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by iEchoic 9y ago
This post is especially awesome to me because Guilded was launched on reddit, and a majority of our continued feedback comes either directly from reddit or from users that found us initially through reddit. The most fun thing about this pro
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Thank you! AoE was my first online game ever, and still my favorite RTS of all time (sorry Starcraft, I love you too), so it was especially fun to add that one.
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Definitely - our first version had a lot of white, and also a lot of feedback asking us to make it not-white.
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Thanks! I think the best way to get started right now is to grab the official Facebook create-react-app package, pick something you think would be fun to build, and just start trying to build it and googling/asking questions along the
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Oops, that was a last-minute change that didn't work out right - fixing that right now, thanks. Edit: should be fixed now
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Thank you! That's great to hear :)
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We just launched a redesign and ground-up rewrite of Guilded, which makes it easier for gamers to build and organize teams. There are also a bunch of of new features, like fully-featured forums, customizable team dashboards, team streams, a
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Show HN: Guilded – build and organize online gaming teams(guilded.gg)
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If there were a reliable way to get the ball 3 feet from the hoop it'd be a lot more comparable, but most post play is still outside of 3 feet.
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As I mentioned, blacklists have different characteristics, some of which are desirable. A blacklist of tokens is (for the vast majority of use cases) orders of magnitude smaller than a whitelist, which means they can often be replicated int
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> Drawback with tokens and skipping the DB check is that you can't simply kill a client behaving badly. You can solve this with a token/user blacklist. There are desirable (and undesirable) characteristics of using a blacklist
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Agreed - I don't find the usage of "this" to have any cognitive load, as long as arrow functions are used everywhere. "Arrow functions only" isn't a tough standard to maintain.
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It's not based on cluelessness, people are aware that there are ways to circumvent the screenshot notification. The vast majority of people don't install third-party apps to save their friends' snaps, so content you share on
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Trying to use data to directly measure things that are better suited to intuitive understanding. Smart people often take for granted that the human brain is still far better at recognizing patterns than it is at mathematical modeling, and t
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Yup, Bluebird has allowed for: await Promise.delay(1000); For as long as I can remember. I'm surprised Bluebird isn't more widely-adopted; it's been way better than native promises for at least 2 years now. The transfo
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by iEchoic 9y ago
React 16 adds Portals and Error Boundaries, which are very useful things that often change the way you write components. When you defer upgrading something that changes the way you write code, you accrue debt because you're increasing
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It's really easy with Bluebird to assimilate promises from other libraries, though. Right now, I still think it's best to use Bluebird from the start in a new project than to use native promises. They're faster, have better e
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by iEchoic 9y ago
I think the concept applies to many domains, but Guilded is 100% focused on online gaming. It's definitely interesting to see Discord gain traction in non-gaming circles, but I'm not planning on venturing there in the forseeable f
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Thank you! This is great feedback. > is this targeting all platforms or just PC at the moment? All platforms. > Any plans to setup a way to jump directly into a game with a group of people? Not yet, but I definitely think that's
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I've updated the landing page, let me know if you think that's better. I shared with the Dota2 subreddit a while back and this is the first time I've heard that sentiment, so I hope we can avoid over-generalizing based on one
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by iEchoic 9y ago
Looks very cool! Email is in profile.
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Definitely! This is something I'm planning on building in the future. Not only would it make finding times for scheduled events easier, but we could also send you a notification automatically when you have a full team on (for example)
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Enjin was launched at a time when "website builders" were the only way to really manage your team, and that's still what it is today. A few problems with this approach: 1. I might just want to have a team calendar, and I don&
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by iEchoic 9y ago
I totally agree. If you get a chance to try it out, let me know if you see anything else that gives that vibe. If anything, I've been wondering if the cute knight avatars everywhere and the bubbly GuildedBot dialogue make it a little b
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> I played competitive Counter-Strike in my youth, and one thing that no one has successfully replaced was the vibrancy and engagement of the irc communities of the time. Yeah, a site called Gamebattles was the closest for me back in the
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That's awesome, I'd love to hear more about your experience with that if you don't mind me shooting you an email later. Thank you.
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Great feedback, thank you. Somewhat ironically in Guildwork's case, I think that the potential in this space has really increased in the last few years as gaming services like Discord (and Twitch, Steam, etc.) have built up robust publ
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Thanks! :)
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> This could very easily solve that and integration with Discord (which we already use) makes onboarding a breeze. That's great to hear, that's exactly the idea. I haven't actually looked into Kingdom Hearts Union at all,
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> I'd try to stay focused on no more than 5 games since guild requirements and features should vary greatly between them. Agreed. Right now, I'm focusing on a few communities to make sure it works really well for them before ex

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