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That’s fair enough!

Winrar is… Not open source. Where did you get that from?

The point of a 100 dollar merch hoodie isn’t that you get a 100 dollars worth of hoodie. It’s that you support the artist. A less expensive hoodie means less for the artists. That’s kinda the point of merch…

Largely this is probably true. One large benefit for the consumer with streaming music over buying it is actually that it is cheaper. Significantly cheaper if you listen to a bunch of different things. So if everyone has moved to a method of listening to music that costs less then there has to be less money available to artists (all else being equal).

Even if 100% of streaming services’ revenue went to artists it could still be less money.

The problem isn’t Spotify itself, it’s the business model of streaming being way too cheap.

Ah yes all those millionaire artists. Poor rich artists. Everyone knows all artists are rich. Right?

Did you… read the comment? It wasn’t about the streaming platform owners.

Emphasised “continue” or “default” buttons have been around for a long time. In a software installer, nonstandard options are often less emphasised than the standard ones. For instance when choosing an installation location it makes sense for the default option, which is fine for most users, to be emphasized. If the continue and change location buttons were equally prominent the user might believe that a choice must be made here or that you are expected to choose a location. The experience of installing is more streamlined, less confusing for the less technically proficient, and requires less cognitive load when emphasis is used well.

As I said in an earlier comment, something being a dark pattern is entirely a matter of context. If used to encourage the user to shell out for gems in a mobile game, it’s a dark pattern. If used to make user experience better, it’s just good UX.

I agree with you largely. It isn’t always a dark pattern. It is a dark pattern if it’s used shadily or maliciously, for example to trick you into downloading adware in an installer. It’s not a dark pattern, but rather good UX design if it’s used in a context to indicate a likely default choice, for instance:

We’ve detected your system is set to Dutch. Is Dutch your preferred language?

[No, let me change] [Looks good]

Maybe someone else has other examples of good uses. It’s not appropriate everywhere.

Yup. Hunter gatherers has a lot of free time. Honestly, I think it was pretty swell, except for lack of medical ability perhaps.

I doubt conventional trains are regularly traveling at the speed record. Thats a poor way to compare the speeds of things.

So if you’re using a new instance all old posts are not visible? Really? Can it not load them on demand? Or am I misunderstanding?