Hello everyone, both old and new!
It has become very quickly clear to me that the ani.social instance is a better fit for this community. Comparing the engagement alone over at .ml after 8 months and here after only 3 days is hardly something to dispute. And that isn’t even counting the support from mods of “adjacent” communities. Special thanks to @wjs018@ani.social!
So I decided, with both a heavy heart and anticipatory elation, to go along with the migration and make it permanent. I closed down the .ml community and going forward I’ll post my weekly updates only here.
There is also good news (more good news?)! Honestly, it has been a struggle to keep it up over the last few months, and actually seeing some engagement here right off the bat did wonders for my (renewed) motivation. So yesterday I channeled my inner motivational demon lord and set up 3 things for the community:
- a Light Novel Wiki (reachable at https://lnwiki.bitkata.de/)
- a Discord Server (Invite Link: https://discord.gg/VJ7yrfq2ex)
- a clean Minecraft Server (add “yurgenschmidt.bitkata.de” to your server list)
Necessary (for currently 17 users)? No, but let’s start the new home for the community with a bang ;)
I hope the community will thrive here and we can enrich our reading hobby with additional discussions.
Yeah, the beginners guide/recommendation lists are the main thing I plan on crowdsourcing from the manga/anime communities. I just don’t think any one person has enough of a perspective to create a good overview of an entire medium like that.