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Twitter has announced that they have added some new user interface languages that nobody gives a damn about. Their biggest achievement: including LOLCAT as an option. Yes, people, they have localised their entire user interface using the stupid wording from the lolcat memes. You are so clever, Twitter.
Aren’t you glad these clowns spent time adding this idiotic option to make all of us laugh? I mean it as opposed of investing those resources in implementing useful and much needed features, like two-factor login authentication. That’s too boring and useful.
Or maybe just fix all their apps’ bugs. You know, like the OS X app, which sucks and looks so fuzzy on Retina displays that is unusable because it causes headaches. Or make sure your servers never go down. But no, people, this time the joke is still on us. Like always.
Update: As CaptainLove pointed out, languages are crowdsourced, so it wouldn’t have taken much effort on Twitter’s behalf to add the Lolcat language.
It’s a joke, for Christ’s sake. Facebook has had ‘Pirate’ for ages, and it made for a good joke (admittedly, for only about 30 seconds).
But still. A joke.
I have nothing against Jesus, but I have no time for whiney bastards.
Jesus needs to get laid.
Or Stop writing shit.
He might as well do both.
Language support is added by the community and not done by Twitter them selfs.
Did someone forget their coffee this morning? I know Kat’s been trying extremely hard to improve Jesus’ image on the UK site and stop the readers from slagging on his work and usually I restrain myself but a poorly researched, snarky, and pointless article does not fly.
It poses a stark contrast to the usual high standard of tech journalism on this site and is an absolute blemish on the face of gizmodo. I am not generalising completely, I enjoy quite a few of Mr. Diaz’s articles, but seriously there’s just no need for stuff like this.
Woah, someone’s upset that Twitter didn’t add a LOLDOG language!
(In all seriousness, I don’t understand what your gripe with this post is?)
Loldogs would be phenomenal, finally a reason for me to start using twitter again.
My gripe is more of a niggle that, due to the frequency of its occurrence shines a particularly negative light upon a blogger; inaccuracies due to poor research.
I mean, ranting is fine, ranting is great (as you can see, I quite indulge in it myself) but this is a rant against a company that’s not even justified.
http://blog.twitter.com/2011/02/translating-twitter-into-more-languages.html
It states very clearly in the link above that translations are crowdsourced, and twitter is not exactly involved except taking the few minutes to quality check and implement them.
This is like going me off at Google for their doodles because the email app on my Nexus isn’t working.
Although I know that blogs are opinions, false and accusatory ones are dangerously close to crossing the slander line, which is why I think articles like this are “bad”. You’re welcome to disagree of course and I’m oh-so-totally not up for starting arguments. I think because Jesus has had silly opinions based on falsities before and openly wrote about them the backlash just gets exacerbated with every new post he writes, however tongue-in-cheek.
Again, I do find tons of his posts hilarious, but 5 minutes of googling for fact-checking isn’t too much to ask for a man who earns his wage with this?
/rant
Thanks for your reply; your criticism seems pretty valid in this case, so I’ll keep a sharper eye out for errors in the future.
Thanks Kat! I really appreciate it.
This article http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/02/what-would-actually-happen-if-the-2012-da14-asteroid-hit-earth-today/ just reinforces just how well Jesus can write when it’s a topic he’s interested in, but not emotionally invested in. That’s the stuff I love reading about in Gizmodo so to both you and Jesus keep up the good work!
Thanks for the kind words — and yup, Jesus does excel when he’s writing about space / design / Lego / crazy stuff. BTW, not sure if you noticed, but I updated the post the other day.
I just noticed it as you pointed it out and once again it’s highly appreciated! I’m very glad the reader’s voice is most certainly heard when actually cohesively expressed.
Now for more serious matters; Where in the world is the LOLCAT implementation for Gizmodo? I think as a riposte for this article all Giz posts should have this secondary language as an option from now
It’s not *exactly* what you asked for, but it’s close! http://cat.www.gizmodo.co.uk.meowbify.com/
On a more serious note, you can probably tell that I respond a lot better to commenters’ criticism when it’s valid, helpful and non-incendiary. Unfortunately, a lot of commenters forget we’re humans.
The only thing I could think of when seeing that was “I can haz stylesheets?” :p
And I completely agree, which is why I am always enthusiastic to get a reply when attempting to concisely express an actual grievance, rather than my usual moaning, so thanks!
Quit yer yapping.
This is quality stuff for a weekend.
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