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Introductions | May 2018, part 1
Hey I'm @vikinick. On Reddit I'm /u/vikinick and mod several subreddits.
What about you guys?
Hey I'm @vikinick. On Reddit I'm /u/vikinick and mod several subreddits.
What about you guys?
I'm u/nate and u/nallen on reddit, mod of r/science and a few others. I'd like to eventually start hosting AMAs here without having to pull a bunch of tricks to make them viable and accessible, reddit didn't work out for that as I'm sure you know!
💖
p.s. /u/spez's reply to you all was absolutely infuriating to read. It basically boiled down to "you don't deserve 'special' treatment and should have to compete with all the low-effort garbage on equal footing" and "you should just put more effort into promotion" when you tried that already and do this amazing, hard work for free while having real jobs on top of it too. Him trying to turn it around by accusing you of "gaming the system" was the really rage inducing part though... 😠
Sorry for the rant, it just genuinely upset me to see such a flippant and accusatory comment from him. Just know that you all at /r/science are welcome here and we even had a discussion today about potentially using stickies on the front page for special "group events" to ensure that huge effort, time sensitive, high quality events don't go unnoticed, like /r/books & /r/science AMAs do on reddit.
Oh, damn are we glad to see you here.
First - we've got your back, though it'll take a while to get this place truly ready for prime time. We've been pondering weighed voting for some time now, and tags that multiply vote weight are a natural extension of that concept which would almost effortlessly solve the AMA visibility problems... and that's assuming the exemplary upvote wasn't enough on it's own.
What you've got to offer us, though, is perspective. We've got some semi-formed and rather radical ideas on building the moderation system for this place, and the organic goal/result of that system will be teams of thousands of moderators for every large community. Considering you run the largest modding community on reddit you've got the experience and insight to poke holes in our ideas and make them better.
That link is rather old writing, but it will get you the general idea. We're putting a new more concrete proposal together soon for everyone to read... once we trim the fat from the last three days of brainstorming and make it presentable. I would love love love to get your feedback on that when it's ready, and also hear from you what kind of systems and improvements the /r/science team has been missing and dreaming about having. Getting all the mod perspectives we can is critical to getting the design of the modding systems here right.
Also, fuck Spez, full stop. We've had similar dealings with him in listentothis on occasion.
I'm glad to offer insight on our mod team, it was my original idea so I've seen it start to current. The concept is really social-engineering based and selecting people based on behavior they don't know they are demonstrating. It's been effective for r/science.
As users here gain trust, we need to have an automated system watching for those behaviors and deciding who to bring into the mod pool - so your criteria for good behavior is very relevant. We're also thinking about allowing the large mod teams to tag and police and vote on each-other's actions somehow... some sort of feedback system where the mods gain and lose reputation as mods based on the group's collective judgement. I'm not even sure that's a strictly necessary system. I have to imagine you've had a few flights of fancy along the lines of 'wouldn't this be easier if' that might point the way to the right kinds of tools for that job.
A feature I have been asking reddit to make for a long time is finer grain permissions, like being able to set some mods to only remove comments, but not approve them, for example. Some mods to remove posts, but not touch comments. Some with the power to approve, but not remove. Everyone has the ability to request that an action be taken by someone else.
Also, finer grain permissions for what mods can allow users to do, maybe a karma minimum for voting? That would stop brigades.
I really think control of behavioral actions is a great solution, one that is under utilized by reddit.
The idea has been that this wouldn't be one hardcoded sitewide system, it's be a menu of options to turn on and off, and a bunch of fields, dials, and sliders on those options to tailor how they work on a per-group basis. The settings that work in young groups won't work in old ones, and based on topic matter alone there will be vastly different configurations - so we want it to be flexible.
What you're describing here should be no problem - along with allowing you to pick precise thresholds for access to all of these features for the younger mod team members, as they earn their way into the system.
You might also have some sway over the thresholds that communities under ~science (like say ~science.physics, ~science.biology etc) have to meet for a post to bubble-up into ~science.
The tricky part is getting you good reporting data on the effects these systems are having - without violating anyone's privacy in the process. ;)
I agree with all of what you say, I also think we'll find some settings just aren't used, or others would be used in unexpected ways.
I'm here because you mentioned it in that thread. I'm excited for this site's potential.
Awesome, and welcome!
Ayyy! Long time no talk! I remember it must have been years ago now when we were talking in the clouds about an alternative metamod community to the default subs that might actually be able to work for subs that were large and had to deal with the pressures of a less-than-sophisticated userbase but weren't necessarily defaults.
Glad to see you here! And sorry about /u/spez throwing you under the bus with Keanu. It was a frustrating read.
Yeah, I like spez a lot, and I wasn't trying to throw blame on the admins, it was just an announcement.
I'm /u/rkcr on Reddit.
I'm slowly beginning to realize the entire userbase of Tildes are moderators from Reddit.
Burned out grumpy ones who are sick of being moderators. Can you think of a better group of people to do the job of designing moderators out of the system? :D
I’m not a reddit user. I found this site through Hacker News.
How does one not have a Reddit account?
I imagine it takes having some level of self-respect. I envy them.
good point lol
Am reddit moderator, can confirm.
I'm a (highly curated) Reddit user—not a mod. I saw Tildes shared on Twitter.
Well, I got here because of the Discord.
Which discord?
Didn't you read he said the discord.
Is that like The Facebook?
I assume he's talking about a random discord he's in. I was just making an assinine comment.
Hey, i was just a user...does that make me special?
There's dozens of us.
I had a subreddit from the April’s fools. We have 2 subs, both mods
I forgot about those subs, I guess I have a sub then.
Funny enough, I'm another reddit moderator. /u/natanael_l from /r/crypto (cryptography).
Maybe it's because we moderators are too well aware of the limitations of reddit, looking for alternatives. There's so many ways I want to change how forums work, and this seems to be the best chance to get some of that done.
I'm Brian.
Sorry
I'm Ian.
I’m ali
Whenever you say that, I cant help but read it in my head like Matt Damon. ;)
Top marks for not tryin'
Hello! I'm @ScarWhom (actually @Whom now, ain't I cool?). If someone really wanted to stalk me it wouldn't be difficult to find my Reddit name, but I'm going to consider this a second restart, for various reasons.
I'm probably mostly going to camp ~music and ~games, being a frequenter of RateYourMusic and Glitchwave. I also like to get involved in trans communities and stuff, if anything like that ever pops up here.
