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Weekly Crowdfunding Roundup: July 30 2023 (docs.google.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Perry@kbin.social to c/boardgames@feddit.de
4 comments fedilink
 

What is this?

This is a weekly crowdfunding roundup of new projects launched last week and projects that end the coming week.

This is a continuation of the same lists that were originally started over at the /r/boardgames subreddit and is currently being run by me under the tag /u/perkelton.

Updates

Expect new lists every Sunday between 00:00 and 23:59 CEST on the following platforms:

Mastodon: @danielpervan

Discord: https://discord.gg/T9MCxgHj

Reddit: /r/boardgames

Selection criteria

The criteria for the lists are as follows:## What is this?
This is a weekly crowdfunding roundup of new projects launched last week and projects that end the coming week.

Expect new lists every Sunday between 00:00 and 23:59 CEST

The criteria for the lists are as follows:

Ending soon

  • Sorted by number of backers

  • Kickstarter projects ending in the next 7 days, that have at least 100 backers (or marked as "Project we love" by Kickstarter), will have reached more than estimated 95% of their goal by their deadline and passed the filters:

    • No DnD books

    • No zines

    • No 3D printing

    • No dice sets

    • No magazines

    • No shirts

    • No playmats

    • No furniture

    • No events

  • Gamefound projects ending in the next 7 days, that will have reached more than estimated 95% of their goal by their deadline and passed the above filters.

  • (beta) Backerkit Crowdfunding projects ending in the next 7 days, that will have reached more than estimated 95% of their goal by their deadline and have a matching BGG page.

Newly launched

  • Sorted by number of backers

  • Kickstarter projects launched in the last 7 days, that have had at least average 15 backers per day, have at least 100 backers or is marked as "Project we love" by Kickstarter and passed the filters (see above).

  • Gamefound projects launched in the last 7 days and passed the filters (see above).

  • (beta) Backerkit Crowdfunding projects launched in the last 7 days and have a matching BGG page.

Notable filtered projects

  • Filtered projects from above lists that have more than 1000 backers.

Tags

🎉: Staff pick/featured

💰: Funded

🔥: More than average 200 backers/day

🌱: Creator's first project

🌳: Creator's >5th project

🔄: Money back guarantee (Read more)

FAQ

I live in Nicaragua/Canada/Bahamas/USA, why are you posting on a Saturday?!

Because I'm writing this from Europe in the future where it's already Sunday. Timezones be crazy.

Why are there a bunch of non-board games in the board game list?

Because the Tabletop games category on Kickstarter includes anything remotely related to board games and sometimes things slip through my filters.

Why is this future award winning board game and literal saviour of humanity missing from your list?

Sometimes my filters get a bit overzealous and discard actually valid projects. If you feel something is missing for this reason, leave a comment and I'll add it (maybe).

Can I donate all my money to you?

No

Can you help me promote my game?

Please no. I make lists. Nothing more.

Your list is full of errors and now I got an ID-10t message!

Indeed, this fine piece of code runs purely on second-tier magic, so anything can happen. Leave a comment and I'll see what I can do.

Ending soon (15)

Name Description Backers Pledged Ends Information Tags BGG
Stonespine Architects Craft the most perilous labyrinth & become a dungeon master in this card-drafting game for 1-5 players. 3602 $135,263.84 (338%) in 20 days 2023-08-02 Kickstarter 1‑5 players age 10+ 45-60 min. 💰🌳 BGG
Ding Dong 🎃 Join the Halloween fun! Collect candy sets, manage resources, masterfully use your cards and out-prank the little trick-or-treaters! 1176 $34,756.00 (1159%) in 20 days 2023-08-05 Kickstarter 2‑5 players age 14+ 15-30 min. 💰🌱 BGG
Converge Wallet Game Series - By Peter C. Hayward A 1-2 player set collection and tableau building game series about control & survival in a dismal dark world. $12 for one, $29 for all! 1072 $29,617.00 (1481%) in 6 days 2023-08-05 Kickstarter 💰🌳
Space Alone Survive on a distant planet and try to complete scientific missions. Raw space adventure in the sequel to Island Alone! 1049 €11,150.00 (3717%) in 13 days 2023-08-03 Kickstarter 1‑4 players age 12+ 20-40 min. 🎉💰🌳 BGG
Void Halls: Print & Play, Roll & Write Game. Defend Your Dungeon from "Heroes". A Single Sheet, 3 Map Variations, Print-at-Home Board Game. 971 €4,822.00 (4822%) in 27 days 2023-08-02 Kickstarter 💰
Luddite A Roll and Write Campaign Game with a Fully Integrated Graphic Novel. 942 £24,034.00 (218%) in 20 days 2023-08-05 Kickstarter 1‑99 players age 16+ 20-40 min. 💰 BGG
Book It! Tag Teams & Title Belts The third expansion for The Pro Wrestling Promoter Card Game is our biggest yet! Two new mechanics and 100 new wrestlers! 455 $21,444.66 (286%) in 30 days ⚠️ 2023-07-30 Kickstarter 💰🌳
On the Underground: Paris / New York On the Underground, the clever 1-hour network-building game for 2-5 players returns with two new maps set in storied metropolises! 335 €27,974.88 (2797%) in 19 days 2023-07-31  Gamefound 2‑5 players age 14+ 45-60 min. 💰🌱 BGG
The Gods Will Have Blood It is April 1793. You are Evariste Gamelin, a young artist with an enthusiasm for the Republican cause. As an appointed magistrate, you will preside over show trials of accused royalists and counterrevolutionaries. Your goal is to elevate your reputation amongst your fellow Jacobins while using your… 203 $6,293.90 (210%) in 5 days 2023-08-01  Gamefound 1 player 15-30 min. 💰🌱 BGG
Gold n' Grog The family friendly pirate card game for ages 10 and up. Compete against other players to collect as much treasure as you possibly can! 172 $6,691.00 (335%) in 26 days 2023-08-04 Kickstarter 2‑6 players age 10+ 15-30 min. 💰🌱 BGG
The Hobby Colosseum - hobby organizer The modular paint and hobby tool organizer. 167 $3,753.00 (751%) in 20 days 2023-07-31 Kickstarter 2‑6 players age 10+ 20-40 min. 💰 BGG
Dominion at Dawn A Print & Play Sci-Fi Wargame, for the control of Planet Asteria 139 $931.00 (186%) in 28 days 2023-07-31 Kickstarter 2 players age 14+ 30-60 min. 💰🌱 BGG
Dino Gardens Dinos compete to grow the largest, most delicious garden they can before the meteor strike and the end of the world! 126 $8,583.00 (107%) in 30 days 2023-08-01 Kickstarter 2‑6 players age 10+ 45-90 min. 💰🌱 BGG
MAKE IT SIX An original ROLL and REFACE dice game 110 $3,788.00 (97%) in 30 days 2023-08-01 Kickstarter 2‑6 players age 14+ 15-45 min. 🌱 BGG
Bonaparte's Eastern Empire In the wake of a great storm, in May 1798, Bonaparte leaves France heading for Egypt. By August 1801, the remnants of his exhausted army surrender to the British. Face his challenge of creating a French empire in the Middle East and re-write history; or defeat Bonaparte to ensure Britain’s allies … 66 £4,101.42 (164%) in 27 days 2023-08-01  Gamefound 1‑2 players 120 min. Area Control Wargame 💰🌱

New this week (23)

