• RobertoOberto@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    It’s always disappointing to see how quick people are to shit on others’ attempts to build connections in their own ways.

    Yeah, it’s kind of silly to make a blinking light app when the phone implies they could just call or use one of a million text-based message options.

    But he set aside his own time to build something he thought she would like. There are so many worse ways someone can spend their time on a computer (or in general), I don’t see why this seems worthy of ridicule. Also, why phrase it as “she wants attention”? Is it really any worse than her calling and saying, “I miss you” or “I’m just bored and want to talk to you”?

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      her calling and saying, “I miss you” or “I’m just bored and want to talk to you”?

      Congratulations, you “built an app”. I mean I get what you’re saying and sort of agree, somewhat depending on his skill level. Like if this was hard for him to build that is cooler than if he was just showing off or something. Because yeah, communication is a solved problem. I once built an app that made a webpage that was sort of a coder/decoder for our messages so my then-girlfriend and I had a “secret language”. To me the appeal of that is that it was novel/silly/weird and it was unique to us. Which I guess is sorta like this app… but I dunno, this one also seems a little prone to abuse and one dimensional.

    • jdr@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      I’m disappointed that it’s not ok to say you don’t like things