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  • I’ve always loved the iterative approach to mapping and adding on top of other contributions.

    One person can draw a simple square over a building, even if the shape doesn’t really match (just make sure it’s aligned), and only add the tag building=yes. Then someone else can spend the time to make the shape more accurate.

    The next person, maybe somebody walking by with an app on their phone, doesn’t need to spend the time drawing the building. They can simply add the address to the building.

    The next person can then add the name of the store.

    The next person can add the opening hours.

    All of that would be a lot of time consuming work for just one person, which may discourage them from even adding the information they know because they don’t want to do all the other steps. But because someone took even just a single minute to make a basic contribution, it makes it that much easier for the next person and lowers the bar for someone to feel they can contribute.

    And the contributions don’t even need to be in any particular order. If you know there’s a McDonald’s there but there isn’t a building on the map, just put a dot down and tag it name=McDonald's. Someone else can come along and draw the building afterward, or add the address.









  • Undearius@lemmy.catoAndroid@lemdro.idThe end of Nova is confirmed
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    11 months ago

    I’ve been quite pleased with Neo Launcher

    A build hasn’t been released on GitHub for awhile, but there is an active branch and a more recent build on the telegram/matrix chat. The 0.9.3 version has worked well enough for me.

    I haven’t used the features but in the Drawer section of the settings, there is “Categorise Apps” and “Second tab for Work apps”.

    I do wish that Nova was open source, that’s basically the only reason I switched.


  • I do like the idea of leaving the curation of content in the hands of the user.

    I think the mentality should be more common, and the tools should make it easy, to filter out content the same way it’s easy and common to follow a community/topic that adds to your feed.

    Almost all social platforms have a method at the forefront to “see more content like this” but a lot don’t have “see less of this”, and if they do, it’s a buried setting.

    It’d be really interesting for mods and admins to get a list of users’ exclude list, either of post keywords or user blocks, to see trends and stats on the content that people don’t want to see.