Love tumblr, love the community, love the design, but god it feels like it's tied together with string.
About two years ago I made the simple request of allowing me to not auto tweet content when posted with bookmarklet (it. would. just. be. a. checkbox.) but it never happened, i think they replied and said they didn't plan it.
there's no importer for wordpress or any other content.
the way you repost stuff is atrocious. i love the concept, but it has no concept of who originally posted it when you quote something, leading to the worlds most horrendous spaghetti of html for you to deal with (eg: http://grab.by/6iqJ)
Tumblr has got all the hard stuff right, and is seemingly failing at the easy technical stuff :(
This is the part of the last 5% of polish that can be so important to intermediate super users, because they need everything to be in order before they settle and keep using the platform.
When you reach a point when you don't feel that they are perfecting the problem - and have the passion - and just tweaking the back-end, you start to lose hope and consider the alternatives. It doesn't feel like someone who still want to fix a problem and create something that they themselves would love.
This applies to many of my experiences, some of which were Disqus and Forrst.
I seem to be able to toggle on and off the twitter settings. I use markdown mode, and when I reblog something, I just delete all the copy in the text area, an attribute line is still given to the original source. Or I can par it down and quote one of the other rebloggers, but usually feel it is best to site the source, which happens automatically.
Unless Digg cannot roll out new features due to Cassandra (eg: a) Cassandra woes taking all dev team time, or b) tech limitations prevent features) it seems highly unlikely that cassandra is the reason why Digg 4 is grating with users initially.
It's a change of features/product rather than technology that is the problem.
I think the folks at Digg where prepared for the heartburn associated with the content changes. They weren't ready for some very serious issues with the implementation. Digg has definitely seen a lot of downtime over the last week or two.
Digg has had some significant downtime during this transition (Can't blame Cassandra - but can't clear it either). Issues with product features are one thing - but nothing probably got more people jumping to a different ship (reddit) then not being able to find a good lolcat when you're bored, and your favorite news aggregator is down. Hmm - I wonder if fark has seen the same uptick as reddit has.
Thanks for the suggestion, didn't think of them. James Dyson's autobiography looks quite interesting.
Not looking for anything too specific, just companies/individuals that display innovation and creativity. Can be anyone from the past or present. No other requirements, otherwise.
James Dyson and Tony Hsieh of Zappos are great suggestions. I would lean toward Dyson since product creativity and innovation were central in his story, and he's a bit underhyped. Hsieh's creativity centered around building a unique, fun culture for his employees (thus, resulting in happy customers).
Which is which? I'm not going to beat a dead horse, you can look at my comments in the other thread for my thoughts on StarCraft itself, but I'm going to speak generally on RTS:
I look at RTS as a sort of dance that eventually becomes a contest to find the better dancer. Even so, the better dancer may lose, and the better dancer may dance better and lose simply because the dance was better losing than winning. A loss has no real-world consequences, and as such, the sort of person I'd like to work with has no fear of losing. Only fear that the game will be uninteresting. I play for war stories, not to win.
Of course, games where one gets trounced tend to be uninteresting, and as embarrassing for the victor as the loser.
A really good pianist can literally bring me to tears with the skill and feeling of his art. No RTS player, no matter how brilliant, will ever do this. I admire Olympic athletes but an artist that can make me look at the world in an entirely new way or make me feel something I've never felt before is on a different level, IMO.
Some of my most treasured memories, even years later, are epic games with friends at the peak of our skills. You may not see the art in it, but that doesn't mean there is none.
I've had many of those myself, but the original question was why most people have more respect for pianists than gamers and the answer is that most people find the Moonlight sonata moves them in a way the goose juggler doesn't.
