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    37 months ago

    I’ve tried 2 or 3 times, but there was nothing explaining how it worked and what I tried did nothing useful. It just seems stupid.

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      37 months ago

      You just drag your finger to all the letters in the word you’re trying to spell. If you need two of the same letter you just do a little loop while going over that letter.

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        7 months ago

        Wed erred eee wed erred erred erred erred erred weed.

        I had to do like 3 loopty-loops on E to get it to type weed. It really doesn’t like that word.

        Edit: turns out that pausing on the E for 1 second works better than a loop. Weed.

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          17 months ago

          Yeah there’s a lot of censorship shit you have to work around. It used to be a lot better before tech companies switched from simple proved to work algorithms to bullshit “ai”

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            17 months ago

            I don’t think it has anything to do with censorship and the swipe library doesn’t use AI. It’s just a very ambiguous swipe near very common letters.

            On a hunch, I tried simply holding for 1 second on the E. It seems to work a lot better than a loop. You can even see the hovering word change from “we” to “wee” while paused on the E.

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              17 months ago

              I say it’s censorship because I’ve noticed “dirty” words almost always need to be typed out letter by letter but I can swipe for 90% of the other words I want to use.

              I can use swipe to spell hypothalamus but can’t use it to say fuck without typing it in over and over or deliberately adding it to my phones dictionary.

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                17 months ago

                Right, but weed is a perfectly ordinary word and I’ve typed it on my KB many times before recently trying to swipe it.