Wow, some deadass stupid takes here and there.

No it wasn't staff's fault that Cohost died.

No numbers has literally been one of the best things Cohost has done.

People made a living here. It still wasn't easy, but even hugely popular artists (100K+ fans) have noted how a shocking amount of their clickthru traffic came from Cohost.

Because of no numbers, people had to be interested in what you were doing. Real people, communicating with real people. That was what this place encouraged. And there's actual, statistical proof.

The reason Cohost died was because raising a barn takes more than 4 fucking people when you've never raised a barn before, but unlike raising a barn, it takes years of dev and moderation effort to do a Social Media.

Shut your fucking mouth about it if you're not willing to recognise the challenges involved, and how you'd have shit your pants and cried about it within a couple months of trying.

The problems it had as a social media platform were, as clearly shown, down to the users that made it shit, like the person with the garbage take I'm not naming here. ASSC did their fucking best. Pull your head out your ass.

Cohost rules.

I can’t do shit these days! I wanna make levels for my portfolio, and because I like creating levels. But I can’t sit at a desk and like, do it. I just open Firefox or something else instead of Hammer/Blender. I’m stuck with a white page syndrome, and it’s been the case for more than a month, plus it doesn’t help that when I tell myself that I want to make a level it’s gonna take weeks or months and give up.

What can I do to stop this and actually get to work?

ugh.

i have a NAS, running Truenas Scale. I wanted to run a bittorrent client on it obviously, but none of the "official" ones in truenas's kubernetes repository could be routed through a vpn. so, i set up a community reposition called truecharts which did have a qbittorrent client that could be forced through a VPN. that was a pain, especially since truecharts insisted on doing that in their own custom way instead of just using the vpn options in qbittorent's ui, but at the end of the day it worked.

but then a few months ago, truenas announced they'd be switching from kubernetes to docker for apps in their next update, which from what i've read will make things MUCH easier for me. but this pissed off the truecharts people who'd spent a lot of time building their repo of enhanced kubernetes apps for truenas scale, and in a fit of rage they just deleted that entire repo.

that was annoying, but i figured it'd be a temporary problem. i just turned off the alerts truenas was sending me every day that it couldn't find the repo anymore, and let the truecharts qbittorrent client keep running, after all, it probably wouldn't actually need any updates, an it only needed to last till i could switch to the next version of truenas scale with docker instead.

but it now seems to have completely broken. it still launches, but all the search plugins i had installed before just vanished, and when i try installing new ones nothing happens. also, downloads aren't working anymore. so, now my options are

1. switch to the beta version of truenas scale with docker, and get it working on there, except that isn't actually an option since i'm very new at this and don't really know what i'm doing
2. figure out some other way to run a bittorrent client on truenas scale through a vpn, which will immediately stop working in a few months once i update to the docker version.
3. or go back to running a bittorrent client on my desktop for a few months like a fucking animal.

it's gonna have to be 3 i guess, which sucks.