Making a Here.fm replacement!!

Hi! I'm Asp3n, and as of 22/07/24, here.fm is down. My solution? I'm making a replacement with the same dream!!

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Hello!!

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Hi! I'm Asp3n (Gold3nDreams), and as of 22/07/24, here.fm is down. My solution? I'm making a replacement with the same dream!!

I'm a solo developer, and I specialise in making games on Unity and Roblox in C# and Lua.

This is a new project, on a new program, in an entirely new coding language! So it's safe to say this will be a learning experience for me, and I'm very excited!

Feel free to ask me questions in the ask box, I love seeing people engaged with my work!!

Love yall~!

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~ Asp3n

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dunno if someone already asked this, but would media and screen sharing be possible? i'd loooooove to be able to watch shows with my friends :) tysm for doing this btw!!

At the moment, we're trying to focus on getting chats working and making the site look nice and functional, but this might be a future feature! I would definitely love to be able to screen share anime and other shows with my friends on movie night hehe

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Is it possible to renew the discord server link? I recently saw the rabbit hole of here.fm shutting down and came across your blog and would love to see how the progress goes !! <3

Ofc! I had no idea the link had expired. Sorry for the inconvenience! This one should be permanent!

Check out the Stay-here community on Discord – hang out with 129 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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Hey, would it be possible to have chat rooms too? because I don't like calling/zooming or wtv and the best part for me was the chat rooms

(just an ask <3)

Hello! Last time I was involved with testing, we managed to get a chat room functioning across the globe (From Australia to Germany, I believe), so chat rooms are definitely a possibility! :)

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Are you still making this?

We are! I'm so sorry to everyone following along for the Tumblr Hiatus, there has been a lot going on lately and I haven't had time to keep up with maintaining our social media. I'll try to be more acvite from now on and offer updates. In terms of where we're at, last I heard we're in the process of layout design and getting the chat function to work.

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Goodies time!!

Thanks so much to those who stuck with us so far, because we have a surprise!

Check out the STAY community on Discord – hang out with 5 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

Tadaaa! We love all of u so so much and I'm over the moon that this project has supporters!

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i just want to say im really excited. i hope ure having fun working on it!

The kind words are super appreciated! Sorry it took me a while to answer this, I'm trying to make a goal of keeping the ask box completely answered but I procrastonated here bc idk how to respond to people actually anticipating smth I'm working on :') Thanks for the support <3

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Are there any updates in regard to this site?

Atm everything's still in the early and slow stages, like a fetus tearing itself from its dead mothers womb and crawling helplessly towards the nearest sign of heat. Dont ask why i described it like that I'm a very morbid man Right now most of our focus is going into getting something to function and making it all look nice so that we can hopefully advertize a little better. Stay tuned, I also check this blog for questions every now and then so questions are likely to be answered!

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You said Stay.com in your recent post and I am incredibly surprised now it's being confirmed. Is there a way like a Discord community for this? By any chance? :0?

atm there's a stay.com category in my studio server, but I can definitely whip up a server and have it posted later! Stay tuned for that pookie <3

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100 Followers!

Holy shit y'all you're so awesome for being interested in this project my poor little heart is swellinnngggg

I hope to get stay.com working for y'all soon but alas I'm not that smart so it might take a while

Bear with us bc I promise we're here to stay <3

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this is so cool!! do yk when it would be available or have a idea of when it will be done?? :o

we're going to test the registration system soon, but we're not sure if the website will be available for a while.

Check back often if you want to keep an eye on our progress though :3

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hihi <3!! i just have quick question, in an earlier post you mentioned sticking with it being a "chat/avatar-making" thing for the time being, so would it be like having little sprites/characters instead of just a floating profile picture? or avatar as in just something to represent where you are

Good question! While my programmers are programming, I'm getting to work on designing some sprites + ways to dress them up! In the future, we hope to add an option to display your camera as well, but for now, it's likely it'll have to be something akin to pony town in terms of interacting with other users.

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are you still working on this? :o

Yep! I haven't heard much from the programmers recently but I'm still seeing updates to the github so there's definitely progress :)

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Do you take suggestions? I don't want to be a bother but I'd like to know if there could be a layout format for the background to put pictures in, like a vinyl album wall. And thank you and anyone who helps for doing this, I'm not religious but I would consider this as "doing the Lords work". You guys are amazing!

yes, suggestions are very welcome!! I can chat with my other ui designer and our scripter about making layouts! But for now we're struggling with setting up a server that can remember users and allow logins! With due time...!

~ Asp3n

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Hi! I only just found out that Here shutdown and found your blog! I only used Here once about a while ago, but I really liked it. When I went to check it out again, it was gone! ;o; I wish you luck on your project, especially as a solo dev! :)

Ty!!! I finally have some help (I don't have extra pressure to learn to code fast, yay!) and from what I can tell we're getting to work on the layout of the UI and some design... Super hyped for it to get up and running one day! <3 ~ Asp3n

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please try to make the screen share function (as unlaggy as possible) FIRST and then work on adding stuff later bc my long-distance bestie and i are dying out here iTS SO LAGGYY OMGGGG

REAL. I've finally got home help on making the site so we're going a bit faster now, and I'll chat to the team about adding that kind of feature. (Trust me, i want it too!!)

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Ok so

There are some things I've got to talk about regarding myself and the project

first and foremost: I'm saying it again, I CURRENTLY WORK ALONE! I'm also still a student and in the process of moving house. So it will take a very long time for me to finish the site and rack up the money to get it online with a domain. I might consider setting up a Kofi or patreon or something later on in the project.

second: I'm new at this! I'm learning coding VERY slowly, because it's hard for me to intake information (blame my autism and adhd.) I'm trying, but it's gonna take a while and a lot of help from my dad.

Finally: I'm gonna be putting the project on hold for a while. Like I mentioned, I'm moving and having some problems with getting into a new school on the last term of the year. Until everything has calmed down in my life, I'll only be working on my games. You can see my studio's blog here!

Y'all are amazing and I <3 you so I'm going to do what I can to keep learning and building!