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@south coral

[south coral]

here right?

[unborn minnow]

Yes, thank you!

[south coral]

np 🙂

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Can you open the network tab while you have the error popup

and click on the request that pops up

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(should probably be red but not sure)

[south coral]

i think when i opened inspect element it automatically refreshed the page

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ah yeah might have :/

then do it again on the left side

[south coral]

alr gimme a sec

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(but while having the devtools open)

(you can also pop it off in another window if it's too annoying on the side)

[south coral]

i think its the last red one

it popped up as soon as i got the error

status code: too many requests

how though

[swift egret]

aaaah oki so that helps a bit xD

[south coral]

kinda xdd

[swift egret]

Either it's too many requests on your side, or maybe on theirs (too many from different devs on this carrier/region compared to the usual traffic)

so honestly

maybe try waiting a week or so and try again :/

annoying i know

but probably the best thing to do

[south coral]

if its not asking for too much

could you try sorta making a new account but not really

like dont go all the way with it

and see if you get the same error

[swift egret]

I definitely had this error myself xD

I remember it 🤣

[south coral]

that way i know for sure its an issue from them and i can wait then.

[swift egret]

I waited a week or so and it worked, that's what i was referring to when i said that i know this part has had issues like that xDD

[south coral]

how long did it last xd

[swift egret]

honestly not sure, I wasn't in a hurry because I still had to work on my app anyway

so i tried about a week after if i remember correctly

but didn't try sooner

Also

wut

ah curse word? 🤣

[south coral]

sry i got timed out cause i accidentally said the doodoo word

[swift egret]

understandable xD

[south coral]

XDD

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you can also try here

I never tried

[south coral]

google do be too sensitive

[swift egret]

but apparently you can private message them

[south coral]

yea i guess i can wait

[swift egret]

(to be fair it's a public official server, and there are very young ppl, so... ¯_(ツ)_/¯)

but maybe try messaging them on twitter too

I kinda doubt it will work but eh

[south coral]

but if im not sure whether its an issue with me or them i cant really know whether i should be looking for a fix or wait it out you know

[swift egret]

worth a try and can't hurt to try while waiting 🤣

yep :/

[south coral]

worth a shot probably

i wouldnt expect alot to be crowding it for the great price of 25 dollars

[swift egret]

Apparently that issue is more common with phone numbers/carriers that aren't from the "main developed countries" too, but i don't know if it's a rumor or...

[south coral]

i just wish they would address it better

like instead of saying you cant verify my phone number you could say "the server might be busy, try again later"

something like that

then id know its a matter of waiting and not fixing

[swift egret]

yeah true

to be fair they do say "at the moment"

also be sure to try phone calls btw

[south coral]

it probably pushed off alot of people considering this is the first step to careers lol

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because those have less issues with some carriers

[south coral]

and you're getting stuck before ever breathing

[swift egret]

it wasn't mandatory before afaik

at least not in all countries

[south coral]

to think google of all places be facing these kinda issues

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it's quite a recent thing (i believe mandatory now bc of legal reasons)

[south coral]

whats worst is when i tried their live chat

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I think it only was mandatory in Korea before or something

[south coral]

they all said their scope is google play issues

and linked me a different chat

when i went to that chat they said the same thing like bruh

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Yeah probably the console itself

once you're logged in

[south coral]

lol, im glad i ran into you

otherwise this is already a very depressing start 😂

i already struggle with coding and many things

i dont need the cherry on top ;-;

im kind of self taught

not even proper courses but youtube tutorials xd

[swift egret]

yeah I was the exact same :D

legit learned everything about android online

[south coral]

ayy fellow android developer :))

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(i do believe it's better than "proper" courses tbh)

[south coral]

yea i dont mind honestly

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especially because the official google documentation is CRAZY good

[south coral]

only down point is when you get stuck you cant get help but now chatgpt actually made it much more possible

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like the android developers website is goated xD

[south coral]

before it was meh

[south coral]

which one?

[swift egret]

honestly between stackoverflow and the official docs it's fine imo

especially because AIs like Gemini & ChatGPT are in my opinion quite bad especially at Android

[south coral]

yea but chatgpt is alot faster in answering your very specific questions

[swift egret]

the built-in AI that's in Android Studio is quite good, but still meh

[south coral]

stack overflow is still abit of hassle

[swift egret]

yeah but in my opinion it still gives very often wrong answers

like worse than wrong

it often gives answers that work

[south coral]

ahh thats what u were talking about, didnt really know cause i use unity

[swift egret]

but are downright bad to learn

[swift egret]

