#13 Is the scene’s online presence sustainable?

The turn of the millennium pushed the demoscene to cover a lot of online ground, but now 20 years later modern Internet habits and centralization is putting undue pressure on the actively used websites, while other sites just wither out once the maintainers leave. The show discusses the reasons, the problems, the prospects, and possible solutions to this ongoing conundrum. Send us your questions, suggestions and voice messages to [email protected] Join the discussion on the Demoscene Discord server or our own. Links in the episode: aSCIIaRENA: https://www.asciiarena.se/ Bitfellas: http://bitfellas.org/ Slengpung: http://slengpung.com/ The Space Jam Website: https://www.spacejam.com/1996/ ArtCity: http://artcity.bitfellas.org/ SceneSat: https://scenesat.com/ The Pouët codebase seminar (Revision 2014): https://youtu.be/DQ8eB_FORLo?t=1143 Scene.org: https://www.scene.org/ Demoparty.net: https://www.demoparty.net/ SceneID: https://id.scene.org/ Got Papers?: https://gotpapers.scene.org/ Scenesat URL shortener: https://scenes.at/ The passing of TMR / Cosine: https://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=12133 Episode credits: Hosts: Axel, Okkie & Ziphoid Produced by: Gargaj Editing, audio jingles, and engineering: Gloom Cover art: Critikill