As someone with no interest in canning whatsoever, I just want to thank you and your fellow mod below for contributing your niche expertise and no doubt enormous amounts of time and passion to the internet.

People call modding a thankless task, and at times like this it must surely feel that way, but countless people will have silently thanked you as they benefitted from your expertise and willingness to share it freely. You represent what humanity and science and education should really be about, for that I deeply appreciate your efforts.

It’s not a beauty or anything, but Trossard just has bags of end product.

The top third of him looming over the side of the stadium to peer within.

He worked hard toward and sacrificed sporting success for half his time at Arsenal to ensure the financial stability that things like the stadium sponsorship provide, I’m sure he’s happy to see that continue rather than name the stadium awkwardly after him. He really doesn’t seem like much of a sentimentalist.

It’s been about 5 years since I’ve really engaged at all with most of Reddit, the API drama and renewed push to populate the alternatives seems to have achieved exactly what you describe. I even think the small barrier to entry for registering an account in the Fediverse is filtering people.

Many of us have been longing for something like this to happen.

It’s true, any developer in any space knows that core functionality is often built quickly, while refinement and beautification can swallow up enormous amounts of time.

Combined with my experience being that the dev guy and the UI/design guy are rarely the same person, and the former is way more inclined to create things for fun and give them away.