so welcome to office hours.
For those who don't know why, you're suddenly hearing a British person in your,
um uh,
audio ears, as opposed to any other type of ears. You have, Um,
this is office hours with me. I am, bro,
bro.
And I'm gonna be answering questions about Resonate for
the next sort of 30 minutes or so.
Uh, you can add your questions to the following thread,
which I've linked in a variety of places.
I'm gonna tag office hours again and let people know that we're starting,
and then we'll go ahead and take a look at those questions.
Keep those questions coming, whatever you'd like.
Uh, new this
from last week is I moved the general, um,
thread for sort of general questions about office hours up to be a regular channel.
This enables the at office hours tag to reach anyone that has it.
Whereas if it's in a forum thread,
it only reaches people who have followed that thread.
This should increase the audience at most office hours by
I don't know, a little bit.
Um,
it should also make it a little bit easier for
things like the automation that I created to work.
Uh, so taking a look at questions, Uh, we have, uh, Yosh.
Who says what is the dog doing? Um,
it's weird. Cos like in America.
Um,
the concept of like a dog, crate or kennel is is quite popular, but in the UK it,
it kinda isn't.
Um,
I know that there's, like, mixed feelings on that.
I just have it because I need somewhere to put him when I and when I leave
the house that he's safe in and he's safe and it's great when I do that,
Um,
he loves his crate all of a sudden and
he'll spend like large portions of the day there.
Usually later on at night,
he'll he'll come out from his crate and and nap on the couch or in his bed by my feet.
But like he likes spending in there.
And when he first started spending time in there, I felt sad.
Cos I'm like he doesn't like me, But no, that's his den.
Um, dogs have sort of innate den stuff in their psychology,
and, uh, it's his den. It's his safe space. He's there. He knows I'm here.
And if I call him he'll come,
Um, but he's just hiding out there. It's It's a normal common thing.
I check on him occasionally.
And if I go to the bathroom, which is like, I have to walk past his crate to do that,
he'll pop out and be like, 00,
do you have time to pay attention to me? Prime.
Do you have time? I'm like, I'm still kind of doing a bit of work.
If you need anything, let me know, though.
And then when I'm done with work, he's like, Oh, my God, is it play time?
And I'm like, Yes,
for those of you who own dogs who have been around dogs enough, you know,
when you get on the floor
like when you get down to the dog's level and get on the floor, they're like,
This is the best thing ever.
My human is now a dog.
This is awesome.
Um, so I do that a lot for them.
I had something in the oven yesterday, and I just like,
couldn't be bothered to go back to my, uh, living room.
Um, so I lay on the kitchen floor and played a dog until the oven food was done.
That was cool. Um,
so on to the next question,
Lou's answer is when to new subscribers about patron benefits.
They're usually told, uh, they will take up to six hours for
to apply. Is that due to patron taking its time or something on rest
side?
Uh, it's a matter of, like, all of those
things.
So, um, what we need, uh,
for your patreon to be applied is all the details to be correct.
That's the first thing. Otherwise, nothing's going to happen.
But then the second thing is for it to be on the appropriate train.
And when I talk about trains, I mean, it's like a a figurative like language thing,
a metaphor,
um, patrons API takes a little while to update.
Um, so you might not appear on the API for some time.
Um, And then,
um, we need to basically line that up with a train, which is, um, Resonate,
looking at the API.
And so it looks at the API. I don't actually know how often,
Um, but, uh, it looks at API. And if you're there, you'll get in.
And if you're not there, you won't get in.
Um, so it's how often patrons I up at P. I updates how often our stuff pulls it,
Uh, and how often that runs.
We can't run it like 24 7, like, you know, like boom, boom, boom, boom cos we'll hit,
um, Patreon's API limits, and it's also quite intensive to to process that stuff.
Um, so, like our average time
and like it's a high average, it's not a low average. It's six hours it should be.
Should be much less than six hours.
But just because we don't want to get your hopes up, six hours is is what we start at.
So we like, uh, we, um, under
committed over deliver or whatever,
whatever that phrase is in that phone.
So yeah, it it's basically like
should be between six and 24 hours. Most of the time is like three or two.
sometimes we have issues on our end where API key gets sort of reset,
which is an issue I need to make cos I'm I'm done with it.
I don't know if you've noticed, but when I get assigned to work on things,
I tend to fix them as best as possible.
Um, You know, I go a full hog. So,
uh, that's why I've been on email for a bit. Cos uh, our
team member, Dante, they were like, Hey,
uh,
emails are being weird.
And I'm like, I will fix this, and it will never be a problem again.
And it's now never gonna be a problem again. Uh, let's move. Forwards. Dogs barking.
They like barking at the door trying, trying to train them not to do that.
Um, but their crate is like along against the back wall of the apartment.
