I want to add to this. I’m not a psychologist, but I have heard a couple times about the term “third place”. It’s this concept that most people have a “place where they live”, a “place where they work”, and then a “place where they socialize”. It has been theorized that the modern working-age population is having trouble with stress and mental health in large part due to the dearth of “third places”.

The “third place” can be, for example, a restaurant or bar that you frequent (think the pub from the TV show Cheers), a book club, a sports club, or, crucially, a church or place of worship.

For Christianity at least, knowing that you were going to see and socialize with the same group of people (who share at least 1 major interest in common with you) every Sunday is apparently quite good for mental health. So, although I am no proponent of certain Western religions in general, I do think their decline has contributed to some of the mental health crises. How much? I cannot say.

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

Damn, I hoped no one would notice that yet.

Informally, I am saving the bare minimum - even IP addresses are transient in my logs, no tracking, and profile deletion is total and immediate, but I don’t think that’s “legalese” enough

Both issues have been noted, and I will investigate them ASAP

I don’t suppose you would be able to share the OPML file with me?

As in, you’d like to run your own instance? Fair, I didn’t expect that would be the first thing people would want to do, but I can make some better README docs for self-hosting

Aye, I’ll stick with the defaults for now, at least until I have a bot problem (which is in some ways a good problem to have 😋)

Noted, and I see what you’re saying. The text needs higher contrast in the read state

Ugh, first impression matter immensely, and I dropped that ball, eh? :(

For what it’s worth, I’ve set the captcha library back to its default settings, so hopefully the defaults are less obnoxious. The library I’m using is pretty popular, so I was guessing that bots would have fully trained their way around it by now, and so I chose some slightly less obvious fonts to put up a tiny bit of a barrier, but ya know, the balance of “legible for humans” and “hard for bots” is very hard. And I am no expert on captcha design

After extended sessions of any of the Telltale adventures (Walking Dead, etc), I would spend about 10 minutes post-game with the sense that real-life conversations were like, scripted, and I was navigating by selecting the best option.

Arguably, not a wrong assessment of life, but it feels really gamified when affected

I only know a couple singles, but I get the sense Primus is pretty wacky

Earl Grey with honey and oat milk. Orange Pekoe/English Breakfast with sweetener and oat milk. Chai with milk. Or a straight herbal tea