Can't sleep and suddenly it's October
I cry a little... sometimes a lot when I finish a game. Even Kirby games will get me. (OK, to be fair that last new one does some things.)
When a website closes? Basically never. Usually they close when I've long since stopped using it. Or there's little attachment.
Cohost was something special, for sure. While I understand the return to blogging, the return to websites, the return to forums... Roll your own shit, use older formats... I think some of the sites that come from Cohost are gonna be a coinflip. That community was important. Rather, groups of communities.
I have retyped a paragraph here over and over and it doesn't feel right. But, I will say that finding individuals (I already knew) was easy and the few tags I used to find people worked. I get that I'm probably an outlier on that. I think whatever site that comes out of cohost needs to make sure it's not going to end up with the same perception of being a tech focused community. I think from the outside, there's a buncha people who still don't get how few people saw each other on cohost. Like I've seen others say, the primary thing we got out of it was an art community. Artist Alley was the most we got to connect those artists to different artists and different people who appreciated what they were making.
Cohost made me want to go to an art fair. Cohost made me want to make stuff to sell at an art fair. Artist alley. Doujin. I don't know what, and I'm still working on which medium, but I have not felt this strong of a push to get my shit together and make something in years. I recently moved and stuff is still in boxes but I want to be setup to make a thing based on some ideas I have in notes and floating around in my head. In the spirit of cohost I will not use a big website to type it. I won't even use Apple's free office suite, nor MS's, nor libre or open. I will return to old and use an older, more focused writing software and give that a shot. I hope that by the time I finish, some place as nice as cohost exists. Going into cohost, I deleted apps. I logged out on phone. Cohost was the only one to be logged in all the time on my phone. Only 'social media' I deem worthy goes on phone now. Now there is nothing.
I felt like crying. I shed a few tears. But now. Now I make notes. I do know one thing it won't be. Despite the theme of 'return to old internet', DO NOT RETURN TO WEBCOMICS. HEY WEBTOONS PEOPLE. THERES A REASON WHY (most of) THE PEOPLE I READ THE LAST TWO AND A HALF DECADES DON'T DO COMICS ANYMORE. THEIR BODIES ARE BROKEN.