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1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2019 18:46:05 EDT Nate Cull

   https://twitter.com/emshort/status/1143648600238563329

   << http://inform7.com/ is working again, with new content -- the new content isn't the reason it was down (that was unintentional breakage) but Graham took the opportunity to put up a simpler site that reflects the current state of the system and development. >>

   1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2019 18:46:27 EDT Nate Cull

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      I like the simpler look a lot.

      1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2019 18:52:36 EDT Nate Cull

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         I really wish I loved Inform 7. It's just... it exceeded my complexity budget doing all sorts of baked-in stuff I didn't want while not providing features I wanted, and that broke my caring budget.

      2. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2019 18:55:11 EDT Nate Cull

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         I really wish I loved Inform 7. It's just... it exceeded my complexity budget doing all sorts of baked-in stuff I didn't want while not providing features I wanted, and that broke my caring budget.

         I want Inform 7 to stop *trying so hard to give me weird complex non-changeable things it thinks I need* and just give me some simple building blocks that let me make anything.

         It's a very Apple-inspired design philosophy. 'The user doesn't know what they want'. But when that fails, it fails hard.

         1. Zen (zensaiyuki@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2019 21:31:08 EDT Zen

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            @natecull have you checked out dialog yet?
            https://www.linusakesson.net/dialog/index.php
            i have no idea if it’s any good, but it was born out of frustration with the complexity of inform7 so maybe it’s up your alley

            1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2019 21:56:18 EDT Nate Cull

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               @zensaiyuki oh, wow! Actual Prolog for the Z-Machine! Very interested indeed.

               1. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2019 21:58:10 EDT Nate Cull

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                  @zensaiyuki I haven't seen it before, no! It seems very much exactly the sort of thing I've been wanting!!

                  Code and text both as sequences of S-expressions. Very nice.

                  How long has this been around?