Mostly I like a lot of the principles that governed the internet of old (or honestly any time before forum culture up and died) and I stupidly fantasize about being around for BBSes and the like. This site gets me SO excited, as everything mentioned in the docs and blog has me nodding my head vigorously, and I've been looking for something with this kind of attitude that is actively against hate speech but also isn't tied too heavily with politics.
Basically I already love it here and I love all of you!
Your feelings about the Internet of old mirror my own. I have been exploring how to get back into Usenet (for the right reasons) until I found this site. I might still check it out but right now I plan on fully supporting Tilde.
We can change our usernames?
I actually just mentioned it somewhere and @deimos did it for me. I don't think there's a formalized way to do it yet.
That's cool. It might be good to have you old usernames listed on your use page though.
Hi, I'm /u/tildesatwindmills and I'm almost completely inexperienced with social media. I've never had a FB account, never tweeted and only joined reddit a few weeks ago when I decided it was the least offensive of all the other choices out there. I grew up running BBSs and joining email lists, so the feel of ~ is exactly what I was looking for and not finding at reddit. (Thanks to /u/nate for mentioning it!) Offline I'm a CPA who tries to use his powers only for good, which usually leaves me unemployed. In my copious spare time, I like to fiddle with old things that were designed to be serviced and built to last. I'm glad to be here and glad to help however I can!
Ha, funny that you saw my comment, you never know what random connections people will make.
Hi, I was /u/cfabbro on reddit until I deleted that account a little over 2 years ago in protest during the blackout. I created /r/reddithax (with chromakode, before he was an admin), was a mod of /r/suicidewatch, /r/ideasfortheadmins (with the lovely @krispykrackers before she was an admin), /r/help and a bunch of other subreddits including many of the defaults back in the day... and was responsible for some rather infamous defacing of the site on April 1, 2009.
E.g. turning most of reddit into reddigg, /r/WTF into WTFark, /r/science into Sciencedot, /r/politics & /r/worldnews into President Sarah Palin's version of Whitehouse,gov (no archive of that, sadly) and a few others.
After April Fools I kinda disappeared into alt accounts and kept a low profile, though I did use one (no-shit-sherlock) to create and run /r/coversongs. Besides that, not much else to tell other than I have been waiting for a really long time for a viable reddit alternative that isn't a bastion of memes and/or hatespeech. When @deimos said he was going to work on one I was on board immediately.
<3 /u/cfabbro
Are you the actual krispykrackers?
Indeed :)
Hear! Hear!
Can we also add emojis to that list?
Is unicode not enough? ☃
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I'd say that's creative expression though.
On reddit I'm /u/evilnight.
You can think of me as the grumpy old grandpa moderator of /r/listentothis.
Yes, I'm ditching my old username. 20 year old me is not 40 year old me, thank christ...
Are your nights no longer evil?
Only in the sense that post-apnea, I now sleep like the dead and love it.
Moderates a music sub... username checks out
Actually, to get the full reference, you need to play this music album using that piece of software. ;)
Are you sure you don't mean this?
I'm nobody of importance. In another life, I used to be the top mod of /r/leagueoflegends. Now I sip pina coladas and tell the youths to get off my lawn.
So do you have a super soaker or a slingshot for said youths? I'm assuming that you are unwilling to leave your lawn chair to chase after them. XD
I can hit a target with spit up to 15 paces away. Got to show them some respec.
Impressive.
Let's hope certain e-sports journalists never find their way here ;)
HOLD ON GANG, I got an invite to send to a certain Joe Rogan cosplayer.
nonononono
It's okay, I don't think he'd join us even if he wanted to. The hatred he holds in his heart for me (and you) is too strong.
Though as soon as I invite him we could expect he'd bring it up in some podcast or another.
Hello, dear friend. :)
Get off my lawn, youth!
Heya! I'm...not any sort of mod or reddit user. I've been meristele for a while now; perhaps 10 years? I do art sometimes. I like to write, read, edit, and cook. Recently I've been doing painting alters for an entire commander deck for Magic the Gathering. It's a mono green elf deck, and I am NEVER doing an entire deck at once again. Ever. Just sayin'
An entire deck??? You should definitely post the results here when you're finished, that sounds great!
Hm. I am hampered by being a forum idiot and techno ignoramus. There are fourty snow covered forests and 28 other cards posted to my facebook public page, Meristele @Cardalters (I know. Fb. Don't kill me. My relatives feel close to me because of it.) But I'm not sure how else to post here.
I will humbly kowtow to the Enlightened Soul who becomes my technological shifu.
I think the easiest way would be to create an image album on Imgur or some other image hosting service, then post a link to the album in ~games.
Tyvm! Now to do battle with my pic archives. XD
FYI the link is www.imgur.com and you can just drag and drop the pictures into the website from your files.
Thanks! I managed to figure it out and you can see them here.
I get you with the relatives thing. It's useful to contact people who only have that (phone numbers and email addresses change)
By the way, even though we're probably blocking image links until the site grows up enough to handle it - that deck was baller and definitely fits my definition of quality content. ;)
Thank you! People are already trying to order copies of some of the cards. I've been fleeing for my life so I can finish the original commission. >_<
I desperately want my own copy of that Princess Mononoke Elvish Mystic. ;) It's absolute genius.
I'm /u/Flashynuff on Reddit, and most other platforms.
I "mod" at /r/listentothis, /r/music, /r/me_irl, and a few other places. Lately I've been really burnt out on reddit, so I feel like a fresh start on a new and interesting site could be fun! I've always wanted to see reddit be a place where I can go for text-heavy discussion and interesting articles, but it's just gone so far away from that and I don't think it's possible to bring it back.
I also like the idea of being actively against hate speech and the like. Reddit's gone too far off the deep end in that regard and the administration isn't willing to take the steps necessary to make it a decent community to be associated with. I'm really excited to participate in this site from the start and be a guiding force in how the tone here develops!
The Youths were always a huge concern of mine over in /r/leagueoflegends because community poll after community poll persistently showed that community as being very young compared to the average age in reddit more generally. (Average age usually was around 17-19.)
Glad to have you here!
Well if it's any consolation, thanks to the GDPR, ideally only 16 year olds or older will be exposed to the hateful ideological groups using reddit as their fertile recruiting grounds from now on. :/
Although since Reddit doesn't have any way to verify age, I'm not sure how much good it'll do.
That's why I included "ideally" LOL... because I think we all know how "effective" that "you must be 16 to use this site without parent/guardian permission" message requirement is actually going to be. :P
I am so glad to see you here.
All of those subreddits are definitely included in my favorites subs!
And that's the most wholesomest reason for quitting Reddit I have ever read. I might just do the same.