So they're more sensitive to people walking past et cetera.
Um,
let's go for L.
Have you finalised the MC voting system? Nope. I haven't even started.
I got plenty of time. I've got a couple of days. I'm good.
Um,
how's the team been teams. Good.
Um,
we're all I.
I hate to say this, but we're all kind of like still recovering from launch.
Um, it takes a lot to run a business,
and there are some items that, like,
it's not that we didn't know that we needed to do them. It's that we didn't know
the
we, um it would take so long to do them, uh, like paperwork and stuff. It's horrible.
Um,
like you think you're done.
And then five minutes later, someone else sends another email to you,
and you're like, What?
The F? What?
What paperwork do I need to do? Gee,
um, let's move forward.
Uh,
G says,
are there any plans regarding the recent consideration
Assumed planning for the new resonate trailer?
Uh, that's entirely on, um, the sort of I don't wanna call them the media team.
Because then people start quoting me That isn't their official name.
That's entirely on the combination of Excellent and Theo
the ave
and,
uh, nexton sort of operating as a producer for that trailer.
So that's entirely on them.
I would encourage you to ask questions in the thread
which they created in the general Forum for that,
Or maybe ask questions on the street.
Cos that's sort of
an impromptu and excellent office hours that you
get every week to ask them questions.
Um, on that stream. So go, go, go there for it.
Um,
our our goals are just to, like, be
more accurate. Like what? What? What we want.
Like what I want from the trailer is to be accurate, right?
So the trailer that existed at launch or just before launch was basically like,
we're coming.
And here's us introducing the project. Resonate.
Um, which is great, right? It gave you all hype. Um, and it
included the cloud home, which looks fantastic.
Uh,
but it doesn't accurately reflect what you do
on resonate it accurate affects your like,
1st 10 minutes as you enter into the cloud home, but it doesn't affect, you know,
day one day, two day three,
you know, like it? It just has, like, basically the first hour.
Um, so maybe the trailer was sort of advertised first week. That might be a goal.
Uh, I'm Erin Says, did you say full hog? I did. Yeah. It's a really ancient phrase. Um,
I, I guess it's derived from when, you know,
we sometimes still do that,
Uh, where we, uh you know, take an entire pig and, like,
strap them to a stick and fire them and then eat them.
Uh, angry about this is how not to not receive, uh,
notifications for office hours and discord.
If I remove the office hours, uh, a Moor
role
in the channel but still get them. Um, I.
I hate to kind of say it, but like if you have issues with discord notifications,
you need to, like, double check that you've got everything done on your side.
I just check your roles.
You don't have the office sales roles, and then you just need to
go look at Disco's notification settings and configure them to how you like.
Um, they're mysterious.
They work in mysterious ways any single time
someone is offended at receiving a notification.
It is an indication that they should take some
action to prevent that notification from being hit.
Whereas the current sort of mentality from the
community is if they receive a notification,
it is the notification producers.
Um
uh, fault.
This creates an unneeded, um,
anxiety moment whenever we use any form of notification.
Um,
which also has anxiety because so many people say
we don't know what you guys are doing.
It doesn't make sense. How do we keep up to date et cetera? We basically can't win.
So the only way to win is to do our
best to explain to people how discord notifications work,
and then hopefully, um, they will go ahead and configure self.
If you have too many notifications,
please configure your discord correctly. If you set yourself to do not disturb 24 7
Not because you actually do not want to be disturbed because you don't like pings.
It represents an opportunity for you to reconfigure your discord. Notifications.
There we go. You'll notice how I didn't like mandate that you have to do it.
I told you it gave you an opportunity cos I know that
most people won't do it despite the fact that I've asked them to
like if you configure your notifications, you'll have a better time of discord.
Also, if you leave a discord server, you'll have a better time.
Uh, just leave it right.
If you haven't spoken there in, like, six months, just leave it.
The discord Server doesn't ex doesn't not exist. It's still there.
You can still rejoin it later.
Uh, but, um, lots of discord servers exist, uh, and don't need to be there.
Um, I was the sort of impromptu owner via a long chain. I won't go into long
since 2019. It's been a thing,
uh, a disco that was very popularly used, but then died.
And this year, 2024 I just decided to just randomly delete it,
and
one person noticed and said, Understood.
That's it. No one else commented. DM ed me or anything like that.
Uh, Easton says, can I be in,
uh, the Resonate Trail like you'd have to go ask Nixon and Theo about that?
There is the forum thread in general.
I think right now that you can go and take a look at that.
Uh,
Knop says a lot of work has been put into
the settings review and rebuilt from the Dev team.
What fun facts and interesting information can you share about that?
It's all in Dev Log like, um,
I don't know what started it, but like what we wanted,
um or at least what I hoped for was that the Dev Lock Channel would feel more informal.
