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Ironically I remembered the one from Serial Experiments Lain but it was so strangely advanced... And I don't recall the show actually showing much of the UI, either. Now I have to think about it...

Been thinking wistfully of anime/media where depictions of computing interfaces were more speculative and more...free? Less bound by established norms around UX/UI and design philosophies and taste and who were not just trying to reproduce something familiar.

Thinking things like dotHack's ALTIMIT OS or SE's PlayOnline interface for FFXI (haha yes this one was real, but still).

But also, does anyone have others that stick out to them?

Someone I follow has been highlighting Movim lately.

Basically, as far as I can tell, it's a Discord-like interface for XMPP (aka Jabber, aka the open-protocol and federated instant messaging protocol from back in the google talk days).

Which, being federated and XMPP-based, means you wouldn't be tied to Mov.im if it happened to go poof (and because federated, the load would be distributed amongst the different instances).

I've been curious but hesitant. The upside is it's something we could use right-now/soon that could be GoodEnough, but the problem with XMPP is it doesn't have strong end-to-end encryption (E2EE), and the way the protocol is designed we can expect it to never happen.

The discourse right now is *how* much do we need E2EE? And I'm hesitating because I agree we should really have it, but also everyone seems to be doing it wrong and we're floundering waiting for "perfect" when I think we just need "good enough"

...but I think I convinced myself we need something, so maybe I'll stand up an XMPP server some point soon? :3c

I'm curious how it's going! I recall you mentioning it was getting overloaded with new users, and wonder if that's stabilizing out?

HI IT'S BEEN A WHILE, I burnt out on trying to write up a full summary of the setting and its locations, but I still have the WIP document open so it'll happen eventually.
There's been some development! I might actually get to start running a game in this world soon! I have a couple of players making characters, and those characters have informed parts of the setting I haven't given a great deal of thought as yet. It's also given me an excuse to write up some new Gifts, as every character should start play with a unique Personal Gift.

A few days ago Vesper told me about this site and I'm going to be giving it a try and sharing my thoughts in this thread, I think!

https://valour.gg/

Having "Community first" as a motto is easy, but I'd love to see if that's actually true... Still, would love an instant messaging platform that I like to use more than Discord.

I posted about this in the Stoat server, too!

Just learned about this free, scrappy, built-by-one-person multiplayer sandbox browser game. The whole world is made up of blocks that are drawn by other players.


https://heartlands.neocities.org/

Watched this lovely video about the web revival and it's exactly where my head is at with this stuff.

We're back up and seems we survived the transfer!

I'm doing a router upgrade today on mrah.live, so expect some downtime as I swap it in, debug the setup for unforeseen things I missed in testing (should be minimal), and then some time for the DNS records to properly update and propagate.

Will post here and in Seaside Sanctuary this is complete!