Name Description Backers Pledged Ends Information Tags BGG
Innovation Ultimate Carl Chudyk's Innovation, turned up to 11! A full box set that adds Age 11 cards to each set, a whole new expansion (The Unseen), with new streamlined expansion rules to get more of the hundreds of exciting cards to your table! 2034 $135,569.00 (452%) in 6 days 2023-09-15  Backerkit 2‑5 players age 14+ 30-60 min. 💰🔥 BGG
Vampire: The Masquerade - Milan Uprising A cooperative boardgame experience for 1-4 players set in the World of Darkness, only available on the Teburu System. In this narrative driven boardgame, you play as the Anarch vampires of Milan, struggling for autonomy against the oppression of the Camarilla sect. 1416 €376,762.00 (377%) in 6 days 2023-08-25  Gamefound 1‑4 players age 18+ 40-90 min. Cooperative Area Control 💰🔥 BGG
Fool's Blade: A Sword-Crafting Monster-Slaying Card Game A fast-paced, comedically chaotic, sword crafting, monster slaying, loot grabbing, friendship ruining backstabbing card game. 1260 $67,534.80 (675%) in 2 days 2023-08-28 Kickstarter 💰🔥🌱
Converge Wallet Game Series - By Peter C. Hayward A 1-2 player set collection and tableau building game series about control & survival in a dismal dark world. $12 for one, $29 for all! 1072 $29,617.00 (1481%) in 6 days 2023-08-05 Kickstarter 💰🌳
Iron Rail #4: Age of Rail PLUS Metal Trains! Featuring South Africa, La Pampa, and the Allegheny maps! Enhance your entire Iron Rail Series with custom metal trains! 825 $55,861.00 (559%) in 5 days 2023-08-16 Kickstarter 💰🌳
FLIGHT PLAN - Own an Empire, Ground the Competition Travel Enthusiast? Carrier Connoisseur? Aspiring Mogul? Play the game that appeals to all three - Flight Plan. 713 $30,010.00 (500%) in 6 days 2023-08-24 Kickstarter 2‑6 players age 14+ 60-90 min. 💰🌱 BGG
Wizards & Co. Raid dungeons for loot in a ruthless contest with other greedy wizards. From the designers of Alma Mater, Egizia, and many more! 710 £19,039.00 (216%) in 6 days 2023-08-09 Kickstarter 2‑4 players age 12+ 30-60 min. 💰🌳 BGG
Burn the Fort A game of Indigenous resistance. Burn the Fort is a semi-cooperative game where you’ll face history in challenging & empowering ways 272 $14,388.15 (96%) in 8 days 2023-08-23  Gamefound 2‑4 players age 14+ 60-120 min. Card Game Dice Game Cooperative 🌱 BGG
The Gods Will Have Blood It is April 1793. You are Evariste Gamelin, a young artist with an enthusiasm for the Republican cause. As an appointed magistrate, you will preside over show trials of accused royalists and counterrevolutionaries. Your goal is to elevate your reputation amongst your fellow Jacobins while using your… 203 $6,293.90 (210%) in 5 days 2023-08-01  Gamefound 1 player 15-30 min. 💰🌱 BGG
BLITZ IN THE EAST Relive the Russian Campaign. Blitz as the Axis to quickly defeat the Soviets! Hold on as the Soviets and slowly overwhelm the Axis! 160 €23,228.00 (116%) in 5 days 2023-08-10 Kickstarter 1‑2 players age 14+ 120-300 min. 💰🌳 BGG
NEXUS: Legacy Edition Rulebook Take the NEXUS: Arena Combat System to the next level with the new legacy rules edition. 157 $11,636.05 (388%) in 6 days 2023-08-26  Gamefound 2‑5 players age 17+ 60-120 min. Wargame Dice Game 💰 BGG
The Siblings Trouble: Expanded Deluxe Edition & Expansion Go on an epic, 30-minute adventure in this card-driven, cooperative storytelling game for 2-5 players! 120 $6,251.00 (83%) in 6 days 2023-08-08 Kickstarter 2‑5 players age 12+ 30-45 min. 🌳 BGG
Caligula - An Adult Party Game from Steve Jackson Games Caesar Commands You Make Rules! And Drink! 119 $4,329.00 (173%) in 4 days 2023-08-10 Kickstarter 💰🌳
No man's planet Rising / ノーマンズプラネットライジング 機械生命体が支配する惑星を舞台に、マシンを開発・改造・生産して領土を拡大していく重量級のボードゲーム「ノーマンズプラネット」の拡張セット制作プロジェクトです。 107 ¥1,245,489 (125%) in 3 days 2023-08-27 Kickstarter 🎉💰
THAT'S NOT FUNNY : A Ridiculous Role Play Game A card game that is potentially offensive and significantly hilarious, like "Cards Against Humanity" meets "Charades" 104 $4,338.00 (87%) in 6 days 2023-08-26 Kickstarter 🎉🌱
Quibbles: a quick and quaintly quirky card game Swap, collect, and make clever combinations to be the first to gather 21 Quibbles. Fast-paced fun for 2-5 players! 100 €2,014.00 (201%) in 5 days 2023-08-04 Kickstarter 2‑5 players age 8+ 10-25 min. 💰🌳 BGG
Reign Absolute: Umbrous Edition The compact streamlined version of the ultimate Rapid Strategic Fantasy. 95 $2,934.00 (196%) in 5 days 2023-08-25 Kickstarter 2 players 💰 BGG
Conqueror: Empire Rises Challenge your friends to an epic empire building game that plays in under 2 hours:Six powerful nations are fighting to rule the ancient world. Who will conquer all? 76 $9,044.38 (113%) in 7 days 2023-08-23  Gamefound 3‑6 players age 14+ 60-120 min. Area Control 💰 BGG
Betwixt and Between: The Faery Queen's Whim The final expansion for Betwixt and Between and a last chance to get this unique adventure board game based upon European folklore! 65 €2,489.00 (249%) in 2 days 2023-08-25 Kickstarter 1‑4 players age 14+ 90-120 min. 🎉💰🌳 BGG
Court of Profane Pleasures - Warband in the warp stone city Since 2002 the first fresh expansion for the world-famous tabletop skirmish game set in the city of warp stone. 65 €2,636.00 (63%) in 3 days 2023-08-13 Kickstarter 🌳
MYTHIK TCG: Twilight Immortal Set Expanding Mythik TCG with Norse gods, Three Kingdoms heroes, Japanese Yokai, Hindu gods, Aztec gods and more! 46 $7,969.00 (114%) in 2 days 2023-08-14 Kickstarter 💰
I felt... An Emotionally-themed cooperative game. Discovering unknown feelings of your good friends! 46 ¥173,724 (35%) in 5 days 2023-09-02 Kickstarter 🎉🌱
Bryn Heulwen with New Map Bundles Choose a bundle which includes the base game or just expand your map collection for Bryn Heulwen (2nd ed). Get exclusive discounts and try a new game mode with additional exploration actions and gameplay. A unique Print and Play, roll and write game, based on a true story. 16 £149.77 (214%) in 7 days 2023-09-10  Gamefound 1‑5 players 40 min. Dice Game 💰

Notable filtered projects (3)

Name Description Backers Pledged Ends Information Tags
Nightmare Over Ragged Hollow A bloody good start in adventurous life! For OSE and all B/X look alikes 1990 €59,802.00 (2990%) in 14 days 2023-08-02 Kickstarter 💰🌳
Gameframe- Epic 3d printed game table Game your table. Digital files to transform your standard table to a versatile gaming table. 1609 €69,365.00 (1387%) in 20 days 2023-08-03 Kickstarter 💰🌱
Gemstone Dice Spinners - Pocket Sized 7-in-1 Dice A pocket sized dice spinner with a solid gemstone or glass core and solid metal case. 1309 £90,786.00 (1816%) in 28 days 2023-07-31 Kickstarter 💰🌱
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Weekly Crowdfunding Roundup: July 23 2023 (docs.google.com)
 

What is this?

This is a weekly crowdfunding roundup of new projects launched last week and projects that end the coming week.

This is a continuation of the same lists that were originally started over at the /r/boardgames subreddit and is currently being run by me under the tag /u/perkelton.

Updates

Expect new lists every Sunday between 00:00 and 23:59 CEST on the following platforms:

Mastodon: @danielpervan

Discord: https://discord.gg/T9MCxgHj

Reddit: /r/boardgames

Selection criteria

The criteria for the lists are as follows:## What is this?
This is a weekly crowdfunding roundup of new projects launched last week and projects that end the coming week.

Expect new lists every Sunday between 00:00 and 23:59 CEST

The criteria for the lists are as follows:

Ending soon

  • Sorted by number of backers

  • Kickstarter projects ending in the next 7 days, that have at least 100 backers (or marked as "Project we love" by Kickstarter), will have reached more than estimated 95% of their goal by their deadline and passed the filters:

    • No DnD books

    • No zines

    • No 3D printing

    • No dice sets

    • No magazines

    • No shirts

    • No playmats

    • No furniture

    • No events

  • Gamefound projects ending in the next 7 days, that will have reached more than estimated 95% of their goal by their deadline and passed the above filters.

  • (beta) Backerkit Crowdfunding projects ending in the next 7 days, that will have reached more than estimated 95% of their goal by their deadline and have a matching BGG page.

Newly launched

  • Sorted by number of backers

  • Kickstarter projects launched in the last 7 days, that have had at least average 15 backers per day, have at least 100 backers or is marked as "Project we love" by Kickstarter and passed the filters (see above).

  • Gamefound projects launched in the last 7 days and passed the filters (see above).

  • (beta) Backerkit Crowdfunding projects launched in the last 7 days and have a matching BGG page.

Notable filtered projects

  • Filtered projects from above lists that have more than 1000 backers.

Tags

🎉: Staff pick/featured

💰: Funded

🔥: More than average 200 backers/day

🌱: Creator's first project

🌳: Creator's >5th project

🔄: Money back guarantee (Read more)

FAQ

I live in Guatemala/Canada/Niue/USA, why are you posting on a Saturday?!

Because I'm writing this from Europe in the future where it's already Sunday. Timezones be crazy.

Why are there a bunch of non-board games in the board game list?

Because the Tabletop games category on Kickstarter includes anything remotely related to board games and sometimes things slip through my filters.

Why is this future award winning board game and literal saviour of humanity missing from your list?

Sometimes my filters get a bit overzealous and discard actually valid projects. If you feel something is missing for this reason, leave a comment and I'll add it (maybe).

Can I donate all my money to you?

No

Can you help me promote my game?

Please no. I make lists. Nothing more.

Your list is full of errors and now my energy bill is too high!

Indeed, this fine piece of code runs purely on this growing new thing called LSD, so anything can happen. Leave a comment and I'll see what I can do.

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Weekly Crowdfunding Roundup: July 16 2023 | 19 ending soon (incl. Gloomhaven Grand Festival, Arena: The Contest – Tanares Adventures) & 19 new this week (incl. Hamlet: By the Lake, Shadows of Brimston (docs.google.com)
 

What is this?

This is a weekly crowdfunding roundup of new projects launched last week and projects that end the coming week.

