Community Check-In: Where Do You Want to Connect? 🤔 Quick update: I'm bringing one of my older YouTube channels back online and continuing to grow the Independent Creator Podcast. But before I start pushing content everywhere, I want to get real about something. Let's talk about our community space. Looking at our forums here, I'm seeing what we all probably already know – we're a small but solid group. And that's got me thinking: instead of trying to maintain every platform possible, what if we focused on where you actually want to participate? Here's what I'm considering: • Keep these forums going – Maintain our current setup alongside the main site for blog posts …
When I started the forums here I had the mindset in which our community can provide a place for other creators to come together and share their experiences and knowledge. I think I made some improvement on that bit, mostly. Taking the time and going over what is presented here in our community and I'm seeing that there can be some improvements made. Wanting to narrow down the focus of what the 2TonWaffle Community is here to provide you all with. Tutorials and guides on how to better your content creation journey along with the platforms and communities found out on the internet. Discussion on the open source projects that are important to many creators in how they work, …
For the past 8 months I've been running our front page with the open source software Ghost. It is a great system for blog posts, articles and even for newsletters. After 8 months I'm going through the metrics and seeing how well our reach is for the posted content. The news isn't all that great, over these many months our membership level is stagnant at the same level for over several months. In the beginning when the forums were being run under NodeBB, my idea was to integrate the blog posts comments to live within their posts in the forums. Unfortunately the plugin to get this taken care of wasn't working and had not been updated for the latest version of NodeBB. The f…
As I've been going through and re-editing past live streams of the First 2 Hours, I had in the back of my mind of setting up a database of the games I've reviewed. Having a place that would hold the information of each games, it's associated pictures and videos and including the reviews of the game. Knowing what I wanted to see for this new system I actually caught myself in going through some painful building of something that might not look great or even work out as I wanted, I knew about a plugin that does everything I was looking to have done. The Games DatabasePurchasing the plugin and getting it installed is quite easy as Invision Community makes the process user f…
We've successfully updated the forums to the latest version of Invision Community. For the complete release notes, be sure to check out the link below. 5.0.9 - Release Notes v55.0.9This is the latest version of Invision Community.
🧇 Welcome to The 2TonWaffle - Your New Creative Home Base! 🧇 Good morning, creators, streamers, and digital pioneers! Josh here, and wow - seeing our little corner of the internet come to life is giving me all the feels! After nearly a decade of jumping between platforms and watching the creative landscape evolve, I'm absolutely buzzing about what we're building here at The 2TonWaffle. You know that feeling when you discover a platform that just gets it? That's what we're aiming for here. Not another Twitch clone, not another "me too" space - but something fresh, something that actually serves creators and their communities in meaningful ways. Here's what's cooking in…
