Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
i hate everything in the app store so much. 96% of it just caters to stupid people. this is why people hate capitalism.
coding is such an infinite well of possibilities. and what do we find... 25000 knock-off microtransaction idle farming games. industry hyperspecific apps that charge monthly just for the right to use them.
I waste so much time looking for software solutions... i gotta learn to code. to save this godforsaken industry from crumbling.
maybe things will get better when the deep-state is dethroned. googles algorithms hide the best apps underneath all the garbage.
anyways. i imagine there are a few coders here. any thoughts on what entering the field in 2024 is like?
I can't remember if it was Sweeney or Newell or someone else, but it was once posited that rather than a monolithic app store, there should be app stores curated by whomever wanted to curate one, with apps specific to demographic need.
For example: construction worker app store, musician app store, teacher app store, child app store, etc.
Instead of a monolith curating all content--a hopeless task in which it is inevitable the monolith will cater to the most broadly profitable content--create a mechanism for curators to provide value and utility.
It's no coincidence that when you open any major app store it's packed with low IQ games designed to appeal to the same demographics that buy lottery tickets and wear surgical masks while driving.