Worldbuilding

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A new place in the fediverse for conlanging and worldbuilding (lemmy.radio)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by early_riser@lemmy.radio to c/worldbuilding@lemmy.world

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UPDATE: I've shuttered the forum for the time being. I don't really have time to manage it, and I have no idea how to promote it. Oh well. I learned a lot about the admin side of forums though, so I don't consider it a waste of time.

If anyone is interested, I have a NodeBB instance at https://constructed.world/. For now email is not required to sign up.

NodeBB seems to be a spiritual successor to phpBB that aims to modernize the traditional forum experience while keeping the community atmosphere. It has many features that phpBB lacks, such as user mentions, a more modern user status indicator system, real-time chat, markdown formatting, and of course, it uses ActivityPub.

I think the more permanent discussion format of forums is a better fit for this hobby, personally.

Hopefully advertising another online conlanging/conworlding community isn't too crass, but I have no idea how else to let people know it's available.

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[–] IndigoGollum@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

At a glance, i already like the use of tags instead of just categories. Is this meant to succeed places like the CBB?

[–] early_riser@lemmy.radio 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

"succeed" perhaps isn't the right word. I like the CBB and have no intentions of leaving. My only gripe is that it runs on a rather old platform. The problem I have with social media is that it doesn't foster long-lasting conversations. Ironically you CAN achieve a traditional forum experience on Lemmy simply by sorting posts in a community by latest comment and choosing the "chat" option within a thread, but even though they're trivially easy to select, since they're not the defaults nobody will bother. The default options favor novelty, so older topics get buried quickly.

But there are lots of ideas that social media brings to the table that I think enhance the forum experience without robbing it of its more cozy character.

In the end, though, my motivation is 80% wanting to improve my sysadmin skills and 20% wanting to create a community. Like how do I manage software updates, backups, migration, provisioning more resources, etc. Since I'm so green when it comes to administration, I'd suggest not using an email address or using a throwaway, and of course using proper password hygiene goes without saying.

Regarding tags, my intention was to start out with a single category and let community usage dictate which topics deserve their own categories. When I was on the Minecraft forums back in 2011, I was annoyed by how granular the forum structure was.