Ahh, I missed the concept that you were simulating the experience of using a typewriter.

How far are you planning to take the concept? Are you going to make people manually set up margins, tab stops, headers, footers, etc?

What about some of the other distraction free editors, like [FocusWriter}(https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/) and Ghost Writer

Your project looks very interesting. I would like to understand how it differs from the other “distraction free” applications that are out there. (Granted, you are saying “minimal” instead of “distraction free”.)

I’m going to add this to the description in the Community I created… I’m definitely agnostic when it comes to what people are using to track their writing.

There is a detailed timeline of the scandals on the NaNoWriMo2 website.

I’ve created a NaNoWriMo2 Community for all to join: [email protected]

I’ve also set up a TrackBear Leader Board for anyone that’s interested in joining: https://trackbear.app/leaderboards/join?joinCode=48e75747-5a26-42da-865c-9626c490db2f

All the details are in the description for the community.

Yeah - it looks like they want to keep things fairly minimal…nothing too heavy about the whole thing. Personally, I didn’t really interact in the community under the original site. I was there mostly, for posting the word count which my friends could see – and they were all people I knew IRL so we didn’t need the forum.

So, yeah, no AI, no extra technology or anything. I was just looking at TrackBear (https://trackbear.app/) to see if I want to use it. Looks like it might be nice.

I was just thinking the same thing… It’s been years (like over 10) since I did a novel writing month. Horrible that the old group imploded the way it did.

But, there appears to be a new website for Novel Writing month (https://nanowrimo2.com/) – just no forums or anything, which is probably for the best.

Yeah, Mojang’s conservative development style is arguably the reason for Minecraft’s success, while also being a source of frustration and friction for the community, IMO.

MS is another story altogether, though. While Mojang is a very thoughtful company, MS is driven by profit. I’m honestly surprised there aren’t more collisions between the two cultures.

Okay - I am a bit of a dreamer, but I hope that Mojang dropping the obfuscation side of things is a sign that they are interested in working more closely with the community.

Of course, if I were to put on my pessimistic hat, I might think this is a move for Mojang to distance themselves from the Java edition as it’s likely that Microsoft thinks from a business perspective focusing on Bedrock is a better deal.

Get Mojang to pull in large optimizations. Thus far, they have been uninterested in this (though some controversy over Optifine may have left a bad taste).

I remember that. I think the issue there was it mostly handled badly… It seemed like Mojang was trying to go behind the communities back (which I thought sounded a lot like the way Microsoft does things…so I blamed them instead of Mojang). IMO - if this is an era of more open-collaboration it may be possible for Mojang to benefit from working with the community. (There is an excellent example of this in the way AMD has worked with the Open Source community…)

Pull the changes into a modding framework. Understandably, Fabric/Forge aren’t willing to pull in a huge overhaul they’d have to maintain. Mojang may have similar feelings.

I can see that too… That’s why I am thinking that it might be possible for there to be a more collaborative effort… Like a repository set up where community devs can submit PR’s for changes, and Mojang can either approve or deny them. If that started working well, I could see a situation where there are specifically Mojang employed community devs, the role of working on changes that will help both the main Minecraft tree and the modding community.

(Okay, I am probably more optimistic than I should be – after all Microsoft is in the mix here…)

Worse, there’s an outright un-democratic coup in our government right now. It’s corruption knows no bounds now… Accountability is just another word that has no meaning.

Right, but this means these efforts can be undertaken on the current release, and done without having to work around Mohjang’s obfuscation.

Removing this kind of barrier is a major change. Less time will be spent on trying to understand code that has been obscured from view. It will be easier to ensure “correctness” in code that is optimizing the server (ie, that new code will not break internal dependencies). It will be easier to ensure compatibility between the official release and community based extensions.

I understand that the modding community has been able to do a lot up to this point…(I play on an optimized modpack). But, I’m betting this will actually produce a larger jump in terms of the efficiency of all codebases - including Mohjangs. Just the reports that document issues (not CVE level issues) for Mohjang will lead to them improving the base code.

Not only do I think this will generate a fair number of CVE’s, I think there will be a lot of optimization of the code going on.

Look at what happened with OpenOffice a few years back – the Oracle buyout of Sun Microsystems forced the forking of OpenOffice to LibreOffice – during which the new Dev team took the time cleanup and refactor the code. This resulted in a suite that was about 10 percent smaller, and removed a bunch of redundant things (like multiple copies of icons).

I bet we see something similar with Minecraft – even if it can’t be an “authorized” version.

What’s insane about this is the reporter literally just asked reasonable questions given historical context. Leavitt is a fucking joke.

I think it’s something that you have to get used to… While it’s compiling stuff, you can actually be doing other things on your system. The trick was to make sure your configuration balanced your systems resources so you didn’t get bottlenecks. (For example: putting your home drive on a separate physical drive to reduce issues with writes.)

Hmm - my Gentoo install was usable, but I did get tired of all the compiling for updates. Still kind of get annoyed with it now when I have to install source packages from the AUR.

I read a lot of the LFS manual, that’s what made me decide to give Gentoo a go. Seemed like an slightly easier route while still working through a lot of the build process.

Yeah - Slackware back in the late 90s early 2K’s wasn’t as niche… Remember the Infomagic CD sets?

Gentoo got traction for a while when they made it easier to install, instead of having to go from Stage 0. Of course, I installed it from Stage 0 since I wanted to know more about the tool chain and how these systems were built – but I wasn’t masochistic enough to try to install LFS.

Even niche distros like Slackware, Gentoo,

Ooof - I’m feeling old when these are considered “niche” distros…

Yeah, that will be a big one to watch in just a few weeks.

True. Definitely easier said than done, but I welcome anyone who is actually willing to get a metaphorical concussion from banging their head against those brick walls.