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March 31, 2025 Newsletter
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Happy spring, websurfers! Thanks for your patience while we had some technical difficulties with our mail software. At least we skipped April Fool's!
The weather is warming, our projects are fleshing out, and every day, the independent web grows. We've officially passed 1,000 members on the forums and Discord! We've somewhat reached a phase of outreach. Between our Bluesky account, Mastodon postings, and interacting with other groups in their events and blog carnivals, we've been able to foster amazing discussions and culture on the Discourse, especially, with a really solid group of kind website owners.
New folks are joining us in Discourse and Discord every week, and we're so grateful for you being here! If you're new to the Cafe, take a look around and see how you can get involved.
We're always looking for folks to write guides or tutorials to put on the 32-Bit Cafe website, so please email xandra if you're interested: xandra@32bit.cafe.
Have a great April, y'all!
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Frugal Gamer has launched a prompt generator for those of us who have a hard time thinking of blog topics consistently! There's almost 1,500 blog prompts!
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To celebrate hitting 1,000 members, we threw an information demographic survey to get a pulse of who Cafe members are! While the final count was only about 10% of our members, still gives you a rough idea of what our forum membership is like.
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We've recently added some additional channels to our forum in order to promote folks chatting there in case they want a more immediate, short form of conversation. New users will see the chat after being active on the forum for a bit.
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Have you seen the 32-Bit Cafe Banner Exchange? Submit a 728x90 leaderboard and a 320x50 mobile ad to advertise your personal site, your project, anything you might want to promote on this side of the web! Be sure to disable your ad blocker when browsing the 32-Bit Cafe. The only ads we'll ever have are independent!
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Rosaria's website is a treasure trove of personal website staples: blog, media log, trivia, fun facts, dream journal--so much to read to take a peek into their world.
Check out their My Melody-inspired layout and read more about Rosaria!
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Every third Sunday, James, Jay, or both of them, are hosting our Webweaving Workshops. You can always take a look at our Events Calendar to see the specific date of upcoming events. Our next workshop will be March 16. See you there!
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Blog Posts Around the Cafe
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Every month, we showcase a few blog posts from members of the 32-Bit Cafe. Sometimes around a theme, sometimes not. This month, these posts give us a glimpse into the lives of our community members, a snapshot in time of them. These blog entries have been submitted to our community blogroll.
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Sanguine Royal ties in her personal, lived experience with redesigning her website -- from a place of love.
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Semper gives us a peek behind the curtain of how they finished their novel in just over a year, writing 500 words a day! (Congratulations, what an achievement!)
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convexer tried something difficult and lived to tell the tale; this short blog post details what they've learned from observing and trying something new.
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Basus weighs the concept of ownership in a world of licensing, streaming, and digital "ownership."
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CaffeineandLasers shares what he does for work in multiple reading levels to help anyone understand.
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Joe gives this nugget of wisdom as he not only compares Neocities to Geocities and rails against a type of ad.
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Popular Forum Topics of the Month
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tabi asks for advice after breaking free from social media and learning how to be bored again, and lots of folks had opinions!
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yequari kicks off a casual discussion on the forum. You don't have to only post long-form topics! Lots of folks chime in.
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Spots shares his experience removing Discord from his life and discovering new aspects of himself without chatrooms.
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tabi shares a video: "All i say about this video is 'I want to think for myself and I think you should too.'"
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This newsletter is meant to be helpful and engaging. If you think we're missing the mark, reach out to xandra@32bit.cafe. We'd love your feedback.
Thank you for being here. The world is better with you in it.
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