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The iOS community vibe on 🧵has been very refreshing. Probably not logging on here much, at least for now, TBH. 👋 @parrots01" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">threads.net/@parrots01

@di4321889 @StormSkiJournal @slopesapp 3 *million* vertical feet lifetime = 568 miles.

@StormSkiJournal @slopesapp What’s that 3 miles of lifetime vert? Seems low unless I’m reading it wrong

I love the @slopesapp - been using it since the 18/19 season. Highly recommend (not a sponsored post; it’s just really good).

@MookWilliams @StormSkiJournal @slopesapp 💙 we've been working hard on so many new features, glad you've been enjoying it.

@slopefillers This is a very manual process ATM, but yeah slopes has enough users that aggregate data can really do some cool stuff. Have some cool summer projects I hope to take on, bandwidth allowing.

Really excited about what @parrots is doing with aggregated data here. If he has bandwidth to follow this thread it could open some really cool doors for resort intelligence that I haven't really seen possible since the Alpine Replay days.

@drbarnard @jakemor @Thomasbcn @stevepyoung <<and the article remained unchanged>> 🤨

@jakemor @Thomasbcn @stevepyoung @parrots Good call, we’ll update this to link to actually mention @parrots and link to the post. Missed that in editing.

"There are two things you should spend your time optimizing: your onboarding and your paywall", @stevepyoung 7 paywall test ideas to grow app revenue: 📍 Where to place them 🛠️ Which features to lock behind 💰 Pricepoints 🎬 Paywall layout 🗨️ Copy 🛫 Payramp 👥 Personalization revenuecat.com/blog/growth/pa… by @drb

@jlagrone86 Usually what can bug reviewers is if the font of the price feels vastly overshadowed by the button (bad actors would try to hide the price with poor contrast, so they need _some_ rule here). Can try increasing the size / weight of price line, or lowering the button contrast.

Do you have any insight to this? It's very frustrating to get rejected for something previously accepted.

@parrots My app submission was rejected for the free trial button not being "displayed in a subordinate position and size to the total billed amount". I see this is still much like Slopes does. I used your suggestion from @DeepDishSwift and it worked fine for months.

Today, Slopes turns 10. 🤯

@acbdev Sorry! I wish there was a way to _both_ time-base and location-base notifications like that. Apple makes us pick just one, so it isn't easy to disable them automatically in the summer :(

STOP THE TORTURE 😭

Going to the mountains in the summer and getting @slopesapp notifications makes me CRY 😭 no I’m not here to ski I’m here to eat polenta and wish it was winter 😭😭😭😭😭😭

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Hey Xcode dev tools team: FB12567165. I think it'd be great if you persisted the debugger output filter y'all added in Xcode 15 to the workspace settings. We'd be able to get rid of the `OS_ACTIVITY_MODE` = `disabled` trick finally.

@crystallized Fuck airborne water

Tried to do my half hour of Beat Saber that I use to supplement working out when I don’t want to go outside but it’s so humid in my apartment that the lenses fogged up after like one song. Now I need to find yet another workout thing I can do all summer.

@itstuckermac Oh that looks great!

Loving the new design language in watchOS 10. Still have some tweaking to do, but feeling pretty good so far!

ICYMI: Xcode 15b3 is out, and – hurray! – has removed the 10-view limit in SwiftUI. You can now add as many child views as you want without using Group 🎉

Yes, I've been playing a lot of Aliens: Dark Descent. Why do you ask? <boop, boop, boop>

@film_girl Plus I think it throws us off that it is like IG - show content from following that you haven't seen yet and then show algo stuff. So if you refresh often-ish enough, you get like one new tweet and then algo stuff.

@film_girl People keep saying it sucks 'cause brands are there, that just means it has main-stream attention already. Pair that with an algorithmic timeline and 90% of the people I follow hardly making any content yet, all there is to surface are those things that _are_ making content.

I agree. I think Threads has the best chance of “beating” Twitter but I also think that the moment that led to Twitter’s cultural relevance is largely over. We’ve gone smaller and niche and private, not public and intermixed and loud. So even if it wins, does it?

Which in the long term might have been for the worse for BS. Social networks get worse the bigger they get. I don’t like the cool-kid gate keeping, but this might just preserve BS’s vibe long term. Let Threads be the high school cafeteria, BS can be the anti-establishment.

@Sommer I don’t think you can without changing the IG handle? I wish you could.

On Threads as @ sommerope b/c it used my IG handle and I have no clue how to change that 🙈

Honestly? Once the dust settles I think Threads is going to fill the Twitter-shaped hole people were hoping Mastodon would be. Mastodon won’t die, but it’ll be the niche Linux-on-the-desktop social platform, and lose a lot of Twitter refugees in the near term.

@sdw My fav head-cannon: Zuck couldn’t buy Twitter cause it got too big. So he paid his good friend E on the down-low to buy Twitter and kill it from the inside.

I have to clarify that I actually really like Threads — but we clearly have a deep desire for a new Twitter-like network even if it launches with a lot of warts. Would this have taken off at Twitter’s peak? I doubt it.

threads now basically an only-algorithmic timeline like IG with none of the good content of Twitter (ironically, no threads). can’t search for current events, use hashtags, o only see friends’ posts. it crashes when I try to post a photo. the 2023 social media bar is so low