On Thu, 14 May 2020 at 20:16, Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion <agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > On 5/14/2020 11:48 AM, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: > > So, the MUD appears to have flopped. The primary reason is that I > > didn't do anything past setting it up, which is totally on me. > > Anything one else have thoughts or analyses? > > > > -Aris > > > > Visited twice I think? Didn't see anything happening, and also thought > "don't have the brainspace to learn this flavor of MUD coding right now, > I'll see if anyone else does" (the first time) and "I guess nobody is" > (the second time). > > I think the coding is secondary, at least to start, but if I'd seen anyone > to chat with I would have hung around? But then the IRC channel was very > active years ago and died off due to similar lack of a critical mass there > (I think? Haven't visited in a couple years and it was pretty dead last > time I did). > > -G.
Having a Mud seems interesting to me, but in practice I'm not likely to find much time for it, even if somewhat interesting stuff gets built. Unfortunately idly hanging out in chat rooms doesn't work well for me, otherwise I might just leave a window open to see who shows up. I prefer to block my time into relatively uninterrupted tasks. (I don't use IRC for a similar reason.) On the other hand if there were a few coordinated times when people were expected to show up, I'd probably try that out. Interacting with Agorans in a more real-time setting would be interesting, and I could block off a couple of hours of my time for that. Maybe we should try it? I'm not too familiar with how the Mud works; are there any obvious activities to try for a bunch of people all logged in for an hour? Maybe someone could give a quick tutorial on building things? - Falsifian
