[HN Gopher] An interactive browser-based zine creator
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An interactive browser-based zine creator
Author : memorable
Score : 37 points
Date : 2022-05-25 09:54 UTC (13 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (unicornycopia.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (unicornycopia.com)
| bmacho wrote:
| Funny website, I like its aesthetics! Where to click, tho?
| teddyh wrote:
| Something is worth reading because it was presumably hard to
| create, and mostly only people who really have something worth
| saying will do the work. If things are easy to make, there will
| be no proof-of-work, so to speak, and the market will be flooded
| with people wanting to have readers who still believe most of
| these kind of things are worth reading. Once people in general
| learn that these things are now mostly utter crap, people will
| stop giving even the rare worthy ones the time of day.
|
| This can be applied to zines, books, computer games, web sites,
| etc. With ease of creation comes a cost.
| naet wrote:
| What I love about zines specifically is that they are easy to
| make. Anyone can easily print one via copy machine on a very
| low budget, allowing a broader audience of people to author
| something unique compared to other publishing media. The
| barrier is incredibly low, but also just high enough that most
| people don't end up doing it unless they have some content they
| are passionate about printing.
| pessimizer wrote:
| When zines were popular, they were difficult to make and
| individually mailed to people, and there wasn't a ubiquitous
| web or a facebook/blogger/whatever. I guess "difficult to
| make" is relative, but back then it was relative to
| publishing a newsstand magazine, not relative to a few clicks
| on wordpress dot org. "Zines" these days are hipster retro
| kitch, down to fake artfully misaligned/kerned typewriter
| fonts (or comic book font for a faux-cometbus look.)
|
| That being said, this site is attractive and fun.
| Finnucane wrote:
| Zines were not difficult. All you needed was an x-acto
| knife and a glue stick, and a 24-hr Kinko's.
| wincy wrote:
| Zines are one of these words that just was never in my
| vocabulary until maybe six months ago. I had to Google
| what people were talking about. They're just cheap
| magazines right?
| trynewideas wrote:
| self-published print works, one or more copies handmade,
| the rest duplicated cheaply. arguably a modern successor
| of 18th-century pamphleting. usually folded and staple-
| bound, if bound at all. low barrier to entry made them
| popular with marginalized groups; easily mailed, they
| were also the nexus of some early fan communities,
| especially for Star Trek, comics, music, and film.
|
| some early web publishing was heavily zine inspired;
| boingboing was a zine for almost a decade before becoming
| a blog
|
| maybe a more digestible history of zines in the internet
| era: https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/alt-zines-
| and-memo...
| teddyh wrote:
| Easy enough to be possible without being just a click of a
| button away, yes, at a time when people mostly associated any
| printed material as having taken a large effort to produce.
| Finnucane wrote:
| The whole point of zine culture was that anybody could put out
| anything and trade it with all the other people putting out
| their anythings.
| teddyh wrote:
| Yes, just like the other things I listed, it was good in the
| beginning. And, like the others, once the bar of required
| effort became low enough, the market flodded with low-to-no-
| effort stuff.
| Finnucane wrote:
| I love the smell of mimeo in the morning.
| kixiQu wrote:
| It isn't browser-based -- it's cool as hell and worth every speck
| of attention it can get, but it's not browser-based. Title needs
| correction. The creator, Nathalie Lawhead, has blogged about a
| lot of aspects of it and it's really cool to learn how much
| thought underlies all the wacky details.
| bacchusracine wrote:
| No Linux version?
|
| I guess I'll see if I can run the Windows version in Wine...
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