This is a continuation of the same lists that were originally started over at the /r/boardgames subreddit and is currently being run by me under the tag /u/perkelton.

Updates

Expect new lists every Sunday between 00:00 and 23:59 CEST on the following platforms:

Mastodon: @danielpervan

Discord: https://discord.gg/T9MCxgHj

Reddit: /r/boardgames

Selection criteria

The criteria for the lists are as follows:## What is this?
This is a weekly crowdfunding roundup of new projects launched last week and projects that end the coming week.

Expect new lists every Sunday between 00:00 and 23:59 CEST

The criteria for the lists are as follows:

Ending soon

  • Sorted by number of backers

  • Kickstarter projects ending in the next 7 days, that have at least 100 backers (or marked as "Project we love" by Kickstarter), will have reached more than estimated 95% of their goal by their deadline and passed the filters:

    • No DnD books

    • No zines

    • No 3D printing

    • No dice sets

    • No magazines

    • No shirts

    • No playmats

    • No furniture

    • No events

  • Gamefound projects ending in the next 7 days, that will have reached more than estimated 95% of their goal by their deadline and passed the above filters.

  • (beta) Backerkit Crowdfunding projects ending in the next 7 days, that will have reached more than estimated 95% of their goal by their deadline and have a matching BGG page.

Newly launched

  • Sorted by number of backers

  • Kickstarter projects launched in the last 7 days, that have had at least average 15 backers per day, have at least 100 backers or is marked as "Project we love" by Kickstarter and passed the filters (see above).

  • Gamefound projects launched in the last 7 days and passed the filters (see above).

  • (beta) Backerkit Crowdfunding projects launched in the last 7 days and have a matching BGG page.

###Notable filtered projects

  • Filtered projects from above lists that have more than 1000 backers.

Tags

🎉: Staff pick/featured

💰: Funded

🔥: More than average 200 backers/day

🌱: Creator's first project

🌳: Creator's >5th project

🔄: Money back guarantee (Read more)

FAQ

I live in Panama/Canada/Nicaragua/USA, why are you posting on a Saturday?!

Because I'm writing this from Europe in the future where it's already Sunday. Timezones be crazy.

Why are there a bunch of non-board games in the board game list?

Because the Tabletop games category on Kickstarter includes anything remotely related to board games and sometimes things slip through my filters.

Why is this future award winning board game and literal saviour of humanity missing from your list?

Sometimes my filters get a bit overzealous and discard actually valid projects. If you feel something is missing for this reason, leave a comment and I'll add it (maybe).

Can I donate all my money to you?

No

Can you help me promote my game?

Please no. I make lists. Nothing more.

Your list is full of errors and now I can't find my glasses!

Indeed, this fine piece of code runs purely on faith, trust and pixie dust, so anything can happen. Leave a comment and I'll see what I can do.

Where is the table?

There is currently a bug in Kbin that breaks table formatting in posts. When this is fixed, I will start inlining tables again.

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What does Dynamic Lists actually do? (kbin.social)
 

Ok, I'm feeling like an idiot, but what does enabling "Dynamic lists" in the settings panel actually do?

I've even tried reading the source code and I still don't understand what it does. It seems like it should have something to do with notifications, but in the end I'm just incredibly confused.

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Weekly Crowdfunding Roundup: July 9 2023 (docs.google.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Perry@kbin.social to c/boardgames@feddit.de
7 comments fedilink
 

What is this?

This is a weekly crowdfunding roundup of new projects launched last week and projects that end the coming week.

This is a continuation of the same lists that were originally started over at the /r/boardgames subreddit and is currently being run by me under the tag /u/perkelton.

Updates

Expect new lists every Sunday between 00:00 and 23:59 CEST on the following platforms:

Mastodon: @danielpervan

Discord: https://discord.gg/T9MCxgHj

Reddit: /r/boardgames

Selection criteria

The criteria for the lists are as follows:##What is this?
This is a weekly crowdfunding roundup of new projects launched last week and projects that end the coming week.

Expect new lists every Sunday between 00:00 and 23:59 CEST

The criteria for the lists are as follows:

Ending soon

  • Sorted by number of backers

  • Kickstarter projects ending in the next 7 days, that have at least 100 backers (or marked as "Project we love" by Kickstarter), will have reached more than estimated 95% of their goal by their deadline and passed the filters:

    • No DnD books

    • No zines

    • No 3D printing

    • No dice sets

    • No magazines

    • No shirts

    • No playmats

    • No furniture

    • No events

  • Gamefound projects ending in the next 7 days, that will have reached more than estimated 95% of their goal by their deadline and passed the above filters.

  • (beta) Backerkit Crowdfunding projects ending in the next 7 days, that will have reached more than estimated 95% of their goal by their deadline and have a matching BGG page.

Newly launched

  • Sorted by number of backers

  • Kickstarter projects launched in the last 7 days, that have had at least average 15 backers per day, have at least 100 backers or is marked as "Project we love" by Kickstarter and passed the filters (see above).

  • Gamefound projects launched in the last 7 days and passed the filters (see above).

  • (beta) Backerkit Crowdfunding projects launched in the last 7 days and have a matching BGG page.

Notable filtered projects

  • Filtered projects from above lists that have more than 1000 backers.

Tags

🎉: Staff pick/featured

💰: Funded

🔥: More than average 200 backers/day

🌱: Creator's first project

🌳: Creator's >5th project

🔄: Money back guarantee (Read more)

##FAQ

I live in Nicaragua/Canada/El Salvador/USA, why are you posting on a Saturday?!

Because I'm writing this from Europe in the future where it's already Sunday. Timezones be crazy.

Why are there a bunch of non-board games in the board game list?

Because the Tabletop games category on Kickstarter includes anything remotely related to board games and sometimes things slip through my filters.

Why is this future award winning board game and literal saviour of humanity missing from your list?

Sometimes my filters get a bit overzealous and discard actually valid projects. If you feel something is missing for this reason, leave a comment and I'll add it (maybe).

Can I donate all my money to you?

No

Can you help me promote my game?

Please no. I make lists. Nothing more.

Your list is full of errors and now Chrome is eating all my RAM!

Indeed, this fine piece of code runs purely on red, orange and brown M&M's, so anything can happen. Leave a comment and I'll see what I can do.

Edit: The tables don't format correctly, so you'll have to use the Google Docs this week. Sorry!

Could we get official word on what Kbin's stance is towards federating with Meta? in c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
[–] Perry@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I feel that this has been a bit of an eye opening moment. It's nice to see that we at least don't have to worry about the risk of importing a toxic community, because evidently we are fully capable of producing that ourselves.

I had no doubt that that this is a controversial topic, but the fact that we as a community aren't even capable of having a civil discussion about it actually saddens me a bit (I'm not just referring to the comment I'm replying to).

Could we get official word on what Kbin's stance is towards federating with Meta? in c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
[–] Perry@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

That's literally the opposite what I'm saying.

Question: Why are some instances defederating instances which don't sign the fedipact? in c/fediverse@kbin.social
[–] Perry@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think many people here are immensely overestimating the value of the Fediverse user base. The entire active Fediverse, let alone individual instances, is barely a rounding error for Meta.

There is no if or when Threads become the biggest instance, Threads apparently got 10 million users in 7 hours. The whole of Mastodon has ~9 million users in total. By now, Threads alone is likely bigger than the entire Fediverse combined, which mind you is something like >99% bots and inactive users.

Even if every single instance defederates from Meta, their fork of ActivityPub would by far be the most significant one by not a small margin.

Could we get official word on what Kbin's stance is towards federating with Meta? in c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
[–] Perry@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Meta federating would be the best thing to ever happen to the Fediverse. Face it, Fediverse is not by its own in a billion years going to somehow kill off Meta. The vast, vast majority of users are going to stay with traditional social media, there’s nothing we can do about that.

However, Meta et al actually joining the Fediverse means we won. The vast majority will still stay with Meta’s services, but no one here has to. This is the closest we will ever get to a truly open standard for social media.

I don’t want to have an account with Meta or Twitter or whatever, but I, like most people, want to be able to communicate with the people who do.

As I see it, there are only two ways forward for the Fediverse:

  1. Traditional SoMe stays closed and inaccessible for anyone who doesn’t want to sell their soul to Meta. The vast majority of people still use traditional SoMe and the Fediverse stays a minuscule hobby project at best. Even here, most people will probably also have accounts on the traditional platforms in order to not cut oneself off from the world.

  2. Traditional SoMe embraces open standards and anyone who cares can choose to use whatever service they want. The vast majority of people still use traditional SoMe, but the Fediverse now has access to billions of people (or not, you can choose yourself) without having to become a commodity that Meta can sell to advertisers.

Ideally, instead of having to register a Meta account, I can just stay with Kbin.social without losing access to the content.

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Stop using Google Analytics, warns Sweden's privacy watchdog, as it issues over $1M in fines (techcrunch.com)
 

For clarity: This relates explicitly to UA not GA4. That doesn’t however mean that the current version is deemed GDPR compliant; that is likely something that a future investigation will decide.

Google claims that GA4 should be compliant, but at the same time they have also for years until a few days ago been providing a version of GA that wasn’t.

