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    •  sqgl   ( @sqgl@beehaw.org ) 
      3•1 year ago

      Downside is minor bugs re inviting friends:

      Gets confused by invites from Facebook (can’t automatically strip the trailing tracking code from the URL).

      Fails scan of QR invite with your maybe camera app. Must scan from app.