Announcements is super formal.
It's like, you know, security or problems,
things that you need to do or big updates to resonate.
Delo is meant to be sort of like jovial fun like
I want I want our development team to have fun,
and I'm seeing that appear in Dev
like even the sort of, like, you know,
um, slightly comical updates about the website from chroma, which is great to see.
It was like basically, I'm doing something cool and I'm a human.
That's what I want the Dev Lock Channel to be.
So you'll see that from me yesterday where I was doing some C I and it failed.
And I put that cat gif there.
I was like that wasn't that professional, but, like, Nah, it's fine.
It's a, you know, a little more informal place.
Um,
so, yeah, it's all in Dev Lock. Subspace is is it possible
for someone to to on resonate to knock the arch
API offline?
So the only capabilities for making Web requests inside resonate
right now are the HTTP get node and the HTTP post
node.
Um, both of those do a single request. Um, via proto
flux.
Uh, if you would like to take a API offline,
not that I would recommend or suggest that you do this.
Um, you'd probably be looking at something like Python
or even, uh, some people just use curl.
Um, you know, there are a better D OS applications out there running a full 3D VR.
Uh, game engine just to make a post request. Seems ridiculous.
Um, Given, like any computer, I could probably make some sort of,
like D OS attack against any API very quickly.
However, as it would be one computer, it probably wouldn't have much, um, success,
uh, when discussing illicit activities. A a reminder.
I do not intend to carry out those activities.
I am just talking about the technical aspects of those
being ridiculous to be performed in actual resonate and much easier
to be performed from a bash script or a Python
script that I will not write but could theoretically write.
I also don't like the term crack or hack.
Um, I want to reclaim those to mean actually crack or actually hack.
Uh, cos a lot of times people go like, Yo,
my discord got hacked and what they mean is someone sent them a Hey,
can you test my game?
And then they click the link, which isn't hacking. Um,
you the person were hacked and don't feel bad about that.
That's just social engineering, right?
And social engineering attacks are like the new the new type of hacking,
but Y But discord was not hacked
that
unfair? That's inaccurate.
Your brain was hacked and you clicked a link and you compromised your account.
And framing it that way does make you feel terribly bad and silly.
Yes, but it creates a, um, path forwards for you to better your security,
which is next time I won't click sussy links.
Whereas if you just go around saying discord, my discord was hacked by discord,
Right?
You put the blame into another camp, and then you don't
analyse your own sort of existence to make an improvement there.
Same with cracking right cracking a game.
Used to be, you know, removing the copy protection,
or sometimes the CD requirement from a game.
Um, but now again, crackings like
I pinged your publicly available endpoint and found publicly available data,
and I'd like to report it as a security issue.
We get about one of those about every couple of months.
They're like if I go to, like, api.resonate.com/users/probable prime,
it tells me probable prime's user name and user ID, and we're like
it sure does.
And it will continue to do that as long as we're able to, because it needs to,
because that's functionality of our application.
So
E
Easton says When, uh, I say my discord is hacked,
I'm referring to the account being under the control of a third party.
So the precision of language there would be. My discord account is compromised
by an unauthorised individual.
I would accept slang versions of that et cetera, But again,
it's My discord is not hacked
through
me.
Clicking a link I gave them the discord token,
which is on my computer directly to them,
um, the equivalent way of of me giving you a slice of cheese.
The reason I want to reclaim those words is
because we have a technical literacy problem that is,
uh, cropping up in society.
Um, most, uh, of the the newer generations. Gen. Z Gen Alpha
don't know how to do anything that isn't driven by an
app based interface such as an iPhone or an android device.
So things like saving, um, files, folders,
et cetera are starting to become less known.
And that means that, like
I'm worried about the technical capabilities of that generation,
we also have a lot of, um, accidental. Uh, forced help
is like the quote.
There's an amazing video by a content creator about forced helplessness,
and I learned helplessness. That's the one not forced learned.
Um, by the way, this creator I love their, um I love their research.
They they have so much research.
And if you look at the captions like they've got, like all the tiktoks,
they referred to all the research articles.
Um, it's just a very good video. Very good channel.
Um,
I didn't realise how much work went into her videos, but you can actually just hear it
in, like the way that she speaks in those videos, Which is great.
All right,
let's take a look at the additional questions rather than ranting about society.
Um
uh, Cor, the cat says, Well, setting up a forum com, uh,
considered instead of it using discord.
I'm not a fan of using discord.
Uh, as it's a closed community. That's not searchable.
Index from the outside requires to pay its current account and accept T OS.
And if it dies, discord dies
and it dies if discord dies. I hate discord.
Um, I like discord for anything that isn't my day job,
and my day job is resonating right.
