That’s what I’m here for lol. I mean this is how reddit was when I first started there. Same with digg

This is what people always miss. Generally, sites become popular because niche subcultures form outside of the “big” websites as they no longer really serve their purpose of connecting to like minded individuals. They never “start big”, they generally snowball from small hardcore users to larger more generalized userbases over time.

Young people don’t even understand that the internet isn’t only the 5 websites that have existed since before they were born lol

That’s probably a big part of it. We kind of designed the internet to become an information super oligarchy, even if it wasn’t intentional.

I’m 33 for the record so I guess I’m an older tech nerd. Nice. 😎

I hate writing a serialized format

I mean, that’s why it’s serialized. It’s not supposed to be written by hand, that’s why you have a deserializer. 🤦

I do agree that developers should use their own software, but doing so on a smaller instance with strict active user limits is probably the right call – at least until you are certain the software has a “stable” version, but even then you probably will want to run a master branch instance that is much less stable and prone to errors. Until you can afford it, it’s probably not a good idea for developers to be spending a huge amount of time debugging in-progress features (which IIRC, firefish had a lot of those.)

2024 is the year of a lot of gaming and gaming-tangential products being made with a ridiculous price tag but not a clear audience of people who ever asked for it. 🤔

I was on firefish’s previous instance, known as calckey, before I migrated back to Mastodon.

There were definitely warning signs that the project was facing maintenance issues in those days as well, and it felt that the Firefish rebrand was an attempt to “start a new”.

But just like my post on KBin’s demise, it should be a warning to those who want to make the software and host a “big” instance: Don’t do it. I think it’s smart to host your own mini instance for testing, but you should probably solely focus on the code development side of things to make sure that you aren’t over burdening yourself with managerial tasks. If your software is good, people will make spins inevitably. If people use it, then you will probably have enough people contributing that you can scale up your mini-instance if needed. But don’t jump in without the finances in place, because you’re essentially taking on two jobs.

I’m surprised it hasn’t been mentioned yet, but there’s the entirety of Full Metal Alchemist’s first TV Series that starts pretty close but ends up diverging significantly. Many people find the ending of this original anime to be a huge disappointment – to the point where they completely redid the anime.

Trigun manga and the original TV series diverged, but it’s really up to debate whether the TV show is “worse” as I really think the quality of the show is mostly good but starts to show rough edges on the occasional episode. The last episode is pretty fantastic though, so they stuck the landing IMO. I think the story of the most recent Trigun Stampede is quite a bit worse than both the manga and the original series, though I would say that even the manga made some of the same mistakes but in different ways if… that makes sense lol.

Also, and this is a bit of a cop-out, but many of the Leiji Matsumoto manga projects are adapted completely differently with each movie / series / book having a completely isolated but similar continuity. This is an intentional design and is even true with all of his individual manga works. I’s part of his “Rings of Time” system, which allows characters to exist across multiple continuities and timelines. Anyway, while most of these projects resulted in some of the greatest shows and movies of anime legacy, there are also notably a few duds so it’s always worth reading reviews of a specific series / run and see whether people recommend a different series if you are interested in the characters.

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This sucks. She was a classic voice of Anime.

AO was truly special in how bad it was. I gave up watching it somewhere around them sneaking around in tents, if my recollection serves correctly. I hear that it only got worse so I really lucked out haha.

I’ve talked to my girlfriend many a times about how disappointing all of the post tv series Eureka Seven content is. It feels like they’re all so messy and poorly executed.