Entrance Chat Gallery Guilds Search Everyone Wiki Login Register

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register. - Thinking of joining the forum??
August 16, 2025 - @478.98 (what is this?)
Activity rating: Four Stars Posts & Arts: 57/1k.beats Unread Topics | Unread Replies | My Stuff | Random Topic | Recent Posts Start New Topic  Submit Art
News: :dive: Are u having fun?? :dive: Super News: Upload a banner! (or else!)

+  MelonLand Forum
|-+  Interests Zone
| |-+  ⚚ ∙ Life on Earth!
| | |-+  Idea for mail swap - floppy disk exchange


« previous next »
Pages: [1] Print
Author Topic: Idea for mail swap - floppy disk exchange  (Read 717 times)
TheFrugalGamer
Hero Member
*****


⛺︎ My Room
Itch.io: My Games
RSS: RSS

View Profile WWWArt

See A Bug Summer 2025 ParticipantGreat Posts PacmanFirst 1000 Members!Pocket Icelogist!Joined 2022!
« on: July 16, 2025 @617.57 »

I've done a ton of mail swaps in the past, but they were always geared towards art--swapping little art cards, stickers, and similar. Recently, though, I was thinking about old forms of physical media, and realized it would be really fun to swap floppy disks or data CDs via mail. Basically, you would fit whatever you could onto one disk, and then send it out to someone to share. Maybe you could pick a theme for each, like "Flight" or "Nature," and then it would be up to everyone to find something interesting to add.

Would anyone be interested in something like this? I'd be happy to host/coordinate, and we could discuss ideas for what to add in the forum. Most swaps require users to fill out a small questionnaire about what they'd like to receive and if they're able to send internationally or not.

If you've never done a mail swap before, there are two ways of organizing them:
1) Everyone sends their items to the swap coordinator, who matches them up and sends them out to everyone. Usually this requires people to send postage along with their letters.
2) The coordinator assigns partners, and then gives everyone the address of the person they are assigned to, and everyone is responsible for sending out their own packages.

Here are some things I was thinking it would be fun to add and could still fit onto a floppy disk:
  • Very small pixel images
  • Crunchy black and white jpegs of someplace in your town (very small resolution)
  • Text documents of your favorite short story or poems
  • Copy of an interesting website you found, either stripped down or limited to small sites only
  • Custom webpage you made featuring a niche interest of yours, or a small puzzle
  • MIDI music

I'd be interested to see what ideas everyone else has!
Logged

elsieee
Casual Poster
*


tu stultus es

⛺︎ My Room
StatusCafe: elsieee
iMood: elsieee

View Profile WWWArt

Joined 2025!
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2025 @633.91 »

would b interested if international mail isn't so goddamn expensive  :drat:  also idk where to find those traditional floppy disks in my area ngl
Logged

woah I don't have a personal quote yet!!

MediocreMetastasis
Jr. Member ⚓︎
**


Personal Text

⛺︎ My Room
Itch.io: My Games

View Profile WWW

Joined 2025!
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2025 @649.98 »

I would love to participate!

I would prefer cd's but I can also do floppies (I just need to buy a drive and some discs).
I cool idea would be adding small games onto the discs or possibly replicating old shareware GUIs.

The only problem is I've never even posted anything before so I have to figure that out.
Logged
MediocreMetastasis
Jr. Member ⚓︎
**


Personal Text

⛺︎ My Room
Itch.io: My Games

View Profile WWW

Joined 2025!
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2025 @651.35 »

also idk where to find those traditional floppy disks in my area ngl
All my can find is ebay listings ranging from 10 - 100 bucks so it's a gamble if I can get a good deal on floppies.

EDIT
Quote from: elsieee
would b interested if international mail isn't so goddamn expensive
With Floppies and Cds I believe you can send them via letters instead of parcels.
It's cheaper for me and might be for you also.

EDIT 2
Actually nvm. I didn't consider they might be too thick
« Last Edit: July 16, 2025 @679.51 by MediocreMetastasis » Logged
TheFrugalGamer
Hero Member
*****


⛺︎ My Room
Itch.io: My Games
RSS: RSS

View Profile WWWArt

See A Bug Summer 2025 ParticipantGreat Posts PacmanFirst 1000 Members!Pocket Icelogist!Joined 2022!
« Reply #4 on: July 16, 2025 @670.94 »

would b interested if international mail isn't so goddamn expensive  :drat:  also idk where to find those traditional floppy disks in my area ngl

Yeah, that's why I put forth CDs as an alternative, although I'm more intrigued by the smaller limitation myself.

As for sourcing the disks, I usually pick them up in lots on eBay, though I can send some out if needed.
Logged

Pages: [1] Print 
« previous next »
 

Melonking.Net © Always and ever was! SMF 2.0.19 | SMF © 2021 | Privacy Notice | ~ Send Feedback ~ Forum Guide | Rules | RSS | WAP | Mobile


MelonLand Badges and Other Melon Sites!

MelonLand Project! Visit the MelonLand Forum! Support the Forum
Visit Melonking.Net! Visit the Gif Gallery! Pixel Sea TamaNOTchi