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Now I feel very, very annoyed. I've been wanting to go for many, many years to any Demoscene vent. Moved to Portugal and was excited about it... googled, found

Now I feel very, very annoyed. I've been wanting to go for many, many years to any Demoscene vent. Moved to Portugal and was excited about it... googled, found that Inércia and Momentum were a thing or something, but no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't find any news about it, it seemed dead, the site last update was from 2022. So I was resigned I would have to go to some other country, then I find out Inércia actually happened this year... yesterday :(

celso 3y ago
Best way to stay in the loop is to join their Discord server: https://discord.gg/A4z4ccJCep https://discord.gg/A4z4ccJCep
- GavinMcG 3y ago
  I don’t use Discord much, but it seems like a terrible way to “stay in the loop.” Am I wrong that you would need to either 1) receive a lot of notifications from irrelevant conversations, 2) spend some time making fine-grained choices about which discussions to receive notifications from, or 3) turn off notifications and instead remember to occasionally manually check up on what’s going on? It seems like a great tool for active communities but when I just want to be notified that I can get tickets to an upcoming event, I’d really like to be able to sign up for that, not for a whole chat server.
  - jrajav 3y ago
    Most servers have something like an announcements channel. Muting everything but that is the equivalent of subscribing to an events / other big news mailing list for (Discord-centric) communities, these days. You'll only get notifications for that, and can still engage with muted channels on a pull basis whenever you want.
  - BowBun 3y ago
    I think you're wrong to expect community outreach and low-effort involvement from a demoscene event. > It seems like a great tool for active communities Yes. And to a degree, those who are not active are not needed or wanted at every single event. A little gatekeeping preserves communities for far longer than gates-wide-open does (speaking from experience). Having said that, the barrier is still immensely low - if you care then go on the discord and check every few weeks. Seems like a small ask...
    - Asooka 3y ago
      >check every few weeks That means scrolling up through weeks of general discussions to find the one morsel of information you need. I am on community discords. I do not want to be on community discords. Please, just publish the absolute minimum information on a webpage. Discord has a broken search and no permanence outside its servers, it's worse than even the most barebones mail group. All I ask for is to copy any announcement you make on the Discord to your webpage. A community that's only on Discord is not a community, it's a group of friends chatting with each other.
- skrebbel 3y ago
  Another good dependable source of demoscene events is https://www.demoparty.net/ https://www.demoparty.net/ You can be pretty sure that every demoparty will be listed there, as well as many demoscene adjacent events.
hblnt 3y ago
My exact feelings... It seems like some nice events are happening around, but I have trouble keeping myself in the loop. I tried to use Meetup and find events, but I didn't have good luck filtering off events (especially ones happening in months or even weeks).
- laurentlb 3y ago
  For demoscene events, check https://www.demoparty.net https://www.demoparty.net They are announced well in advance.
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celso 3y ago

Best way to stay in the loop is to join their Discord server: https://discord.gg/A4z4ccJCep https://discord.gg/A4z4ccJCep

GavinMcG 3y ago
I don’t use Discord much, but it seems like a terrible way to “stay in the loop.” Am I wrong that you would need to either 1) receive a lot of notifications from irrelevant conversations, 2) spend some time making fine-grained choices about which discussions to receive notifications from, or 3) turn off notifications and instead remember to occasionally manually check up on what’s going on? It seems like a great tool for active communities but when I just want to be notified that I can get tickets to an upcoming event, I’d really like to be able to sign up for that, not for a whole chat server.
- jrajav 3y ago
  Most servers have something like an announcements channel. Muting everything but that is the equivalent of subscribing to an events / other big news mailing list for (Discord-centric) communities, these days. You'll only get notifications for that, and can still engage with muted channels on a pull basis whenever you want.
- BowBun 3y ago
  I think you're wrong to expect community outreach and low-effort involvement from a demoscene event. > It seems like a great tool for active communities Yes. And to a degree, those who are not active are not needed or wanted at every single event. A little gatekeeping preserves communities for far longer than gates-wide-open does (speaking from experience). Having said that, the barrier is still immensely low - if you care then go on the discord and check every few weeks. Seems like a small ask...
  - Asooka 3y ago
    >check every few weeks That means scrolling up through weeks of general discussions to find the one morsel of information you need. I am on community discords. I do not want to be on community discords. Please, just publish the absolute minimum information on a webpage. Discord has a broken search and no permanence outside its servers, it's worse than even the most barebones mail group. All I ask for is to copy any announcement you make on the Discord to your webpage. A community that's only on Discord is not a community, it's a group of friends chatting with each other.
skrebbel 3y ago
Another good dependable source of demoscene events is https://www.demoparty.net/ https://www.demoparty.net/ You can be pretty sure that every demoparty will be listed there, as well as many demoscene adjacent events.

hblnt 3y ago

My exact feelings... It seems like some nice events are happening around, but I have trouble keeping myself in the loop. I tried to use Meetup and find events, but I didn't have good luck filtering off events (especially ones happening in months or even weeks).

laurentlb 3y ago
For demoscene events, check https://www.demoparty.net https://www.demoparty.net They are announced well in advance.

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