Nightfall City
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I'd love to tell you about my latest project, Nightfall City. But
to do that, I'd probably need to first tell you about the Midnight.
The Midnight is a virtual pub / internet message board I started
working on a little more than a year ago. It's located in a small
alley off Main Street. Main Street figuratively represents the
busy/bustling web that's around quieter places. I enjoy
storytelling when it brings an atmosphere, and I think it
contributes a lot to Midnight. So a few months later I introduced
Nightfall City, the vibrant capital that houses Main Street (and
the Midnight). In its first iteration Nightfall was a pubnix
(server) running in my living room and allowed people to connect
with ssh to create their site. I learned a lot about linux doing
it. Yet ultimately it wasn't exactly what I had in mind. The
barrier to entry was a little too high for many writers that would
just like to focus on writing.
I'm sure a lot of you remember geocities. That's what I want to do
with the newer version of Nightfall. However instead of building
your site, you can just add your existing feed to any of its
district. Nightfall aggregates every citizen of a district in a
single feed, with the intent of connecting, engaging through quotes
in blog posts, and discovering. Nightfall understands both Web and
Gemini. I might add Gopher a little later. The ultimate goal is to
build a little hub in the small net. I feel like we're approaching
the end of the social media era, and while we still have a long way
to go, it's fun to explore together what a healthier, simpler way
of engaging with one another can be. It's incredible what can be
done with static hosting and feeds!
Needless to say I'm really excited about this, and I'm hoping you
are as well! The city is very empty right now, but if you'd like to
take part send me an email at
[email protected] and I'll
gladly add you to one of the district (tell me which one!).
=> //nightfall.city Nightfall City
=> //midnight.pub Midnight Pub