Hey! I'm /u/UrsulaMajor on reddit and I'm not a mod of anything! My passion is data analysis and I'm a frequent user of /r/excel so if you ever have any questions about those topics send them my way :]
other hobbies: videogames, writing, and being a godawful painter
woo, not a mod! welcome!
I like your username
Stone-age computer scientist, recovering LISP hacker, professional but unsuccessful writer due to nonexistant marketing. Not into social media, so no reddit, no facebook, no whatever. Just lurking and posting very infrequently on hackernews. Excited about tildes, because it is the closest I have seen to Usenet, which I miss terribly.
What have you written? My current book budget is empty, but I might check it in the future.
Thank you so much for your interest! However, my real name is on the front covers and, given the perspective of millions of users appearing here, I would rather not post any titles!
Understandable. I will hopefully stumble upon it then sometime :)
Woot! It's good to have you here! Some of those tools you built are just pure genius. Even if I'm not a free speech absolutist myself, I don't recall reading any discussion you were in and feeling like you were being unfair with the people you discussed with. I'm excited to see you around!
Hey everyone, I'm @Ras (it rhymes with jazz). I'm here for a lot of the same reasons as everyone else. I don't like how Reddit appears to be becoming a social network. I hate the new redesign, it's made the site so slow and less fun to use. I used to spend a lot of time on r/cfb but it's just not that enjoyable anymore.
I've read through the docs of Tildes and found myself nodding my head over and over. I hope Tildes can gain some traction and I'm doing what I can to evangelize it to people I know.
Another one of the absolute best and highest quality subreddits on the site. It warms the cockles of my heart (or maybe in the sub cockle area) to see so many amazing community moderators (active and former) on ~ already.
Hi, I'm tizorres and I'm a moderator on some subreddits (but I only care about r/CasualConversation bc I made that one), I also mod a few discords as well as being a mod on the GameFAQs message boards.
I like games, movies, tv and the occasional book. I'm a pretty calm mannered fella and have a lot of patience.
Feel free to pm me anywhere :)
I will find the most embarrassing place to PM you from and hit you up.
Xanga it is
I was going to go to geocities or myspace, but I think you beat me.
Man, CC is one of the best subreddits. I find it a bit "too happy" sometimes, but then again, I'm a bit grumpy :P Great job, it is really hard to build a community like CasCon.
Thank you! Funny, sometimes we get the "it's too happy" then other times we get "it's too depressing". Guess it depends on when you visit it lol.
I think we do pretty well at having a healthy community, especially for how large we've gotten.
Hi, I'm eladnarra. I like science (particularly biology), writing, embroidery, and wasting my life on the internet. I'm also interested in things like environmentalism, social justice issues, and disability accessibility.
I miss the old forums I used to hang out on, but I never got the hang of Reddit. (Plus the less-than-savory areas kind of put me off.) BuckeyeSundae was telling me a bit about the place and gave me an invite, so I thought I'd check it out ^_^
hi im greenie.
some people know me as a duck, others know me as a moose, depending on what site and what era they know me from. I previously worked on Euphoria chat with intortus and chromakode, and then was at Imzy, which was founded by some ex reddit execs/devs. Both were super fun projects.
i mod a lot of stuff on reddit, though I'm largely inactive there these days.
um what else... I have cats. I drink tea.
Hi greenie! I was wondering if you would turn up here. I was sad to see Imzy not make it, any chance Dan is going to log on here?
hey nate! I think I was actually like the 3rd person to say anything on this site, I just haven't been around much. Is cool to see people exist here now!
I think dan is aware of the site, not sure beyond that though.
i just know you as that person who wears socks with sandals :^)
wow roood tbh! <3
And yet no one knows you as a squirrel. I feel this is missed branding opportunity. (Welcome!)
Hey Buckeye!
Well, i'm @insubstantial. I'm also attempting a fresh start here, so I won't go further. I like video games and craftycrafts.
Hey there! What kind of games are you into?
League of Legends, Overwatch, a few MMOS. Tabletop games...
Woot LoL. I am horrible at it, but enjoy playing. See you on the rift!
please tell me about these crafts of crafts
@Parliament here. I'm another long-time L2T and music mod on reddit. I got into it when I started a subreddit for a niche genre 6 years ago, won a few monthly elections in /r/listentous, then was invited to mod L2U and L2T soon after. I don't really remember what it was like to browse reddit without being a moderator. I would love to get back to my roots and what truly hooked me into reddit - posting, curating, and discussing music. Other interests/passions as well, but especially music since it has become associated with laborious mod duties. Too much of my reddit time has evolved into janitorial/administrative work (despite all the incredible automation I've utilized), and it's led to serious burnout on all my teams.
My goal is to help ~ become everything that let's me down about reddit and other platforms. Thank you to @Amarok for keeping me in the loop about the site and sending me an invite. Been a joy getting to know you through L2T.
Perhaps we should let ~music run the bestof process this year - god knows, we've offered it to everyone else and they are never interested. ;)
I wonder how tildes will cope with the top 5 pages of the 'activity' view being music discussions.
So you want us to fail? How dare you! ;)
I understand what you mean though. I too want to help ~ avoid everything that disappoints me about reddit and help ~ grow into what reddit could have been but failed to due to $$$ being their primary concern.
I kinda wish
~by itself would auto hyperlink to https://tildes.net/Yo, I'm /u/geo1088 from Reddit. I mod /r/anime and write some scripts and things (GitHub). I'm really interested in checking out how this community develops, and I'll try to contribute where I can, but I've been busy with end-of-the-school-year stuff (I'm still in high school :P) so hopefully come summer I'll be in more.
Looking forward to meeting you all!
Salut! Like a lot of people here, I'm a moderator that has loved Reddit in the past but grew disenfranchised as its corporate interests grew transparent. I currently proudly moderate /r/CasualConversation (thanks for the invite @tiz! ^_^) and /r/WriteWorld, and in the past a different, more musical server, all of which I love greatly more than their host website at this stage. Seeing this hopeful little place that aims not only to emulate the wholesome community-focused atmosphere of Reddit but to improve on long-standing flaws in its foundation is truly a breath of fresh air among a sea of voats and snapzus, and to see it thrive is truly a warming feeling for me.
Where will I be here? I'm quite the film and music enthusiast in everything from Lynch to LCD Soundsystem, so I'll definitely be perched, legs dangling, on the edges of ~movies and ~music! I love my writing, so ~creative will be a nice little neighbourhood for me too, I'm sure. :-)
Can't wait to see y'all around! :-D
So many /r/CasualConversation mods... no wonder ~talk is taking off. I love it! :)
Good hands. If there's one thing we all learned on reddit, that's all it takes...