So,
um, we have a problem that just exists everywhere. Um, and
you probably are. You know, carrying out some stuff for that which is discord is, is
It's not clear what it's meant for,
um, because it keeps adding features that allow it to be used for everything.
For example, discord is not a knowledge based bug reporting tool.
Support, tool, moderation, tool, knowledge,
I've said knowledge based before Image library.
All these things it is not that. But it is being used by that by a lot of discord.
Communities.
Um, I. I know some communities where it's like their entire existence
is driven via a discord server. Like the roles you get on like
a you know, uh, survival server for Minecraft or whatever driven by discord.
The donations are driven by discord, and it's it's very problematic.
Uh, a forum might be a good idea, but the problem is,
then we'd have to sort of moderate, manage and and operate that,
um and it seems like the discord is just working out better than that might be, um,
for some added context.
A mixer, the live streaming application that I worked on before this nonsense
was, um
we had a forum, and we shut it down because it was mostly spam.
We are a community server, so we should be more accessible than than most disco
servers. Uh, nom
has, uh, refreshed their question.
Uh, actually, just a quick jump over to Rex's question.
Uh, Rexton says discord hired a lot of people Apple fired from
iMessage who fights a lot of people who were, uh, from the teams speak ventri
days. I need
a source for that.
So another thing is like when I was in school,
I don't mean to belittle or condescend here, but I just mean to, like,
illustrate the problem.
When I was in school, people like,
literally were like harping on about primary
and secondary sources whenever information was shared.
So
I want that to become again more sort of popular in in the community.
And again, this is just me being on my soapbox. But it's just like
I heard that this happened. It's like, OK, where did you hear it from?
What did you hear it from? How can I read more?
How can I know more information about this?
Uh, I posted to my Twitter, actually,
because periodically we get the sort of at everyone tag in random discords,
and it's like this discord account is mean and can steal your computer and, like,
you know, launch nuclear weapons.
And it's just like, can it?
You just sent me a weird screenshot on at everyone to me. I don't understand.
Um so,
like, le your sources, please?
Uh cos some and I don't know if it's all so I can't
say all cos otherwise that opens you up to to a protection gap.
But some of those screenshots like this user is bad
are actually just witch hunts. Um, so it's just like
someone was offended by someone or there was a disagreement
and instead of re, you know, resolving that
they're like,
I'm gonna pretend that this use is a hacker
and send it to as many discord servers as I'm in.
And then that person gets a really bad reputation, and it's completely unjust.
So you gotta take those over any of salt.
Uh, but Gump has, uh, expanded.
The question says that they were more hoping to dive into, uh,
discussion or highlight events that occurred that were documented in Dev.
They're all in in Dev.
There is extra stuff from those. But most of that's just like
the discovery that came up to the point where that code was changed.
So, I,
I don't think there's much more I can highlight
from de vlog other than Dev log itself.
Um, but we'll try looking at the rest of your question.
Um,
so development seems extremely active in building towards multiple
new foundational changes to resonate as a platform.
That's our goal. There is stuff moving everywhere.
I just fixed two proto
flux nodes
like, for example, I just just right now,
like five minutes before all the office hours.
Um, for instance, is the settings menu vision extending to U I in general,
it will extend in a lot of places.
So, for example, on the settings U I what we need a lot for settings is sliders.
So we need a
you know,
a slider that rose from left to right that
can increase volume or other things like that.
We need a generic,
um, slider that is applicable to all scenarios that sliders have at
like a a Web design studio. Or like a Web app.
Um, a U I designer would design that slider and that slider would fit the branding,
look, feel accessibility goals of that, uh, um, company.
And then anytime a slider is needed, that slider would be used.
That's why, like,
react and stuff like that are really popular because you can basically say,
like every single time a slider is on RU I It uses the slider react component.
Um, and that has been designed by a U I designer. And it looks great.
Um, so that's one of the things that we're doing with that settings.
Design is we're trying to sort of get those U
I elements great and then maybe flow them in.
So there's a high chance not promising anything.
But there's a high chance that some of the new
U I elements that you might see developed in the
settings area make their way into things like inspectors or
other areas of the U I to make those better,
uh, the game
source rendering engine.
Um, let's refer to as the void anchor, um, source rendering engine.
Uh, Gaines is one of the primary developers over at void anchor.
But there are other people. There are great people over there. One of them is Earth.
Earth
is like the beautiful soul that I wish I hung out with more.
Um,
they're just amazing.
Um, it was their birthday recently. I gave them a nice bottle of whisky.
They they they enjoyed it.
Speaking of awesome people, Um,
a video game developed by a member of the community here, um, was published on the
22nd. I believe,
uh, it's called Pacific Drive. Um, and it is amazing.
I won't give the community members name,
just in case they don't want to be highly blasted here.
I don't know.
Um, but again, great game that they made Pacific drive and playing it a lot.
