Notices by Alan (alansuspect@aus.social)

@skinnylatte I saw a video of these recently and there was one sardine swimming in the opposite direction, it was amazing to see 🐟

@PeasLuvnJustice @stefan I think the idea is that instead of the works being available for immediate use by anyone, copyright laws allow a period of time for people to make a profit off of their creations.

Allowing copyright to end ultimately leads to more creativity, instead of stifling it.

@skinnylatte coming from the UK and growing up in a heavy drinking culture I know what you mean. I moved to Australia ~10 years ago (similar drinking culture too) and me and my wife quit completely 2.5 years ago. Best decision we ever made.

It's been nearly 2 weeks since I moved over to #vivaldi and honestly I'm impressed (coming from #firefox and #chrome), it syncs nicely between all my devices (even iOS). Two issues off the top of my head:

1. It would be nice if the desktop tab stacks worked more like Chrome's tab groups. Lack of colours/labels and the constant expanding and contracting is annoying.

2. Why are bookmarks on Android so hard? I just want to bookmark a page, not manage my bookmarks every time. And even when I click 'add current page' it doesn't do anything so I have to manually copy the URL.

I think they're literally the only things.

I'm getting very swept up in all this #wordpress stuff.

From a developer/agency point of view the biggest thing appears to be that clients are viewing this not as a #wpengine problem but a #wordpress problem, and Matt Mullenweg is causing some irreparable damage.

This makes sense; as he even says WPEngine are the company people are paying, they're not the CMS developer and certainly not the ones cutting off essential services.

There are many threads talking about replacements too. It's probably too early for that kind of talk, but for simple sites or projects just getting off the ground it would be tempting to switch.

The issue there is, what is the alternative? Yes, there are many CMS/blog alternatives, but what about the plugins? It takes time to not only learn a new platform but also work out alternatives to eCommerce, SEO, image optimisation, membership platforms... and on and on.

It's a huge ecosystem not easily swapped out for another.