Hey Shacknews, it's time for Evening Reading. Let's officially close out our day of posting. Please take a look.
In case you missed it at Shacknews:
- Best deals from Steam Summer Sale 2023 include the Steam Deck for 20% off
- AEW Fight Forever review: Don't try this at home
- Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective review: Spruced-up spectral sleuthing
- Shack Chat: What 3DS game do you want to see ported to the Switch?
- Thirsty Suitors takes us on a journey of love, acceptance & forgiveness in November
- Ghost Bike is a paranormal biking adventure from the creator of Nidhogg
- TinyBuild issues 2023 & 2024 profit warning, stock plummets over 70% in UK trading
- Baldur's Gate 3 release date moves up to early August on PC, delayed on PS5
- Niantic lays off 230 employees, cancels Marvel game
- Colin Kaepernick teases Wild Card Football from NFLPA & Saber Interactive for October
And now... Other Stuff From The Internet!!!
YouTube TV rolls out expanded multiview test
TVs lost picture-in-picture just so Google could reinvent it in 2023.
Hasan Minhaj interviews President Barack Obama
Thanks, Obama.
Memes of the Kingdom
The amazing gameplay systems in Super Mario Maker and Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom allow for players to make beautiful music.
Zelda and Link are a true love story.
Actual Evening Reading in the form of articles
Check out some of these interesting stories from across the Internet:
- Cleveland man filmed himself raping teen girl as she fatally overdosed on fentanyl he gave her, prosecutors say
- ‘The 2024 elections are going to be a mess’ because of A.I. and misinformation: Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt
- He wanted to pet dogs for his 100th birthday. Hundreds lined up.
- Google Violated Its Standards in Ad Deals, Research Finds
- IBM to acquire software company Apptio for $4.6 billion
- Walgreens stock sinks as company warns consumers pull back on spending, COVID vaccines
- Google killed its Iris augmented-reality smart glasses as it shifts attention to building AR software
- Deutsche Bank tells investors some of their Russian shares are missing
- China’s manufacturing activity shrinks again, casting a shadow on recovery hopes
Lavar Burton has done a tremendous job as a literacy advocate.
Wild Kingdom
A wild Waldo appears!
That's a heck of a "Return to Sender."
The answer is right under their nose.
Nick Chubb is special.
Silly kitty!
Upside down kitty!
Sleepy kitty!
Angy Kitty!
Brave Kitty!
Happy for Vanilla.
BFFs.
Pride Month continues
Punk may have lost at CEO this week, but that meme is a huge W.
Good on the AEW crowd.
Supreme Court rules colleges and universities must stop considering race in admissions
I likely would not have made it to the University of Michigan if affirmative action didn't exist.
What a comeback!
The dad's spit take really ties the video together.
Shacknews Cortex Shouts dev update
It's been two weeks since we launched our new short-form social media platform, and users have been providing us with some very valuable feedback. Here's the latest from our Shacknews Cortex Shouts development project:
- Cortex and Chatty Logo Buttons
- Both of these buttons will now link back to the Shacknews.com front page
- Like Button
- Likes should be appearing properly on the feeds now
- Still working on adding a Like Button to individual Cortex Shout pages
- URL optimizations
- Cortex Shout hyperlinks are now limited to 35 character URL slugs
- Cortex Shout hyperlink URL slugs will now no longer include hyperlinks in the body of the Shout
- Image optimizations
- We have increased the resolution of images on Cortex Shout pages
- Profile pictures
- We have fixed the caching issue that was causing Profile pictures to not appear
- Mouseover text for Cortex Shouts image upload, video upload, and GIF Buttons
- We have implemented this requested accessibility feature
- Shacknews Cortex Shouts modal now dynamically expands when typing longer posts
- Implemented this in an effort to reach some sort of parity with competitor modals
- Embedding of Shouts
- We are still working on a solution to allow people to be able to share Cortex Shouts as embeds
- When users post a Cortex Shout it takes them to the My Posts page
- This was something we ended up going with during testing because the All Posts feed takes a bit to cache, and we don't want people to think their Shout didn't post
- We admit that this is not an ideal solution, and will look at some other solutions, but we are rolling with the current flow for now
We expect to have some more updates ready to ship in the next few weeks, so keep an eye on our Thursday night Evening Reading articles for all the latest Shacknews development updates.
There you have it, Shacknews. Your Evening Reading for June 29, 2023. Please consider downloading and playing our first official app Shackpets to support our company. The Hero of Time Sticker Pack is available for free on the Shackpets Sticker Store.
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