Aaaah never used unity yet so not sure about this case

but for classic android apps LLMs are

they kinda give stuff that somewhat-works

[south coral]

it kind of depends i think, it was always reliable for me tbh

[swift egret]

but isn't the best practice at all :/

so imo it's very good at making prototypes

and that kinda stuff

but really bad to learn

(because you're essentially learning how not to do things in a way)

[south coral]

yea i imagine theres alot easier engines for android than unity but i got too familiar with unity tbh and i plan on making stuff for other platforms as well

i like the flexibility, its always great to have another choice

[swift egret]

yep

if you're looking to make apps and not games though

do look into #flutter at some point :>

[south coral]

xdd that sounds odd

[swift egret]

it's fun to learn

[south coral]

i was actually planning to at first but i was trying to go the official route and follow courses and got too lazy to go with it xd

but i might give it another go with youtube tutorials just like i did with unity

tell me if im taking too much of ur time btw

[swift egret]

nah don't worry ahah

honestly if at some point you want to learn native android or flutter

feel free to go into #android or #general :>

There are super good people here

(including Googlers)

[south coral]

arent we all googlers though 😂😂

[swift egret]

I wish xD

Googlers are the people working at Google

[south coral]

XDD we are different kind of googlers

[swift egret]

so.. maybe one day™️

xD

[south coral]

oh yea

these people made it big

but they have also dedicated alot for this

ngl first time im joining this server it felt scary

[swift egret]

me too xD

[south coral]

i felt like i joined the firm of google itself lol

[swift egret]

xD

[south coral]

XDD great server tho

[swift egret]

you should try to chat in #general

it's super casual

and honestly there are super friendly ppl

especially if you're looking to learn

[south coral]

nice

[swift egret]

(i legit learnt so much from this server so i'm kinda promoting it to everyone now lol)

[south coral]

XD sometimes the chillest servers are the most useful

[swift egret]

true

Welp

Gonna go make dinner :>

[south coral]

what kind of apps you make or games btw

oh alr

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I haven't made a video game in aaaages

but i mostly do websites / basic android apps

(usually stuff i need)

it's mostly just stuff for fun when i'm bored 🤣

or stuff i need

Like uuuh

[south coral]

oooo nice

[swift egret]

One example i like to give

bc it's absolutely stupid xD

Is that i have chickens at home

(parents home at least)

[south coral]

xdd

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and like the "chicken house" (don't know how it's called in english lmao) it at the very end of the garden

[south coral]

chicken cage maybe xd

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and you have to open / close it every morning and night for them to roam around the garden

[south coral]

had one at my grandma's place

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and sometimes it RAINS SO MUCH HERE

[south coral]

luckyy

rain is nice

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so i did some kind of improvised motorized door

added some electronics to it

[south coral]

WOAH

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in this thingy

and made an android app to control it

[south coral]

thats some genius level stuff xdd

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so i can close/open the chicken door 🤣

also has an auto mode using the brightness outside

[south coral]

omg i could never know how to do this stuff bro 😂

[south coral]

dang

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Nah honestly you can!

[south coral]

im abit confused how it works

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It was legit super ez to make

[south coral]

does it work over wifi? bluetooth?

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wifi!

installed this relay on the roof of the house 🤣

that way we have wifi in the whole garden

(not craaazy wifi tho, quite slow tbh)

but works for the chicken door too

[south coral]

xdd

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but honestly it was one of my first "projects"

so it was soooo "too complicated"

like I could have made it 1000% simpler

just didn't know stuff yet 🤣

[south coral]

that sums up all my codes xdd

[south coral]

oh yea i know the feeling

[swift egret]

It's a programming curse tbh

[south coral]

except im too lazy to learn new things

and always want to stick to what i know

i get so pissed when theres no other way around one thing even if its going to be ineffecient and spaghetti code lol

[swift egret]

You learn more -> you feel good -> you discover & understand a new "depth" of code and how more complicated things work -> you're like "bruh they're too good" -> you learn more

endless cycle

[south coral]

yea tbh once u do learn that one thing uve been avoiding

u always realize how convinient it is

[swift egret]

yeah true!

[south coral]

just recently learnt about public static variables in unity

probably not advanced at all

[swift egret]

i mean still

this used to scare me so much

xD

[south coral]

but these are variables that can be refrenced from any script and any scene and the script itself doesnt need to be attached to a gameobject 😲

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the Java-style stuff like

[south coral]

to me this was revolutionary

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protected static void

great that you learned in this order though honestly

i know people that learned first those ones

and use them everywhere

but then have absolute terrible performance

[south coral]

i always had to do "DontDestroyOnLoad" code and i always had to destroy extra instances when i return back to the scene and it was very stupid

