao

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[–] hisao@ani.social 3 points 23 minutes ago

Good response. A bit offtopic but:

Earlier this month our Jim called upon Bethesda to remake Morrowind rather than Oblivion. "You cowards," Jim wrote, calling Morrowind a "special game, where a beautifully unique fantasy setting is locked away behind technology and interface design that has aged particularly badly".

I prefer Morrowind's UI to Skyrim's, even with SkyUI mod:

  • It's more fun to have individual item icons than just text or generic icon just for item type
  • Those classic brass borders are beautiful
  • Choosing one of multiple reply options work more reliable in Morrowind, in Skyrim when playing on PC you often click one option and it still picks the wrong one because you didn't scroll enough

Overall, this whole system was obviously designed for consoles and it doesn't really work well on PC even with mods. I don't really remember Oblivion's interface, but the one in Morrowind's is something that I think definitely needs less "fixing" than Skyrim's for example. And I don't think it aged bad at all. Also hotkey system was great, I really miss it in Skyrim, potions are way less fun when you need to go through a bunch of menus every time you want to drink one.

[–] hisao@ani.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

I strive to be organized but I cannot bear actually being organized. My middle grounds is to take notes.

[–] hisao@ani.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

Some benefits of federation for a system like this is possibility of integrated-into-one-system project comments, friends/subscriptions and user/project search/discovery (also by tags).

[–] hisao@ani.social 10 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

What I personally miss in every single one of recommendations in this thread is: they're all timeline-based, without a good way to showcase and arrange content. When I want to showcase my projects (be it code or art), I'd want them to be structured in arbitrary ways on my profile that make most sense at the moment, and I'd want to be able to rearrange them at any moment. ArtStation gets this right, Github also to some extent - they have pinned projects on your profile that you can showcase and rearrange.

[–] hisao@ani.social 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So Medium and Substack are similar? And Ghost is also an open-source alternative to Medium as much as it is alternative to Substack?

[–] hisao@ani.social 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

Never used Substack, can someone please explain how this is different from lets say Medium?

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