▲ 145 ▼ 0.19.3 is now the most installed version (fedidb.org) submitted 2 years ago by Blaze@discuss.online to c/fediverse@lemmy.world 33 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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
[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago (1 child) You could also drop the “.” in this case, saving another three. Even better: drop the number. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 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. permalink fedilink source parent