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I didn't know how to phrase this succinctly in a title, or even formulate is as one question at all. I'll do it in two, and give my own answers to both.
What do you keep looking forward to in geminispace, that someone else is doing? (That last criteria is to stop me from plugging my own stuff, obviously.) Things you come back to every now and then, or maybe every day as a routine. For me:
It's a nice community and a fun game. My plant grows so fast now that this capsule is the first I check in the morning and the last before I go to bed.
I didn't even know I liked this genre of music, and I spent almost a year in geminispace before I even listened to a track. Every browser I had wanted to download a whole track before I could play it, and that was too frustrating for me. With a streaming client can just download a new track and play it while saving it. The 8 seasonal mixtapes published so far are quickly becoming my most-listened-to playlists.
I seldom complete a whole challenge, but I often start on one and love making progress.
What kind of projects or ideas have you tried in geminispace that didn't go the way you'd thought or hoped? A writing routine that fell through? A tool you never finished or that didn't gain traction? An idea you had but never got off the ground? Maybe we can find some gems in this collection that could be worth revisiting.
For me the most obvious answer is Antenna's twtxt page. Obviously nobody in geminispace actually uses twtxt, but I thought it would garner a little bit of attention and interest. It did for a couple of days, but when it comes to the general viability of the idea I was completely mistaken. No regrets! It was great fun to write.
Another one is my fork of AV-98. I've made a couple of adjustments, but I'm really not happy with how I've handled it in general. I've been genuinely bad at incorporating patches in a timely fashion and hope to improve in my role as maintainer soon.
The Garden Gnome Society. Don't get me wrong, this is actually a success story and was for a long time my most visited and appreciated project. I have since made pull requests to AstroBotany that incorporate the main feature of Garden Gnome Society, listing plants in order of health, in the game itself. Compared to that the Garden Gnome capsule has become obsolete and has more or less become the forgotten step child of my projects. I have plans for how to revive it and make it more useful and interesting again, but... Obviously I haven't prioritised it.
The great roadblock for me right now is that I need to migrate my things to another server, and am of course stuck in the eternal "oh but maybe I can optimize these tools and configuration a little more before I start the move". Bad habit. Trying to stop it and just do what needs to be done.
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