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After first being spotted in development in July of 2023, the Gboard beta is beginning to roll out an “Undo” button...

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[-] recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

fair enough although I'm more interested in FOSS🌱 apps rather than proprietary and especially Google🗑️ apps

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Why not HeliBoard?

Last time I saw anyone mention FlorisBoard, a whole post's comments section was recommending it. Almost like the post got brigaded by astroturfers shilling FlorisBoard. At the time it didn't even have autocorrect or other basic features. It felt like the Twilight zone.

Now, I don't trust anyone who recommends it because it had literally no features over an already established keyboard like HeliBoard, yet a entire post of evangelists coming out of the woodwork. Makes no sense.

[-] recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

?

I mean I like using FlorisBoard as it has fairly frequent updates. If you enjoy using Heliboard that's also fair.

Almost like the post got brigades by astroturfers shilling FlorisBoard. At the time it didn't even have autocorrect or other basic features. It felt like the Twilight zone.

Now, I don't trust anyone who recommends it because it had literally no features over an already established keyboard like HeliBoard, yet a entire post of evangelists coming out of the woodwork. Makes no sense.

Please don't make this a tribal/team camp thing. Bashing other projects is quite disgusting and offensive especially without any real reason.

Again if you enjoy Heliboard that's cool, just don't diss and talk down additional FOSS projects. The FOSS ecosysten is different from the traditional proprietary ecosystem like Microsoft and Oracle.

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It was eerie. I'm just telling you what my honest impression was. The thread was "What's your favorite Android keyboard?" and like 8 of the first 10 comments were for Florisboard, despite it being far behind other keyboards, and I had never even heard of it. It made me feel it was some sort of scam keyboard. It's similar to a situation where if every YouTube influencer is telling me I need to insall something, that's a giant red flag. Especially when that thing was objectively worse than other options at the time.

Don't tell me I can't comment with my honest experiences.

And here you are touting a feature that other keyboards have had for years.

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