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▲ 4 r/ParallelView

question from a cross viewer

i prefer cross viewing. i can do parallel or cross as needed but i like how i can make cross view pictures really physically big on a distant screen, like on a computer or TV, or if i’m on my phone i can always flip to landscape when i want and still view comfortably. i’m confused about something though - are all you parallel viewers using phones in portrait orientation? or are you on VR headsets? if you’re ever on Reddit or Facebook on a computer and looking at stereograms, do you shrink your browser window to set a maximum size? i just feel like i must be missing something here and i’d like to understand your workflows and preferences because it’s interesting and maybe i can improve CrossCam or StereomancerBot or something else using that information.

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u/KRA2008 — 2 days ago
▲ 1 r/help

how is the bot i made both a registered app and also "an unregistered automated account"?

i made the bot u/stereomancerbot. i have done all the registration that i believe is required and it was granted the "App" badge on its profile. but still it says "This is an unregistered automated account". it is automated, but as far as i know it is as registered as it can be. is this a Reddit bug? what else can i do?

https://preview.redd.it/z0a9i4h4cb9h1.png?width=349&format=png&auto=webp&s=3b2facc0ad88075ddf222adefb29d0963d0f219d

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u/KRA2008 — 13 days ago
▲ 1 r/test

this is a gallery with body text and captions

this is my BODY TEXT

u/KRA2008 — 13 days ago
▲ 2 r/CarPlay

SOLVED: display a black, empty screen on demand

I wanted to be able to make all the crap on my car’s infotainment screen disappear as much as possible for easier night driving and maybe other times too when I’m feeling overstimulated. I could not find any solution online but I cooked up my own. I’ve found a way to do it cleanly without any third party apps or mods, right in vanilla CarPlay. If your infotainment system comes with a way to do this for you stock, I’m happy for you, but mine did not (2023 VW ID.4). The result is the first image in this post’s stack.

Here’s the one sentence setup that maybe is enough for some people to just run with: just set your widgets screen to display black pictures and disable “Show Wallpaper”.

Here’s a more detailed step-by-step:

  1. Use your phone’s camera to take a completely black picture by turning off the flash and covering the lens tightly with your finger.
  2. Put this single black image by itself into a new album on your phone and call that album something helpful, such as “CarPlay Black Screen”.
  3. In the Settings app on your phone, go into General, then CarPlay, then select your car(s), then go into Widgets.
  4. In each of your stacks, add a new widget, and select the Photos app, then swipe over to tell it to shuffle through a chosen album, and tap “+ Add Widget”.
  5. Tap the little “i” icon on the new widget to configure it, and tap on “Choose” next to Album to choose the album, and select the previously made “CarPlay Black Screen” album. Once that is chosen hit the “X” up in the corner to go back to the widgets screen.
  6. On the bottom of the widgets screen, flip the switch to off called “Show Wallpaper”.
  7. At this point you could go ahead and remove all the other widgets in the stacks if you want, or just move your new widgets to the top of the stacks, but you don’t have to, you’ll just have to swipe through widgets on your infotainment screen later if you don’t rearrange them here.
  8. Get in your car if you’re not already and get CarPlay initialized on the infotainment screen.
  9. On your infotainment screen, swipe over to the screen that’s all the way over on the left side. If you removed all other widgets from your stacks you should have your black screen! Otherwise, just swipe up or down through the widgets there until you find your black pictures.
u/KRA2008 — 1 month ago
▲ 15 r/ParallelView+1 crossposts

Just curious, why mismatched activity levels/user counts on r/crossview and r/parallelview?

According to the stats I can see (as of today), the two subs stack up like this:

SUB weekly visitors weekly submissions members
r/crossview 6.9k 115 75,632
r/parallelview 3.9k 244 37,916

TL;DR: why don’t crossviewers post more?

Why does r/crossview have about twice the "people" of r/parallelview but about half the submissions? The data itself could be misleading or out of date or dirty or whatever, but just speaking anecdotally, I noticed once I got u/StereomancerBot working reliably that there are a lot more r/parallelview posts than r/crossview posts. It also kind of feels like posting (aside from the bot) has slowed down in r/crossview in the past few months. Is that because of the bot for some reason? Are r/crossview users shy? Does the sub feel toxic to contribute to or something? Does r/crossview have a bunch of dead accounts that left Reddit when they shut down third party apps?

I know the two viewing methods have some natural difference in popularity just because of different people's preferences and how screens and tech have changed things over time, but I'm just more puzzled by the ratios expressed above rather than comparing the actual sub counts. Why do parallel view users seem to be far more eager to make their own contributions than cross view users?

Or is this type of question meaningless because the subs are so small and dominated by a few accounts that there isn't really any pattern here?

Edit: I realized a little later that dead accounts aren’t an explanation, because dead accounts wouldn’t show up in the weekly visitor counts. So r/crossview users are either much more likely to be lurkers/bots for some reason or there is something else going on.

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u/KRA2008 — 2 months ago