Swedes Warm Up to Euro as Krona Approaches All-Time Lows in c/europe@feddit.de
[–] Perry@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Not necessarily destabilised, but Sweden has deliberately opted not to join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism which purpose is to stabilise currency exchange rates.

Sweden is by law bound to adopt the Euro, but by choosing not to join the ERM II, Sweden by extension can't join the Euro because they technically don't fulfil the requirements.

This is of course a simple loophole that could be closed by the EU, but there hasn't really been much political will to do anything about it.

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Weekly Crowdfunding Roundup: July 2 2023 | 20 ending soon (incl. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. The Board Game, Firefly: The Game – 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition) & 21 new this week (incl. Cyclades: Legendary (docs.google.com)
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What is this?

This is a weekly crowdfunding roundup of new projects launched last week and projects that end the coming week.

This is a continuation of the same lists that were originally started over at the /r/boardgames subreddit.

Google Docs

As an alternative format, the lists are now also available as a Google Docs found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BC9nQ7xVUs3rwVpSl_K9V5unJeMIqrtBPmch1lYo7tQ/edit?usp=sharing

Updates

Expect new lists every Sunday between 00:00 and 23:59 CEST on the following platforms:

Mastodon: @danielpervan@mastodon.social

Discord: https://discord.gg/T9MCxgHj

Threadiverse: You're reading it

Reddit: /r/boardgames

Selection criteria

The criteria for the lists are as follows:##What is this?
This is a weekly crowdfunding roundup of new projects launched last week and projects that end the coming week.

Expect new lists every Sunday between 00:00 and 23:59 CEST

The criteria for the lists are as follows:

Ending soon

  • Sorted by number of backers

  • Kickstarter projects ending in the next 7 days, that have at least 100 backers (or marked as "Project we love" by Kickstarter), will have reached more than estimated 95% of their goal by their deadline and passed the filters:

    • No DnD books

    • No zines

    • No 3D printing

    • No dice sets

    • No magazines

    • No shirts

    • No playmats

    • No furniture

    • No events

  • Gamefound projects ending in the next 7 days, that will have reached more than estimated 95% of their goal by their deadline and passed the above filters.

  • (beta) Backerkit Crowdfunding projects ending in the next 7 days, that will have reached more than estimated 95% of their goal by their deadline and have a matching BGG page.

Newly launched

  • Sorted by number of backers

  • Kickstarter projects launched in the last 7 days, that have had at least average 15 backers per day, have at least 100 backers or is marked as "Project we love" by Kickstarter and passed the filters (see above).

  • Gamefound projects launched in the last 7 days and passed the filters (see above).

  • (beta) Backerkit Crowdfunding projects launched in the last 7 days and have a matching BGG page.

Notable filtered projects

  • Filtered projects from above lists that have more than 1000 backers.

Tags

🎉: Staff pick/featured

💰: Funded

🔥: More than average 200 backers/day

🌱: Creator's first project

🌳: Creator's >5th project

🔄: Money back guarantee (Read more)

##FAQ

I live in Bolivia/Canada/Ecuador/USA, why are you posting on a Saturday?!

Because I'm writing this from Europe in the future where it's already Sunday. Timezones be crazy.

Why are there a bunch of non-board games in the board game list?

Because the Tabletop games category on Kickstarter includes anything remotely related to board games and sometimes things slip through my filters.

Why is this future award winning board game and literal saviour of humanity missing from your list?

Sometimes my filters get a bit overzealous and discard actually valid projects. If you feel something is missing for this reason, leave a comment and I'll add it (maybe).

Can I donate all my money to you?

No

Can you help me promote my game?

Please no. I make lists. Nothing more.

Your list is full of errors and now I keep rolling natural 1s!

Indeed, this fine piece of code runs purely on thoughts and prayers, so anything can happen. Leave a comment and I'll see what I can do.

Ending soon (20)

Name Description Backers Pledged Ends Information Tags BGG
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. The Board Game 1-4 player solo/co-op survival adventure set in Chornobyl. Become a stalker and explore the Zone! 12375 $2,983,334.15 (5967%) in 19 days 2023-07-04  Gamefound 1‑4 players age 14+ 120-180 min. Cooperative 💰🔥🌳 BGG
Firefly: The Game - 10th Anniversary Collector's Edition Find a crew. Find a job. Keep flying. Cross the 'verse to complete jobs and get paid in this special Collector's Edition of Firefly: The Game. Containing every expansion ever made, the brand new "Still Flying" expansion and deluxe components. This is the ultimate edition for true Browncoats. 8297 $2,082,351.42 (2082%) in 19 days 2023-07-06  Gamefound 1‑10 players age 13+ 120-240 min. Card Game 💰🔥🌱 BGG
💡 Inventions: Evolution of Ideas by Vital Lacerda Use the power of humanity's most noteworthy innovations to evolve society in this innovative strategy game with artwork by Ian O'Toole 6194 $662,998.00 (663%) in 17 days 2023-07-09 Kickstarter 2‑4 players 120-150 min. 🎉💰🔥🌳 BGG
Waypoints Hike your own trail in this print at home game from Postmark Games. 5960 £24,083.90 (2408%) in 13 days ⚠️ 2023-07-02 Kickstarter 1‑100 players age 8+ 20-40 min. 💰🔥 BGG
Dog Park: New Tricks Expansion Return to the world of Dog Park with multi-breed pups, trick training, and enough room in the park for up to 5 players! 3129 £129,978.27 (1300%) in 12 days 2023-07-06 Kickstarter 1‑5 players age 10+ 50-90 min. 💰🔥 BGG
Witchcraft! A midnight bell tolls on the streets of Wildegrens as the villagers shutter their windows against the darkness. The isolated village is in danger. Crops are failing, animals are dying, and villagers are disappearing. Townsfolk are scared. From behind the old school a shadow crosses to the town well.… 2671 €56,504.00 (471%) in 24 days 2023-07-05  Gamefound 1 player 20-40 min. Card Game Deck Building 💰 BGG
Faeries & Magical Creatures A magical game where you collect faeries, plant gardens, build fairy homes, and be the first mortal to join the fairy realm. 972 $77,023.00 (308%) in 19 days 2023-07-08 Kickstarter 2‑4 players age 10+ 30-60 min. 🎉💰🌳 BGG
[MINI PLAKKS Flicking board game to challenge everyone](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/plakks/mini-plakks-flicking-board-game-to-challenge-everyone) Score goals with your fingers and make epic saves! Use your skills and strategy to compete against your family and friends⚽️👌 911 €26,439.00 (264%) in 47 days 2023-07-04 Kickstarter 2‑4 players age 5+ 5-15 min. 🎉💰🌳
Escape from Projekt Riese Battling the zombie apocalypse of WWII in the secret underground complex of Projekt Riese. 663 CA$81,936.29 (234%) in 14 days 2023-07-07 Kickstarter 1‑2 players age 14+ 30-60 min. 💰🌳 BGG
The Halls of Montezuma Travel back to 1846-1848 to refight the military and political battles of the Mexican-American War! 594 $43,196.00 (288%) in 21 days 2023-07-07 Kickstarter 1‑2 players age 12+ 60-75 min. 💰 BGG
The Hunters A. D. 1492 (edycja polska) The Hunters AD 1492 to gra kooperacyjna przeznaczona dla 1 do 4 graczy. Wciel się w łowcę i stań oko w oko z wrogami w alternatywnym, postapokaliptycznym świecie przełomu średniowiecza i renesansu. 498 PLN 460,280.00 (1534%) in 9 days 2023-07-03  Gamefound 1‑4 players 90 min. Cooperative 💰🌳
Railway Rush The pocket sized card game for every journey! Don't miss your train! 368 £5,960.00 (99%) in 28 days 2023-07-05 Kickstarter 2‑5 players age 8+ 15-45 min. 🌱 BGG
HacKClaD HacKClaD is a competitive deck-building arena battler for 1-4 players in a stunning, sci-fi anime game from Japan! 314 $30,977.00 (310%) in 12 days 2023-07-07 Kickstarter 🎉💰🌳
Beverage is back!: Worker placement at its thirstiest An economic worker placement game with a bit of push-your-luck and a lot of cutthroat strategy. Bigger and thirstier than ever! 268 ¥2,597,452 (173%) in 15 days 2023-07-09 Kickstarter 3‑5 players age 13+ 60-90 min. 🎉💰 BGG
Ocean Pods - Dice Game Draft resources to complete research goals whilst working together to stop pollution. One can win, but all could lose. 241 £6,529.00 (1088%) in 25 days 2023-07-08 Kickstarter 2‑5 players age 11+ 30-45 min. 💰 BGG
Rise of the Gummies A hybrid card game that brings your deck to life! 231 $20,739.00 (104%) in 24 days 2023-07-07 Kickstarter 1‑2 players age 8+ 10-20 min. 🎉💰🌱 BGG
Potions & Spells A recipe-building card game for 2-6 players. Cast spells to attack or gain advantages and collect ingredients to brew magical potions. 186 $7,853.00 (105%) in 26 days 2023-07-06 Kickstarter 2‑6 players age 14+ 20-45 min. 💰🌱 BGG
VAULT A competitive game for 1 to 4 players. Crack the combination before the other hackers do! 157 £6,647.00 (1329%) in 31 days 2023-07-03 Kickstarter 1‑4 players age 10+ 30-60 min. 💰🌳 BGG
Overlords: In Training Survive, outlast, and outwit your enemies long enough to take on the Boss and become the next Overlord! 95 $6,999.00 (140%) in 10 days 2023-07-06 Kickstarter 🎉💰
JumPico Combine Two Players, Two Track Styles and Two ways to play as you challenge you friends in head to head races to the finish line. 71 ¥546,909 (547%) in 12 days 2023-07-07 Kickstarter 🎉💰🌳