You can thank @tiz for recommending this place to a few of the CasCon mods. It's such a lovely and wholesome community and almost like a little neighbourhood! While I can't wait for this place to grow and hence allow niches to thrive, I'll always miss these quiet and friendly days.
Isn't the honeymoon phase fantastic? We're really hoping all our trust system mechanics, group hierarchy and filtering can extend that period for as long as possible, too. Here's hoping it lasts forever!
Seconded! And even then, it's easy to fall blind to rosy retrospection and dismiss a place once such a honeymoon phase is over, and yet later examples are simply different—look at Reddit, which despite its management is perfect for the little niches to have exactly the same kind of atmosphere that a wide yet fledgling community such as Tildes may alternatively possess.
You'll get no argument from me. We still love reddit here at ~ (we're just disappointed with the direction it's been heading) and most of us still use it daily (less so in the last few days for obvious reasons). And there is also absolutely no denying that is the primordial soup from which most of us spawned. It saddens us that they are making it increasingly hard to have meaningful, long lasting discussions there and that they clearly don't value the high effort, long-form content communities' efforts as much as they do the traffic that the wildly popular, low-effort ones bring. So we're just hoping to fill that niche and allow that longer form content a place to thrive again.
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Greetings and salutations! I happen to be yet another from the /r/CasualConversation mod team (@tiz appears to be slowly taking this website over! Bwahahaha!). I'm mostly poking around for reddit alternatives due to some disagreement I have with the half-hearted implementation of new features and lack of transparency about what's currently transpiring. I've heard good words from the other mods and am hoping to contribute to this lovely site however I can!
Being the longtime bard that I am, I'll very likely be hanging out around ~music and ~creative, and some extra special care at ~games since I'm going to start DMing soon! Here's to a wonderful little community and all of our contributions to it! <3
Howdy folks, I'm Crius.
Long story short some time ago I got very interested in the Greek mythology and created my account on a rpg board and the name fitted my character :)
It's not hard to find me on Reddit (and everywhere else honestly) but I don't want to be identified with other communities profile as the persona we become is usually highly influenced by the social environment we find ourselves in. Also I miss a lot the more tight knitted communities of the time bbForums where widespread (Tapatalk is still a thing?)
You probably guessed, one of my interest is social behaviour. I'm not a professional in that field anyway, on the "contrary" I'm a software engineer specialized in web applications for small/medium companies. The bigger company I've worked for it's the one I'm in right now and it's a no profit regulatory body. That should clarify my vision on the current directions of most websites and companies :P
On top of that I'm am old time hardcore gamer turned father of two with a stressed wife so, there is that. Be patient if sometimes I'm having a bad day.
About this, one of my self-appointed role here would be to try and make people view the other side in an heated discussion. It's nearly an impossible thing to do on Reddit with its downvote-leaded and one-liner replies approach. I believe strongly that even in the worst viewpoint there is something to reflect and learn upon. If not else, by just trying to understand the reason behind a negative viewpoint.
I'll probably hang on a lot on ~games, ~comp and ~talk and try and contribute to the source code as soon as it's possible :)
Also, as soon as there are APIs, I'll try my hand to a mobile client, mostly because I keep postponing experimenting with mobile development due to lack of motivation.
I understand the tech goal and the fact that with responsive design, an app is not really required, but I also see that to get traction a platform need to reach a critical mass of adopters and having a native app imho will help. Of course it will be open source development so everyone is welcome :)
See you around!
It'll be fun to talk shop when the right topic strikes. I, too, am a social behavior hobbyist (but American, so I don't need that extra u).
My brother is about to have his second kid poach my birthday in a couple weeks, so I feel like I can pretend to understand a little of what the family life is like because it's happening one sibling over (and he complains a fair amount about his life).
Ah, be nice to your brother. Parents need someone they can vent about their stress with kids/partner.
I've got lucky and have coworkers and we've sort of "Coffee Monday Club" in which we vent and sarcastically talk about our family's weekends but in the end we love our families, it's just not all honey and sugar with kids, lots of stress comes from slowly realising that you're not really in control :)
The half hours of pure demonstration of love make up for all the dirty diapers, temper tantrums and teenage rebellion in the end.
At least I hope. We're still going through the fucking teenage phase on one side and temper tantrum on the other side, here. I going to take some deep breath now, excuse me :P
Oh, I'm here when he reaches out. I know my role well enough. We all need space to decompress the stress creators in our life, and children are little bundles of stress creators if nothing else. Fun, rewarding, learning bits of stress creators, but stress creators nonetheless (newborn baby, are you STILL ALIVE you have stopped making noise. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU).
Hey, i'm @fringly, aka /u/fringly on reddit and y'know, a bunch of other places.
On reddit I mod WritingPrompts and I spend most of my time either there trying to help new writers or trying to get control of my keyboard away from my cat, who feels it distracts me from important ear scratching duties.
Gotta say that I was impressed by being able to read the terms of use, code of conduct and privacy policy in about 5 minutes. I am currently batting with GDPR issues in the UK and this site seems to be exactly what the EU wants, an open forum where people can control what they share in an open environment.
I'm looking forward to seeing this site grow!
Oh snap! I didn't notice you modded /r/WritingPrompts when I invited you but now I'm extra excited to have you here... It's one of my favorite subreddits. I suck at creative writing but love reading and the creative output of that subreddit alone has kept me entertained for hundreds of hours!
When we send out the next wave of invites for current users to hand out to friends, make sure you let the mod team there know we would love to have them here and welcome their input as we move forward, especially in prep for creating the ~writing group. :)
:-) You also have @majorparadox who mentioned it in our Slack, which is how I knew about it and sneakily got myself a invite :-)
We'll happily invite some more when you are next looking to expand and if you need any help on the ~writing just let us know!
Probably gonna get buried under a mountain of comments already in existence but thought I’d say hello. I go by several different usernames on reddit, just going to keep the site identities separated I think for the time being. My interests span from the technical and scientific to the mundane and cuddly. Looking forward to see what the future holds for this and the other platforms vying for the reddit user base after it (possibly) implodes.
Been here a few days, but decided to pop in and say hello. I'm /u/pHorniCaiTe on reddit, and pretty much everywhere conceivable. I haven't really had time for any real interaction on reddit in a while because of modding, which has led to just a general apathy of reddit's community. So far I'm enjoying the time I spend lurking and posting here a ton, and hope to stay active for many years to come.
Hah... You're in good company then. A huge % of our users are burned out reddit mods as are many of the people helping us theorycraft these systems to help reduce the burden (or remove it entirely). :P
Hey!
I'm @William here, /u/williammck on reddit.
