oh, wow, Hacker News. Inércia 2023 was raw and pure; I loved it. My post is just a tiny POV fragment of many other things that were going on there. I hope the team organizes Inércia 2024 because I'm already dusting off my 6510 assembly skills to work on a demo for next year.
It's really cool you keep doing all this stuff. I think the most fun moments I had with code and electronics were the several hackathons I participated in both in Codebits and pixels.camp. I had never heard about Inércia before, thanks for sharing!
I hear this so much, sometimes in the most unexpected situations, and it's heart-warming. One day, I was having lunch with the family in a remote place in a restaurant in Serra da Estrela, and a random folk came to the table just to tell me how Codebits had shaped his life. I think I shed a tear righ there.
Anyway, yes, we have to find a comeback angle someday.
This makes me so happy to read! I'd donate and definitely travel to Portugal specifically just to attend (as I did with the last ones when I had already moved away). Codebits also shaped my life, got me my first job, new friends, etc, so here's a +1. I think there's at least a good few hundreds of people with the same story :)
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 :(
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.
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...
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.
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.
Last time I remember about it was when there were all those discussions on a Portuguese forum, when there were some plans to create a game development school in Portalegre, a looong time ago.
Great news, congratulations to those that keep going at it.
Imho, there should be a real Museum of Conference Badges some day, where those of us who are appalled at the idea of not having every badge from these elite conferences in our possession .. can go, and drool.
Seriously, there has to be a lot of potential in the conference badge scene that is yet to be mined ...
What is the language of the event? I have a Brazilian friend who would totally have loved this (he speaks both English and Portuguese so I'm sure he would happily participate either way; I'm just curious).
