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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Everything that has a store requires an account.

    • Steam - you need Steam account (also applies to Valve Index then)
    • iPhone - you need Apple account
    • Android phones - you need Google account
    • Oculus before - you needed an Oculus account

    The short time during which they required a Facebook account (i.e. an account linked to an unrelated service) was a fuck-up, but they have since reversed that decision. Now it’s just a separate standalone VR-related account.

    If anything, that is still better than the current Google/Apple situation with their accounts, which link together a bunch of unrelated services (photos, email, payments, storage sync, etc.) in an inseparable way.



  • For me it’s the force of habit. I’m already used to the UI, I know where everything is, what to expect, I can navigate it very quickly and set it exactly how I want.

    All the features I’m used to like comment drafts or the comment navigation bar (jump between top-level comments easily) are right where I’m used to. Doing the Android “back” gesture from the left works like it should, I don’t have to confirm exit with a button, all these small things.

    It’s also very polished, for example I encountered two issues with Connect:

    • it didn’t handle internet dropping out (e.g. temporary loss of mobile signal) well - it just kept failing on the retry button even after connectivity was restored, had to restart it

    • the search in the sidebar didn’t show all the matching communities, this seems to have improved recently