I just wanted to say thanks to you for making this club. It has been a great time talking to people about their old or obsolete machines.

I dunno, I am specifically using forums so that I can interact with people on a more thought out medium than standard social media, where you can actually hold a conversation and not just send short opinions and quips each other's way.

More time spent writing means less incentive for writing short, poignant, viral-chasing and emotionally charged posts without thinking; unlike on Twitter for example, whose fundamental design incentivizes posting as fast and short as possible. In my opinion, that has led to people on Twitter et al to mostly keep to provocative opinions and short jokes/memes for easy likes. Quote tweets and other harassment features don't make actually talking much easier, either.

I feel like forum posts on the other hand typically have a length at which posting them requires the minimum effort to dissuade people from arguing about petty stuff. They just might overthink before posting: "is it really worth it?" I also read all of them, no matter how long!

That DS font gave me a lot of nostalgia back!

I am apparently Tepig!

 

A certain hobby has gotten pretty popular online over the last decade or so that eventually I took it up and converted it into a career.

Worldbuilding, as in creating fantasy worlds, and by extension conlanging, which is the art of constructing plausible or artistic languages from scratch, led me,to study linguistics and pursue a degree there.

Generally, I just find modern design and user experience cumbersome and inefficient so my workflow naturally draws me toward older programs and hardware.

Hm, but isn't this already being done automatically?

I think that that it's automatically converted is a newer thing or a plugin, while the URL tag is the legacy default.

I honestly think that a link list and a place to upload articles/writings (like a blog) are must haves for my sites at least. The ability to link to other pages and to convey something with words is kind of at the center of every website to me.

Planet

I'm not sure if it's a mistyped tag or if it's me who is misunderstanding how to use it, but shouldn't the "Insert Hyperlink" button output this:

Code

[url=][/url] 

Instead of this?

Code

[url][/url]

I always have to manually add the '=' sign following the url.

You can use that tag on a raw URL without the = alias function, that's why it's that way. Like this:

https://libre.town

In our family, there's a fancy self made dinner on Christmas Eve (24th), and then we unwrap the presents in the evening after dinner. They're wrapped and under a tree, and there's no lights other than the Christmas lights, which is kinda cozy. After that we go to bed.

Other than that, we don't do anything though for Christmas. The 25th is spent visiting the extended family with whom we have a strained relationship, and well, that's it. We always used to make fun about how elaborate and annoying American traditions for the holidays were compared to us here in Germany.

I personally think if a game is good already, there is no need for a remaster or remake. I don't really care much about fancier graphics as it doesn't really make a game special to me.

I dunno, I think if you really get into a game, you also become a fan of its world, and hold it a bit dear to your heart completely aside from the gameplay.

For me for example, the worlds of Star Trek or Final Fantasy XIV, or even games without a lot of world-building, like GTA San Andreas, hold a very special place in my heart that I would love to see remastered graphically. I already consider these worlds "real" emotionally, so if I'd be able to see them in better graphical fidelity that'd be super cool.

.otf works too by the way, it's the free and open replacement for the unfree .ttf standard but compatible with it.

I wanted to use Tumblr many times but I never got over how confusing it was to use. Like, I have a blog, but it's also my homepage, and I can reblog other people and put notes on them, but it's also my own blog posts, but sometimes not and it just appears as a comment or note and my followers can't see it?

Like, if it's a blog, how do I have a conversation with other people like all of these threads you always see screenshots of; I don't want to post a million one-line "blog posts" just responding to people since, you know, a blog post is supposed to be like a self contained article?

I never got Tumblr.

Im thinking of making these changes:

• Rename Chat & Forum Games to Fun & Forum Games - making it just for fun topics
• Rename Life on the Web to Life on Earth - making it all general social discussion
• Removing General Interests and adding Technology as an interest
• Adding a Game Development Board to the Workshop
• Removing the Asset Sharing board and merging its topics elsewhere

1. Sounds alright to me, although there are plenty of nice topics that aren't exactly "fun" but rather fit under the umbrella term "chat"; like for example "what did you do today?" or "what have you been thinking about recently?". I'd perhaps keep the name; chatting already has a positive connotation I think.

2. I'm not sure on this; most things that concern our society on Earth are going to invite political or heated discussions, and right now, life on the web is already a great thing to talk about with a lot of potential: most people here are here because they dislike the rest of the internet and find this place and how it works fascinating. If we kept the "chat" in "chat and forum games", that could be the place to put general chat about society and life on Earth, but through the word chat encouraging constructive casual conversation more than discussions about humanity and stuff.

3. Aren't there a lot of interests that are not covered by the others at all, like, say, birdwatching? I'd keep General Interests.

4. Good idea. Might also help bring in more of the "virtual worlds" things this forum was originally built for.

5. Yeah, we could put it in with Tutorials & Help in a new category like "Questions & Resources".



In contrast, I'd perhaps merge "Life on the Web" with "Web crafting" because most of them are about website design anyway in some shape or form