pouët.net

Btw, if something like a patreon would help Analogue and the mods keep this site going, I'll support it.

just today I've been suggested by multiple people that I should shut Pouët down

I hope a replacement can be found. A site like this in the hands of one person...doesn't feel good.

pouet has historically been a one-man-show analogue->ps->gargaj->next spinning plates guy which is the ACTUAL problem i'd like to address

We had privately talked about "what will happen to important demoscene platforms if the maintainer dies or leaves the scene", not just about pouet.net, but also for the other platforms there are.

leaving Analogue as the only administrator" sounds really dangerous to me. There really should be an active demoscener running this place.

Whoever picks it up will just start a new thread like this in a couple of years if nothing is changed.

but I will admit it feels nice when users say "thanks" in response to a fix or explanation. Because it balances out the negativity we're exposed to on such a regular basis, I guess. And also because it's just nice to know at least a few people appreciate our work.

mod/admin/gloperator hug button

Score people, if score is negative, posts get smaller to read.

what about minimum glops earned, referencing, votebans? Certain policies can help to solve the problems at the root, making troublemakers inoffensive, while maintaining a fairly open stance toward genuinely passionate people…

There should be another user level "obnoxious" or whatever you wanna call it, that would pretty much shadow ban said users. They can post and all, but regular users and the general public don't see these.

And maybe add a report button or page to bring visibility of bad behaviors to the moderators, which can be from users posting shit or from abusive reports.

Ban non english? Or moderate them into non-english section?

Add ability for parties to batch submit prods.

Temporary bans: Can be used to give people time to cool down (short tempban) or rethink their behavior and become a better person (long tempban). Perhaps with a message they get when they try to log in.

Partial bans: E.g. ban people from posting on the BBS but they can still comment on prods

Moderation log: So a distributed team of moderators can keep track of a person's history and raise the temperature if needed

I'm sure there are more people who want the site not to be closed or frozen. There is no point in even conducting a survey (especially since it is blasphemous).

In terms of having a centralized social hub, then yeah, Pouet == scene. But do we need a centralized social hub, when we as a greater community are proving time and time again that we can't sustainably have such a social hub without people burning themselves out with our bullshit?

I don't see a future that doesn't involve drastic measures, like removing the BBS and oneliner altogether, increasing the moderation team size to at least 10 (which should be overkill for a site with relatively little traffic but sadly we suck), and not ban less, but more, and more early.

It's only nowadays that the real achievement and value of Pouet becomes apparent: People are used to speak their minds here.

I thought it was one of the strenght of pouet: sometimes super interesting threads, sometimes flamewars, sometimes off-topic BS…

is anyone actually here for anything else than the cool attention-trade mechanism with the thumbs? :)

To be honest I wouldn't' have bothered much with producing if there was no feedback medium. It's nice to be at the party of course, but even better to see people appreciate or critisize your work in all eternity.

But the selling point of pouet is the direct (positive _and_ negative) feedback on your productions, no? At least for me.

Maybe Pouet.net shouldn't have had a forum in the first place? Forums and message boards always turn toxic: Look at IMDb boards, and now MovieChat, essentially it's replacement, has become just as bad, for a long time now. Does Demozoo have such messaging facilities? If it does, maybe the toxicity will head there and turn it rotten, too.

Then again, I fear that whatever culture issues Pouet has, anything replacing it would have as well.

someone with the right mix to care enough to admin the codebase, but doesn't care too much that whatever goes on affects too much.

Oneliner: Seriously if this gives headache to admin and moderators just let it go. I doubt there is a single person that would miss it.

yeah, maybe one day we will be able to edit posts as well

It’s not just dividing the work, but having a community where one can vent about idiot users, before politely handling their bullshit.

It may happen that the guy who hosted Pouet on his server is not interested in all this, and after December 31 he will not do anything at all. Or he will turn off the site. Then we are just shaking the air in vain.

if Analogue decides 25 years was enough, which would be his perogative indeed.

As i said before, on a long term, we need a wide used solution developed by a huge group (like wordpress, typo3 whatever). Even if that means, that no extra modules specialised on scene related content isn´t available. On a long term, the danger to loose all is to big when it comes to solutions, developed only by a very small amount of people or even developed only by one person even if this pouet how it is, is the best i could imagine.

This site is one of the main reasons why I still keep making demos after all these years.

In 2000, Analogue started a project called 'Pouet.net', with the ambition of building a collaborative and open database centered on the demoscene productions. The ambition was met, indeed and I'm grateful for this intuition 24 years ago

I can't imagine the demoscene without pouet. Quite honestly.

I do it because it's a passion, because I love to see our database improve and see "progress to the youtube singularity: 30.88%" increase every week.

pouet is an important file and history database aswell as a spreadpoint for news . It would just be sad if it would go offline.

I'm here for everything concerning the scene, to check out the latest releases and stay updated on parties and whatnots, to get some kind of overview what's happening, even to make some connections. To me, Pouet is pretty much the scene.

You can cry some tears into your pillows, stay away from this place, only to come back later. You get used to that and become part of an unique culture, and you will notice that an astonishing level of decency is maintained with a minimum of sanctions - mistakes happen, of course.

Pouet.net needs to live forever!!!!!!

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Pouet.net needs to live forever!!!!!!

Nice.

Question: How do you communicate internally among pouet admins and moderators?

1. Don’t you think it’s a good idea to have at least two people with admin (ownor) rights, or even more? (besides you, of course)
Having just one admin still leaves us in the same spot we’re in now.

Analogue wants to remain CEO.

2. Will we know by the end of the year who’s getting the keys to the site? And what’s the overall progress with putting the Pouet team together?

What about a moderator election by public vote, as other sites do?