If anybody plans to start a new diskmag or some kind of online magazine such as a blog, I hereby offer to support it with a couple of articles per issue, as I'm already doing with Browallia and Ghandy's "the Diskmag".

I think that I made Hugi for a long time and instead of resurrecting Hugi, there should be a new magazine, led by a different main editor, with fresh ideas. In the past there were many people making diskmags and I wonder why (almost) nobody is doing it now. There would certainly be many readers interested in a new diskmag - most of the last issues of Hugi, Pain and Zine were downloaded more than 8000 times.

IMHO it would be especially interesting to have a demoscene magazine with making-of reports, as well as interviews with sceners.

Your thoughts?

Dunno if you noticed but people ceased to read. Even those who used to read a lot, now read much less. It's not just demoscene journalism or diskmags. On the other hand, sure, it's not like nobody does it any more at all, but it may not be that important. The demoscene also doesn't feel like the same as 20-30 years ago. The passion is way tamer, and even newcomers aren't into the same things as we used to be.

I love the diskmags still, and read every one for the Amiga in particular. Feels like xmas every time a new one comes around. Keep up the good work!

> Dunno if you noticed but people ceased to read.

I didn’t notice that. I sometimes write articles for IT-themed portals myself, and I see that thousands of people read them. As for those who prefer watching TikToks, they’re not our audience anyway, and nobody’s trying to target them.

When it comes to demoscene e-mags... As someone who used to run my own e-mag back in the day, I can tell you exactly why nobody bothers anymore, especially on the PC scene. It’s an insanely time-consuming process. Most of the effort, nerves, and time don’t even go into the actual content creation, they go into trying to push people and beg them for material: “Please, write an article,” “Give me some music or a picture for my mag".

You think, "Okay, I’ll release the first issue, then people will want to join in and start sending articles!” And yeah, there’s some excitement at first. But very few people want to write regularly, and there aren’t that many sceners to begin with. Someone writes one article for your e-mag and already feels like they’ve done their part. Getting them to contribute to the next issues? That’s a whole different challenge.

So after tearing yourself apart to push out an issue, what do you get? A handful of Pouet comments, if you’re lucky. And they’re not even guaranteed to be positive. And then you ask yourself: why the hell am I even doing this.

Honestly, I’d love to see someone brave enough to do not a diskmag in the usual sense, but an actual monthly release roundup — and a brutal one. No sugarcoating, no praising everything blindly, not afraid to roast and troll the authors. But with humor. And with chart.

If I were Adok, that’s exactly what I’d do :)

I think BiTL has put it very well: making a diskmag is a hell of work, and then all you get for it is a couple of comments on pouet, which might not even be positive.

That's why I'm no longer doing it.

In fact I made Hugi for 18 years only because it was a good compromise between my father's views on how I should spend my sparetime and things I enjoyed doing. When my father died, I released a last issue and then stopped.

Life has many more interesting things to it.

>Honestly, I’d love to see someone brave enough to do not a diskmag in the usual sense, but an actual monthly release roundup — and a brutal one. No sugarcoating, no praising everything blindly, not afraid to roast and troll the authors. But with humor. And with chart.

So... a diskmag? :) I'm totally in though. I may not be as active on the scene as ~20 years ago, but I would gladly join. I'm very good at pissing off hypersensitive losers. ;)

In case anybody needs a diskmag engine, I could help out with a new one which I developed in my sparetime in the past few days. It's fully compatible with Windows, Linux and macOS, and has features such as two-column layout, support for in-line videos and transmitting forms such as votesheets to the editor via email.