DA Yeah, I am really sad they went with 'send to specific friend' and 'send to random friend' rather than send to spcific friend, or send to random user.
I think it's because they don't want the notes to end up in an inactive lair, from what they said on the announcement thread, the list of available friends to send the notes is the result of the site checking which of your friends are active and are actually playing Arlo's, so if they instead wanted to check the entire user list it would be more resource intensive?
If they worked in the other direction - picking from a pool of users who have participated in Arlo, rather than sorting the entire userbase into 'Arlo [y/n]' - it wouldn't be too bad, I'd think.
But I also realized after reading the announcement post again that you can get tangible benefits from just feeding them back to the site, so even though I'd still go with 'send to randos' if the option were there, I guess being purely self-serving will be useful too. *shrug*
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Re: Arlo's Ancient Artifacts
(Anonymous) 2022-02-08 03:31 am (UTC)(link)Yeah, I am really sad they went with 'send to specific friend' and 'send to random friend' rather than send to spcific friend, or send to random user.
Re: Arlo's Ancient Artifacts
(Anonymous) 2022-02-08 04:47 am (UTC)(link)Re: Arlo's Ancient Artifacts
(Anonymous) 2022-02-08 11:40 am (UTC)(link)If they worked in the other direction - picking from a pool of users who have participated in Arlo, rather than sorting the entire userbase into 'Arlo [y/n]' - it wouldn't be too bad, I'd think.
But I also realized after reading the announcement post again that you can get tangible benefits from just feeding them back to the site, so even though I'd still go with 'send to randos' if the option were there, I guess being purely self-serving will be useful too. *shrug*