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hmm.. maybe i should play some gta4

with the <canvas> tag wouldn't it be possible to move the diskmag's somewhat to the web?

Pants off 8)

why not just html? If I was writing a diskmag engine, which I would never do because I'm not a programmer so please consider this void, I'd be basing it on html + css with maybe a sprinkle of flash.

Hugi can save every article as html..

hee magic, kom je dit weekend nog naar maaseik om ons nog eens fijntjes uit te leggen hoe fantastisch hugi wel niet is?

over cynisch gesproken 8) Nou om eerlijk te zijn kan onze engine wel beterder anno 2010 maar goed........

its not about html'ing it. its about gathering a following and having relevant + up to date content. an article on how the scene is dead every 3 months doesnt cut the mustard. such a portal/site needs proper curating and constant updates to work as something interesting.

if you try to format it as such you'll eventually realize it's just portal about the scene, with random ocasional articles, news and a bunch of folks sharing something in common (from a country, from a platform). which there are plenty of around already, most of them suffering from random temporary or permanent userbase abandonment.

diskmags just dont make much practical usability sense nowdays, which is why they are getting abandoned.

why dont you think on what you can do with the technology of the future instead of the technology of the past? and no, i dont mean getting a diskmag engine ported to work on your iPad.

do something like this with cross-browser web technology for example.

allow user to pick feeds and show it with some typical scene effects in multiple platforms.
hell, if you think things through properly you can even do it working for mobile phones sharing same codebase. phonegap + sencha

and yeh, reading the scene news you filtered on your platform with a cool effect might be minimally interesting for sceners again. and if it aint atleast its alot more accessible to non demosceners. beats having to download files which you dont know how to install and your AV claims to be suspicious.

just couple cents.

i could actually just do this crap instead of reading all of you all babbling about great plans for the revival of dead mummies. but i already have a twitter account and hate having audiovisual swish swash in my face when i want fast usability to access relevant info asap. so, no luck there folks. but seriously: please think future, please think different. retro is just retro.

PS: there are, as always, pro's and contra's and different angle's to look at this topic.

However, as long as we like our hobby we will continue making a diskmag.
Btw looking at the downloadcount's of Hugi at scene.org it makes sense.
Hope you liked our 36th issue.. no thumb so far from you ;-)

ps: how about pouet?

magic: havent even read hugi36. dont have a windows pc at home. and dont want to read diskmags at work when im supposed to be working.

xenusion: pouet is shit. if you can reuse the database for something else it has served its purpose well aplenty.

ps unfortunatly it dont looks like someone will replace it with something better.

xen: so i've noticed. but i'm done with scene webadmin. rather keep my sanity and ability to have fun doing what i enjoy than dealing with the keops and gloom et al's of this scene of ours on a regular basis.

chapeau!

What PS said. Would I bother downloading a new diskmag? Only if it's as good/better than zine, and works without a reboot into windows. Would I bother if it ran in a browser? Yeah. And it'd be good outreach too, if it does a load of cool css stuff (which can be switched off when i want to just read it).

Good website with both typography and grid rules applied.
HTML5/JS for your pleasure.

And maybe, different CSS per articles. Thats kind of fancy nowadays and it makes your magazine look like a magazine and NOT a god damn boring blog with one fucking boring sidebar all over that fucking website that is unreadable.

Oops, sorry.

im totally for a dynamic mag with a nicely coded player/reader and content reloaded from the internets.
so it wouldnt look like your usual website but also be able to update news/interviews/stuff on the fly without a new release. caching the data for offline-usage would also be nice.
as the times they are a changing i could even go with a reader/player for mobile devices, maybe that would pump up the reader count since a lot of people like reading news/stuff on the train via their iphone/android/palm device. on the other hand a big screen is somewhat nicer for nifty fx and all the shiny.
which technique/language to use i dont know, i guess it depends on the archs you want it to run.

new tracks/fx could of course also be added over the nets.
alltho i see that this isnt exactly a DISKmag anymore then.

When was the last time a disk mag came on an actual disk anyway? It's just a file you download. An online mag would be a small step further from a true diskmag, but it'd be very small compared to going from disk to downloaded zip file ;)

Well wait, isn't the final goal to achieve is... making a magazine?

ps: you could read the online version but you cannot listen to the 8 tracks which are included in the .exe ;-)

hmm what about bitfellas ?

diskmags are so web -1.0

Psonice: bother ? http://www.hugi.scene.org/online/hugi36