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ROMhacking.net Moves to News Only, Database and File Archive Released to Internet Archive (www.romhacking.net)

submitted 3 months ago by kugmo to c/[email protected]

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RHDN is dead. RIP.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is a real bummer. The hacks will say up, but no new uploads. At least there'll be people who still make rom hacks, though. (I hope they don't all operate on Discord.)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, the ideal outcome is someone using the site dump on Archive.org to create a sucessor site. The longer it takes to get done, the more people will rely on Dicord to host romhacks, which is terrible for discoverability.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Hopefully any new site keeps the high standards romhacking dot net upheld; it's way too easy to make a hack that unintentionally breaks other things in a game.

Regarding Discord, its un-openness to the 'net at large is definitely a prominent issue. But another problem (based on my limited experience) is that its people just aren't very friendly. It's like a large portion of them are annoyed at having to interact with other people. I don't know why that is or even if it's true, but that's the feeling I got from it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if anybody would be interested in running a Lemmy community for them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I wouldn't be able to run it, but I would subscribe to it.