I'm one of the designers of /r/Ooer and otherwise do random web development work.
reddit.com/r/Ooer
Oh God, my eyes!!! :P
Hah! I promise if I contribute here that I'll actually use my forces for good... probably :)
We were talking about having 'skins' like Winamp of old for the places on tildes - templates people can build and trade around, easy to use as the basic color themes are now. Some form of order in the chaos that is CSS. That way people can build and collaborate on all of them. The people who know design can make a real contribution.
That’d be sweet.
Howdy!
I'm @shiruken here and /u/shiruken on reddit. I'm on /r/science and other science subreddits. Plus /r/PartyParrot.
Hello! My name is /u/Silbern, and I am not a mod of anything. I'm a soon-to-be Computer Science student at the University of Hawaii, and I'll probably be sitting around ~comp and ~tech a lot. This one of the first times for me being in the pre-alpha of anything, so yeah, very excited :D
Hi, I'm Apollo. While I'm not busy getting off all your lawns, wasting time, or looking at memes, I'm trying to learn and be a part of a quality community. I am unhappy with what Reddit is becoming/has become, so I'm shifting my online attention elsewhere. This place looks very promising, so here I am.
Are you a youth? Otherwise, I see no reason for you to be getting off my lawn. Foggies are welcome and are served scotch.
I am indeed a youth.
My name is Ferenc (Feri for short, and @szferi in almost all sites) from Hungary. I'm a physicist by training. No significant Reddit history ;). I try to maintain a diverse set of interest from modelling complex system whether they are phyiscal (plasma, granular materials) of biological (numerical evolutionary biology, chemoinformatics) or social (finance, economy) to developing a distributed systems and software as a service startups. I funded and invested in small tech companies in a field like IoT, distributed storage, fintech, and biotech in the last 10+ years. I try my best to share my knowledge and experience with anybody who is interested. I teach executives for application of AI, and young students for entrepreneurship.
What sorts of things do you model in evolutionary biology?
Mostly cooperation and evolution of signalling/communication.
However, I'm not that active in this field nowadays.
This... sounds very relevant to our fledgling plans for a community moderation system. There will be a newer more structured post about that sometime in the next week or two (I think) and when that comes, I'd love you to poke holes in it with your experience.
I'm happy to help if I can.
That's really interesting! (I covered things like cooperation and hawk-dove games in evolution and animal behavior when I did my degree, but don't have any research experience myself).
I was going to say that the topics remind me of some of the discussions happening on ~ (like with this game of trust), but Amarok beat me to it. :D
You do live an interesting life if you take part in that many fields. Also, hello fellow Hungarian! :D
We are everywhere! :)
Hello all! I am SexualRhinocers! I go by /u/sexualrhinoceros on reddit, SexualRhinoceros#0001 on Discord, SexualRhinoceros on Github, etc.
I'm a professional software engineer and heard from a friend the dev who created gods gift aka AutoModerator is working on a new site and I should check it out! Everything mentioned in the Future Mechanics of the site is everything I wish Reddit would take a chance on and change but something something ads > user design.
I'm sincerely excited for the future of the site and hope to see as many people around as possible!
-SexualRhinoceros :D
u/burntcookie90 here, u/burntcookie90 there, u/burntcookie90 everywhere. On the mod team for /r/androiddev, and holding steadfastly to old.reddit.com. Looking forward to the growth of the community here.
Hello! I'm @falfa here and most places. I'm not a reddit mod, I barely register as a user.
Like a lot of you all, I'm looking for something like the old forum world (gigposters.com, Warren Ellis Forum on Delphi) with all of modern comforts and topics.
My heart is in ~music, but I will be all over the place.
I'm excited to be here.
Hello, I'm /u/Tetizeraz from Reddit. I started redditing when I was entering high school, so probably 2011 ~ 2012. I was 15 years old back then. Man, I feel old with all the memes on Reddit nowadays, but it's funny that y'all are probably older than me!
Only nerd grandpas in here so far! :P
Hi Tet!
We haven't forgotten about lurkers - you guys do the lion's share of the voting, after all. Voting and even visiting are participation, and you'll get weightier votes from it, and the ability to weigh in on polls and the like once we start on those features.
I go by Sipher and it looks like I'm one of the few here that aren't actually from reddit? Anyways, got an invite from Deimos and am looking forward to a bright future here.
I'm /u/maybesaydie. I'm yet another burned out reddit mod. I'm happy to be here.
This is the new lean version. Stealthysaydie
I knew I'd find you here.
Oh my God, this is wonderful. I've missed you.
So many burned out moderators, there's dozens of us, dozens!
Hi all! I'm /u/pun-master-general on Reddit. I mod a couple of subreddits, the most prominent being /r/AskReddit. I heard about tildes from a co-mod there, and I'm looking forward to trying it out!
heya welcome. whats your fav pun right now?
I can't stand people without digits on their feet. I'm lack-toes intolerant.
lol, booooooo
(sorry, I always boo puns)
Hey all! I'm LoanWolf and I don't really post much, I'm more of a lurker. I heard of Tildes because I'm Deimos' brother in law and I really want to see this succeed!
If I'm posting, it will mostly be about board games and the tabletop industry. Designing board games has been a hobby for 4 years and is now a career. I independently design games, several having been published with more on the way; and also work for Roxley full time doing logistics, bookkeeping, software development and game development!
Hey all, I'm u/Antabaka on reddit, where I run r/Firefox (head moderator, primary point of contact between the sub and Mozilla, and designed the now defunct stylesheet).
As you might have guessed seeing as I moderate a subreddit for a major open source browser by an amazing nonprofit... I'm a huge fan of nonprofits and open source culture.
Very excited to see what comes of this website. So far, I'm very impressed, and I fully intend to contribute when it goes open source.
Welcome! :)
A few Mozilla and ex-Mozilla people have followed us on twitter already... so here's hoping some time in the future we can work with them in some capacity. I'm a huge fan of their organization/products, and their ideals are very close to ours.
/u/arghdos here, I mod a bunch of music subs with some of the other l2t people on here and I just now discovered I have a passion for Bahamian Soul
Hello, I'm @BBBence1111. Far as I know, that's unique so if you've seen that name, it's probably me.
On Reddit I moderate /r/game, (I actually won it too!) and /r/HereticalEdge. Also a sub for a mobile game I betaed once, but that's dead so w/e.
I'll mostly be hanging around ~games, ~books, ~tech and ~comp while here.
Edit: Once we get ~books or something similar that is.