Um, and also, they're an awesome person as well. I wish I hung out with more as well.
Whenever I hung out with them. They are amazing.
Uh, so, yeah, keep in mind that multiple people that maybe don't
you know, you don't see that often, or or don't make
much noise are also involved. Uh, the void anchor team is is a number of people.
While Gaines is the main developer, there are a bunch of other people, but yeah,
that is being worked on.
And
I'm excited by that, but I am also apprehensive at the complexity there.
I trust that the void anchor team and and Gaines will Will will solve the complexity,
but they've got a lot of work on their plate.
And it's also a lot of work that I can't necessarily help with.
Cos I'm not like a a rendering developer. Uh,
but the
last part is to be more concise.
What interest you, What points are worth touching on? Um,
I think I've got them from based on my answers to the rest of your question.
I think we got that.
Um, You can always check what I'm doing.
Um
uh
uh,
yes. You can always check what I'm doing. Um, here,
uh, other team members don't have similar views. I do. It helps me work better.
Uh, helps keep me accountable, et cetera.
So it's there, um, but also take it with a grain of salt. Like, sometimes
I don't touch that list for days. And that doesn't mean I'm not working.
Sometimes it does, but it did. But sometimes it means I'm I'm doing
stuff on another area of the platform isn't on that list.
For example, it's in private development. Uh, let's see. Next
uh, epic.
Easton says any discussions on getting the discord server verified?
I don't understand how that works. We'd have to look into it.
I do want us to look into the onboarding flow.
Discord has this, like onboarding flow.
And it can, like help point you to the the correct channels, etcetera.
Um, so II, I want that,
um that enabled, uh,
asked one of the two pro
flux nos that I,
uh,
uh, fixed. You can see that on the link I just pasted.
Uh, that's that question. So we've done.
We've done Easton's two questions
moving down to cyber Warlock. Is it possible to make a
resonate bo to handle
adding
contacts on a whitelist or they plans on adding a white listing system.
Not entirely sure what you mean? Um, there.
But, um, it would be applicable for just some added context.
And anyone that groans here, I just want you to remember the the world that we live in,
uh, use the term allow list and block list.
You can also use other varieties of that,
but we don't use the term whitelist and blacklist.
Now
I know that there's still a U I and That's because we have no
way to sort of upgrade them or migrate them away from those terms.
But it's something that I'm trying to get done.
Uh, most large companies don't allow.
Um, a whole bunch of terms and whitelist and blacklist are on those right now.
Uh, if you disagree with that,
I want you to just take a good look at the society that you're a part of and and move on.
But,
uh, if you're looking to, uh, control who has access to a session,
I'd recommend a headless, which has a whole host of abilities to do that.
And you can also look into custom join verifier.
I wasn't aware of how, like, um, cool. The custom join verifier scene
was inside resume.
But there are a bunch of people that have got, like,
panels and stuff where they get like
a like a a doorbell sound goes off, and then they can look at the panel,
and it's like Bob wants to join.
And then you can,
like, yes or no and just like, great. Like I knew
that you, um I knew that you could do that, but I didn't know that someone had done it,
if that makes sense, Um, but yeah, headless skills has other things.
Like there's cloud variables. Friends, of course, because it, like, don't,
um,
underestimate the power of having a second user account for that headless to run on,
Uh, for example, you could set it.
So only people that are friends of the headless are allowed in,
and then you've got quite an easy, manageable way to handle. Um,
access control,
or only people that are friends with the head list
get admin controls in in in the Headless world again,
that's quite an easy way to add access controls using the friend list as a sort of, um,
uh,
list
rather than using the friend list as a list
of friends or contacts as it's called or friends.
Sometimes there's bugs on that,
uh, Lucas says You could do a doorbell thing with a custom joint verifier.
People are doing it. I don't know how they're doing it, but people are doing it.
It's very rare for me to come
across the scenario like that where I don't know how it's done,
like someone shows me something that they've made. And I'm just like,
yeah, I can sort of estimate how that was done. That's very cool.
But sometimes I see stuff, and I'm just like, Oh, I have no idea how you're doing that.
Uh,
Colin follows up with whitelist blacklist changing to allow list and
block list and master slave turning to master secondary main secondary.
Even.
There you go after dawn. Says the Neil Landers have one that does it.
It's great. Like,
just like Bill. Cool stuff. Like, if I'm surprised you've done a good job,
I had this new user yesterday. Um, that Well, not yesterday.
It was some time last week or so Who, uh, was so excited.
They were a brand new user to resonate.
So I was, you know, welcoming them, having a nice chat with them,
and they kept going.
Look at this cool thing someone gave me and they sped out,
something I'd made and they sped out.
Another thing I'd made
and I just was like, Oh, wow, that's cool, cos I didn't want to be like, Yo,
I made them II.
