It’s gotten better, but text editing feels different from every other app somehow.
- Smart quotes are frequently in the wrong direction. (type word space delete " and you’ll get “ instead of ”)
- Press-and-hold-delete to delete faster doesn’t work correctly (It slows down instead of speeding up).
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On my phone, when I need to edit a word, if I delete just the letters that need rearranging and retype, the app recognizes that as a new word entirely and will auto correct it. So it will be the first few letters of the word I meant to type coupled with a now entirely new word. Not a huge deal, just need to delete the whole word and retype. It also has been not always letting me highlight more than word at a time (like if I'm trying to delete or edit the style).
Small issues but maybe easy fixes on your end <3
Jan 13, 2025
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Have noticed my typing here is an absolute sloppy mess and am wondering if it’s due to keyboard calls in the app or the tension that exists in the input window in how it deals with autocorrect vs formatting. Also when I “@“ people my cursor gets stuck to their name (I usually tag people as the last thing I do before sharing the rec or response to avoid cursor-ggedon). Using the app on a 14pro.
Oct 11, 2024
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Appears like the built-in WYSIWYG editor conflicts with native autocorrect functionality on iOS sometimes - makes it hard to write and edit posts!
Also, a related thing is that tagging someone’s @ isn’t recognized as valid text so it leads to a confusing cursor situation if you’re trying to write before or after the @
Mar 5, 2024
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you people seem cool so i try to avoid too much nerd/code/tech talk but here we go anyway. 🤓
one of the most useful skills i have acquired as a coder is the ability to steal things from the internet. there is so much stuff on the web that you ostensibly are supposed to pay for, but with a little coding know-how you can scrape the relevant data, download it to your computer, keep it forever and never pay a dime for it. Or maybe pay for it once but be able to cancel your ongoing subscription to it.
I have used this skill to steal / borrow / archive:
- workout videos from a paid yoga app
- cocktail recipes
- food recipes
- music
- library books
- instructional materials
- graphical source material for making art
Depending on what you’re doing, this can require more or less technical skill, but likely less than you expect. this is also a thing that chatgpt is very good at walking you through, if you ask it for help. it feels especially rewarding to learn a new skill in service of saving yourself money, too.
Even if the content in question is free, it’s nice to know you’ll have it for eternity even if a provider goes out of business, and it enables you to search/organize/manage the content however you like (with no ads, paywalls, etc).
it’s a useful exercise in digital literacy that demystifies a little bit of the technical world that surrounds us, and it always gives me a thrilling little frisson of “civil disobedience” or at least naughtiness.
Apr 28, 2024
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i still read hyperbole as “hyper-bowl”
Mar 18, 2024
so first of all, if you didnt know, you can press and hold on stuff in a photo on your phone and create "stickers" you can send in imessage.
but i just discovered you can press and hold on a "live photo" and get an animated sticker
i am going to be so annoying in chats with this feature
(I don't think pi.fyi supports gifs/animations so visit link to see example)
May 5, 2024