Damn! I clicked ~books before reading the rest. :)
Don't worry, it's coming. Probably in the next round of groups created. We just didn't want to have too many groups to start while we had so little traffic/users. However lots of people are expressing interest in ~books so it's high on the list.
I'll throw my vote in for ~books as well!
Hello folks! Came here from a random post on /r/Subredditcancer and hope to use Tildes as a fallout shelter for when Reddit belly ups. Here's to hoping something come out of this site!
You're here!
I'm /u/muchredditlesstime, prefer this as my username though!
So say we all. ;)
Mark as readnot working? What OS/browser are you using? Do you have any extensions enabled that would interfere with that feature?Your help identifying the cause would be greatly appreciated since if you can help me do so, then I can write up a bug report so we can fix it if it's on our end.
Hi gang. I'm also /u/boredop on reddit - a former mod of /r/listentothis and a bunch of smaller music subs. I eventually got burned out on moderating and on most music on reddit in general. I'm still out there listening though ... These days my reddit posting mostly consists of baseball comments, but it seems like even that is running its course as the signal to noise ratio in my team's subreddit slowly gets worse and worse.
Anyway, I saw a mention of tildes in theoryofreddit, saw that evilnight (sorry, I mean @Amarok) and @arghdos are on board, so here I am. Hope you all like jazz.
It's a party now! 'starkey is here too. ;)
Yes! We're gettin' the band back together, man!
Where's he at? Is he @Parliament?
Yep!
heya boredop, welcome. hows your wednesday going?
Hey, thanks! My day is slowly gaining steam after starting with a hangover. (Played a late gig last night.) Thankfully I'm working an afternoon/evening shift at the day job today so I had some extra recovery time.
Ah. Drink lots of water!
Hey guys I'm /u/VbBeachBreak on Reddit. Joined here because of the redesign, the commitment towards combating extremism, and wanting to help create a site like this with everyone.
I'm a political junkie, love painting Warhammer models, and am always down to talk movies and tv shows.
Also, is it possible to get a political sub (what're they going to be called here?) going? Looking forward to getting to know eachother!
Hi and welcome :)
Terminology is here.
We've been having conversation about having political discussion on the site here.
The only big political topic so far is here.
Be sure to leave any new suggestions and feedback over in ~tildes and welcome again!
p.s. I'm against political content here lol but enjoy anyways :P
No worries, it's just a suggestion! :) thanks for the helpful links!
Hello.
I am an amateur artist interested in the art of Katsuhiro Otomo, Jamie Hewlett, Boneface, and John Dyer Baizley. I enjoy art that is heavy on intricate line work, and countered by bright colors.
I am also an amateur programmer interested in malware analysis and execution. I enjoy C, Python, and Perl.
I was introduced to online forums early on and frequented SomethingAwful and G4's Off-Topic forums. When 4chan stopped being just a dumping ground for m00t's hentai collection, I started frequenting there sometime around early 2004. Kevin Rose was my first introduction to computer exploits with his Dark Tips segment on The Screen Savers. His thebroken podcast also struck a chord with my edgy teen self. When I found out he was creating a social news website and a weekly podcast to talk about the week's most popular stories I jumped aboard. I moved to Reddit during the Digg exodus. At first I could not stand Reddit's layout. When the podcasts ended and Digg updated their site it became virtually unusable. I saw that Reddit had undergone a facelift so I went there.
I made two accounts over the years and stopped signing in all together. I would lurk more than I would interact. Lately just lurking is a pain. If you aren't signed in you are harassed to use an app right from the start. I just want to use the site for some interesting stories and discussion. That led me here. Pretty comfy I must say.
Welcome. And yeah reddit's new nag screens are super obnoxious. We will never, ever, ever have those even once we open up read-only access to the public.
I feel nervous about posting here! You all seem so techy and smart and active on reddit.
I'm Petril, a big old nobody on reddit; I like books, tea, The Decemberists, Mitchell and Webb, NHRA drag racing. I have general interest in lots of things, but very specific interest in a few random things (see above).
On reddit, I mostly hung out on trollxchromosomes. In real life, I'm in Environmental, Health, and Safety. I'm very glad to be here!
@sargon, @thirdegree introduce yourselves
first of all how dare you
second of all, first of all rude
Hey, I'm /u/nothis, I was a mod on /r/games briefly, in its early days.
I'm @Cleb. I like media a lot, particularly ~games and ~music!
This site and its policies and goals gives me a lot of the vibes that I've been looking for forever. Pretty much everything in the blog post and docs I read before getting in had me agreeing the whole way, and I'm happy to be here.
Hi Cleb I love you
Hi Whom I love you too!! <3
Hi vik, I wanted to do one of these, but I didn't feel important enough. I'm one of those reddit people, too. /u/Werner__Herzog. I come here ever so often and I'm starting to enjoy this place. I'm into music, so I'm on ~music for the most part.
Awww, you're important to me. ;)
I came from reddit like many of the people here. On reddit I'm (redacted for privacy) and most of my comments tend to be programming-related. I've been getting a bit frustrated with the reddit community lately and especially with the direction that reddit itself is moving toward, and I noticed a comment about /r/RedditAlternatives on a discussion about the redesign and decided to try out Tildes as a result. I've never been a mod of anything, reddit or otherwise.
Ultimately I chose to come here because of the blog post. Everything in there resonated a lot with me with regards to what I believe an online community of complete strangers should be like, and I'm excited about the prospect of being able to contribute to the site's development in the future.
Really I'm not anyone special. I just like programming and some good conversation :)
Awesome to have you here! Welcome!
I’m not a Reddit user or mod. I’m most interested in ~lit or ~reading depending on how those communities turn out.
Hey all, I'm hitchano on pretty much every platform I use. Mostly I'm going to be here just doing my own thing on a variety of ~'s
I'm four days late but this was near the top in 'activity' sort so...
I'm Mumberthrax. I go by Mumberthrax pretty much everywhere, reddit, discord, etc. I stumbled upon the mechanism to make /u/publicmodlogs work, and with @go1dfish's advice and help it's been used by a lot of people to publish their moderation logs on reddit for transparency/trust/accountability improvement, which i think is cool.
For a while I was an admin of the survival minecraft server at nerd.nu, originally the official /r/minecraft server. It was fun, I was the wrong person for the job, and I learned a lot about moderation, cronyism, bureaucracy (the good and the bad), etc. etc.
Those two are my main claims to fame.
I like the idea of places for civil conversation - especially when it comes to contentious subjects. I'm frustrated with groupthink and echo chambers (and the outgroup bigotry this engenders), astroturf and censorship, and disgusted by social media companies allowing ideology and dollar signs drive them to make decisions which obliterate the public forum that the internet could be through them.
