I’ve been really impressed with how quickly Connect has shaped up after the whole influx of new users.

Most places that have HR like this work their employees too hard for them to have time to use a ping pong table anyway, so it’s really just a hollow gesture.

Exactly. At first glance it can spit out some really impressive stuff, but turning that content into a coherent piece of artwork still takes imagination and skill.

I can’t draw very well, but I’ve gotten good at compositing and image manipulation over the years. SD is amazing, but it doesn’t mean that I don’t spend hours and hours piecing together an image to be the way I wanted it.

The terminology is sticking around longer than the format, too! Love me some (webm/H265) gifs.

I don’t think I’m familiar with that, but I’d like to be.

It makes the X go faster, everyone knows that.

I feel like that will even itself out in time. With a huge influx of Redditors, comparing the services is going to be a hot topic for awhile. The communities need to settle and the people who will stay will stay. Over time, it’ll be less self-referential and more original content I think.

More like Whyoming.

Woot woot fellow Minnesotan!

At the moment, I’m guessing gif support depends on the individual client app, probably? On Connect it shows up as a link, which opens the gif rather than it being embedded.

Same. Sync and Boost were my two main apps, and both are getting brought over! It’s really great.

Connect is also really good right now.

Definitely notice the improved speed and fewer errors lately. Thanks so much for hosting a great instance, and for keeping up with its needs.

For me personally, and the app experience I’m accustomed to, Connect and wefwef are the current jam.

A lot of this stuff is pretty opaque to me, but I still read through it because I love how detailed they are in sharing what’s going on under the hood and how it relates to problems users experience. Kudos to you guys!

As a fellow creative, I think that would be a good idea. I’m personally leaving my account live for basic reasons, but I’m going through and deleting posts containing anything I’ve created.

Whatever the number, I’ve definitely noticed in the past few days that there are getting to be enough people having conversations and posting content for this place to feel like a legit community instead of a ghost town. I’m really glad to see more people joining and taking part.