It’s hard to admit, but I did lose a lot of contacts from leaving twitter. I miss talking to many of those people, my friends. Most of them are still exclusively reachable through twitter. [Read more...]
Sunday, April 30, 2023
1 year of Transing the Internet!
A small web revival community I’m in had a little event to celebrate one year of its existence. We made a really cool little collaborative artwork to celebrate!
Featuring: - scourge - curio - julian - crow & riley - sundial - benny - murumart - troy - alan - aiden - june - artemisia - octopixel
Here’s also my part of the collab on its own!
I’ll go back to studying now, haaa…
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Small update
Hi everyone, it’s been a little while.
Haven’t done much with the website these last two weeks, because… Graduation exams are right around the corner! Scary!
I do find myself wanting to write on here, but being immobilized by anxiety. My brain keeps going “you should be studying!!”…
I think I’m prepared, knowledge-wise. [Read more...]
Friday, April 14, 2023
Game logging sites
Thinking about game logging sites… I quite like the look of Backloggery, and their cool web widgets, but… It just sorta has a different focus than what I have when I play games, you know? Backloggery focuses more on achievements like clearing out your backlog, 100% completing games, and stuff like that. I prefer the fairly recently created “alternative”, Backloggd, because it’s more focused on journalling and just keeping track of what you have played regardless of ownership, and logging your personal thoughts about a game.
Only thing I think Backloggd needs to be perfect are import/export options. [Read more...]
Thursday, April 6, 2023
Discord servers and open-source projects
Just read this cohost post about a common phenomenon in online projects: Discord servers for help & support, and just service lock-in in general, I suppose.
I specially like this quote:
[…] we’ve normalized not logging in. At this point, I don’t think you can get anyone to log into anything, ever again, unless they believe that “all their friends are there.” Whether that’s literal - as in a new social network - or figurative - as in “1200 users, wow, this must be a great resource” - the friction of getting someone to sign up has to be colossal in this foul year of our lord.
I’ve read a related blog post a couple days ago - this one. (“Please don’t use Discord for FOSS projects”)
Only slightly related, I’ve been hanging out on the melonland forum, and it’s been really fun.
