I played it at a summer camp in middle or high school. We had ~25 playing one game at one point

Damn, I completely forgot about Mao. You just unlocked a vague memory from 15 years ago. I remember being incredibly frustrated while learning this, followed by the hilarity of introducing more players to the game.

There is a key distinction between a contracted public service and a private company running a for-profit business. Think buses (as you described) vs taxis.

This seems to be a recommended option

Eh, fair point. That said, I use a spreadsheet for fitness, so I might be a bit biased.

All of the functionality mentioned in the comment I replied to is trivial to automate in a spreadsheet with a few manual entries every month.

Why not just make a spreadsheet?

Can’t wait for all the NSFW subs to remove the NSFW tags

Sometimes comments won’t load for the post, it loads the comments for the last post you visited. Refreshing tends to fix it

feels like people actually want to chat a bit here as opposed to either ignoring or simply arguing like on Reddit.

That’s been my issue with Reddit for a while now. People are extremely polarized on everything. You can’t have a conversation about a casual disagreement without being downvoted to oblivion and people interpreting it as a personal attack. The smaller, focused subs are better, but still fall firmly into the groupthink dynamic of the rest of the site.

That is the best way I’ve seen this written and mirrors how I’ve felt about Reddit for a while now. Everyone is terminally despondent, and the sheer volume of posts like that seem either intentional or like people are trying to fit in by being as depressed or more so than everyone else.