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#1
General Discussion / Re: upcoming little game jam!
Last post by GRIDHOG - Today at 04:53 PMAnother jam upcoming!
Cruscord Jam 2! starting 3 days 18hrs from posting!
https://itch.io/jam/cruscord-jam-1
(the first one was zero, so the link says 1 lol)
I was part of the first one, super excited for this one!
its a very chill creative jam, you can make anything you want should the theme (currently unnanounced) inspire you. definitely will keep yall updated!
Cruscord Jam 2! starting 3 days 18hrs from posting!
https://itch.io/jam/cruscord-jam-1
(the first one was zero, so the link says 1 lol)
I was part of the first one, super excited for this one!
its a very chill creative jam, you can make anything you want should the theme (currently unnanounced) inspire you. definitely will keep yall updated!
#2
Announcements & News / XMPP Chat Online!
Last post by Asaklair - Feb 24, 2026, 07:09 AMHey everyone! We have officially got an XMPP chat running for those of you who might be interested in hanging out with the YAM community in a classic text chat environment. This will also be utilized in the future for a space to chat about events that occur on the radio or anywhere else. As of right now this is in a beta test state, mainly because it will require you to use your own XMPP client, which I will explain below. Our goal is to get it as an actual chat box you can interact with on the web without messing with potentially confusing software.
Instructions
Connecting with a client
Download or use a web based XMPP client. I personally recommend using the browser client https://conversejs.org/ if you have no prior experience with XMPP. It is also just easy! Create an account and enter "usersplayground.com" as the XMPP provider to register with. Login to your newly registered account and you are in! (be sure to put "@usersplayground.com" after your username when logging in) If you do not see any chat rooms click on the three horizontal lines by the "GROUPCHATS" tab and select "Query Server." Then click on "Show groupchats" to view the current rooms that exist. Select the room, set a nickname and chat!
If you want a more classic command-line style you can use https://profanity-im.github.io/. It works on Windows, Linux, and MacOS. Here is a list of a bunch of clients if my recommendations don't fit your preferences, https://xmpp.org/software/?category=clients
Connecting through our site
This is being worked on! Once we implement this feature it will essentially negate all of the prior instructions unless you just feel like using your own client still.
Instructions
Connecting with a client
Download or use a web based XMPP client. I personally recommend using the browser client https://conversejs.org/ if you have no prior experience with XMPP. It is also just easy! Create an account and enter "usersplayground.com" as the XMPP provider to register with. Login to your newly registered account and you are in! (be sure to put "@usersplayground.com" after your username when logging in) If you do not see any chat rooms click on the three horizontal lines by the "GROUPCHATS" tab and select "Query Server." Then click on "Show groupchats" to view the current rooms that exist. Select the room, set a nickname and chat!
If you want a more classic command-line style you can use https://profanity-im.github.io/. It works on Windows, Linux, and MacOS. Here is a list of a bunch of clients if my recommendations don't fit your preferences, https://xmpp.org/software/?category=clients
Connecting through our site
This is being worked on! Once we implement this feature it will essentially negate all of the prior instructions unless you just feel like using your own client still.
#3
Site Suggestions / Re: Plans for site expansion?
Last post by Asaklair - Feb 23, 2026, 03:31 PMQuote from: LostCable on Jan 26, 2026, 05:24 AMWhat are your thoughts on adding a IRC/XMPP server for chatting or a community event?
Will make an official announcement on this soon once I work everything out but we have an XMPP chat now! You can use any client of your choice (i hope) and register using the usersplayground.com domain
#4
Bugs and Reports / Re: MechNet Radio is down?
Last post by Asaklair - Feb 23, 2026, 07:59 AMQuote from: 226 on Feb 15, 2026, 10:15 PMSince around 5PM CST, MechNet Radio has been stuck on one song, and unable to play/muted when played. I've been checking in every hour seeing if anything has changed, but 4 hours later here I am.
I've reset my computer, changed devices from computer to phone, and changed browsers from opera to Firefox, and yet it's still having the same issue.
Does anyone else have this problem? Is it a maintenance thing, or something on my end?
Gulp 0_0
Sorry to have you go through so much trouble trying to make the radio work! It was on our end and I fixed it shortly after your post, so luckily it was not super long. Thank you for letting us know. Outages do happen occasionally, but letting us know here or by my email (asaklair@youaremachines.com) is very helpful.
#5
Bugs and Reports / Re: MechNet Radio is down?
Last post by yeebus - Feb 16, 2026, 11:29 PMThanks for letting us know, I had no idea. @Asaklair handles that sort of stuff. Things like weather or internet interrupts around the server hosting mechnet can definitely shut it down for awhile at times. Hopefully the server just needs a proper reset and it should be back in a few days max unless something catastrophic went wrong...
But I'm glad someone cares about the station enough to even consider reporting it being down tho lol. Very cool!
But I'm glad someone cares about the station enough to even consider reporting it being down tho lol. Very cool!
#6
Bugs and Reports / MechNet Radio is down?
Last post by 226 - Feb 15, 2026, 10:15 PMSince around 5PM CST, MechNet Radio has been stuck on one song, and unable to play/muted when played. I've been checking in every hour seeing if anything has changed, but 4 hours later here I am.
I've reset my computer, changed devices from computer to phone, and changed browsers from opera to Firefox, and yet it's still having the same issue.
Does anyone else have this problem? Is it a maintenance thing, or something on my end?
Gulp 0_0
I've reset my computer, changed devices from computer to phone, and changed browsers from opera to Firefox, and yet it's still having the same issue.
Does anyone else have this problem? Is it a maintenance thing, or something on my end?
Gulp 0_0
#7
General Discussion / Re: upcoming little game jam!
Last post by GRIDHOG - Feb 15, 2026, 06:13 PMThe jam has been completed!
The entries are in!
And I did manage to participate! they're short experiences using the same simple game engine, so you can check them all out in an afternoon
The entries are in!
And I did manage to participate! they're short experiences using the same simple game engine, so you can check them all out in an afternoon
#8
General Discussion / Re: Hows the weather been?
Last post by cubelily - Feb 12, 2026, 07:22 PMQuote from: LostCable on Feb 09, 2026, 02:58 AMit's finally starting to warm up after a month of subzero coldthat's good! we hit subzero a few days this month, but nothing consistent. it's just bouts of fogginess and seems like it'll stay that way for a good little while longer...
#9
Announcements & News / Re: new posts!!!!!
Last post by cubelily - Feb 12, 2026, 07:20 PMyeah well be scheduling a couple to auto-post as well so we can continue to be lazy 
#10
Art / Re: THERMOCLINE
Last post by Asaklair - Feb 12, 2026, 05:02 PMadding to my wishlist now! Keep us updated, this looks awesome