I wanna steal the moment from them.
I wanted them to feel cool that they'd found that that stuff with
that I think we're at the bottom of the list of questions.
If, um, anyone could,
uh
you know, uh, respond with some questions.
I've got a couple more minutes here that we can We can sit here and answer questions.
Gonna
bought Pacific drive because you mentioned it.
It's working
specific drive devs you got. You got, like, a creator code.
Yeah, it's a really good game. Um, it's in a like, um, a
couple of people on, like the, um uh,
community of of Pacific Drive and gaming in general.
Have just have they've dubbed it like a a luta. Rumour, cos Luter shooter is
like a well-defined. Um,
like a well-defined genre.
Um,
but the general principle of Pacific drive is you have a car and your car is your baby.
You look after it,
You repair it. It it it saves you. You save it.
And you drive around the the, uh, Olympic Peninsula,
uh, collecting items, seeing spooky stuff story I don't wanna spoil.
Uh, but it's just great.
Like I painted my car blue today and I was like, Oh, my God, my car is now blue.
This is great.
You'll have a lot of fun particularly if you're from
the sort of area that Pacific drivers set in,
which is that Olympic Peninsula.
So
in the the the area, you you'll you'll feel it. I I lived here.
I've lived here for like, five years in that area.
It is pretty damn accurate.
And lots of the item descriptions which apparently were written by one person,
um are very Tugger
cheek about living in that area.
I'll move on to the question now, though, so I'm not just a walking advertisement.
Um,
grump's got some big words.
Um, here the question on platform content variety.
Um, as a forward,
I don't have a fresh perspective or any perspective of the
matter on resonance existing content Outside of screenshots and video clips.
However,
it is my understanding that M MC is as
a concept is primarily a contest enrichment function,
gathering the inferred goal, then to be showcased or add to the overall richness of,
uh, content and resonate.
Though I also understand that it's entirely community around and maintained,
What are the thoughts on more events or the same variety,
or something completely different were to come with the social sphere.
How do you think additional social organisations would affect uh,
the platform as a whole in current or near future states only positively
Make more events, make more groups.
But don't do this sort of weird private group thing where you're like, Oh,
we're gonna like,
hide away and be secret like make more public groups see the wiki like cos
there's a few groups appearing on the wiki where it's like here's who we are.
Here's what we do. Here's some screenshots. Here's our Twitter. Beautiful.
Let us know what you're doing in in Reno.
But just make more events
like we. If we had, say, another M MC in April May,
it's unlikely that we would get the same sort of entry requirements and entry, um,
counts because of of, you know, people being burnt out from M MC.
But there's nothing stopping you.
Um,
you you could do like a a monthly jam that had a a prize or something.
Create a jam, does a weekly jam. So you know it. It you just whatever it is,
um, alt space VR is shutting down now,
so I don't know if I can link to their
website as accurately as I could But like alt space,
VR used to have an event, Um,
like an event screen.
And on that event screen,
you could just see the depth and breadth of the events that existed on, um,
alt space VR like next to, um, campsite Christians, which was an event for, um,
Christian users to go in and sit around a campfire and just discuss their faith.
Uh was like open mic night, where people would stand up and yell slightly rude jokes.
Um, and next to that was like artists event or whatever,
and people would meet up and resonate and discuss art like all of that is possible.
But none of it's happening,
and
it might seem stressful now.
But you gotta remember that one person did it and they
did it years ago and they did it with Creator Jam
and all. They did
all they did. They've done a lot more since then,
but all they did to start was they committed to making
a space where someone can build and create positively every week.
That's all they did. And they show up every week to create a jam with a few exceptions.
But they try and show up every week to create a jam
and and make that event successful.
I see a lot of people who make events,
and then they give up or they stop them or they have a break with them.
That's fine. But then maybe make it a biweekly event or something like that.
But just keep running it like there was some person who, um,
did like Christmas movies around the Christmas period
and legalities and D MC a aside, um, et cetera,
great for the entirety of Christmas. There was a Christmas movie playing every day
to just, like do it like I would love to go to an event. Whatever the event is,
um,
the most recent I don't wanna like, you know, highlight.
Anyone's in particular cos people feel left out,
but one of the ones in particular I'm I'm I'm looking at as being like, Yep,
I can see this growing,
and that this will probably be larger in
the future is the resonate dance and fitness.
Um, this squad, they have regular events where they just get together and dance.
I know that like dancing in VR is a huge, huge thing.
Um, and they made a discord. I don't know if they've got it together.
I'm not entirely sure who's on the sort of quote team there.
But I know that, um, Hamo runs the event, so
just do it
every single week. Make an event.
Uh 9809 says regarding gm's question What is the roadmap of adding OS C?
Um, OC is like an overloaded topic.
Um, if you want OS C for music stuff, I would love to help you out.
