Skrolli - A Printed Computer Culture Magazine
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If someone here is interested in this stuff, I'll just leave this here:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/skrolli-a-printed-computer-culture-magazine#/
I'm a local subscriber of the original Finnish edition. It's a great magazine created by enthusiasts and now they are seeking if there's international interest. The Indiegogo page explains it better than me.
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I'm actually still buying a real computer magazine (made out of paper and all) every month. But I realize I'm just a nostalgic member of a decreasing minority. There's no future for this kind of product.
Launching a new one in 2016 is lunacy.
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There's no future for this kind of product. Launching a new one in 2016 is lunacy.
The Finnish edition has been successful for over three years now and it was built from nothing but time and dedication. They are trying to print something that you can come back to and read again in a timeless manner.
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I get the appeal. But it's the same kind of appeal that's driving the resurgence of vynil and 8-bit aesthetics. It only works because us 30-somethings are making it work through our nostalgia and disposable income.
Any millenial you try to sell this magazine will, after failing to pinch-zoom the images and share the article on facebook, screw up their face in disgust and throw it away.
It won't last.
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It only works because us 30-somethings are making it work through our nostalgia and disposable income.
That's the target audience I guess.
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I'm actually still buying a real computer magazine (made out of paper and all) every month.
Magazines have a paged UI, so they're clearly .
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They raised the generation that gave birth to innovations like IRC and Linux and companies like Supercell, Remedy and Housemarque.
Linux is a lot of things, but ain't nobody gonna claim it's "innovative".
IRC is shit, I tried it just yesterday.
Those companies are small-fries I've never heard of in my life.
Compelling argument there.
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Launching a new one in 2016 is lunacy.
Additional data: IndieGoGo is only for loser projects that have absolutely no chance for success. If they thought this is a viable product, they'd go to Kickstarter.
Remember: there's no goal cutoff on IndieGoGo. If you give them money, you've throw it into a blackhole from which it will never return (in cash or magazine form).
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Additional data: IndieGoGo is only for loser projects that have absolutely no chance for success. If they thought this is a viable product, they'd go to Kickstarter.
Who can use Kickstarter?
Kickstarter is open to backers all over the world.
Project creation is currently available to individuals in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Denmark, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland, and Luxembourg who meet the requirements below.
https://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/creator+questions#faq_41823
Additional data: You can't use it to raise money if you're based in Finland.
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That does not change my opinion of IndieGoGo.
Also... isn't the entire POINT of this fundraising to create a US business? So... that would be in the US? Am I crazy?
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International does not mean US only. It might come as a shock to you there are people outside the United States that speak English.
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If they thought this is a viable product, they'd go to Kickstarter.
Like cat ear headphones that also have external speakers so you can regale the world with your j-pop selections?
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Remember: there's no goal cutoff on IndieGoGo. If you give them money, you've throw it into a blackhole from which it will never return
It's still a stupid idea, but at least if it doesn't make it, you do get refunded.
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I don't trust IndieGoGo to make good on that.
That must be a brand new option. Probably added when they realized their trustworthiness was in the sewer due to 95% of the projects on there being scams.
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They've had it for years, but it's always been optional and the other way is pretty much the only thing anyone's ever heard about indiegogo.
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IRC is shit, I tried it just yesterday.
25 years ago IRC was wildly innovative. I've use the chat programs people had before then.
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OMG! I must have them!
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Magazines have a paged UI, so they're clearly .
You need a paper copy of Discourse, with infiniscroll:
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I still read a dead-tree magazine, but then again it is called Retro Gamer, so not surprising the audience it caters to would favour such a medium.
But other magazines are still popular enough, it seems. Linux seems to have two or three dedicated monthly magazines here.