That's probably enough. I have a tendency to write too much.
That's the beauty of the Activity sort... we can keep comments sections like these alive and kicking so long as people continue to show interest in them. :)
p.s. We do not want this place to become an echo chamber and so long as people with different opinions than ours can remain civil here, we highly value their input. go1dfish has already provided a lot of insight, advice and given us a lot to think about in moving forward with ~ so I am glad to see another of his friends on here. :)
I'm glad to hear that. Thanks for making me feel welcome. :]
Hello, I am @666 and I don't know what to say to avoid sounding like a weirdo so I've been editing this comment for some good 20 minutes. I like short and easy to remember usernames and I decided to go with a number here. It's good to know that groups are not owned by users as that generally tends to attract the wrong kind of people during early stages. I love that this website uses the solarized color scheme.
Late to the party as always, name is toly found out about tildes on Hackernews but have been searching for something different from reddit for a while now. It will always hold a dear place in my heart much like Digg did in it's day but it's gotten to be too much for me much like Digg did in it's day.
Really looking forward to the discussions and conversations here even if I don't have something helpful to contribute myself.
Also late to this party, but I'm Joey. From Texas; now based out of NYC. /u/joeycastillo on reddit, where I mod a couple of LGBT-focused subreddits including /r/ainbow. Interests include online privacy and community building, photography, hiking and camping. I feel like the tools we've built for connecting with each other online are either broken or have betrayed us; I'm interested in projects that are trying something new, and also in getting back to the ideals of the old web (self-hosting, less polish, open formats like RSS, small projects that don't feel the need to eat the world).
oh snap hi joey~
Yoooo! Good to run into you here greenie ^_^
samesies. hows nyc treating ya these days? I'm out in SF.
NYC is good! City madness still strikes from time to time, but I'm actually about to get out for a bunch of travel (including San Jose for WWDC)! Haha, side note, I wonder if this shows a use case for PM's on ~tildes :)
Hah yes might be a usecase for PMs. Can always hmu on IG as well. I'm actually currently in NYC for the week for work, am bloody exhausted.
former digg/reddit user. now on hackernews; signed up around 9 hours ago but only lurked a couple threads. really liking the design, voting and commenting at the bottom! On reddit I made some ecoin sub and mod a sub for some soundcloud musician. LOVE the ethos of the site!
Welcome! How did you hear about the place? The HN thread died pretty dang quickly yet you only joined today and other than on reddit and a few twitter mentions I haven't really seen many other people talking about us yet.
edit: Oh, nevermind I see you got invited by @Sipher, who I assume saw the original HN thread.
So I'm Heichou. I'm u/levilee207 on reddit but only because Heichou was taken. I'm most likely going to frequent the games, music, and miscellaneous discussion tildes (is that what we're calling them? Or is "board" still applicable?) as I see fit. Super excited to frequent what is ostensibly Reddit with the bullshit cut out. I look forward to contributing ideas to move things along, helping move things into action and just contributing in general
We refer to them as groups, in homage to Usenet's newgroups... and since we're also going to use a hierarchical model.
Welcome aboard! :)
I'm here from reddit. I enjoy reddit but the last year it feels like there have been too many changes and not enough good reason for them. I'm only responding/contributing when I feel I have something useful to add that hasn't already been said. Mostly I am reading...so far it looks like tildes has a lot of great potential!
Quick introduction. I change my reddit username every year or so (felt too many people were too attached to their karma level, so decided to avoid all that) but currently I use /u/uknoiballlikeerryday. I mainly browse the internet for basketball, gaming, and movie news and discussions nowadays. I'm intrigued to see what tildes can become, and I am look forward to contributing plenty in the future.
Getting rid of (visible) karma reduces the incentive to shitpost, which is a great thing for driving actual content. I'm heartened to see a lack of karma-like scores here.
For me it came down to some talks I had with some /r/timberwolves folks several years ago. A couple of them were "power users" and we were all, for some reason, stressed by how every single post we were making was going to do. All of that went away as soon as we made a new account. Some of them eventually connected their old accounts to the new one.
But it was weird how much stress we chose to put on ourselves for a bunch of parasocial relationships. They felt way more important than they should.
@Kronk here, been /mostly/ just a lurker on Reddit since about 2013. The smaller subs were always my favorite because everyone actually wanted to be there to talk and contribute. I see Reddit's changes as selling out, pure and simple. I can sympathize with needing/wanting to get paid, like most of us do, but it also means I'm going to look for an alternative that I'd rather use. After reading the docs, seeing how committed everyone is, and some browsing of the site itself (dark mode is gorgeous) I'm pumped to be a part of it!
Hi, welcome to ~ @Kronk. Yeah the smaller subs were always my wheelhouse as well. Once subreddits get to a certain size, unless they have a mountain of moderators to keep all the new/unfamiliar with the culture users in line, they tend to go to shit. But even then, the small subreddits are the only place where the real community feel still exists on reddit IMO. We're hoping, through the trust system (amongst others) to help even large communities keep that same feel here. Wish us luck! :P
p.s. You double posted, btw. :)
edit: thanks for fixing the double post.
Ah! A cardinal sin! I think Firefox dropped the connection for a second and it didn't update, as I hit "Post" twice. The noise has been deleted!
I'm super excited to be a part of this because (at least so far) everything I've read about the implementation of the trust system makes me go "Oh, well duh, that makes sense. Why didn't we do this before?" Can't wait to learn more and to help this awesome community grow in the right way. :)
Hi, I'm @duckoverflow. /u/duckoverflow on reddit, though I've had multiple now deleted accounts before that one.
I am a part-time CS student, part-time IT administrator and developer. I am an advocate of free and open-source software, privacy, pineapple on pizza, and the Oxford comma.
I came across Tildes in a recent Reddit thread criticising their redesign. I read the announcement and some of the docs and thought the goals were laudable and felt that I really wanted to contribute. So far it seems like a nice and cozy community! Thank you for the invite, Deimos! :)
Hello there!
Good luck with your degree, you can and hopefully will do that!
Thank you! I do really want to finish it.
I'm /u/natanael_l on reddit, moderating the cryptography subreddit /r/crypto. (I can also be found on the cryptography mailing lists randombit and metzdowd)
I'm a nerd that loves testing new things, that have been frequenting forums since my early teens. A fan of Linux, Android, cool tech like FPGA:s and machine learning (unfortunately I've never gotten around to really learning programming, though, still just a newbie...), as well as open source. Game theory and science and various other nerdy subjects are also fascinating to me. I like solving problems, and my approach is often a bit unconventional.
