Lots of small devs have their own server where they post updates as they work. They’re usually pretty small but it’s a nice way to keep in contact with the community
Ioo they really shouldn’t, no idea what was ‘wrong’ with just using github, gitlab, forgejo etc, but those are the places that development should be done, not on messengers or social media.
I absolutely fucking hate this to be honest, because it’s the same outside of Russia. Just stop shoving me this garbage, broken chat bloatware into my face as the only way to contact developers / projects.
Rip russian indie devs
Why?
Lots of small devs have their own server where they post updates as they work. They’re usually pretty small but it’s a nice way to keep in contact with the community
They could use the fediverse or matrix or something. They’ll just have to adapt like Brazil did when Twitter was blocked.
Their international audience is on discord and not going to move
Granted, it’s probably a subset of users
Ioo they really shouldn’t, no idea what was ‘wrong’ with just using github, gitlab, forgejo etc, but those are the places that development should be done, not on messengers or social media.
We’re talking gamedev to player communication, not dev to dev
I absolutely fucking hate this to be honest, because it’s the same outside of Russia. Just stop shoving me this garbage, broken chat bloatware into my face as the only way to contact developers / projects.