Tangent: I'm seeing the weakness of kotakuinaction being hosted on someone else's platform. Right now we're a national politics news aggregator mixed with gaming, entertainment, and misc. discussion. There's no topic category filters on this particular instance, or seperate boards as on bbs/web-forums. There's ambiguity if one just wants to talk games; to do it here where national politics drowns out other topics, or c/gaming with different users and moderators. Other scored boards are decripit, except the big three. 8chan 2.0 is cool, but I can't stand the 4chan js interface. Reddit is just shit, where even mid-size hobby subs have too much influx of the 80% Democrat demographic from the rest of the site.
KiA2 was at the sweet spot of activity, both here and r/kia2, 18-44 months ago. The dominance of national politics and culture war events on this instance is purely an interface problem, and I'm certain it's the reason kia2 hasn't been able to grow. There's enough based, knowledgable individuals here willing to talk other topics, and I hate to see yet another high-potential platform or community decline in participation.
On-topic: I haven't gotten deep enough into game development to be familiar with the nitty-gritty of 3d modeling and animation, particularly from the artist's perspective. At a glance, there seems to be too much manual labor, low-level fiddling, and unnecessary duplication of effort for historical practical reasons. Maybe something (unrelated to machine-learning) will come along with more intuitive primitives. Here are the programming equivalents to what I'm getting at: onetwo (too lazy to dig up articles).
I made a thread requesting text posts added to the content filter with 4 upvotes and no response. I'm not too committed to this platform anyways, Reddit format might be too repellent to long-term content. Aside from Top-AllTime, plenty of content is only discoverable from fickle search engines.
Tangent: I'm seeing the weakness of kotakuinaction being hosted on someone else's platform. Right now we're a national politics news aggregator mixed with gaming, entertainment, and misc. discussion. There's no topic category filters on this particular instance, or seperate boards as on bbs/web-forums. There's ambiguity if one just wants to talk games; to do it here where national politics drowns out other topics, or c/gaming with different users and moderators. Other scored boards are decripit, except the big three. 8chan 2.0 is cool, but I can't stand the 4chan js interface. Reddit is just shit, where even mid-size hobby subs have too much influx of the 80% Democrat demographic from the rest of the site.
KiA2 was at the sweet spot of activity, both here and r/kia2, 18-44 months ago. The dominance of national politics and culture war events on this instance is purely an interface problem, and I'm certain it's the reason kia2 hasn't been able to grow. There's enough based, knowledgable individuals here willing to talk other topics, and I hate to see yet another high-potential platform or community decline in participation.
On-topic: I haven't gotten deep enough into game development to be familiar with the nitty-gritty of 3d modeling and animation, particularly from the artist's perspective. At a glance, there seems to be too much manual labor, low-level fiddling, and unnecessary duplication of effort for historical practical reasons. Maybe something (unrelated to machine-learning) will come along with more intuitive primitives. Here are the programming equivalents to what I'm getting at: one two (too lazy to dig up articles).
I made a thread requesting text posts added to the content filter with 4 upvotes and no response. I'm not too committed to this platform anyways, Reddit format might be too repellent to long-term content. Aside from Top-AllTime, plenty of content is only discoverable from fickle search engines.