RIP Cohost
Oct. 1st, 2024 10:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kayinRIP to a real Website.
While not my actual real last post, emotionally my "final cohost post" was written days earlier. It's mirrored over here, which brings me to the fact that there is a mirror. While the cohost page may stay up, redirecting to the Internet Archives's Wayback Machine, I have my favorite posts archived over here.
I'm not going to dwell here on what a tragedy and loss it is that cohost couldn't survive. Instead I'm going to highlight some things I did there that I enjoy. Allow me to recommend a few posts.
Pleasant and Useful
- Using CSS to make Discord Better, is probably one of the more useful things I put on that site. Just don't blame me if you get yourself banned!
- Getting Feedback is Hard and it's not because your Friends Hate You, a write-up talking about fighting RSD style impulses and understanding why your friends might not be giving you as much feedback as you'd expect.
- Engage with Media but don't Overthink it!!, a super bare bones guide to being a more active participate in the media you enjoy.
- Swiss Format is Sick, about how Swiss is great for running online tournaments and any online TO should at least try it once.
Some fun ones also include.
- 10 Games to get to Know Me, which is exactly what it says on the tin.
- So you wanna display a Fuchsia pixel in the middle of a Screen?, which is a casual deep dive into the absurdity of display technologies.
- You can also check out the Wrestling tag, if you're that kind of freak.
Me, Being a Hater
- Hate, a post about how much I despise Steam Trading Cards that borders on free verse poetry.
- Achievements are one of the Worst Things in Gaming that Didn't Have to Be, a post about why I think Achievements were one of the big Unforced Errors of modern gaming.
- Stop Implementing Coyote Time, a half joking post about why I hate how we force every game to have generous "Coyote Time" and how it leads to a weird airjumping arms race that is worse than the problem it was trying to solve.
I've also added a Links and Friends section to my website. If I know you and your work and you have a 88x31 icon, feel free to hit me up in all the normal places. Speaking of places to find me, besides the usual stuff linked on my sidebar (which I will eventually have to update), here are a few new places you can find me.
We'll see which ones of these actually ends up working for me. Anyways, until next time...
See you in Space, Eggbug.