If you want OS C for face tracking,
you can sit in a corner until we figure out why that's happening
because obviously, C should not be used for face tracking.
Uh, there we go.
Um
uh, if there's not an issue for OS E for music,
uh, make sure that you create that on the, uh
uh,
the Jeb Fours.
Uh, ask the tools created during M MC ever, uh,
be turned into components cos they They're so good.
Uh, not that I know of, like I'd have to, like,
look into the development history to see if
there was There's probably one instance of it.
One of the things that the development team, um try and do Um,
and by this I mean engineering.
So, like, you know, there are sub teams within the the resonate team.
It's basically anyone that can touch the code, which is anyone now,
but it's anyone who actually touches the code.
Um,
we have to be careful during the M MC month, uh, both to keep things, um,
stable so that we don't introduce any oddities,
but also that we don't introduce any unfair bias.
So, for example, if, like, if an M MC entrant comes to me and they're like,
I'm working on this entry, it's great.
But like this one thing, this feature would make my entry better.
I shouldn't implement that during, uh, the month of February doesn't happen a lot.
Um, but if that happened, I'd I'd have to say no.
A good example would be like, Hey,
orange would really shine If we could get this one thing into the code base it.
It's sort of unfair. So we'd have to sort of watch that,
um but I'm I'm sure there's There's some items.
Uh, Aaron says that they joined a karaoke world once, so they haven't seen it since.
Yeah, that's a good example. It's like another thing to think about.
There are like, I don't know, three or four varieties of among us
on Resonate. No one ever plays them now.
Are you not playing them because it's a bad implementation of the among us?
Um, like pattern
or are you not playing them?
Cos among us is dead now, which is also fair,
Or are you not playing them because you're not aware that they are
there or are you not playing them because you just you don't think about
it? Like right now, Go log on to VR chat.
There will be a large collection of people playing some variant of among us.
There will be a lot of, um, there will be a lot of people playing murder.
I don't know what version of murder cos there's, like five or six over on VR chat,
but they'll be playing murder.
And for some people, that is enough
to make them want to log in.
They're like, I want to play games in VR and they've got games there
and and we on Resonate have the capability of doing that.
But I just I don't see any games that are regularly
played Sometimes I wonder like why we haven't have worlds?
Because 90% of worlds I spend time in are like
a grid with a bunch of inspectors.
Uh, Easton says we're not playing them cos we don't have enough people.
Eastern start a weekly event, um,
epic Eastern, um, Thursdays,
where we play among us with epic Eastern as
the host and then run that every single week,
once a week for,
um
uh, for like, as long as Creator Jam has and you'll, you'll get people.
The consistency is the problem. I think
I think the the the the version of among us that I worked on, um,
supports VR also eastern.
You have VR. Now, I know you don't like using it, but you have VR now,
um,
let's take a look. Uh, Rexton made a comment about automated moderation.
Basically, I mean that more than that, but i'll I'll just summarise.
We don't wanna get any automated moderation.
There is something which could be automated, but it's it's automated,
like alerting that moderation needs to happen.
So an example here is like, if we notice any suspicious activity from a user,
it might flag them to be observed or or looked at or investigated,
but it should never cause action.
It should just be like, Hey, this seems kind of suss.
Take a look at that.
Uh, we want
any, uh, any moderation decisions, like, you know, actual action items,
uh, to be, uh, manual human interventions.
Uh, Rexton says 90% time and grid, uh, is a performance issue. Disagree, II.
I exist and and hang out in many worlds,
which aren't a grid that have no performance issues.
Uh,
fuzzy Fox says how performance heavy is it
having tool tips on your avatars nowadays?
If they are stock standard tool tips, um,
rather than multi tools or anything like that.
Fine. Don't worry about it.
Uh, if they are multi tools that have inspectors in them consider not doing that.
Uh,
Eason
says that they're not in any capacity to be able to run an event community.
I understand you're just an example, cos you were there.
Whatever you do do for the community is is appreciated. Thank you. Ea
uh, moving forward to
gs. Who
says
OK, They're basically asking, uh,
how much of a priority additional moderation tools are.
Um, moderation. Have a list of stuff they want us to do do.
And I hate the fact that I can't work on that most of the time,
like I want to get to whatever they want as quickly as possible.
Um, because they keep everyone safe, and that's vitally important.
Um, it's just some of the issues and some of the things that they want might take,
like months to implement.
Some might take minutes, but it's just it's a It's a function of development.
It's it's very difficult. I am doing something in the area of moderation.
Why sort of like it's tangentially related to moderation,
which is clearing our security
backlog. We have 29 security reports open,
and most of them are sort of like if I do this, it crashes and
that's OK, right, But they're still security reports,
so we've gotta get rid of them.
