what bad stuff specifically would happen if i changed my username, other than @ links breaking (i can handle that)
everythign is id based internally so not much.
just old links to /users/theawesome98 will 404 (and old mentions in posts and comments wont update). you can fix it by registering the username youself and telling people to go to the renmed profile.
if anything does break, thats a bug on my end so you should let me know.
and of course you can always change your name back.
you can also do https://beta.wasteof.money/$id and replace id with your user id. Since the id can’t change, this link won’t break. (it works for prod too)
I remember asking you a year ago or so, but will you ever add the ability to add . in our usernames? I think it’d be balanced if it was limited to only one and it cannot be at the beginning or end, I forked wasteof1 (I know it has different code and stuff but they’re decently similar) to test if it’d break anything but it seems to be working fine.
dots are valid in usernames, i just dont allow them for registrations because they can spell out domain names. which i’m not a fan of
im making a spongebob movie, and at the end, it will advertise wasteof.money because its about twitter drama in bikini bottom 
how “expensive” would it be to:
when someone creates a new post,
iterate through all their followers
check if they’re connected to socket.io
if they are, send a thing like {“newFollowerPost”: “<id of post>”}
add content-warnings, makes the post fold up and you have to unfold it
could be useful for discussing a topic that someone might not want to see
useful for large posts, for example oren’s fucking mile-long post about The Gays
if your goal is to make your userbase no longer trust you, congrats. that is the likeliest result of this.
How would you feel if a moderator on a website you use a lot decided to block you out because they didn't like you, not because you had broken the rules?
and the fact you've been ignoring that just goes to prove how little you care about the people in this community.
Who wants to be on a social media where the owner lets personal feelings get in the way of the actual truth?
quick suggestion for wasteof3/4
on the sidebar stats section, the date should be displayed as an actual date (e.g. Febuary 9th, 2023 or just 2/9/23) instead of an approximate time (e.g. “a year ago”)
It would be very nice if stats were included in the beta api for the explore page. I don’t see how they slow down the site at all
doing a database call to count items gets slower and slower the more items are added, it could cause database performance issues when people are requesting stats
you could cache stats or only use estimated item counts, but those options have their own issues
Cool! I had no idea wasteof.
Is this site kid-friendly? Because I'm a kid (PPPDUD) and want reassurance that this is a safe site.
i bet someone will yell the n word if you do this but please add sound so i can upload my songs because i can do it on tumblr and fedi but not here