[swift egret]

ah yeah i see the vibe i think

xD

pain

[south coral]

these are things you dont learn from tutorials tbh

you just discover them as you go

and chatgpt does kinda use them so u gotta understand them

but what really pushed me off learning it

is because chatgpt didnt just recommend it

it also did this "public static singleton"

two things i had no idea what they are at the time

instead of one at a time

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ah yup

[south coral]

ofc chatgpt just gives you the best solution and doesnt give a you know what if its too scary looking or one at a time thing lol

anyways i kept bargaining and asking for alternatives till it narrowed down to one at a time

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yup good strat xD

[south coral]

xd and thats the way to go tbh

judging by the pic u sent

u probably majored computer science

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started in medicine actually xD

[south coral]

i had a friend that did similiar stuff and he was cs

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But i'm still in school atm and in computer science

the chicken thing was waaaay before though xD

[south coral]

ahh see

and you still bought computer chips and wires to do all that?

[swift egret]

yeah!

That was my hobby back then

making apps / games / websites

[south coral]

thats crazy

[swift egret]

actually didn't want at all to do a job in programming / dev

i was too scared it would destroy my hobby

like

[south coral]

see i always use the excuse of not being in computer science for progressing much slower than anyone else

but i get proven otherwise alot xdd

[swift egret]

it was a proper passion / after work thing, so i was genuinely worried that:
• jobs would be passion-less and just be like "make red button here"
• if i worked on code from 8am to 7pm at work, the LAST thing i would wanna do when coming back home would be to code lol

[south coral]

i can relate, i was showing my sister a game i was working on, and she had a following on instagram and suggested advertising it. i was really scared something like that would get people to rush me and stuff. i really have a slow pace and because i have pretty bad circumstances as well xd

[swift egret]

but I joined this server while in med school, and they invited me to Amsterdam to a big conference

(Google I/O Connect Amsterdam)

And i met sooo many people IRL from this server or not

but so many ppl that genuinely loved their work

that they basically convinced me I liked programming even as a job xD

[south coral]

dang

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And I changed career the same year ;-;

[south coral]

funny how different the unity server is lol

atleast the official one

[swift egret]

ah yeah?

(never been on it)

[south coral]

official one had quite the d bags lol

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ah yeah lol

[south coral]

im not the type to argue online

[swift egret]

true for most dev servers ngl

[south coral]

but another person got heated for me xd and started arguing

i took his side obv

but its still stupid

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yeah true

[south coral]

some of them have superiority complex

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100% agree

[south coral]

the need to feel smarter than everyone else and belittle everyone's knowledge

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many ppl forget that most of us are doing this for fun or not as a main career, that some of us are SUPER young, and also that the end goal is just to progress

if it was a contest i'd be in a hackaton not discord xD

[south coral]

and also straight up only sending links to forums or documentations instead of explaining anything

very impatient too

[swift egret]

those ones i kinda understand though, beause i often do it by accident 🤣

[south coral]

over the years ive really learned that noone has a right to make fun of your code

or the knowledge you have over coding

because even big games and really popular indie games have somewhat laughable or terrible code

and its fine who cares

it works and the developer understands it well

[swift egret]

Essentially, at least personally, I mis-judge the level of the other person (often if their question was quite well written), and so I just send documentation as I think they'll know their way around it and it will be more useful than anything i could say

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true

[south coral]

i also had some friends that just wanted to keep braggin about their coding skills or whatever

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it's good to criticize though

[south coral]

and nitpicking every little thing you do

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just not do it in a superiority complex thingy

and not to make the other feel bad

[south coral]

so someone was pointing to me that my code isnt good because i dont have private variable with an underscore before the name

and i literally dont give a dang what they think

i geniunly hate doing it

its confusing to me

[swift egret]

lmao

that's such a nitpick okay

xD

[south coral]

and i very rarely need to know when a variable is private or not

[swift egret]

it's not even code it's semantics

[south coral]

like stfu and get over it

[swift egret]

i never do it too xD

[south coral]

yea its very unnecessary

[swift egret]

absolutely hate this underscore thing

IDEs put special colors now

so it's fine without

[south coral]

FRR

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thankfully it's something that's disappearing a bit

(on android i've not seen this in years)

[south coral]

i quite any tutorial that has it immiedietly 😂😂

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🤣

[south coral]

im an already confused person bruh

no need for more confusion

[swift egret]

ah sorry i really have to go xD

[south coral]

np 🙂

[swift egret]

Need to help with the cooking or i'm gonna get destroyed

xDD

[south coral]

i had fun talking to u alot :))

[swift egret]

Yeah same :D

[south coral]

uh oh dont let me get you in trouble now XD

[swift egret]

If you ever go into #general, feel free to @ me

[south coral]

sure thing 🙂

u gotta teach me how to do cool machine stuff like u do sometime XD

[swift egret]

Honestly when you want 👀

It's really not hard

Like the chicken thing is probably less than a 100 lines total