Community Growth?

[shiftyBOT]

I mean shutting them out of the IRC
...
besides, why would they need that.......
I see your point. I just don't want people going
"haha U suck n00b UR stupid for using linux U dumb***"

but i see your point.
its unfair to shut them out
I just don't want to deal with haters and trolls :/

[CrusaderDeleters]

(I don't want it to be know on steam,there are to many windows trolls there).

Steam is a pretty large community, and I don't think shutting them out is the best course of action...

Steam's a great place for things like the maps. Would make it helluva lot easier to share it with everybody else.

I didnt think people used irc that much any more... I have't used it since my tfc days really.

You'll be surprised. Game's Communities are trying to bring IRC back into equations. Games like Kerbal Space Program, Minecraft, Starmade, and a well bunch of others are actually quite busy. I honestly think Minecraft has the largest IRC community currently, with a large load of channels for mods, support, and just basic and general discussions related and unrelated to the game. The Support channel (#Minecrafthelp) gets a large load of traffic, even when it wasn't supported by Mojang.

[shiftyBOT]

huh. didnt know that

~shiftyBOT

[Ralp]

I bet the community would be larger if people could learn how to check that damn "Private" box! 

[DivinityArcane]

Would that be a dedicated IRC channel for HW? A server like Freenode or even Rizon may be better for that. Anyway, if it's a stable thing, I'll stick around on it. I still use IRC.

[Hipshot]

I installed irc too yesterday...

[CrusaderDeleters]

Would that be a dedicated IRC channel for HW? A server like Freenode or even Rizon may be better for that. Anyway, if it's a stable thing, I'll stick around on it. I still use IRC.

Esper's always up and running. Had a problem only once with them, and it was a hardware fault. And I'm talking about, say, 3 years of IRC use?

[FFSnipe]

I have been a member of quite a few small dev team/indie game forums. perhaps getting connected to some social network sites? twitter is the one i am thinking of the most. Even if it is just one tweet every day, or every other day, I think it would help. You would be surprised, the amount of followers you can get in a few days. Tweet something, someone retweets it, your followers followers see it, so on so on.

oh, and i know ive been absent for a while, my laptop got destroyed, and i lost all the custom stuff i was working on.... so in my defeat, i just gave up instead of starting completely over. but i need my editing back. its like.... crack or something 

[CrusaderDeleters]

I have been a member of quite a few small dev team/indie game forums. perhaps getting connected to some social network sites? twitter is the one i am thinking of the most. Even if it is just one tweet every day, or every other day, I think it would help. You would be surprised, the amount of followers you can get in a few days. Tweet something, someone retweets it, your followers followers see it, so on so on.

oh, and i know ive been absent for a while, my laptop got destroyed, and i lost all the custom stuff i was working on.... so in my defeat, i just gave up instead of starting completely over. but i need my editing back. its like.... crack or something 

That's a nice idea. I'd share a few facebook posts, and this way Hipshot could even give quick updates to those who don't use the IRC, or do some Mod / Map features every now and then.
Also, was it a disk drive failure? If not, you could swap out the Hard Drives, and keep your map.

[FFSnipe]

i wish thats all it was... sadly it was more than just my maps too. all my custom tilesets, sprites, everything.

[CrusaderDeleters]

i wish thats all it was... sadly it was more than just my maps too. all my custom tilesets, sprites, everything.

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