Good to see that most of the instances have caught up

LW announced they are planning to migrate in the coming weeks: !lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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[–] [S] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

19.0 and 19.1 mostly, 19.2 fixed the issues.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    19.0 and 19.1 mostly, 19.2 fixed the issues.

    The leading zeros aren't decorative. Don't just drop them.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    In this context it's just faster to type, and not really ambiguous.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    In this context it’s just faster to type

    If saving six characters is so crucial, type ".0", ".1", and ".2". Massive productivity boost.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You could also drop the "." in this case, saving another three.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You could also drop the “.” in this case, saving another three.

    Even better: drop the number.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's one step too far, though. There'd be no way to distinguish them without that number.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Oh, you were actually serious? I thought we're making dumb jokes here with claims of willy nilly dropping digits from a version number being significantly faster to type.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Well, semi-serious. Doing this to "save characters" is obviously silly, we've spent way more characters discussing how to save characters than could possibly have been saved (and it's not a valuable "savings" regardless). But I was paying attention to the practicality, because IMO the best silly things are things you can take seriously.

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