Dear gamedevs: please stop hosting your communities on Reddit and/or Discord and get an actual forum. You player-base can cope with it, trust me.
@Tadano How has Discord replaced wikis?
@MasterSimper @Tadano Okay, that makes sense. I actually have noticed that with video game proto archive communities, even mods and hacks are distributed through Discord.
I've also noticed that people are using Google Docs in place of wikis as well, like these people can't even host a wiki on Fandom (which is already a bad choice in its own right).
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@xianc78 @MasterSimper @Tadano using discord for mods, particularly nintendo ones, is actually a pretty good idea because it keeps them out of the public eye and they're less likely to be taken down.
@Tadano @beardalaxy @MasterSimper Matrix has it's own flaws. I recommend XMPP.
@beardalaxy @MasterSimper @Tadano
>it keeps them out of the public eye and they're less likely to be taken down.
Tor hidden services, I2P, Usenet, forums that require login in order to view, other chat protocols. There are a bunch of other options.
Also if the ROM hack in question is a patch, then it falls under fair use.
https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/11/16/todays-kids-may-be-digital-natives-new-study-shows-they-arent-close-being-computer-literate/
@Tadano @xianc78 @MasterSimper
smartphones are literally unusable for anything productive
@theorytoe @Tadano @pawlicker @MasterSimper I still remember the days when people made it a big deal that they made a post on a device other than a PC. I can't count the many times I saw the "posting from my DS/Wii/cell phone/kindle/PSP/etc" spam.
@pawlicker @Tadano @MasterSimper I'm technically a zoomer (born 1998), but I still remember forums. I still remember hearing about Reddit becoming popular and absolutely hating it.
Furthermore if you criticize the orthodoxy you are prone to being marked to have your life/career ruined by Twitter users. To make matters worse, plenty of NPCs have no real core values other than "what will make me get ahead in life/online". So some people will do this to try to whitewash their internet past for a new crowd or to avoid being fired.
Of course this also leads to hilarious situations. Let's look at one community I have knowledge with; the furry fandom. Zoomer furries will call you a zoophile in the same way Twitter addicts will call you a pedophile for liking anything anime if you like quadruped characters. Also not even 10 years ago, the biggest cartoon and online fandom was about literally just that (My Little Pony), and don't get me started on the Pokemon fandom and eeveeloutions.
So someone I know would go on the profiles of people who would bitch about it and tried to whitewash their profiles of it, find favorites on art sites of MLP or Pokemon porn, and share them to their friends with burner accounts and watch drama unfold. This sounds crazy, but furries will crusade over why people should be canceled for everything and then end up having "cancel" worthy shit in their history, and then give into the temptation of saying something instead of learning to shut up.
@Tadano @berkberkman @xianc78 @MasterSimper
friggin hate how much of a hellhole normies have made out of the internet
I know one guy on here would puzzle employers when he told them "nope I don't have a phone".
@Tadano @berkberkman @xianc78 @MasterSimper
my phone literally is a glorified ogg/flac player so if I could get that reliated to its own device I would be perfectly fine with a flip phone
if people need to contact me they eventually learn to use e-mail
im a student. if i were employed it might be more difficult, but im enjoying not having a phone.
@clora @Tadano @berkberkman @MasterSimper @pawlicker @theorytoe Enjoy it while it lasts, unless you can get a job that doesn't require installing some phone app.
It's clever how big tech works isn't it?
Meanwhile some Wikia/fandom wiki for some kids show has tons of pages and screencaps for each character.
@MasterSimper If your forum is only getting one new thread per month, then I think a simple shoutbox or guestbook would be better options.
Ive come to despise discord so much
that ill setup an irc and thats it
well thats my plan anyway..
@xianc78 It’s a matter of resistance. Registering an entirely new forum account? Lame! Join another discord like the ten million before? Easy peasy.
Yes, you get rid of the stupid zoomers but that cuts down an incredible amount of your audience.
@brainworms Then get a shoutbox. It's real time and they usually don't require registration to use. A lot of webcomics used them back in the day.
And if your community is too small to justify a forum, just get a simple shoutbox or guestbook on your website. Those usually don't require accounts to use so users don't have to jump through hoops just to be a part of your community.