I responded at the top from lemm.ee, I’m only able to see the message partially after logging out and logging back in. As soon as I refresh, the message is gone.

Thanks, had to check. But yeah I have “Show Read Posts” checked.

I’m responding from lemmyonline.com because I can’t see this post signed into lemm.ee. Anyway the presentation is fantastic now, looks beautiful. Problem is I’m missing posts. A couple things are fixed that were broke by 0.18.0 so that’s great to see. If it weren’t for the missing posts, this release would be a winner. It’s a release candidate so no surprise there’s issues, but it’s looking like the official 0.18.1 release is going to be golden.

BTW, I logged out, cleared my browser cache, and logged back in to check no issues due to stale data.

Bad news for me, I use youtube a lot with an adblocker and it’s essentially ad-free. It’s going to be a bad day for me when they start cracking down. It doesn’t surprise me, but it’s a bummer.

There’s a couple reasons why I use subtitles all time. Firstly I’m getting older and can’t hear as well with background noise. If my wife is banging around in the kitchen I can’t hear dialog from the TV. With subtitles on I don’t have to mess with the volume.

Another issue is media producers (TV and film) have this idea they need to blast you out of your chair with sound effects and music. So if you turn up the volume enough to hear the dialog clearly, you’re going to get blasted by everything else. Trying to manage that with the volume control is damn near impossible. Interestingly I’ve noticed “dialog boost” appear on occasion in sound track options from my streaming provider. I use it when the option is there. That kind of indicates a global problem.

An issue related to sound leveling is actors used to come out of theater where they learned to annunciate loudly and clearly. It seems actors don’t get proper stage training anymore and now it’s okay to mumble and fail to annunciate. A decent director should never allow that.

That’s pretty significant. Petition them to come here.