What happened?

A notice is an order since I have to point out why I kicked everyone out (and then myself) out of the steam page group, subsequently deleting the steam page.

Nothing much as for reasons save for the fact that, lately, I’ve been busy with other things and rather than the leave yet another group lingering around (like TXUG) on Valve’s servers under the supervision of someone else, I’d just rather close it.

I’ve also closed the chat since frankly, honestly, I don’t care for it much anymore. I’ll still be on XMPP from time to time but lately I’ve found a new home on IRC to where I can idle around and chat.

I’m still available on XMPP, Tox, Skype, email, and (again) IRC. I do have a contact page but it’s not ready yet (as far as the GPG4Win for email) so just feel free to contact me via Steam chat if you wish.

Thoughts on XMPP, IRC, community building

I personally doubt I’ll come back to XMPP to start a community (in fact I didn’t want to start another group). Reason for not wanting to start another XMPP community is due to ease of access lacking in XMPP compared to IRC: people have to get registered for using XMPP and XMPP servers are a bit tighter about that today than before. Which puts XMPP to be something of an anachronism in a time where people go for crappy, but easy to access and ubiquitous solutions to communicate such as SMS and IRC, and hell even Twitter as some web-based substitute to SMS.

So if I do start a new group (which I doubt will ever happen), it’ll likely be on IRC. A friend of mine says that the protocol is terrible but I would only digress in this one thing: at least people don’t have to register or, if they do, it’s painless. And although, yes, XMPP is way more secure than IRC in many ways, for frivolous chat, ease of access is paramount - it also makes for easy community building.

Speaking of which I should make note: building a community and having only to deal with people in different time zones for the most part sucks. It’s fine when it’s a large group of people in chat but it blows nonetheless and I’m not one that can afford of being up in odd times of the hours. I’m one of those people that can, even financially, benefit by sticking to a regular schedule.

What now?

With having abandoned anime, slowly losing interest in video games (I lie: I still like and play them but there’s no passion or enthusiasm anymore), I figure I could move on to web development and other stuff with no longer being preoccupied about building a community or having to look at the chatroom to see if there’s any activity going on (which usually there is not).

I’ll miss the small band of very talented, yet sometimes too idealistic for it’s own good, group of people. And yes that was sort of a backhand compliment there (hue hue).

But other than that, it’s pretty much going back to where things were in 2009: me with a fancy box with just a few clients on and the only moment of where things “light up” is when I run a video game on said fancy box.

Oh but I’ll have this blog which I’ll barely update so make sure to sign up to the feed (and yes I’ll add Atom feeds to this site eventually but not now, I can’t be bothered). You can check the “Vidya” section as that will be the only thing more frequently updated in this entire site.

And of course there’s Steam chat, Skype, et al. (I’ll post a contact page online for people to find me. Maybe.)

so Adios

P.S.: Danquebec, we’re still on for War and Peace reading and chat so I guess I’ll see you in Tatoeba once I get to chapter 10 or so.

So as to finish off on a upbeat note, here’s a video of a fellow that I think you should definitely support on Patreon. Yes, YES! the shilling commences.