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Gboard is getting visibly worse almost on a daily basis, especially autocorrecting perfectly legitimate words, presumably based on dubious analysis of other people's writing. So what's worth trying? The ability to swipe type is a big plus

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm a swipe typer and I'm sticking with open-board-gesture-typing-v1.4.5.apk, which is some kind of fork of gboard before it went totally off the rails. The only complaint I have about it is that it decided to stop capitalizing "I" for some reason and I haven't been able to fix it, so I have to hit the suggestion each time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

OpenBoard is discontinued, the last update is from 2022.

Heliboard is continuation fork of OpenBoard, with more updates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Right, but do I want more updates? This feels like one of those if-it-ain't-broke-don't-fix-it things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago

Software is never perfect. Even a seemingly work-as-intended software might have niche bug or security hole.

If you check the changelog of the software, they fix a lot of stuffs and adding more feature without making it bloated. https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard/releases

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Don't worry, gboard still doesn't capitalize i.