Zeus

i'm glad that's being tracked, as a bookmarklet is not really a great solution; but it's still not a complete solution. if i visit a lemmy post from outside lemmy.world (e.g. search engine), then there's no way to go to the l.w version (to my knowledge)

i'll be honest, i'm not sure what that's for? is it moving to another account if you want to change your home instance? if so, that's a good idea, i could add it to the post if you want in case this comment gets buried

that (unless i'm misunderstanding) isn't the point of it. it's made for quickly taking you from e.g. https://lemmy.ml/c/jerboa to https://lemmy.world/c/jerboa@lemmy.ml, so it needs a const to know which instance to take you to

edit: i guess i could replace let currInst=currUrl[2]; with let currInst=window.location.hostname; but i can't see a practical difference and so i chose the shorter one

yeah it's dumb, i'd rather just search for a song but i can't do that without loading about 7 ads, 3 of which are reasonably high def animated images

i don't usually search for new songs when i'm out and about, but if i did this would probably put me off completely

i use spotify premium (on someone else's family account). it's.. a close thing really. i definitely wouldn't pay for it if i weren't getting it for free

for:

• it's the best option for music discovery, out of
  • youtube music
  • deezer
  • local music
  • this is due to
    • being able to follow artists, and get notified of new releases
    • their "enhance your playlist feature (and the ai dj i guess, but it's shit
    • quickly adding songs to a playlist i can listen to later, if i get recommendations off a friend
• handy if using a friends phone, i can just open my playlist and add stuff to a queue
  • it's also easy for friends to send me links to songs
• quick and easy to add new or remove old songs, if you have a high library turnover
  • (i probably add ~30 songs / month)
• easy to sync library between devices
• very easy to add a song that isn't in your library to the queue
• most songs have time-synced lyrics, if you're a karaoke fan
• songs come with correct id3 tags, if you care about that
  • although this means there's no way to edit them yourself

against:

• the app is really, really bad, and spotify doesn't allow 3rd party clients
  • it often stops playing when not connected to internet
  • it's very laggy and slow to load
  • i can't reorder the queue when listening to their suggestions
  • can't select multiple songs on mobile (to add to playlists
  • only just got a sleep timer, and doesn't support "wait until end of track"
  • has unnecessary data wasting, like canvas and "explore your genres"
  • seems to use some weird custom ver. of the android music api, often doesn't display correct information on speakers with a display, and doesn't play nicely with klwp
• the desktop client is better, but still worse than any other music player i've used
  • it's an electron app as well (possibly the android one is as well, judging by performance)
• limited library. it has more than one might expect, but not everything
  • songs are often removed from my library, or replaced with inferior versions (e.g. british way of life)
• you can sync your local music to it, but only using the desktop client and it then doesn't work if you use any spotify features (e.g. playlist blend, spotify connect, remote queue, etc.)

i'll edit with more if i think of anything else

exactly. reddit wants to be a doomscrolling site, not an archive of information. if they said "we're deleting all comments older than 6 months", there'd be an uproar, but for some reason everyone seems hell bent on doing that

honestly with youtube, reddit, and maybe twitter all losing information like this, we're going full library of alexandria (slight hyperbole)

to be honest, it's the simplification that i dislike. it's so fucking corporate and soulless, it looks like somebody outsourced it to the cheapest bidder

i also think it is starting to look dated, as even corporations are moving back to designs with depth (look at the new edge logo and fluent design in general, or gnome circle apps)

i hate it.. : (

the old one looked really good; it had character and skeuomorphism and stood out in the instance list

the new one looks.. fine, i guess. it's there. i can't really say anything about it, apart from it's a bit dark and too busy, but it has nothing going for it

wayback machine only archives new Reddit though, which means a comment depth of about 2

it's not fedded with burggit.moe for some reason

it'd be nice to have it as a lemmy feature though. for example, i got most of my reddit posts from reddit.com/user/zeus/m/reddit2rss/.rss, so i could view them in my feed reader. for lemmy i'd either have to have 100 different feeds, or find some other way

weird - sorry i couldn't help.. : (