I read through all the About pages. You are who you are; it's difficult for you to "repackage" and present yourself as somebody else. There'll always be different opinions in this world and it's impossible to please EVERYbody. Also, I guess the ones who are the most vocal in online communities are very often the ones who have the strongest opinions. In that case, they may not necessarily reflect the majority's view. Being comfortable with yourself and believing in yourself are important.
I ended up reading them all the About pages backwards by clicking the left-pointing triangle every time, and wondered why the info was arranged that way. I didn't know the right-pointing triangle was there until afterwards, as I accidentally found the scroll bar, scrolled to the right, and found that other triangle.
Here are the screenshots for your reference: [LINK] [LINK]
My screen resolution is 2560 x 1600, and I'm using Firefox. The screenshots were taken with the windows maximised. The second shot was taken after I scrolled to the right.
About discord moderation... If moderation is too much for you, maybe you can appoint some trusted moderators and let them do the job for you?
(Marketing too... but it would cost money to get marketing done for you, so it might not be such a good idea?)
Also, have you stopped announcing new blogs in Twitter for some reason?
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Tobias 1102~1Y
I've got emails from people over the years who I suppose are of similar minds to me and find my work and story inspiring (as hard as it is for me to believe it could be), so I suppose it's for them, mostly... though there are always the 'demons' in the mix who'll see me as prey or something instead. Oh well.
Weird that your resolution is supposedly the same as my main monitor's but everything looks zoomed in and cramped! Is that on PC or some handheld device like a tablet? Someone else mentioned [LINK], which does give me 2560x1080 for mine; do you get something different?
The main reason I haven't opened my Discord to the public is because I know I need to choose moderators first, but that's a whole thing in itself! Who can I trust? Would they run things as I would or turn things in a political direction I'm not a fan of? Things like that. Back in the Fig Hunter days I'd talk to people all the time and get a feel for them, but these days I talk to people so rarely that I don't have any clear idea for who'd be willing and appropriate.
I'd love to have met and befriended someone years ago who could help with marketing, but since I never did, I'd have to seek out strangers. Strangers who are trying to make a living out of charismatically manipulating people. How could such a deal possibly turn out in my favour? A lot of them seem scummy or scammy anyway, or so the indie dev communities say! The ones available to little solo devs, at least, which are very different to the big teams AAA companies use for their marketing.
I've not mentioned these posts on Twitter for a while because honestly I feel embarrassed about not focusing on work! Just feels weird 'proudly' announcing some rant full of excuses and mental illness. I definitely intend to get back into the habit once I'm back in the right state of mind again (I'm still not, annoyingly), but I've been thinking maybe I should just mention them anyway... ehh. I don't know.
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kidupiscean37~1Y
Yeah, you probably should just mention them anyway, keeping your blog and other social media channels active!
As for the website display issues, they're on a MacBook, and I got the resolution figures from the System Report. Actually I've seen other weird issues if I resize the window to smaller sizes, but I'm not showing them here as I can fix them by maximising the window.
I ended up reading them all the About pages backwards by clicking the left-pointing triangle every time, and wondered why the info was arranged that way. I didn't know the right-pointing triangle was there until afterwards, as I accidentally found the scroll bar, scrolled to the right, and found that other triangle.
Here are the screenshots for your reference:
[LINK]
[LINK]
My screen resolution is 2560 x 1600, and I'm using Firefox. The screenshots were taken with the windows maximised. The second shot was taken after I scrolled to the right.
About discord moderation... If moderation is too much for you, maybe you can appoint some trusted moderators and let them do the job for you?
(Marketing too... but it would cost money to get marketing done for you, so it might not be such a good idea?)
Also, have you stopped announcing new blogs in Twitter for some reason?
Weird that your resolution is supposedly the same as my main monitor's but everything looks zoomed in and cramped! Is that on PC or some handheld device like a tablet? Someone else mentioned [LINK], which does give me 2560x1080 for mine; do you get something different?
The main reason I haven't opened my Discord to the public is because I know I need to choose moderators first, but that's a whole thing in itself! Who can I trust? Would they run things as I would or turn things in a political direction I'm not a fan of? Things like that. Back in the Fig Hunter days I'd talk to people all the time and get a feel for them, but these days I talk to people so rarely that I don't have any clear idea for who'd be willing and appropriate.
I'd love to have met and befriended someone years ago who could help with marketing, but since I never did, I'd have to seek out strangers. Strangers who are trying to make a living out of charismatically manipulating people. How could such a deal possibly turn out in my favour? A lot of them seem scummy or scammy anyway, or so the indie dev communities say! The ones available to little solo devs, at least, which are very different to the big teams AAA companies use for their marketing.
I've not mentioned these posts on Twitter for a while because honestly I feel embarrassed about not focusing on work! Just feels weird 'proudly' announcing some rant full of excuses and mental illness. I definitely intend to get back into the habit once I'm back in the right state of mind again (I'm still not, annoyingly), but I've been thinking maybe I should just mention them anyway... ehh. I don't know.
As for the website display issues, they're on a MacBook, and I got the resolution figures from the System Report. Actually I've seen other weird issues if I resize the window to smaller sizes, but I'm not showing them here as I can fix them by maximising the window.