New this week (21)

Name Description Backers Pledged Ends Information Tags BGG
Tanares Adventures - Ultimate Edition Dive into 110+ epic quests with this massive dungeon crawler! Stunning miniatures, cinematic stories and deep strategic gameplay await. 6322 $1,037,474.00 (2075%) in 5 days 2023-07-20 Kickstarter 1‑8 players age 14+ 45-90 min. 🎉💰🔥 BGG
🔱Cyclades Legendary Edition Join the Ultimate evolution of this famous development, territory control and auction board game by Bruno Cathala and Ludovic Maublanc. 3684 €405,921.00 (271%) in 4 days 2023-08-08 Kickstarter 2‑6 players age 13+ 60-90 min. 🎉💰🔥 BGG
Shipwrights of the North Sea: Redux Return to the North Sea in this reimagined 1-5 player version of the original game that started it all! 2250 NZ$318,912.42 (1387%) in 6 days 2023-07-13 Kickstarter 1‑5 players age 13+ 60-80 min. 🎉💰🔥🌳 BGG
DC Deck-Building Game: Justice League Dark Get ready for something magical! The second DC DBG Kickstarter features Justice League Dark, the next Rivals game, & lots of surprises! 1983 $347,648.00 (348%) in 5 days 2023-07-27 Kickstarter 2‑4 players age 15+ 60-90 min. 💰🔥🌳 BGG
Mystery of the Abbey - Mojito Studios. Three to six monks investigate inside a medieval abbey to discover the culprit behind a grisly murder in this classic board game! 567 $28,248.00 (188%) in 6 days 2023-07-19 Kickstarter 💰
Fighting Fantasy Adventures: Campaign One Co-op adventure game based on the iconic books. 540 A$29,597.32 (30%) in 2 days 2023-07-22 Kickstarter 1‑4 players age 14+ 60-180 min. 🔥🌱 BGG
Book It! Tag Teams & Title Belts The third expansion for The Pro Wrestling Promoter Card Game is our biggest yet! Two new mechanics and 100 new wrestlers! 208 $8,558.66 (114%) in 2 days 2023-07-30 Kickstarter 💰🌳
DVG - Field Commander Lee The American Civil War Solitaire Strategy Game 195 $31,687.00 (158%) in 1 days 2023-07-23 Kickstarter 💰🌳
Border Ridings A collaborative history-building game, played by drawing evolving town maps on scraps of paper. Rules printed on a massive foldout map! 192 £5,185.00 (148%) in 2 days 2023-07-21 Kickstarter 💰🌳
Cursed Manor A thrilling escape game in which you help a team of ghost hunters in unraveling the mysteries of an haunted mansion 114 €708.00 (708%) in 5 days 2023-07-17 Kickstarter 💰
FridgeChess: A Vertical Chess Board for your fridge! Play Chess on any vertical surface 109 $4,725.00 (95%) in 5 days 2023-07-27 Kickstarter 🌱
カワサキネオンギャングスタ / KAWASAKI NEON GANGSTA マフィアの抗争に勝利し、カワサキの街を支配せよ！ 金と暴力が渦巻くサイバーパンクな世界「KAWASAKI NEON GANGSTA」のボードゲーム製作プロジェクトです。This project is only available in Japan. 106 ¥1,262,219 (180%) in 2 days 2023-07-30 Kickstarter 💰🌱
Neon Wizard & House of Shadows: Pinball by PinBox 3000 Cardboard pinball system with amazing art and die-cut paper craft assembly 94 $10,236.00 (16%) in 4 days 2023-08-13 Kickstarter
Classic Rally The thrills of classic car rallying, from preparing the car and logistics, to the days on the road competing and assisting the car, in order to try to get it to the finish quicker than the others.Manage your team and race your classic car in a road map created by all the players. 81 €3,340.00 (34%) in 5 days 2023-07-27  Gamefound 1‑4 players 60 min. Area Control Deck Building 🌱
Undermined! Pairadice City: A Gold Rush Era Mining Card Game Race to unearth as many treasures as possible while avoiding terrible perils and your opponents' shenanigans! 72 £4,949.69 (165%) in 3 days 2023-07-11 Kickstarter 2‑6 players age 8+ 30-60 min. 💰🌱 BGG
Dino Gardens The board game you've been waiting 65,000,000 years to play! 50 $2,197.00 (27%) in 1 days 2023-08-01 Kickstarter 2‑6 players age 10+ 45-90 min. 🌱 BGG
Scars of Baladorne Unleash your strategic might in an epic two-player skirmish game and seize control of the fantasy land of Baladorne. 32 £1,955.00 (23%) in 1 days 2023-07-31 Kickstarter 2 players age 11+ 30-60 min. 🌱 BGG
AnARKey Trading Card Game A whole new Trading card game experience that YOU can be a part of! Join Danny Trejo and other Awesome people in the Wasteland today! 26 $4,872.00 (17%) in 1 days 2023-08-15 Kickstarter 2‑4 players age 14+ 50-120 min. BGG
Tales are Real: Legacy An expandable fantasy duel card game with easy to learn rules, intuitive game mechanics and strategic depth - for beginners and experts. 24 €1,101.00 (37%) in 2 days 2023-08-05  Gamefound 2 players age 14+ 15-60 min. Card Game Dice Game Deck Building 🌱 BGG
Mermaids Vs Kraken A roll and write of oceanic depth battling a tentacled terror with the help of Mermaids 23 $105.00 (105%) in 1 days 2023-07-21 Kickstarter 1‑100 players age 8+ 20-50 min. 💰🌳 BGG
King of the Casinos You think you're slick enough to run a Las Vegas casino? Find out in this all new board game. 18 $924.00 (4%) in 1 days 2023-07-31 Kickstarter 2‑5 players age 12+ 60-90 min. 🌱 BGG

Notable filtered projects (7)

Name Description Backers Pledged Ends Information Tags
Geologist's Primer by Double Proficiency An illustrated guide to real-world crystals, minerals, and metals by the creators of the Herbalist’s Primer 5683 $324,362.00 (3244%) in 5 days 2023-07-27 Kickstarter 🎉💰🔥🌳
Triangle Agency, Paranormal Investigation TTRPG Clock in to work and protect the world in this game of paranormal abilities, corporate horror, and dangerous Anomalies. 3147 $252,002.99 (2520%) in 26 days 2023-07-07 Kickstarter 🎉💰🌱
SEASON 2: NRB Plays Blood On The Clocktower LIVE!! We're making a follow-up series of In-Person Games!! 2244 £126,160.72 (121%) in 57 days 2023-07-05 Kickstarter 🎉💰
Loot The Body! 1000 Intriguing Items for D&D or any TTRPG Unique & Evolving Project: Expand your loot collection with intriguing items for DnD or any TTRPG. Join the fun from just £2! 2165 £11,202.00 (24893%) in 19 days 2023-07-08 Kickstarter 💰🌱
Omni Dice: World's First 15-in-1 D6 Dice in Your Pocket A Revolutionary 15-in-1 function dice just in a single D6 cube. For your games and your daily life. 1545 $131,711.00 (2634%) in 26 days 2023-07-06 Kickstarter 🎉💰
2024 Quest Calendar 📆 An Adventure-a-Day RPG A desktop tear-away calendar with a year full of adventure in 2024. 1324 $71,591.00 (651%) in 1 days 2023-07-22 Kickstarter 💰🔥🌳
Savage Worlds 20th Anniversary Celebration Updated 5th printing of the best-selling Savage Worlds game system! NEW softcover Player's Book, Accessory Box, and stretch goals! 1020 $97,314.00 (1622%) in 5 days 2023-07-28 Kickstarter 🎉💰🔥🌳
Fidelity deepens valuation cut for Reddit and Discord in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] Perry@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah it’s always a project to get new people started with Mumble. It doesn’t feel like it should be so difficult, but people always struggle.

Ironically, I struggled immensely with forcing Discord to stop messing with my system audio settings, which is apparently something apps are allowed to do in Windows.

Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation to $5.5B from $10B in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
[–] Perry@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So imagine that you have a lemon tree that grows the finest lemons in the neighbourhood. You know that with those lemons you could make the meanest lemonade and make a ton of money selling that. The problem is that in order to do that, you need to buy a juice press, a bunch of sugar and maybe throw together a dashing lemonade stand that will draw attention to your business.

The issue is that you don't have any money to buy those things and even if you know you will get rich down the line, the whole project is a dud if you can't even build your lemonade stand.

Enter Mr. Money Bag. I have a whole €1,000 just sitting there in my wallet not doing anything. I would really like that many to become bigger so I look for a way to do that. I have however seen your lemon tree and the awesome lemons it produces. With those lemons I absolutely believe that you can make the greatest lemonade the world have ever seen and I believe the only thing you need to do that is more money.

