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New blog post: With My Conlang, I Would Not Fail (previous: Salvage - Part 2 of Landed)
Previous blog posts
Previously on Universe Factory...
2018 and later
2017
December
Golden Sails, Part 3 by gryphon
Call of the Night Raven by Secespitus
Golden Sails, Part 2 by gryphon
Luna's ...
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What "maturity level" do we want for the blog?
Considering that most posts on here are intellectual - that is, the people who write them are intelligent, and probably mature - I'm sure vulgarity won't offend the majority of people.
That being ...
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We have a blog!
We want to make it easy for people to contribute to the blog, whether there's one article that you want to write or you have an idea for a whole series or you're just not sure and want to check us out....
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Worldbuilding Blog - Specific article ideas
Oh, I got lots:
Abusing the Kardashev Scales for Fun and Profit,
Economics of Space Colonization, or Why I'd Sooner Colonize the Gobi Desert
Why AIs Love Paperclips
Tropes, Subvert or Play ...
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We have a blog!
How to Use Medium
Each time a new contributor has been brought on board, we've had to get them up to speed on the tools we're using -
specifically, we've had to explain how to use Medium. This is ...
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Medium Blog - Best of Worldbuilding
Badge Idea: Keyboard Coffee
A question/answer that surprised you or made you laugh so much you nearly sprayed your keyboard with your beverage of choice.
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Medium Blog - Contribut(ors|ions)
I'm interested in...
Writing/contributing, either on a one-time basis or more frequently:
✓ Monica Cellio (heavier on writing/presentation/etc and probably some fiction; probably some "what I ...
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Medium Blog - Best of Worldbuilding
Badge Idea: Clickbait
For a question title that when it made it onto the HNQ list people just had to click on it to find out what was going on...
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Accepted
New blog post: With My Conlang, I Would Not Fail (previous: Salvage - Part 2 of Landed)
Previous blog posts
Previously on Universe Factory...
Edit this post
2021
Febuary:
Salvage - Part two of Landed by Topcode
2020
December:
Supers: Chapter 1 by Firestryke
June:
Worldbuilding with ...
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what happened to universe factory?
At this point, I'm (technically) the guy who runs it.
Back when we started Universe Factory in 2015, we had a whole lot of activity - lots of interest, lots of authors, lost of posts. People ...
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Scoping the Blog - Specific Content and People
I would be interested in one of the ideas from the last post: community interviews.
One possibility would be interviews. Maybe once a month a community member gets interviewed about what brings ...
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Worldbuilding Blog - Specific article ideas
I would love to see an article on Suspension of Disbelief:
Suspension of disbelief or willing suspension of disbelief is a term
coined in 1817 by the poet and aesthetic philosopher Samuel Taylor
...
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Worldbuilding Blog - Specific article ideas
Deploying your world
A blog is a good vehicle for covering topics related to worldbuilding that wouldn't actually be on-topic on Worldbuilding.SE. We could have articles about writing, game-...
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Can we have an SE blog for this site?
If per-site blogs are ever coming back, it won't be for a long time. We love the enthusiasm, and we still think new ongoing blogs would be super cool, but site blogs are just not anywhere near the ...
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Medium Blog - Naming
The temporary name I put in while we figure out another, for voting:
Universe Factory
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Worldbuilding Blog - Specific article ideas
Selection of best questions and answers: What caused buzz in last month and some comment to that by author of such article
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Medium Blog - Naming
Clever names are fun, and one of my favorites since the first time we discussed this topic is Daedalus' Workshop
That said there is a lot are a lot of positives to using something simple (as we chose ...
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Worldbuilding Blog - Specific article ideas
What-if questions and answers
This question asks about what-if questions, which tend to be too broad and open-ended to work on our Q&A site. (See the answers there for much discussion.) But ...
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Scoping the Blog - Specific Content and People
First a general comment. I like this idea and would be happy to help. We have an insane range of people here and it is a very entertaining community. That should make for good blogging.
So. Here ...
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Can we have an SE blog for this site?
I say that an SE hosted blog is the way to go! Like you said, it really makes it part of the site. More importantly perhaps, it is under the control of the community when it is on there.
Upvote for ...
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The Blog - up and waiting for writing
I think the first topic I would like to put up on the blog is about the world building process.
We have had several very good answers and discussions here on the topic. If anyone would like to ...
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Worldbuilding Blog - Specific article ideas
What about an article about when to stop?
Imagine that after having decided on the geography and atmospheric composition of your world, you rent a supercomputer to do a climate simulation, so you'll ...
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The Blog - up and waiting for writing
Some of those specific topics I'd love to eventually write to let out my mad inner storyteller:
Handwavium or Hardcore? What does my story need?
Building an Economy 101: Supply and Demand
Chekov's ...
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Medium Blog - Best of Worldbuilding
Things that make you go hmmm. Answers that are surprisingly good but not in the expected way. Giving an unique view to answering the question (and still being a good answer!)
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Bloggers: how's the blogging experience for you?
I think overall Medium is fit for purpose. It's not perfect, but then nothing is.
A lot of the limitations of Medium can be annoying to work around but on the other hand they do provide a cohesive ...
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May (and should) we use the site design on our blog?
The blog design is good but I would prefer carrying the main site theme over to be blog if we have the option to do so.
Its links them visually and lets be honest...our site design is awesome...
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What "maturity level" do we want for the blog?
Vulgarity is unnecessary except where it's actually the topic in question, it being an important part of any language, and language being one of our regular topics.
Beyond that we are (probably) ...
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Is Universe Factory still alive?
We're still alive! Although we're sorta in low power mode again because of a lack of content.
We had a bit of a bump in the spring, after which things fell off. At the moment, there's one submission ...
HDE 226868Mod
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Worldbuilding Blog - Specific article ideas
I would love a blog about consistent worlds and trying to reason through the implication and culture of a world that you create. I sort of went on a small tirade to that effect in this question ...
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