tabletop rpg obsessed, particularly lancer, icon, cain, the treacherous turn, eclipse phase, and pathfinder 2e. also a fan of the elder scrolls and star wars, an avid gamer and reader of webcomics, and when my brain cooperates, a hobbyist writer.
the urge to share my creations versus the horrifying ordeal of being perceived. fight of the millennium. anyway posts about my ocs are tagged with "mal's ocs" (minus the quotes). posts about or containing my writing are tagged with "mal's writing" (again, sans quotes). posts about my sci-fi setting specifically are tagged "the eating of names". i'd pin the latter two if they were actually among my top 15 most used tags lol. fair warning, my writing tends to be quite dark and deal with some heavy themes.
avatar is a much more humanoid depiction of my OC Arwen Tachht than is strictly accurate, made in this Picrew. (I have humanoidsonas for my non-humanoid OCs because I cannot draw them myself and must rely on dollmakers and such, hooray chronic pain)
"nobody tests on high latency / slow connections" is how i discovered today that the right click menus require a round trip in discord, and that if you are on a particularly slow or not great one (e.g. satellite internet) you will straight up get a loading spinner instead of a right click menu
the future is here and it is shit
I'll bet money that they are firing off a call to check your perms on the server/channel you are right clicking inside every time you right click instead of caching it and refreshing that cache anytime the permissions are changed.
i did some digging into this and it looks like they're sending telemetry data about "application command cache" performance
oddly enough turning off telemetry in discord privacy settings doesn't change that
When you turn the setting off, the signals associated with your use of Discord continue to be sent, but we do not use the information for the purposes described above
ah it looks like thats just how they do business
"if you turn it off it still sends all the data we just say we don't use it :)"
engineering for slow internet is a blog post that discusses issues like this
every app assumes you have a gigabit internet connection available at all times with no interruption. stupid.
youtube music has no way to tell it to go to offline mode without first waiting two minutes for it to give up on connecting to the internet. dumb.
