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That works! Just post in #general and I'll find you :)

99% sure I used your copyover snippet when we first added it to our MUD like 25 years ago

Thanks! We'll fix that broken link. Fwiw I also used to play SW Combine too. I think their irc server was where I first learned about MUDs. Kind of funny how many people from LotJM…

HuffPo wrote a piece about us like a decade ago, and I've been meaning to write more about the technical evolution of the game..just haven't gotten around to it. Certainly interest…

MUDs were how I really learned to code (in C) and how I fell in love with programming and online communities, almost 25 years ago now.

Posted earlier in the thread!

https://www.legendsofthejedi.com/ It originated (more than 20 years ago) as a fork of SWReality, which is itself a fork of SMAUG, which comes from DIKU, and so on and so on. We (my…

I actually run a MUD that stills uses this copyover method (primarily C code) for major code changes and migrations. We have about 100 players online at any given time! We've actua…

This is very cool! I have a MUD (that still has a fairly active playerbase) written in straight-up C. Been working on it 20+ years now, and always had some curiosity about rewritin…

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Aww thanks. We're hoping it'll be helpful - so far students seem pretty stoked about it

Good suggestion, just updated it!

That's correct! We want to charge folks to make sure they'll show up and are actually committed to doing this, but do it for a good cause - 100% of proceeds are going to that fund.…

This reminds me a lot of HackNY ( https://apply.hackny.org/ ) - it's a non-profit in NYC that handles housing, activities, and placement for NYC startup interns

I noticed that AMP has recently started adding 'apps' to my launcher in Android. I visited Vimeo.com in mobile Chrome and then suddenly a Vimeo app icon with a little AMP symbol sh…

This is awesome. I've never really understood group theory before, but this helps a lot