Bruno Dias

• I've decided to more deliberately separate 'blogging' from my 'professional' online presence, so I've created a new blog. It's at azhdarchid.com. There's an RSS feed. Subscribe to it.
• 'Mastodon'/Fediverse: Inasmuch as I'm interested in doing it, I will probably be posting through my new fediverse account, @bruno@azhdarchid.online. I think the personal instance just gives me the most control over my platform, and I wanted a clean break from old accounts.
• Bluesky: I am brunodias.bsky.social but I don't expect to really use this account unless I am announcing something, as I find bsky to be rancid.
• Letterboxd and backloggd are where I expect to continue posting impressions of movies and games.
• Private contact info: On the sidebar, if you can see it.
• Linkedin: Catch me there when I'm looking for a job again but that's not today, losers

The Discord, specifically

As I've alluded to in another post, I've created a discord specifically for game developers who were on here or are adjacent to it. I've narrowed this down to people who are actively working in the industry, as opposed to students, hobbyists, or folks just starting out; this really just comes down to that being the kind of space that could foster the kinds of conversations I've felt were missing for me. If that's you, and you're interested, and you haven't asked me already, let me know.

I am going to go back and spruce up my personal website. I might get a less dorky domain name for it. It already has an RSS feed, but I might change platforms to something a bit easier to post to – currently it's a static website generated with Jekyll and hosted on Render, but maybe I want something with a CMS.

Does anyone here have experience with write.as or the self-hosted version of that? Does anyone have experience with their commenting platform?

I will definitely expand a section in it to include more links to other people's blogs.

I'm also very much considering in setting up a private discord specifically for game developers who are/were here on Cohost. I miss having a place for craft/industry discussion¹, and I think this might be a good opportunity to make one. Please poke me about it if you're interested.

I'm also going to maybe post some sad songs on here.

1. The tea is that I was in one such discord but left for reasons of 'it sucked too much ass'

I have, indeed, created a Discord server. For now I'm only inviting people I know are in the industry (not necessarily people I know personally) who have expressed explicit interest, but I'll broaden that net gradually. Let me know if you're interested.

Edit: If you are, help me out – make sure I can see your Discord info your profile page, eg by adding it to the 'private contact info' section and following me.

Further edit: It also helps if I can tell who you are in the in the industry, as in, your profile points to stuff you've done rather than being totally pseudonymoua

Because Cohost for some reason limits you to pinning your top 15 most used tags, when in reality I want to use this feature as an index of serialized blogging.

• Compleat History of the Magic: The Gathering Metagame – An ongoing (slow-going) history of Magic: the Gathering competitive play, focusing on how the design of the game has interacted with the metagame of the Constructed formats
• On Writing – Essays about writing for video games, or writing in general.
• Put your Helmet On – I have no idea what these are, but they are something
• A Classic – Ie, posts that are particularly harmful to read