Lately I've been thinking of how forums can be improved, and I'll be posting about it here in the future.
I'm ruspaceni. That's 'ru ni' in a perfect world, but too many platforms have "runi" taken and dont allow the space in "ru ni" so this is where i'm at with usernames.
I've not long gotten back on a real computer(laptop) setup after my last one died. I rolled with only my phone for a couple months and then got a gift from a friend; A tinkerboard and a £30 monitor. That was a wild ride using a singleboardcomputer as a desktop for like 7 months, but that's all over now that I've got this relatively zippy laptop. So you might see me posting in ~games trying to catch up on all that lost time.
I'm from the UK and a lover of puns so just mentally block me out if they make you groan. I grew up watching Bottom and The Young Ones (perks of having a tv with a tape player in your room), and then grew even further up into loving Tim Minchin, Bo Burnham, Carlin and some of those guys that can have you laughing at something before you've got time to realize how depressing it is. I also probably enjoy documentaries more than I should, so if you've got any faves then hmu. One for you is "hypernormalisation".
Hi.
I'm just some guy who likes Final Fantasy too much.
What's your favorite? I'm partial to I and IX.
Perhaps this'll be a surprise, but FFXI!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVYhcXmXSB0
Oooh, fun choice. I never got to try out any of the Final Fantasy MMOs.
Hey guys! I'm /u/gustavopr from reddit, @drg here. I've been on reddit for ~9 years, and I have been unhappy with the way the site is heading to from kind some time now. Things are looking really good here, and I look forward to contribute and to make ~ grow :)
I don't think I've actually introduced myself. Hi! I'm @flaque. I'm a software engineer soon to be in SF. If you've got any tips for that area, I'd love to hear them.
My general interests are open source, swing dancing, coffee and weird electronica. So internet stuff I guess.
I found out about ~ from hackernews; I'm not a mod or anything. But I'm loving ~ so far!
I've only been to SF once. All I can say is that traffic there is horrid. Avoid it like the plague if you value your mental health.
Hey flaque! Theres lots to do in SF, and traffic can be avoided with the public transit system, which is pretty solid.
I'm carrying Atari_5200 over. I've done the Reddit gig for I think five years or a bit longer maybe? Plenty of time to get fed up at least. I've modded or helped mod a few subs, but nothing that'd really impress this crowd.
I found Tildes in a reply to a comment DubTeeDub (big fan btw) made calling out admins about hate subs.
If it's on message for this place I'd like to help make an RC hobbyist community, but if not I'm sure I'll still find something useful to do around here.
Hello! I'm @siovt . I've got a bunch of Reddit handles so I'm not gonna list. I love to film and am kind of a camera head. Hyped to see this site take off.
Hi, I'm @SpaceWorld. I use the same handle on reddit and basically every other website I've used since about 2001 (mostly embarrassing but mercifully defunct fan-game forums).
Hi everyone.
I'm boywonder. I've had a few names over the years, /u/lnterlinked on Reddit amongst others.
I am not a mod or anything like that (surprised to see so many Reddit mods here, it's like going for a job interview and seeing all of the managers from your company there), I spend most of my time on the pc building, hardware news and csgo subs. I play a lot of games and like to tinker with PCs most of the time.
You all seem like an interesting and friendly bunch, I look forward to hanging out with you.
I've lately been /u/gabe_degrossi on Reddit. Unlike everyone else on ~, I've never been a mod! Probably because I'm in the wrong timezone...
I like ultralight hiking (link to my Lighterpack for you r/UL nerds), minimalism and jamming to some good music!
Welcome to ~ Gabe. :)
That's an asset to most mods teams I know. They love having mods from around the world up at different hours. When a mod team is all in NA that's when you get those "Mods are asleep, post X" garbage threads in the middle of the night. ;)
Thanks for the welcome @cfabbro, I love ~ so far! Native dark mode <3.
Ooh! Maybe I'll volunteer for moderating sometime then.
Hello, I'm /r/Keeyzar for whom wants to stalk.
Not really active participant on Reddit, but lurking there for some months.
Would like to help getting some programming / java related posts / participating there. And to see this community growing, for sure it'll be an interesting journey.
Greetings to everyone.
Hi I'm Treebone! I have been active on reddit for 4 years with my most recent account (about 7k comment karma only, I usually stay lurking there anymore because I hate the down vote system) but I have been there for about 10 years total. I have been using forums (mostly gaming) all the way back to Gamewinners (which recently shut down).
I just like to be involved in an online community that is kind to each other and just wants to be friends and stuff. Happy to be involved!
Hey I'm @Kernal, /u/unofficialKernal on reddit. I'm basically nobody of importance, and I do code stuff sometimes. You'll probably find me on ~comp and ~games.
I'm u/Tardigrade came from reddit (modded some small subs but never ones that really needed moderation) hoping to make a fresh start so change of username from old places and all that.
I'm Drfaceless / chra94 and I frequently care for people with programming problems, mainly in Python over at r/learnpython. In the real world I voulenteer frequently at LAN parties as techsupport and general staff, and as a programmer for friends and not for the local church. Tildes guiding principles had me from the get go and I like being able to turn of adblockers and Facebook trackers on this site.
I'm RobotRaven, RoboRaven, Robot-Raven, or other variations thereof across the web (I'm not known for my consistency). I was never a mod on Reddit, I just thought being on a new website would be interesting. My most visited subs are r/Android and r/ADHD, so I'll probably stay in ~tech and ~talk a fair bit.
Are you Jacob Two-Two as well? (you double posted your comment) ;)
Nice to meet you, though. Welcome to the site! :)
Oop, thanks for that, and making me go through my comment to fix typos. My new site resolution is to start proofreading my comments.
You and me both, brother. I am a sloppy typer and habitual comment editor combined. Meaning I sometime have to go back and edit comments I made hours ago when I notice a typo. Perhaps I should try to proof read before I hit
Post commentfrom now on. I'll consider it my new site resolution! :PI'm eitland. I'm not too active on reddit but I've been a bit more active on news.ycombinator.com (and lately https://hackerforums.co/).
This looks nice and I'm happy to see more competition this space!
Hi, /u/panic here! I'm also "panic" on reddit, HN, and MetaFilter. I'm interested to see where this site goes!
Dang you really are a consistent early adopter if you managed to snag 'panic' on all those platforms. I think this bodes well for ~ you being here, if so. :P
Hi, I am @Elusive.
I have been a professional programmer for a little over 9 years now, so I'll probably be hanging out in ~comp a lot. My main interest in this site are the guiding principles and technical goals. Hobbies include playing and writing ~games and reading about ~science/~tech.