Has Gboard gotten worse for y’all? For past year or so it’s gotten progressively worse for me. Has it been your experience too?

  • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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    10 days ago

    There’s two or three problems happening.

    First, transferring a full-size keyboard to a phone is a GARBAGE concept.

    Second, you know it’s a garbage concept because almost all the innovation in this space is based around, " How can we make this GARBAGE concept work?" So you have lots of clever work around like autocorrect and swipe.

    Third, because these solutions require a bit of programming oomph, they are liable to corporate whimsy.

    My solution: ditch the full size keyboard for an input method designed for small screen. Suck it up for a month, learn a new system, and be set for life.

    I use this guy: https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key , a 9-key system that has buttons big enough that you can actually confidently type when you mean to type without autocorrect, auto predict, or any kind of statistical-computational shennanigans. Learn it once and never worry about this shit again.

    Edit: Please reply with “I’m too lazy to learn a new input method and don’t appreciate you making me confront that fact” instead of downvoting.