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1. Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 01:17:35 JST Alex Gleason
   I'm really tempted to build a New NewGrounds. It's a fringe priority at the moment, just something that's been working in the back of my head for a while. I think the world needs a new outlet to create and inspire others.
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 01:18:26 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @alex how would it work tho'? Newgrounds still exists and the entire concept used to work with Flash, which was a pretty easy to use software if you just wanted to make a movie
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   • Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 01:37:51 JST Alex Gleason

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     @coolboymew NewGrounds now lets you upload a .zip file containing an index.html, which it displays in an iframe.
     
     I would copy that format. My product name for it is an "Experience".
     
     A "Submission" is a full page dedicated to an Experience, but Experiences could also be embedded in posts or displayed elsewhere.
     
     It's still a rough idea.
     
     There's another idea I have. It relates to archive.org
     
     archive.org is an advanced file viewer that lets you preview nearly any type of file in the browser. An Experience is really just a file format, so it could render those, but it could also render things like GameBoy ROMs, 3D models, Animal Crossing pattern files, and other rare formats.
     
     The end product is something between NewGrounds and Archive.org. It's built on Nostr, but it maybe also has IPFS capabilities because it seems like it should.
     
     And if you look at NeoCities for inspiration, they've done a good job attracting a youth audience and they teach people how to code. Capturing that audience would be key.
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 01:38:32 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @alex So newgrounds also do HTML5 stuff I suppose?
     
     But yeah, sounds like you definitively have a concrete idea
   • GroundBeefHunter (groundbeefhunter@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 01:49:33 JST GroundBeefHunter

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     @alex @coolboymew It's a cool concept. It's what's Itch.io is doing.
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   • Raphael Lullis (raphael@mastodon.communick.com)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 02:29:41 JST Raphael Lullis

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     @alex @coolboymew Take a look at perkeep.org, especifically at the recorded talk . Maybe all you need is to work on more importers and indexers there?

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   • Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 22:05:42 JST Alex Gleason

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     @coolboymew It turns out somebody already did the "Experience" concept. They call it "Frames" https://docs.farcaster.xyz/reference/frames/spec
     
     I think this is awesome and I want to implement it.
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Feb-2024 22:05:56 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @alex do eet