Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] [nbs@sonic.net: Tux Paint on social media]

[Benson M. <ben...@em...>]

The Krita community uses Discourse:
https://krita-artists.org/
A number of software projects also use this for their mailing lists. It 
is more resource heavy than a PHP forum though.  Community moderation 
may also be required compared to post only webpages and service accounts.

There are activity pub libraries for PHP which can possibly be 
integrated with the website gallery, allowing people to receive 
notifications of new images in Mastodon and similar services, though it 
seems that not everything that is posted/re-posted is on the webpage 
gallery.

On 11/20/22 00:43, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> 
> FYI, for folks here on -devel who are not on -users.
> (And with this, I won't cross-post any further :) )
> 
> -bill!
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Bill Kendrick <nb...@so...> -----
> 
> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2022 13:41:00 -0800
> From: Bill Kendrick <nb...@so...>
> To: Tux Paint Users <tux...@li...>
> Subject: Tux Paint on social media
> 
> 
> With what seems to be an imminent collapse of the Twitter platform
> (which is sad, because it's been pretty rewarding and there's been
> high engagement, despite having about 1/15th the number of followers
> as our Facebook page!), I've been adding accounts to represent the
> Tux Paint project on more social media platforms.
> 
> The Facebook page has been around the longest (and has accumulated
> over 19,000 'fans'): https://www.facebook.com/TuxPaint
> 
> The Twitter account has been around for about 4.5 years (with over
> 1,100 followers): https://twitter.com/TuxPaintTweets
> 
> We have an account on Tumblr, which I believe has been around less
> than a year, but I can't recall (and they make it hard to tell!)
> https://www.tumblr.com/tuxpaint
> 
> I created a user account on Reddit, and promptly forgot about it,
> but am trying to revive it: https://www.reddit.com/user/TuxPaintDevs/
> 
> I've finally looked into Mastodon (which is the most similar to
> Twitter; a microblogging platform, though it's federated rather than
> centralized): https://floss.social/@tuxpaint
> 
> And I just hopped on Instagram, which appears to be the most
> difficult platform to use, since it's photo- and video-oriented.
> (It looks liek can't simply say "A new version is available,
> go download it!", I need to upload an image to go along with it.
> Thank goodness Tux Paint is art software! :-) )
> https://www.instagram.com/tuxpaintdevs/
> 
> 
> What you'll mostly see on these accounts are newly-added gallery
> images by people who have submitted them to me directly, or that I
> found on one of the sites, and asked permission to share.
> 
> On Twitter, Tumblr, and (presumably) Mastodon, you'll also see us
> reposting things that are relevant (hopefully!) to our audience:
> so things about art, other art software (especially open source),
> other educational software, etc.
> 
> Twitter made these kinds of interactions very easy; most of the other
> platforms don't seem to be designed for that kind of 'hobnobbing', and
> I feel a lot more like I'm shouting into a void.  (Even on Tumblr,
> when I ask a artists whether I can share drawings they've made on
> Tux Paint, it seems like the majority of the time I never even hear back.)
> 
> 
> Anyway, if you feel like following the Tux Paint project on any of
> these social media platforms, please do!  But if not, you'll hear from
> us here on this 'tuxpaint-users' mailing list.
> 
> The website is of course always updated whenever anything new is
> released.  (And gallery artwork is being added constantly!
> https://tuxpaint.org/gallery)
> 
> Take care!  (And Go Artemis & RIP Twitter)
>