Re:YSFlight – A free flight simulator where anything is poss...
by sslayer on Friday February 11, 2022 @09:18AM
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I've come to learn that anything online is impermanent. Websites/communities/gaming/business/programming languages - it will all eventually be deprecated for something newer/faster/better - Honestly, the only thing that is mostly untouched are the underlying protocols - and there are plans to change those as well. The absolute worst part about it is the loss of history, however even the physical world can't escape that - like tears in the rain.
Re:YSFlight – A free flight simulator where anything is poss...
by tomjakubowski on Friday February 11, 2022 @01:43PM
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It sure seems like stuff online obeys the Lindy effect. If some sites have been around for ten years, expect them on average to last another ten.
I would love to see any data or research that's been done on this.
Re:YSFlight – A free flight simulator where anything is poss...
by anthk on Friday February 11, 2022 @07:32PM
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Still, Nethack/Slashem, IRC, Gopher, ZMachine games... get played and launched even 20 years later.
I feel your pain. Unique and interesting games are rarely the most popular.
I have come to realize that you need to grab a multiplayer game by the horns and jump right in when it's popular, because every game has a "golden era", before which it dies. These communities are all moments in time.