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can’t go back home after opening a push notification

(iPhone 14, iOS 18) when you tap a push notification it takes you to the post that’s being referenced, but if you try to hit the back caret button to go back to the home page, the screen flashes and it stays on the same post. I’ve seen this one a few times, I think it’s trying to use the browser’s “back” functionality but since it opened directly to the post, there is no “back” to go to

@almulma

Mar 25, 2025

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stuck on a post when launching the app from a notification for that post

if i get a notification that there’s been an interaction on my post or someone else’s — i’ll click on that notification, see the post, and then will try to navigate to the rest of the app. but none of the links work to take me anywhere else. i am stuck on that post. does this make sense? 👀

@chronicwebuser

Mar 22, 2025

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can’t go back when i open a notification (ios)

If I click a notification and I want to navigate to the homepage from there, it won’t let me swipe away or go back. I’m just stuck on that page unless I close the app entirely and reopen it.

@sidney

Sep 5, 2024

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learn to scrape the internet

you people seem cool so i try to avoid too much nerd/code/tech talk but here we go anyway. 🤓 one of the most useful skills i have acquired as a coder is the ability to steal things from the internet. there is so much stuff on the web that you ostensibly are supposed to pay for, but with a little coding know-how you can scrape the relevant data, download it to your computer, keep it forever and never pay a dime for it. Or maybe pay for it once but be able to cancel your ongoing subscription to it. I have used this skill to steal / borrow / archive: - workout videos from a paid yoga app - cocktail recipes - food recipes - music - library books - instructional materials - graphical source material for making art Depending on what you’re doing, this can require more or less technical skill, but likely less than you expect. this is also a thing that chatgpt is very good at walking you through, if you ask it for help. it feels especially rewarding to learn a new skill in service of saving yourself money, too. Even if the content in question is free, it’s nice to know you’ll have it for eternity even if a provider goes out of business, and it enables you to search/organize/manage the content however you like (with no ads, paywalls, etc). it’s a useful exercise in digital literacy that demystifies a little bit of the technical world that surrounds us, and it always gives me a thrilling little frisson of “civil disobedience” or at least naughtiness.

@heumann

Apr 28, 2024

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Stubbornly continuing to pronounce a word wrong in your head

i still read hyperbole as “hyper-bowl”

@heumann

Mar 18, 2024

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ios animated stickers

so first of all, if you didnt know, you can press and hold on stuff in a photo on your phone and create "stickers" you can send in imessage. but i just discovered you can press and hold on a "live photo" and get an animated sticker i am going to be so annoying in chats with this feature (I don't think pi.fyi supports gifs/animations so visit link to see example)

@heumann

May 5, 2024