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The issue here isn’t that we’re asking for donations. The massive banner is significantly impairing usability. It’s wrong to ask for donations at the expense of usability.

On the start page?

To me, the start page is mostly just a giant "open" dialog, with huge buttons and not much functionality to it, there is more than enough space for a fundraiser.

I don't even use it that much. When I want to open a file, I click on it in the file manager. When I want to create a new file, I launch the appropriate program (ex: LibreOffice Writer), which defaults to a blank document.


The telling part about uselessness of that window is that the most visible difference between StarOffice 5.2 and OpenOffice.org 1.0 was that equivalent of this window was removed. It got reintroduced probably because it makes packaging LibreOffice for macOS easier.

While it may not be essential for experienced users, I think it is very important for beginners.

Imagine you know nothing about LibreOffice, except that it is an office suite. You download the thing, install it and now what? Most people expect to have something called "LibreOffice" that can be launched and does something sensible. That's what the start page is for.

It is also the reason why it is a good spot for a fundraiser. It tells new users that LibreOffice takes donations, but it will not get in the way of experienced users who already know how LibreOffice work as they are likely to skip the start page entirely.


what specific usability has been impaired?

* moonmile/ExcelLikeUno: https://github.com/moonmile/ExcelLikeUno * Excel-like UNO for LibreOffice Calc is now available as a beta release | Moonmile Solutions Blog(Japanese): https://www.moonmile.net/blog/archives/11916


Highly abstracted social media timeline (Japanese)


How to Use

Drag and drop images related to the hiragana characters you want to learn. Designed for Japanese kindergarteners, but it should also be useful for learning Japanese.

https://blog.sushi.money/entry/2025/10/05/102003


It's like the mas that say A->[Apple drawing], B->[Banana drawing], ... ?

I got an error in your blog

> Server Error Some errors were happened in processing. We are sorry for this problem.


In Japan, orange has become the color of far-right racists. This is because the far-right racist party Sanseito party uses it.


bcachefs comments on working on a luanti client/minecraft server proxy: https://old.reddit.com/r/Minetest/comments/1leiqsw/working_o...


WaterPistolAI/libreoffice-mcp: A WIP LibreOffice MCP adapter. Now supports Writer, Calc, Impress, and Draw, with potential for more Base and Math tools to be added.: https://github.com/waterpistolai/libreoffice-mcp


any chance you can contribute a module to https://github.com/profullstack/mcp-server/tree/master/mcp_m... (we have a template directory there you can copy).


This is an extension that embeds Python in LibreOffice Calc like Python in Excel. Once the extension is installed, pandas, matplotlib, numpy, etc. are also installed, allowing tables to be manipulated as pandas data frames.

The difference with Python in Excel is that it works with Python embedded in LibreOffice. It can be used without external access.

GitHub: Amourspirit/python_libre_pythonista_ext: https://github.com/Amourspirit/python_libre_pythonista_ext

Introducing Python in LibreOffice Calc - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQLuSNHhUY4


LibreOffice Writer has an extension called Code Highlighter 2.

https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/5814


Ah, thanks, that looks cool. It's missing the core functionality I want though, which is to follow links to code on github. Maybe if this doesn't exist, I'll see if I can make something!


Hi

I used your service. However, when I log in with my GitHub account and create a repository, I get a message “Failed to create one or more repositories.” and it is not available.

What should I do?


Hi thank you for trying it and finding that bug, I can see the bug with creating the new repos but only happens when published. I'll work on a fix for this.

In the meantime if you create a private repo called `lurkhub-data` and a public repo called `lurkhub-posts` on your account then log back in it should hopefully work.


Update: this should be fixed now, thanks again for letting me know about this issue


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