So I agree to give you those €1,000 in order to build your lemonade stand and in return I will take some of the money that you make from selling the lemonade. It will however take a few weeks for you to do that and until that is done the materials will probably cost more than what you're making from the lemonade.

That's OK for me, though. I wasn't doing anything with that money anyway and as long as I trust that you can still make a bunch of money when it's finished, I'm fine with it. In fact, I decide to give you another €100 to put up a sign in order for more people to find your business quicker.

So everything is tugging along and now you're actually making more money than you spend, so you give me an amazing €1.200; €100 more than I spent! You also get some money, which is awesome because now you can buy yourself that rocking NiN T-shirt you've always wanted. Now this is great, except I still don't actually need that money, not right now at least. So I tell you to keep that money in the company and build an additional even better lemonade stand which will make us twice the amount of money in a few weeks.

Currently, your company haven't made a single cent, but that's fine because your business is sound and everything is tugging along exactly as planned.

Eventually, I decide that I actually want to buy a new high end TV so I actually need some money that I can spend right now. I know that in about ten weeks this company will have made at least €20,000 that it can either invest in further expansion or give back to the owners. So I go to my buddies Greg and Lisa who definitely have that amount of money and tell them that they can buy this company for €20,000. Greg also owns a carpentry which he can use for building even more lemonade stands and Lisa is really good at making signs so with them the company might even make €40,000 in the same time.

So Greg and Lisa together buy my part of the company for €20,000. I get to watch Eurovision on my new 70 inch TV, and Greg and Lisa will together make €40,000 in a few weeks so everyone is happy.

Then after a few months, someone realises that your lemon tree can really only grow a basket of lemons a year and you can't actually grow enough to make the money you hoped for. Everybody panics, the company's value plummets and eventually closes down.

Greg and Lisa are mad because they didn't make the money they hoped for (they did however get back €5,000 from selling the lemonade stands to a neighbor who was about to start an apple juice business). You're also disappointed, but at least you still have your NiN t-shirt. Your gardener goes to jail for some reason, though.

/kbin - preview of upcoming changes in c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
[–] Perry@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Will the test instances be publicly available?

That would be greatly appreciated by us over at /m/kbinStyles so that it’s possible to see that everything still works before the new version goes live.

Obviously not exactly high priority, but I thought it was worth asking anyway.

Weekly Crowdfunding Roundup: June 25 2023 | 25 ending soon (incl. Waypoints, Thiefdom) & 22 new this week (incl. Scarface 1920: Bloody Business, Waypoints) in c/boardgames@feddit.de
[–] Perry@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It seems like the formatting kinda works. On Lemmy it looks alright to me, while on Kbin the columns are a bit squished, but otherwise it appears to hold together. I'll see if I can refine it a bit next week.

Edit: Oof, Kbin really doesn’t handle tables well on mobile. At least it looks alright on Lemmy.

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Weekly Crowdfunding Roundup: June 25 2023 | 25 ending soon (incl. Waypoints, Thiefdom) & 22 new this week (incl. Scarface 1920: Bloody Business, Waypoints) (docs.google.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Perry@kbin.social to c/boardgames@feddit.de
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What is this?

This is a weekly crowdfunding roundup of new projects launched last week and projects that end the coming week.

This week I'm experimenting with inlining the tables like I've previously done with the Reddit posts. We'll see how it works out. If it doesn't work, then the lists are also available as a linked Google Docs.

Expect new lists every Sunday between 00:00 and 23:59 CEST

The criteria for the lists are as follows:

Ending soon

  • Sorted by number of backers

  • Kickstarter projects ending in the next 7 days, that have at least 100 backers (or marked as "Project we love" by Kickstarter), will have reached more than estimated 95% of their goal by their deadline and passed the filters:

    • No DnD books

    • No zines

    • No 3D printing

    • No dice sets

    • No magazines

    • No shirts

    • No playmats

    • No furniture

    • No events

  • Gamefound projects ending in the next 7 days, that will have reached more than estimated 95% of their goal by their deadline and passed the above filters.

  • (beta) Backerkit Crowdfunding projects ending in the next 7 days, that will have reached more than estimated 95% of their goal by their deadline and have a matching BGG page.

Newly launched

  • Sorted by number of backers

  • Kickstarter projects launched in the last 7 days, that have had at least average 15 backers per day, have at least 100 backers or is marked as "Project we love" by Kickstarter and passed the filters (see above).

  • Gamefound projects launched in the last 7 days and passed the filters (see above).

  • (beta) Backerkit Crowdfunding projects launched in the last 7 days and have a matching BGG page.

Notable filtered projects

  • Filtered projects from above lists that have more than 1000 backers.

Tags

🎉: Staff pick/featured

💰: Funded

🔥: More than average 200 backers/day

🌱: Creator's first project

🌳: Creator's >5th project

🔄: Money back guarantee (Read more)

FAQ

I live in El Salvador/Canada/Panama/USA, why are you posting on a Saturday?!

Because I'm writing this from Europe in the future where it's already Sunday. Timezones be crazy.

Why are there a bunch of non-board games in the board game list?

Because the Tabletop games category on Kickstarter includes anything remotely related to board games and sometimes things slip through my filters.

Why is this future award winning board game and literal saviour of humanity missing from your list?

Sometimes my filters get a bit overzealous and discard actually valid projects. If you feel something is missing for this reason, leave a comment and I'll add it (maybe).

Can I donate all my money to you?

No

Can you help me promote my game?

Please no. I make lists. Nothing more.

Your list is full of errors and now Chrome is eating all my RAM!

Indeed, this fine piece of code runs purely on WAAAGH!, so anything can happen. Leave a comment and I'll see what I can do.

Ending soon (25)

Name Description Backers Pledged Ends Information Tags BGG
Waypoints Hike your own trail in this print at home game from Postmark Games. 3766 £15,241.90 (1524%) in 5 days 2023-07-02 Kickstarter 1‑100 players age 8+ 20-40 min. 💰🔥 BGG
Thiefdom Lead a daring guild of thieves on the ultimate heist in this immersive board game for 1-4 players 3555 €99,423.00 (343%) in 12 days 2023-06-30 Kickstarter 1‑4 players age 14+ 60-120 min. 🎉💰🔥🌳 BGG
Stroganov: Turukhan An expansion with four modules and a Big Box for the acclaimed strategy board game Stroganov by Andreas Steding. 1757 €71,410.75 (238%) in 20 days 2023-06-28 Kickstarter 1‑4 players age 12+ 60-120 min. 💰🌳 BGG
Biohack - Create Mythical Creatures as Mad Scientists Create various creatures from myths and gain back your reputation as scientists in this strategic game for 1-4 players. 1397 ¥17,833,867 (1274%) in 25 days 2023-07-01 Kickstarter 1‑4 players age 14+ 60-90 min. 🎉💰 BGG
Groo: The Game Returns! Bring Groo back to the game table! Sergio Aragonés' hapless comic hero wants your support! And cheese dip! 1302 $45,649.00 (913%) in 10 days 2023-06-30 Kickstarter 2‑6 players age 10+ 45 min. 💰🌳 BGG
Micro Architects Plan and build a sprawling MICRO metropolis! 991 €41,563.00 (208%) in 25 days ⚠️ 2023-06-25  Gamefound 1‑4 players age 8+ 30-60 min. 💰 BGG
Tiny Epic Licensed Boxes Licensed inserts-boxes for all Tiny Epic Games! 931 €72,219.00 (722%) in 12 days 2023-06-27 Kickstarter 💰🌳
Castellans of Valeria In Valeria's western frontier, a Castellan is needed to develop the city of Kosk. Can you out-build your rivals and win guild support? 835 $42,520.25 (425%) in 12 days 2023-06-30 Kickstarter 1‑5 players 60-90 min. 🎉💰🌳 BGG
Celtic Animal Knot Dice Beautiful dice that connect to each other in Celtic knots. New six-sided Knot Dice with pips and animals, and D4s that connect to D8s. 818 $57,633.00 (1153%) in 12 days 2023-06-30 Kickstarter 1‑3 players age 8+ 15-30 min. 🎉💰 BGG
Monsters of Loch Lomond Free your clan from legendary monsters, outwit rival chieftains, and achieve freedom in this thrilling Scottish card game. 681 €14,801.00 (296%) in 26 days 2023-06-29 Kickstarter 2‑5 players age 10+ 15-45 min. 💰🌱 BGG
Deadball: Masters of the Game A new expansion for the bestselling tabletop baseball sim, Masters of the Game lets you rewrite the history of the sport. 600 $14,359.00 (2872%) in 17 days 2023-06-29 Kickstarter 1‑2 players age 6+ 15-30 min. 🎉💰🌳 BGG
Welcome to Reckoning A solo, threat management game of cinematic cowboys and ghastly ghouls. 506 $9,133.00 (122%) in 5 days 2023-07-01 Kickstarter 1 player age 8+ 💰 BGG
Nano9games wave 2 Second wave of the Nano9games with 3 new great games including a nano version of Clinic, a Patrol game and an Asteroid miners game! 494 $32,355.00 (270%) in 20 days 2023-06-30 Kickstarter 💰🌳
Tank Chess (reprint) Outsmart your opponent and destroy their forces in this diceless tactical tank battle game! 384 $25,353.00 (1253%) in 26 days 2023-06-29 Kickstarter 💰🌳
Loam Loam is a set-matching strategy game about building healthy soils. You are a plant, who for obvious reasons is into that sort of thing. You also have a lot more power and agency over your environment than humans often give you credit for. Sculpt the soil’s weird and wonderful biodiversity to assembl… 363 $17,337.95 (173%) in 33 days 2023-07-01  Gamefound 1‑4 players age 12+ 15-40 min. Card Game 💰 BGG
Third Crusade & Kartini - From Darkness to Light A Zenobia award finalist & A unique strategy war game. Indonesia & The Holy Land. By ION, the expert on fact based game experiences. 356 €23,116.00 (231%) in 19 days 2023-06-26 Kickstarter 💰🌳
Stack It Kitten! - Relaunch When the floor is lava 🔥 but lava is actually water 🌊 and you are a cat 😺! 343 €13,028.00 (241%) in 24 days 2023-07-01 Kickstarter 💰
SSO: Classis Caetera The sci-fi survival horror game, for 1-6 players returns! 329 £6,278.00 (157%) in 25 days 2023-06-30 Kickstarter 1‑6 players age 14+ 90-120 min. 💰🌳 BGG
【第二版】しあわせのいと 【2nd print】Connecting links 《しあわせ》を紡ぐ非対称対戦型推理パズルゲーム。 最大6ターンで終了する早期決着とメモを必要としない設計により、ボードゲーム初心者～上級者まで幅広く楽しむことができます。 224 ¥1,218,229 (244%) in 22 days 2023-06-28 Kickstarter 💰
Badland Rivals A Push-Your-Luck Adventure Card Game For 2-3 Players 214 $7,325.00 (147%) in 23 days 2023-07-01 Kickstarter 2‑3 players 💰 BGG
Rhum Rush! A Competitive Card Game of Tiki Mixology! Get ready to build some RUM (RHUM) COCKTAILS!🍹🌴🗿 198 $9,040.00 (90%) in 26 days 2023-06-29 Kickstarter 🌱
Chroma Mix Mix your colors or play them? The choice is yours in this 1-4 player engine building game about the CMYK system of colors. 150 $2,732.59 (1366%) in 24 days 2023-07-01  Gamefound 1‑4 players 30-45 min. Card Game 💰🌱 BGG
Hidden Ark A beautiful illustrated strategy board game about saving endangered fish species and making a difference! 117 €5,269.00 (105%) in 25 days 2023-06-28 Kickstarter 1‑4 players age 10+ 60-90 min. 💰🌳 BGG
20 Bounties & Most Wanted Twenty one-shot bounties and most wanted sidequests, complete with printable paper minis and tokens 101 CA$740.29 (740%) in 23 days 2023-07-01 Kickstarter 💰
Archangelis - A Deckbuilding Battle for All Creation A deckbuilding card game, where you assemble an army of angels and demons…in an attempt to rule all creation! 62 $4,412.11 (221%) in 55 days 2023-06-30  Gamefound 2 players age 13+ 20-60 min. Card Game Deck Building 💰🌱 BGG

