alt Hacker NewsThanks for the detailed feedback, really appreciate it.
On “send away”: that’s the actual release action — if you don’t tap it, the bird stays in a pending state and can resurface, which sounds like exactly what’s happening to you (and to ShinyLeftPad below, reopening the site in the same browser brings back a bird that was never sent away). We agree the button isn’t obvious right now and that’s worth fixing.
On bots / non-human birds: it’s a real concern for us too, and we’re thinking about how to discourage that without compromising anonymity. No solution yet, but it’s on our radar.
The feed icon visibility, the long list of fed birds feeling insignificant, the idea of replies/comments on birds, and cleaning up the translated text — all noted, we’re not solving these in this thread but they’re captured for the next round of work.
Replies
it seems they always get sent away as soon as you unclick it.
By the way, all your comments are banned because of the AI detector, but I'll just vouch for them. I think you're just using a translator, but unfortunately it's getting detected.
Adding the bird ID to the fed list would be nice, or some kind of limited opportunity to retrieve info later. A few times, I've wanted to share or retranslate a bird that's still on the tree but I can't revisit it unless I also grabbed the share link when I first caught it.