I've been thinking a lot lately about the tools we use to communicate with one another, and something really struck me as problem with our current situation. I believe what the freedom respecting software games community really needs is a discourse forum. I know we have other forums and places to discuss free software games need their own specialized community, because existing communities aren't really cutting it. We either have forums for one specific game ie, battle for wesnoth, minetest etc, or we have forums that host topics on a bunch of different games such as here or freegamedev.net. We also have communties like reddit and more genralized communities, and of course irc, but what we really need is better communication across projects.

I firmly believe that if we had better communication, we could do improve game development in ways that right now probably sound impossible, up there, that is with time travel and teleportation in real life. Okay, I won't go quite that far, but some days, it just seems like that is the kind of thing I am asking for.

I know there is a lot of resistance to the idea, such as Javascript is evil, what is wrong with the tools we have? we just don't have a large enough community etc, but I believe those excuses are entirely bullshit.

My recent experiences and the current downtime on freegamedev.net made me realize the urgency of the situation. I know if the right person applied for a forum we could get one and fill out the community, but I need to know if there is enough interest in the idea. Discourse is even offering free hosting for qualifying communities.

https://blog.discourse.org/2018/11/free-hosting-for-open-source-v2/