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Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I'm sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I'm sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it's been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one back?

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[+] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I have a major issue with Gboard where it'll have a word suggested, I'll see it, type the next letter in the word, then tap the suggestion. BUT it'll have moved the suggestion from the middle to the side in favor of putting some random word in the middle and I'll tap the wrong word because of that.

It's so frustrating for it to move around like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's because the developers are self absorbed narcissists who think you're staring at the prediction bar while typing and so if you are still typing after it shows you that word, even one character, that must not be the one you're trying to type. What if you're using a keyboard how it's supposed to be used, as a utility to interact with something else rather than treating the keyboard as the center of the universe, and so looking at what you're typing as you're typing it, like a normal person? Guess they didn't think of that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'd never once considered a phone being faster. I always see typing on my phone as a pain, an I'm no great touch typist by an means (around 80wpm).

How fast do you type on a standard keyboard, for comparison? I'm curious if you like the phone better because you're not very fast with a regular keyboard, or if I'm just bad with my phone.