Very well written. Definitely helps in my understanding !

As a Brit, it was probably our fault in the not too distant past.

Yep. You deserve that honor for almost every frigging nation in the Commonweath, lol.

I hope they make this extension available for Firefox Android too. That’d relieve me of using two browsers in my phone, one for logged-in business (excluded from VPN) and the other for general browsing (with VPN).

Yanni.

Period.

Did you say thanks ? No? Go lay your own…

Understood. Thanks for clarifying.

I wouldn’t call a half-baked search functionality as “minor” but that’s probably just me.

“I love you… er…no I don’t…ok I do… nah I don’t think so…”

Jerboa sorely lacks the absolute basic feature of searching for keywords in posts. It only supports searching for community names. I can’t think of any other app that does NOT support general search.

So Voyager for me, mostly because it has the most active developer.

I’m so in love with Anna.

“Hurt people hurt people”

Ever since I heard this, I became relatively more compassionate towards people, even if they piss me off.

Dad nailing his son ? That’s Eww on so many levels…

I’m so in love with Anna…

The first person of color to be killed by the police.

“Hey Doc, I am here to review whatever it is that you are publishing… Me? Nope I am not a doctor but that doesn’t matter, I have this list of words in my pocket and I just need to strike them outta whatever it is that you are publishing…”

Yes.

Lol

I would say so, yes.

COVID definitely played a role in moving the bridge community to mostly online - but even during pre-covid times, I have seen physical clubs dwindling gradually. We had a couple of local bridge clubs, going down in numbers as days go by, where the players’ average age was deceased.

People getting busier and busier caused them to look for places to play deals after deals in a shorter period of time, and what’s better for it than an online platform ?

One good thing is that bridge is getting more and more competitive in recent times, and players have switched from “leisurely play” to “improving fast”. Unfortunately, online play has made bridge popular than ever, but the social aspect is diminishing, and there’s no way to deny that.

As for myself, I learnt bridge from my dad in my teens, with actual cards and human players in front of me, but then there was a hiatus of about 2 decades (you know the drill, life happens, family, kids, blah blah) - and after all this time when I got back to bridge again, online is what I see everywhere.

Not that it is necessarily bad - online platforms brought people “closer” from all over the world - but I do miss the bidding box, LOL.

The only peace you will find at the top of a mountain is the peace you bring there with yourself.