New this week (22)

Name Description Backers Pledged Ends Information Tags BGG
Scarface 1920: Bloody Business Scarface 1920 returns with the release of the new expansion, Bloody Business, two new gangs and the reprint of the original game. 4940 €662,305.00 (1472%) in 4 days 2023-07-15  Gamefound 1‑4 players age 12+ 90-180 min. Area Control Deck Building 💰🔥🌱 BGG
Waypoints Hike your own trail in this print at home game from Postmark Games. 3766 £15,241.90 (1524%) in 5 days 2023-07-02 Kickstarter 1‑100 players age 8+ 20-40 min. 💰🔥 BGG
Dog Park: New Tricks Expansion Return to the world of Dog Park with multi-breed pups, trick training, and enough room in the park for up to 5 players! 2512 £103,505.00 (1035%) in 5 days 2023-07-06 Kickstarter 💰🔥
Eldfall Chronicles: Northern Wind An epic adventure featuring deep tactical combat, dungeon crawl, and premium miniatures. Hunt the haunting and save the Empire! 967 €192,032.00 (698%) in 5 days 2023-07-13 Kickstarter 1‑4 players age 14+ 45-120 min. 🎉💰 BGG
Escape from Projekt Riese Battling the zombie apocalypse of WWII in the secret underground complex of Projekt Riese. 537 CA$69,198.29 (198%) in 6 days 2023-07-07 Kickstarter 1‑2 players age 14+ 30-60 min. 💰🌳 BGG
Welcome to Reckoning A solo, threat management game of cinematic cowboys and ghastly ghouls. 506 $9,133.00 (122%) in 5 days 2023-07-01 Kickstarter 1 player age 8+ 💰 BGG
Nestlings 1-4 player, dice placement, area majority board game of gathering resources and feeding your Nestlings 478 $32,421.00 (90%) in 5 days 2023-07-22 Kickstarter 1‑4 players age 10+ 30-60 min. 🎉🌱 BGG
Mixtape Massacre: Time Warp Expansion A new expansion for Escape from Tall Oaks with components also for Mixtape Massacre. The final 80's Tales from Tall Oaks Expansion. 435 $24,333.00 (243%) in 5 days 2023-07-11 Kickstarter 💰🌳
Ovation: A Classical Music Game Compose as Beethoven, Mozart, and other classical music legends to build the greatest legacy in this engine building game! 337 NZ$25,425.42 (127%) in 6 days 2023-07-22 Kickstarter 1‑5 players age 10+ 40-60 min. 🎉💰🌱 BGG
Pacific Ocean Card Game Build your marine sanctuary in this 2 players pocket-sized game. The expansions adds solo mode and 3rd player. Comes in a cool tin box. 302 CA$5,920.29 (237%) in 3 days 2023-07-13 Kickstarter 💰🌱
The Glade Set in a forest, an enchanting and challenging tile laying game you'll want to play again and again. 267 £17,797.00 (178%) in 4 days 2023-07-10 Kickstarter 1‑4 players age 14+ 30-60 min. 💰🌳 BGG
HacKClaD HacKClaD is a competitive deck-building arena battler for 1-4 players in a stunning, sci-fi anime game from Japan! 242 $24,385.00 (244%) in 5 days 2023-07-07 Kickstarter 🎉💰🌳
The Hunters A. D. 1492 (edycja polska) The Hunters AD 1492 to gra kooperacyjna przeznaczona dla 1 do 4 graczy. Wciel się w łowcę i stań oko w oko z wrogami w alternatywnym, postapokaliptycznym świecie przełomu średniowiecza i renesansu. 220 PLN 200,456.00 (668%) in 2 days 2023-07-03  Gamefound 1‑4 players 90 min. Cooperative 💰🌳
Beverage is back!: Worker placement at its thirstiest An economic worker placement game with a bit of push-your-luck and a lot of cutthroat strategy. Bigger and thirstier than ever! 199 ¥1,942,609 (130%) in 7 days 2023-07-09 Kickstarter 🎉💰
Wacky Puppies: Strategic Card Game With Dog Puns A weirdly fun card game for everyone that loves strategy, dog puns, surprise comebacks, hilarious artwork, and wacky challenges 177 $10,612.00 (212%) in 6 days 2023-07-20 Kickstarter 2‑5 players age 6+ 10-20 min. 🎉💰🌱 BGG
Fantasy Football Team Tokens: Orkz A premium quality, highly collectable production of fantasy football tokens, to play with or collect 131 £12,996.00 (325%) in 4 days 2023-07-12 Kickstarter 💰
🗺️ Invitation to Etariya Island 🌊🌴 A Board Game Duet 🎲🎲 Two board games on a fantasy island, featuring strategic gameplay and a grand adventure. 109 $5,106.00 (85%) in 5 days 2023-07-20 Kickstarter 🎉🌳
Rome & Conquer Explore ancient lands and seas, build wonders, and conquer armies in this roll and write game. 107 $524.00 (524%) in 6 days 2023-07-19 Kickstarter 1‑99 players 💰🌳 BGG
Overlords: In Training Survive, outlast, and outwit your enemies long enough to take on the Boss and become the next Overlord! 77 $5,945.00 (119%) in 3 days 2023-07-06 Kickstarter 💰
Paragons: Age of Champions Paragons: Age of Champions is an all-in-one high-fantasy deck-builder for 2-3 players featuring over 100 unique cards designed by a single artist. Delivery September 2023. 74 £6,872.66 (687%) in 5 days 2023-07-06  Gamefound 2‑3 players age 12+ 45-75 min. Card Game Deck Building 💰🌱 BGG
JumPico Combine Two Players, Two Track Styles and Two ways to play as you challenge you friends in head to head races to the finish line. 60 ¥447,109 (447%) in 5 days 2023-07-07 Kickstarter 🎉💰🌳
Gunfights & Gamblin' Second Edition Gunfights & Gamblin' is a gut-punch of a game that pits two to six players in an epic team battle over a pioneer town.The question is: are you feeling like a pioneer, or a renegade? Do you want to build the town, or burn it down?It is a game drenched in theme--from keeping track of the game roun… 24 $1,424.86 (28%) in 5 days 2023-08-07  Gamefound 2‑6 players 90 min. 🌱

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Name Description Backers Pledged Ends Information Tags
The Mystery of the Cursed Statuette (5e) A Detective Mystery Adventure Inspired by Sherlock Holmes for Fifth Edition (DnD/Fantasy RPG) 2195 £66,714.00 (3103%) in 26 days 2023-06-29 Kickstarter 🎉💰🌳
Aether Nexus: Fantasy Mecha TTRPG Powered by The Mecha Hack: A high fantasy world shattered by calamity and preserved by aetheric knights clad in artifact armor. 1682 $71,733.50 (399%) in 26 days 2023-07-01 Kickstarter 💰🌳
Penumbra City A ttrpg set in the mysterious world of Harrow. 1260 $52,457.69 (404%) in 24 days 2023-07-01 Kickstarter 🎉💰🌱
The Frost 2 3D Printable STL Miniatures and Terrain for Role Playing Games, Tabletop, Wargames, or other TTRPG 1054 €52,368.00 (5237%) in 5 days 2023-07-01 Kickstarter 💰🔥🌳
What will you do if reddit undoes API changes? in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social
[–] Perry@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Honestly, I would probably be using both, in that case. The Threadiverse feels a lot like the early days of Reddit and I would love to be part of it and see it grow up. Assuming this keeps expanding, it's too late for me to go back to exclusively using Reddit at this point. Giga brain Mr. Huffman made sure of that.