Um,
my reason for doing that is so that if a security report comes in,
which is much more alarming, such as, um,
like remote account access or or something virus related or something like that,
I would maybe miss it right now cos it would be in AC
of 29 so I wanna get that number as low as I can,
such that any new report doesn't just become the 30th report.
It becomes the this month's first open security report,
which is a lot easier to sort of reason about and look at.
Uh, after,
says What about the people who can only play Rezo and screen mode?
That's perfectly fine. Most games should
Endeavour.
I know it's difficult, but should endeavour to support desktop mode if they don't,
um, that's fine, but that's a decision that they can make.
It's not one that we can make. Um, as a platform we can make, um, screen mode easier to,
uh, interrupt between, um uh, VR.
Uh, Easton says the official resonate multi tool is likely.
OK, Yeah, The official multi, uh, resonate
multi tool is fine.
It's it's really like the the amount of complexity
that you add to the tool is the problem.
So,
uh, if you add a custom inspector to the tool,
that means that you're carrying that around and
that that could potentially have some issues.
Uh, G
up says the also, uh, gonna call last questions. It's a 44 past,
um,
the desktop mode input list feels very similar to a model editor such as Auto
Desk. Blender
is position on the list to have further screen mode features.
Yes, um, would love to have screen additional screen mode features.
One of the things I'd like to see is like U I pinning.
Um, so it would be great.
For example, if you could pin, uh, an inspector to the right hand side of your screen,
uh, and then still move around in desktop mode.
I think that would be really powerful. And it would also resemble, um,
unity a bit there.
Uh,
fuzzy, Fox says. I think you used a gesture and it summons one of the tools.
Um, there are some custom tools that will cloud spawn, um, a custom inspector.
But as we have no standard way of doing cloud spawning I,
I don't know which way or method they're using cloud spawning.
So it's it's difficult to look, Easton says.
Yeah, I created, like my personal inspector at pins to if you visual great
love that people are doing that,
um, better if we could make that easier for people,
cos lots of people say like I just want it to look like unity.
And I'm like, OK, well, pin an inspector to your right,
split it so that you've got the inspector view on the right.
And then the the hierarchy view on the left
and its unity,
uh, eastern literally created that, too. We'll post it and use it, uh, creations.
And hopefully we'll make it a native feature. At some point,
my doggo has woken up and wants to go for a Wii. So, uh, we're gonna go ahead and, uh uh,
close off here. I do have, uh, Alex Tupai says, Uh, despite my
fury resonate, I have a bit of a problem finding maps, games go to the Web browser.
Try that left hand list that has games on it.
Not many people use those. Um,
if your, uh, world has a game or games in the tags in the tags,
it will appear in that game list.
So make sure that your games have those in the tags.
Uh, Rexton says what GP U and CPU do you use? That information is not relevant to
my
studio development or anything like that.
I can tell you it's just it's not relevant. Like don't don't
um, What's the word?
Don't make my computer specs like any data
point other than they are my computer specs.
Some studios force developers to play the title of mints Spec. Um,
hier
dogman studios would have to be paying me a lot more
money to force my personal computer to have different hardware.
Uh, I don't know, my CPU
uh and I'm on a 20 a T I right now.
That's why I have the potato badge.
By the way, my computer's old by today's standards it very fast, though.
Still like it's good, like I'm I'm
ah, what's the word?
I am grateful that I have what I have, but I recognise it could be, like probably,
like double as good if I just upgraded to, like stuff from 2022 and beyond.
Yeah, I can't be bothered. It's It's a processor.
It used to be like easy to figure
out which processor was better than another processor.
But now it's like playing top trumps. It's very difficult.
I remember that, like my processor, um,
suffered from the whole thread bleed problem
like I don't think it's got some form of, um, like, uh,
accelerated multi
threading because
the heart bleed problem that occurred
like, honestly, I bought it like, probably three or four years ago,
so
I have no idea. I need to upgrade it, but like that costs money.
And I don't have, like, I do have that money, but I don't like budget.
Don't allow for it.
It might allow for it.
If my previous rental would ever give me my deposit back that I'm owed, um,
they're gonna be end up with a court summons if if, um if it continues,
it's basically like, Hey,
I moved out, Give me my deposit back.
And they're like, Yes, but the deposit has, you know,
deducted fees for cleaning and stuff like that.
And I was like, Yes, but my deposit was an entire month's rent cos I had no credit, So
I don't imagine that you spent my rent
on repairs or anything.
Cos I know how I left the place and I have about
300 photos of how I left the apartment when I moved out.
Anyway, that'll be it for today. I will go ahead and, uh, close things off here.
Thank you, everyone for, uh, for listening. If you've got any further questions.
Feel free to contact me via any of the other means. Hi, dog.
Yeah, Dog is doing all the Please take me outside movements. Goodbye.