Both factors are related, I couldn’t find the article I was looking for but this one touches on it too. There’s a section for cell phones specifically

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galápagos_syndrome

The term “Galápagos syndrome” was originally coined to refer to Japanese 3G mobile phones, which had developed a large number of specialized features that were widely adopted in the Japanese market, but were unsuccessful abroad.[6][7] While the original usage of the term was to describe highly advanced phones that were incompatible outside of Japanese networks, as the mobile phone industry underwent drastic changes globally, the term was used to emphasize the associated anxiety about how the development of Japanese mobile phones and those in the worldwide economy went along different paths.

When a technology advances quickly and gets adopted in the local region (ex. Japan), it can be difficult to change when other parts of the world move forward with a different standard.

The opposite can also happen, where a region is slow to change and then haphazardly moves forward when the benefits are proven elsewhere. American payment systems for example

How long did Digg last with that again

I used Trakt in the past, but nothing recently.

If I started tracking again, the main use case would be looking up a person and getting a quick list of where I’ve seen or heard the person before. I don’t know what sites do that.

Otherwise it can also be useful if a friend asks if I’ve seen anything good recently.

No ads.

Incredible range of customization and third party app options.

If I need to go on new Reddit for something, I get exhausted by all of their bs very quickly

Disinformation is bad no matter which side it appears to be “helping”. It would be just as easy for the other side to intentionally spread disinformation on Wikipedia in order to discredit it.

Hmm, could we do away with months and just number the weeks from top to bottom? Or better yet, number the days.

Happy 2026-77 everyone!

At the same time, weeks do let us organize our working and non working schedules neatly.

I don’t ask for permission because it’s almost always yes, but I will delete it if the person asks.

I like to leave a comment because it helps people discover the smaller communities

Does it? I haven’t seen complaints about bricking, and limine should make it trivial to undo a bad update. It wouldn’t need a redownload

Also these stats aren’t based on downloads

I’m not familiar with Manjaro, what was wrong with it?

Limine is also a good reason for people who want the benefits of Arch but are worried about bad updates. Being able to rollback to an earlier snapshot in the boot menu is nice for new users

This one probably needs a NSFW filter, for “I was eating” reasons 😅

Instead of buying a new printer, can you print at a local print shop/library/university? That might end up being the cheapest option

Why are they so hell bent on finding a reason to scan eyeballs

A few months later it is then

Thank you!

I was curious about what parts of it felt alpha, whether it’s the power user features vs basic browsing.

I’ll just try it later and report back 😄

Well that’s not great :(

Using it very briefly I’d say it’s more like Alpha currently…

Is it usable as a daily browser, or should I wait a few more months before trying it out?

Edit: see the reply on my comment

I’m not sure if I understood this criticism. The Reddit thread links to this page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20251203060750/https://kagi.com/changelog#5340

Our image search became even better with the inclusion of two more sources: Yandex Image Search (widely recognized as one of best image search services) and Openverse (vast collection of openly licensed images). Kagi is doing the hard work so that you don’t have to.

Are they financially supporting or sponsoring Yandex in some other way?

To me, this sounds like they added the option to run an image search on Yandex? I use a browser extension for image searches that has a number of options including Google, Bing, Yandex, Baidu, Sogou, etc., and users are free to choose which ones they want to try searching on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search_by_image/

I also remember seeing Bellingcat (who has done excellent investigative reporting on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine) using Yandex tools to gather information because it has information on the region that other English/Chinese focused tools don’t.

I don’t doubt that Yandex tries to manipulate information in favor of the government in Russia. Rather with the right browser protections, someone can take advantage of their free tools and cost Yandex money without Yandex benefiting from it. It’s not necessarily a bad thing for Kagi to let people do that?

Neat :D

That’s not the only feature: if you place a file named .XCompose in your home directory, you can add custom combinations! So, if I want to send a heart, I can just hit Compose < 3 and I will get a ♥. Besides emoji, I also find myself often looking up various arrows and punctuation: now I can simply hit Compose - > and get a nice → arrow quickly.

From what I remember, they were going to “use AI” to handle moderation. It felt like a grift from the beginning