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by the_librarian 2686 days ago
This may sound strange, but I am subscribed to no newsletters. In fact, I had no idea such specific, elegant newsletters even existed. I may add to the rainstorm, whether that's bad or good...I don't actually know.

In any case, I'm working on site that is to hopefully serve as a hub for 2d game developers to share their scripts and thoughts freely, gaining access to "the restricted sections" of the site as they contribute (and yes, this is inspired by Pagemaster.) and as such, the site will become a library over time.

People can take a penny, leave nothing, or give a roll of pennies and never take any pennies. People should have as much or as little access as they wish. The best thing about this idea I think is when users sign up for their "library cards" they will actually receive something that functions like one in digital form. (I may try to look into making physical cards which I have designed already! but I still have to work out the logistics of that..., haha.)

When they have cards, they will instead of "chcking out books", be able to create the books that they want, similar to wikipedia's pdf/book system. (Everything hosted on site will be open source too, to be used for whatever purposes including commercial.)

And here's where the ourobouros comes back to bite, I swear this isn't a tangent.

I think a newsletter would be a better place to start for me to prototype this idea. WEven though the site is under construction already. It will be in that state for a long time too, as this is my first time developing web content, instead of games! But I could do this.

Thanks for sharing! (I don't self promote in posts, but if you are interested, just see my profile.)

Really enjoying the content of this website and am glad to have found it.

1 comments

You might want to edit your post and remove all the newlines, it's got a very weird formatting (at first I thought it was a poem).
I'm sorry, again. (I'm doing better than yesterday, yikes, look at that one!) I though doing a line break in between every line would make it better, and it did, but man it definitely looks like a poem.

I will do my best to get this right! Apologies, seriously. So few rules on the formatting is throwing me off.

Thanks for pointing that out, honestly. I actually understand what it wants from me now (as far as text goes and not links dear god I made a mess with that.) I edited it and I think it resembles the others now, so if it's okay let me know and I'll try to fix it up if it isn't!