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New comment by uproarchat in "Go: Support for Generic Methods"

uproarchat — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:00:49 +0000

Weeee

New comment by uproarchat in "SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)"

uproarchat — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:54:24 +0000

Thanks for the explanation, it hits the mark. Please pass on the compliments to Pablo, the soundtrack does a lot to set the mood. I'm about to start my next city, hopefully I do better in the election :) Thanks for sharing this, I was not expecting to get this sucked in so fast.

New comment by uproarchat in "SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)"

uproarchat — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:58:34 +0000

Thank you, WASD is what I was looking for. I just want to take a moment and say I find the music very nostalgic, it's great. Can you tell me more about the soundtrack? Is this tracker music?

In other news, I was on track to win re-election and lost. I lost while having the selector for building a structure enabled, and that was stuck on the placing-a-tile, even though I'd lost and the game ended. Very fun game nonetheless!

New comment by uproarchat in "SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)"

uproarchat — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:50:12 +0000

Beautiful, yes, that's what I am looking for. One question, how do I move the viewport around? I've tried various click drags and arrow keys. Pan/zoom/tilt works great.

New comment by uproarchat in "SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)"

uproarchat — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:23:58 +0000

This looks great, I just bought a copy. While it's downloading I'm perusing the listing, and I'm curious if this supports generating a large image/print of your finished city, like you could in SCURK (SimCity Urban Renewal Kit, which shipped with SC2K).

One thing I particularly loved was printing out very large maps of my city to go on the wall :)

Edit: I like the music a lot, and the little tutorial guy is endearing. One question, how do I move the viewport around? I tried scroll click drag, mouse button drag, arrow keys.

New comment by uproarchat in "Discord Incident – Resolved"

uproarchat — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:37:54 +0000

>Glad you're taking it in-stride, I was worried I was a little too direct.

Quite the contrary, this is the advice we needed.

>Everyone and their mom is making a Discord competitor these days

We did a significant amount of research into this and didn't find any contenders. Which services do you see that are competitors in the same space?

New comment by uproarchat in "Discord Incident – Resolved"

uproarchat — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:41:45 +0000

If you don't mind me asking, what country are you coming from?

New comment by uproarchat in "Discord Incident – Resolved"

uproarchat — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:41:21 +0000

Thanks for checking it out and taking the time to give feedback. You made some good points. After staring at the site for so long, you go blind to these types of things, so you're helping a lot here.

>no video chat, no screen sharing

Screen sharing and video chat were added just a few days ago, and I wanted to get that tested more before mentioning it so prominently.

>No downloadable version isn't a feature. What's a PWA?

At the moment, we're a small team, and not all engineers. None of us know Swift or Kotlin, but aren't against learning. Usage is something we want to see before investing that much time into writing these, so in the meantime, a PWA is the best middle ground.

One key differentiator from Discord is that we're not against third party clients, so if in the meantime someone comes out with one we're not going to make any efforts to stop it.

>The name makes it sound like a Discord clone

I see what you mean, if you had a magic wand, what would you call it?

>"Live audio space" doesn't explain whether it's drop-in voice channels like discord/slack huddles or scheduled audio calls

We have video now, but to answer directly, it's similar to a Space on X.

Thank you for the feedback, I will be working this weekend to make these things better articulated on the website!

New comment by uproarchat in "Discord Incident"

uproarchat — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:55:00 +0000

For a while there was a joke that if us-east-2 goes down it's not as big a deal because everything is down.

New comment by uproarchat in "Discord Incident"

uproarchat — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:52:24 +0000

Thanks Dang!

New comment by uproarchat in "Discord Incident"

uproarchat — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:28:25 +0000

In the IRC days you could have been running your own server for you and friends. It would've taken something much worse, like your VPS dying or something upstream failing.

New comment by uproarchat in "Discord Incident"

uproarchat — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:22:12 +0000

I keep second guessing whether or not to mention Uproar here out of fear we'll get roasted, because it's still got its blemishes, but here goes: https://uproar.chat

We're hoping to do better than discord, hopefully you get some use from it!

Backend is written in go, frontend is vanilla html/js/css, TOS and PP are readable in one breath each.

edit: looks like nobody can see this unless it's vouched. I guess because of the link and VPN.