Haha, nice.

It’s a shame Letter Boxed won’t accept proper nouns.

Always my favorite part of those videos. ^.^

Your clue was clever!

Nice one!

Well done! 🌱

Nice of Letter Boxed to show support for day drinking…

Lol, thanks. One of my quicker solves, too. It just popped out at me.

… Rather like that randy blighter.

It wouldn’t let me go to this community for the same reason, but I found a work around by searching your name, then going to post history and accessing the community that way.

😂

Lemmy’s navigation and UI in general could definitely use some work, but the way you’ve managed to get where you wanted in spite of that is impressive!

ITA on Lemmy’s community being more like what the Internet was supposed to be than the hellscape Reddit has become. I’d switch over full-time if I hadn’t made commitments over there. -.-

What happened to your original account?

I set the whole sub as NSFW!

So Lemmy probably thinks we’re a porn sub now, lol. And I assume the default behavior would therefore be to blur everything.

Which it is in the browser, as far as I can tell, but the apps are still pretty inconsistent. So for the time being, I think the safest course of action is just to manually porn-flag everything. -.- Not an ideal solution, but the best we can do until Lemmy gives us spoiler post flairs.

Jerboa stopped working for me altogether! Don’t know why, but it crashed on startup, over and over. So now I’m on Connect, too. :)

Thanks for the report!

Alright, well until there’s some predictability in how blurs are handled, I guess the safest bet is to manually NSFW everything. Oof.

Antiques memes roadshow is pretty good, too, for that sweet nostalgia dopamine magic.

Yes, I saw that one the other day! Love the vintage memes. :)

You know on Lemmy I find myself cruising the main page more than anything. It’s actually fun without the bot spam and algorithm shenanigans that ruined r/All on Reddit years ago.

Also a good way to find new stuff you never considered before. Lmk if you find anything neat, too!

Haha, don’t worry, I figured it out, everything’s okay.

I didn’t have NSFW turned on in my personal settings, that’s why it looked nuked.

But once I enabled it, everything came back.

I think Lemmy will auto-blur all solution images from now on, too, which is nice.

Anyway I updated the sidebar to tell everyone to turn on NSFW in their preferences; but we may have to remind newbies since it’s not immediately obvious what’s going on!

Okay never mind, I’m a moron.

It only wiped everything for me because I didn’t have NSFW enabled! 🤦‍♀️

So everything is working normally, you just have to enable NSFW in your personal settings to view the community now. I’ll edit the sidebar to make that clear.

Oh my god. I enabled NSFW for the whole Lemmy so screencaps could be blurred and I think it deleted all posts on the front page!

But at least image spoiler tagging should work from now on. -.-

Okay, thanks for lmk.

I just went back and NSFW’d my previous solutions, sorry about that, and I’ll make NSFWing a rule on the sidebar.

There’s no u/AutoModerator here so I can’t set up auto-spoiler/NSFW-tagging here, but hopefully if people see the rule, they’ll do the right thing.

Without NSFW, does it show the actual words for you in the thumbnail? On both my phone and my computer it doesn’t, it just shows the letters with the zigzag pattern. I only see the answers when I open up the full image.

NoNot that I know of. But on my phone at least the thumbnails are so small it doesn’t give away the answer. Let me know if it’s different for you.

Using NSFW is a clever workaround! If it becomes an issue we could all just use that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Look out for affixes. For example, the past tense of most verbs ends in -ed. And many words also begin with the prefix de- so if you’ve got a d, that’s a decent place to start building your solution around.

Ditto for s, which is the most common plural suffix.

My personal strategy is to first take stock: How many vowels and liquids (L & R) do I have; are there any weird consonants to manage? (Q, W, Z, X, V)

I try to get as many of the difficult letters as I can in my first word, then build the second word out of the easier leftovers. The anchor letters (S & D as described above, among others) are key to connecting the words.