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Ask HN: Are MUDs Still a Thing?
I love the concept of MUDs but they were before my time. Is there still a niche community out there for them? If I made one, would there be anybody to play it? Are there guides for best practices, etc?
- RedShift1 5y agoWhat's a MUD?
- brundolf 5y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD Basically a text-based adventure like Zork, except on a server, with persistent state, and all the players visit the same "world"
- akagusu 5y agoSince the first comment of this thread was "What's a MUD?", I think MUDs are not a thing anymore. Of course it doesn't mean there is nobody to play it if you made one. I would certainly play.
- brundolf 5y agoThey're obviously not mainstream, but that's a different question from "not a thing".
- turnkeyradio 5y agoYes, the Diku codebase was recently updated to Diku3 and a web socket version of Valhalla is currently running. https://github.com/Seifert69/DikuMUD3 https://github.com/Seifert69/DikuMUD3 http://www.valhalla.com/ http://www.valhalla.com/ I think the current populations are quite low in game.