I think this is your best piece yet, but it doesn't do what Ben does so well, which is describe how the aggregators' strategy might evolve. What do you think Google will do, for example, to preserve revenue in this changing landscape of losing ad eyeballs? What would you do if you were in the CEO seat at Google?
I'm really curious about Discord for social, because literally _no one_ I know uses it here in the UK for anything social. is it a US thing? Or is it people who are on fringes/deep into gaming, breaking out into social use?
> Or is it people who are on fringes/deep into gaming, breaking out into social use?
This one, mostly. Discord has the "cringe" (or at least, silly/quaint/unprofessional, take your pick) "uwu Gamer" feel because that was its target demographic when it launched and is probably still its "home base". It's broken into more social uses by a wide variety of social groups (especially younger generations who like the silly Discord is for Gamers theming in a weird post-ironic way, because it is just memes all the way down; social groups built around group chats of memes can laugh about the silly gamer memes, too).
Yes, I was thinking how LinkedIn may be the one exception. "Profiles" though only stick around because they're effectively resumes, and users hope that keeping their profile up to date improves their chances of landing a job. I'd also suspect LinkedIn has a lower percent of its traffic on mobile than many other social network sites do currently.
Hi guys, just tried this as an intermediate Chinese learner. Really love it overall. I have an IRL tutor as well and it's very interesting to compare. Happy to give feedback offline but high-level so far:
1. Adding pinyin for Chinese words when clicking would be great, and adding 'word' rather than character-only clickable dictionary, e.g. from Pleco. That's a Chinese specific issue
2. Harder, but when I say something wrong, pause, and re-state, if it could fix my answer with what I said and delete the wrong bit that would be insanely cool. As that's what a teacher hears, the self-correcting is a good sign
Pinyin is already accessible if you click on the gear icon in the top right and enable "pronunciations". When you make a mistake you can also have a look at it, read the suggestion and the "correct it" by clicking on the correction button and repeating the correct version of it. That will make the error disappear.
I guess both of these issues are too hidden right now.
ah no sorry, I meant pinyin when you click the character, right now it's just a translation of that character. I don't want permanently visible pinyin of the line
interesting. I'm curious why they bother going after so many small developers. There must be some kind of negative effect long-term there on their perception in the tech ecosystem etc. Bored in-house lawyers?
