I have contemplated whole cloth forum server design. To the point of exercising some due diligence on available piles of open source code out there. Including checking out the Fediverse and their evolving technical infrastructure.It can't, In My Informed Opinion, be done by one person.
There is a fundamental big problem though. Coming up with the tech is hard work and not enough by itself. You must also have a substantial community that uses the tech. We both know how much work that is, even if you don't have to manage technical anything at all.
The only way I can see personally justifying the effort, is if I finally make and ship a SMAC-like game. It makes me money, and then I'm doing the website forum in order to run the gaming business. Which still has perils because as a one man band, I have to also keep my game alive and kicking. It's a lot of ambition to take on.
I do remember "shoving something in there" as things were burning up, posting with the expectation that things were about to be doomed. You're saying I literally had the last post before the Great Forum Outage??I do not know for sure, and can think of no good way to check - but I do think so. Again, I saw several posts by you on the morning of the 10th that I do not recall ever seeing before. I'd remember the off topic-ish stuff in Council Room. It's the smart bet.
I think a game binary that actually integrates messaging and AAR writing, might be a market opportunity for 4X games. Compared to the typical dev trend of "we'll outsource to Discord". But, the only person who's going to write that forum integrated 4X game, is me. And I know very well, all the kinds of work that are needed, that aren't that. Thing is though, I actually have the modding and AAR background to understand these issues well.
For instance, do I owe people minding my words carefully, about a volcano? I say no, I don't. People getting offended about a volcano, doesn't seem like my bad.And I think this speaks to that issue of being likeable and liked - this here's Nerd Bad Attitude that makes no friends. Being true is only a defense in Libel cases, not social things. Hypothetically, if I were to repeatedly assert some truth I've sussed out to someone who doesn't get it, trying to persuade, but to someone broadly hinting they don't want to argue/discuss it all along, THAT's boorish behavior and I'd be in the wrong, as a social rule, not even Site Policy, just the people rules as they were already in place when I showed up in 1964, and not going to change.
if offending don't get you laid nor paid,That's cultural hegemony (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_hegemony). You like everyone else are going to die. Guiding your actions by your genitals or your pocketbook is hardly the only way to be. Which raises big questions, about why these messages of "what your priorities should be" are so dominant. I know the answers. Sex sells, and capitalists want you to look at everything as transactional.
I've been sincerely worried about you for months, especially the last one.And something somewhere else about me being valued. Might have been in your thread. Stuff about unloading our mutual psychological burdens and knowing the other.
I thought this revisitation could be a source of joy. I am disappointed that you chose pain. I know it's your choice, because I've been away far too long, to be cast as some kind of thorn in your side.This, I cannot let pass unchallenged as I do a great deal above.