However, there are numerous great communities at Reddit that haven't found a place here yet. Especially many of the smaller subs that were already very niche as it is, and that one probably won't not find anywhere else anytime soon.

I'm already regularly using multiple different sites as it is. Both larger international ones, as well as smaller local blogs and forums. I don't personally see an issue by itself to keep both Reddit and Kbin on that list.

Hopefully, we will see entirely new communities pop up and grow in the Threadiverse. That is, communities that aren't just different flavours of "Reddit sucks". Not saying it's not entertaining, but I think we need to broaden the scope a bit going forward. :)

New VS Code Extension Replaces Booleans with Toggles in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
[–] Perry@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As long as it's not literally a toggle that you can interact with.

I can only imagine the horrors of accidentally clicking in the editor while selecting some text and quietly changing certificateIsValid = false; to true or something like that.

Mockup: I'm a fan of having all my favorite subs/magazines to access on a glance. in c/kbinMeta@kbin.social
[–] Perry@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Awesome! Glad it worked.

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The Backerkit campaign for Gloomhaven 2nd edition, RPG and miniatures is up (www.backerkit.com)
 

Cephalofair Games has just launched their new crowdfunding campaign on Backerkit.

It’s essentially three different projects bundled into the same campaign:

  • The 2nd edition of Gloomhaven
  • Different sets of miniatures for the enemies and summons in Gloomhaven+expansion, JotL and Frosthaven
  • A new Gloomhaven themed RPG.
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Weekly Crowdfunding Roundup: June 18 2023 (docs.google.com)
 

What is this?

This is a roundup of new crowdfunding projects launched last week, as well as projects that end the coming week. I have previously posted these lists on /r/boardgames, but I wanted to offer this as an alternative format for those who don't want to use Reddit.

Note that I'm still experimenting with what platforms and formats I'm going to use. I will at least be posting these on Mastodon and Discord on a regular basis for the time being.

This week I'm however also playing around with Lemmy/Kbin, so I'll see how it goes.

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Some thoughts, ideas and honest criticism from a new user (kbin.social)
 

So after a few days of lurking Kbin and trying to understand the marvelous world of the Fediverse, I've tried keep some mental notes of the struggles I've had and some spontaneous areas of improvement that I personally would like to see.

Nevertheless, I think even in these very early stages there is great potential in Kbin and the Fediverse as a whole, and it will be fun to follow along and see how this develops.

Terminology
From the point of view of a Reddit user, I do of course understand that Kbin is its own thing and Reddit isn't exactly the golden standard, but I do however find a lot of the Kbin specific lingo to be very confusing and sometimes rather inconsistent.

So looking at the top menu, you have Threads, Microblog, People and Magazines. Threads and Microblog are both actually part of a Magazine which is essentially the same thing as a community or a subreddit. However, you don't actually post threads to the Magazine; you post Articles. If I understand is correctly, there actually is no such thing as a Thread in Kbin.

An Article is however also not actually a link to an article, but rather a text post onto Kbin itself, i.e. a selfpost in Reddit lingo. To post an article, one has to post a Link, which is functionally identical to an Article except it also features an URL to an article. Both a Link and an Article can also include an image, but it's also possible to post a Photo, which is similar to a Link or Article, except it doesn't include a text body field.

There is also an option to post a Video, but that doesn't seem to work at the moment.

All of the above post types also feature Tags and Badges. I honestly don't understand what those are for.

You can also select whether the post is NSFW or OC (which I assume means Original Content), which are pretty self explanatory, albeit arguably a bit redundant for an Article which I would assume is inherently OC by itself.

However, posting any of these types is not the same thing as posting a Post, which actually means posting a microblog entry. A Post is similar to an Article, except there is no title, tags or badges and unlike an Article, a Post has no option to specify whether it's original content or not.

I assume that a microblog Post has a limited number of allowed characters, but I can't see that being specified anywhere.

So naturally I find all of this very confusing as a new user. Kbin uses a lot its own unique terminology and lingo, that honestly isn't completely self explanatory. The main issue is however that this lingo is also never really explained anywhere. As a new user, one has to essentially guess how things fit together and after several days I still don't really understand a lot of things.

My suggestion is to at least add more tooltips, placeholders and descriptions, explaining what each thing actually does and how one is supposed to interact with it.

Even better would be to add some proper onboarding steps, guiding the user through the ins and out of Kbin and the Fediverse and how one actually gets started using it.

If it isn't already set in stone, I would however personally suggest also changing some of the terminology to make it more understandable, but that might just be me.

Navigational structure
Again, this might absolutely be a matter of getting used to a different site, but I still struggle grasping the overall user flow throughout the site.

Clicking on Threads I get a list of all Articles, Links, Photos and Videos posted in all Magazines that are part of the Kbin network (both local and external). I can then click on Microblog to see the same things but for Posts.

So far so good, except I am inherently uninterested in seeing an uncurated mountain of softcore porn mixed with German travel tips, so I try to switch showing only Magazines I'm subscribed to. That is however not a setting, but a completely different part of the site /sub which I get redirected to.

If I now click on an Article or Post, it opens so that I can read it. However, I am now no longer on /sub, which means that if I go back to the feed, I'm back to seeing everything again.

Similarly, I can click on a Magazine to see all Articles posted there. I can then click Microblog to see all Posts, and I can click on People to see... People related to the Magazine (I don't really understand what I'm seeing).

I can freely navigate back and fourth between these top level navigation links without leaving the Magazine. However, clicking on Magazines will take me to a some kind of sorted list of different Magazines. Even though it's on the same structural level in the navigation, I am now on completely different part of the site and clicking on the different links in the navigation will take me back to the frontpage of the respective area, not the Magazine I was on previously.

On the topic of Magazines, there is also no easy way to actually list the Magazines you're subscribed to. As far as I know, the only way is to go to Profile -> Settings -> Subscriptions, which isn't exactly streamlined for something I would argue should be one of the most important core functionalities.

General usability
So this one might be a bit silly, since of course things will improve going forward, but I thought I'd include it anyway.

You can see in the feed whether a certain entry is an Article, Link or Photo by the small icon in the lower left. You can click on the photo icon to show the photo inline without opening the article, but clicking the Article icon does nothing. Links don't have an icon at all, making it rather confusing whether an entry is an Article on the Fediverse or if it's a link to an external site.

Presumably, all types should have an icon and clicking on the icon should show text body as well as the photo if available.

Furthermore, clicking on the actual image preview navigates to the article itself, while then clicking on the same preview in the article opens a modal with the full photo. Clicking on the title leads to opening the URL of the photo itself, which I fail to understand why I would ever want to do.

Looking at the comment thread, typically the first thing I want to do is to be able to comment on the article. The comment box is however located way down at the bottom of the page, forcing the user the user to scroll for ages before being able to interact with the article. It would be much better if it was located at the top.

Being able to collapse comment threads would also be much appreciated and also auto collapsing low quality comments, like how Reddit does it.

I'm assuming there is a technical reason for this, but paginating comments appears a bit bulky and dated from a modern web design perspective. It makes it very difficult to follow long discussions and also effectively makes new comments invisible when they get put on page 3+.

Infinite scroll or an option to load additional comments, would be much preferable. Increasing the page size would also be a great improvement if possible.

Lastly, writing this, I would love to see some improvements to the post interface overall. I don't understand why the body text box is significantly narrower than the resulting article and without a preview option it's very difficult to layout the article properly.

I'm unfamiliar with what limitations there might be in ActivityPub, but I feel that some more formatting options would be a great additions. Headers, sub- and superscript and tables are some of the things that I really miss. Optimally, I would like to see even more advanced formatting and layouting options, but one step at a time, I guess. :)

Final words

So that's the end of this surprisingly gigantic novel of a post. I hope I don't come off as just whiny since I do absolutely appreciate what you have done so far and really hope that this becomes as successful as it has the potential to be.

I would love to hear what other have to say about my thoughts and suggestions. Is it complete nonsense or does it have some validity?

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