Part of a strange, larger trend where things get worse as technology advances.
autocorrect, search engine results, google now -> assistant, voice recognition.
All of those seemed to be much better a few years back.
Swipe on my gboard has definitely gone worse lately. Same for my YT recommendations. I never ever watch shorts, and 90% of my recommendations are 13sec clips.
My gboard has gotten way worse. I also have 2 languages turned on but I have multilingual suggestions turned off and it still tries to suggest words in the wrong language half the time
That’s you assuming they show you what YOU want and not what THEY want you to see.
You need to very consistently mark every short video as Not Interested and then avoid watching them like the plague. It worked for me but took about a week of doing it.
What’s even more annoying is they’re capable of recommending interesting long videos, they purposefully recommend shorter videos on mobile (like less than a minute), on pc they recommend more long videos and the TV app seems to have the most long videos
Something gets good, but the team needs to justify continued pay so they keep developing what doesn’t need development.
I texted to my husband " have a good day", and it corrected to " have a good avocado". Have a great avocado everyone!
Have an idea of what I have a great day and I will be able to see you soon answering the phone if you have to be a good time to call you can see the attached file is scanned image in PDF format the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the
What do you think about this guy in a very long way and I don’t know if he’s a bad person but he doesn’t have a problem or a problem or a problem with him and he doesn’t want me back. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I can relate
I thought I was there only one spring spring showing sorting sowing great avocado blessings to everyone! (Swipe typos left in for Emojis emojis emojis emphasis)
Avocados are great!
I beg to differ.
That’s fair, more avocados for me.
Yes my Gboard swipe is definitely worse than before. It won’t remember custom words anymore, sometimes decides to not recognize my swipe and just adds the first letter, and gives wrong suggestions more and more, even when I know my swipe pattern is correct.
Swipe was by far the best. Why did they discontinue development? To much competition?
Swipe was bought by Microsoft years ago, and who knows why they do what they do. The only update I’ve seen in recent memory for it was them adding Bing to the top row.
Glad it’s not just me thinking that.
For some reason, half the time I try to swipe “because” it comes out as “beefsteak”. No idea why and it’s really annoying but I can’t remove beefsteak from my swiftkey dictionary because I love tomatoes.
Along with search and many other things. Probably most of theur devs are optimizing user distraction and ad click rate, instead of… basic functionality 😐
I’ve been noticing it for years. Back when I first started using Swype and then Swiftkey you could vaguely swipe the word somewhere close on the keyboard and it would be correct, then I had to keep resetting the predictions every few months when they got bad. Eventually that stopped working and would make weird suggestions even when super careful. I switched to GBoard which was a bit better but the predictions seem to be getting worse there as well.
Yes 100% no matter the keyboard I use swype typing (and heck even regular typing) ha sntoigsbly gotten worse as the years/time goes by and I don’t get it. You’d think they’d get better.
This is on iOS and Android. (iOS swype by far is dog shit, the worst of the bunch)
Every damn time I type “for”, it auto corrects to “fir”. I’m about to blow a gasket.
I don’t know about you but I regulary text my friend to ask how their fur trees are doing.
I just want my phone to stop changing its to fucking it’s. Goddammit, stop fucking changing a valid word to something else.
Yes, it was unusable on my work tablet this week. Just making up weird ass words that make no sense. Division kept becoming driven like 20 times
YES. It’s so frustrating now. And Gboard suddenly keeps trying to turn every word I type that starts with a “p” into “poo apper”. Wtf.
Yes, Swiftkey became total garbage so I went for something completely different with https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key and like it so far. Takes some time getting used to but it’s a neat way for input.
Huh, it’s the same author as lemmy.
For iPhone I always feel like autocorrect was better 5-10 years ago but maybe just a selective memory (the past is rosy). Seems like in my memory you could just type without looking at the keyboard and it would all be fine. Sometimes nowadays it tries ti correct based on context or grammar but sometimes it makes no sense and you have to force it to say what you mean. I clearly typed fucking, hitting the wayyy right side of the f away from the d as possible but how many times will apple correct to ducking…several. Several times.
It was better when I turned it off :)
I wish there was a phone keyboard with the backspace key is higher up. Ive been using touchscreen keyboards for over 15 years and still cannot convince my thumbs thats theres no bezel at the bottom.
I wish i could customize a keyboard for how my thumbs want to type. Itd look weird, but qwerty is weird in todays age anyway.
Even if the numbers could be on the bottom row below the spacebar, that would be a game changer.
You on Android?
I am.
Interesting. Thank you.
